The Extended Canon
Chandni Bar
चांदनी बार · 2001
A riot orphan becomes a Mumbai bar dancer and watches the same machinery come for her children.
- Director
- Madhur Bhandarkar
- Year
- 2001
- Genre
- Drama · Crime
- Cast
- Tabu, Atul Kulkarni
Why it's in the canon
Tabu's National Award and the film that made the bar-dancer economy visible to the mainstream.
A riot orphan becomes a Mumbai bar dancer and watches the same machinery come for her children.
Chandni Bar sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar.
- Released in 2001, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Crime.
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