The Extended Canon
Chintu Ka Birthday
चिंटू का बर्थडे · 2019
An Indian family stuck in Baghdad in 2004 tries to hold a sixth birthday party while American soldiers occupy the flat.
- Director
- Devanshu Kumar, Satyanshu Singh
- Year
- 2019
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Vinay Pathak, Tillotama Shome, Seema Pahwa
Why it's in the canon
An entire war film staged inside one apartment, and never once cheap about it.
An Indian family stuck in Baghdad in 2004 tries to hold a sixth birthday party while American soldiers occupy the flat.
Chintu Ka Birthday sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Devanshu Kumar, Satyanshu Singh.
- Released in 2019, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Chintu Ka Birthday (2019) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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