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Court

कोर्ट · 2014

An ageing protest singer is tried for abetting a sewage worker's suicide through a song. The trial goes nowhere, slowly.

Director
Chaitanya Tamhane
Year
2014
Genre
Drama · Legal
Cast
Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni

Why it's in the canon

India's Oscar entry for 2015. Multilingual, deadpan, and the most precise film about institutional boredom.

An ageing protest singer is tried for abetting a sewage worker's suicide through a song. The trial goes nowhere, slowly.

Court sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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The essentials

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