The Extended Canon
Dum Laga Ke Haisha
दम लगा के हईशा · 2015
A Haridwar cassette-shop failure is married off to an educated, plus-size woman he is openly cruel about, until a race changes it.
- Director
- Sharat Katariya
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Romance · Comedy
- Cast
- Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar
Why it's in the canon
1995 Haridwar recreated perfectly, and the most unusual love story of the 2010s.
A Haridwar cassette-shop failure is married off to an educated, plus-size woman he is openly cruel about, until a race changes it.
Dum Laga Ke Haisha sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sharat Katariya — also responsible for Sui Dhaaga.
- Released in 2015, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015) · 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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