The Extended Canon
Ek Doctor Ki Maut
एक डॉक्टर की मौत · 1990
A doctor discovers a leprosy vaccine and is destroyed by the medical establishment's jealousy rather than by any flaw in the work.
- Director
- Tapan Sinha
- Year
- 1990
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Irrfan Khan
Why it's in the canon
Pankaj Kapur's finest lead performance and a scathing look at Indian institutional envy.
A doctor discovers a leprosy vaccine and is destroyed by the medical establishment's jealousy rather than by any flaw in the work.
Ek Doctor Ki Maut sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Tapan Sinha.
- Released in 1990, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990) · 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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