The Extended Canon
Ek Hasina Thi
एक हसीना थी · 2004
A woman is framed and jailed by the charming man she trusted, and comes out having planned every step.
- Director
- Sriram Raghavan
- Year
- 2004
- Genre
- Thriller · Revenge
- Cast
- Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan
Why it's in the canon
Raghavan's debut and one of the coldest revenge structures in Indian cinema.
A woman is framed and jailed by the charming man she trusted, and comes out having planned every step.
Ek Hasina Thi sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sriram Raghavan — also responsible for Andhadhun, Johnny Gaddaar.
- Released in 2004, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Thriller, Revenge.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Ek Hasina Thi (2004) · 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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