The Extended Canon
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
एक रुका हुआ फैसला · 1986
Twelve jurors in one hot room, eleven certain and one not. '12 Angry Men' rebuilt with Indian class and caste loaded into every vote.
- Director
- Basu Chatterjee
- Year
- 1986
- Genre
- Drama · Legal
- Cast
- Pankaj Kapur, Deepak Qazir, Amitabh Srivastav, K. K. Raina, Annu Kapoor
Why it's in the canon
An adaptation that improves on the original by making the prejudices specific and local.
Twelve jurors in one hot room, eleven certain and one not. '12 Angry Men' rebuilt with Indian class and caste loaded into every vote.
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Basu Chatterjee — also responsible for Rajnigandha, Baton Baton Mein.
- Released in 1986, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Legal.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986) · 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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