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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.

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