The Extended Canon
Gangubai Kathiawadi
गंगूबाई काठियावाड़ी · 2022
Sold into Kamathipura, a young woman becomes the madam who lobbies Nehru for sex workers' rights.
- Director
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Year
- 2022
- Genre
- Biography · Drama
- Cast
- Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, Shantanu Maheshwari
Why it's in the canon
Alia Bhatt's most commanding lead work inside Bhansali's most controlled frame.
Sold into Kamathipura, a young woman becomes the madam who lobbies Nehru for sex workers' rights.
Gangubai Kathiawadi sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali — also responsible for Black, Devdas.
- Released in 2022, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022) · 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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