The Extended Canon
Godmother
गॉडमदर · 1999
A widow in Gujarat takes over her murdered husband's gang and rises to the state assembly, based on Santokben Jadeja.
- Director
- Vinay Shukla
- Year
- 1999
- Genre
- Crime · Biography
- Cast
- Shabana Azmi, Milind Gunaji
Why it's in the canon
Shabana Azmi's fifth National Award and one of the great Indian performances of the 90s.
A widow in Gujarat takes over her murdered husband's gang and rises to the state assembly, based on Santokben Jadeja.
Godmother sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vinay Shukla — also responsible for An Insignificant Man.
- Released in 1999, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Biography.
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