The Extended Canon
Gulaal
गुलाल · 2009
A law student is pulled into a Rajput secessionist movement running a student election like a war.
- Director
- Anurag Kashyap
- Year
- 2009
- Genre
- Political · Drama
- Cast
- Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Abhimanyu Singh, Piyush Mishra
Why it's in the canon
Piyush Mishra's songs and monologues make it the most literate political film of its decade.
A law student is pulled into a Rajput secessionist movement running a student election like a war.
Gulaal sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anurag Kashyap — also responsible for Gangs of Wasseypur, Black Friday, Dev.D.
- Released in 2009, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Political, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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