The Extended Canon
Gulabi Gang
गुलाबी गैंग · 2012
Sampat Pal Devi and her pink-sari women's collective in Bundelkhand confront police, husbands and their own contradictions.
- Director
- Nishtha Jain
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Documentary
- Cast
- Sampat Pal Devi
Why it's in the canon
It films activism with all the mess left in, which is what makes it convincing.
Sampat Pal Devi and her pink-sari women's collective in Bundelkhand confront police, husbands and their own contradictions.
Gulabi Gang sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Nishtha Jain.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Documentary.
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