Ranked #29 of 100
Haider
हैदर · 2014
Hamlet in 1995 Kashmir, where the ghost is a disappeared father and the state is the usurping uncle.
- Director
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Drama · Thriller
- Cast
- Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon, Shraddha Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
Why it's at number 29
'Bismil' is the finest song-as-play-within-a-play in Hindi film. Tabu's Ghazala is monumental.
Hamlet in 1995 Kashmir, where the ghost is a disappeared father and the state is the usurping uncle.
Haider sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj — also responsible for Omkara, Maqbool, Kaminey.
- Released in 2014, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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