The Extended Canon
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
हज़ारों ख़्वाहिशें ऐसी · 2003
Three Delhi students move through Naxalism, the Emergency and the civil service, and lose each other by degrees.
- Director
- Sudhir Mishra
- Year
- 2003
- Genre
- Drama · Political
- Cast
- Kay Kay Menon, Chitrangada Singh, Shiney Ahuja
Why it's in the canon
The best film about Indian political disillusionment, and Chitrangada Singh's arrival.
Three Delhi students move through Naxalism, the Emergency and the civil service, and lose each other by degrees.
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sudhir Mishra — also responsible for Serious Men.
- Released in 2003, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Political.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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