The Extended Canon
Hindi Medium
हिंदी मीडियम · 2017
A rich Chandni Chowk couple fake poverty to win a school's quota seat, and meet the family they are stealing it from.
- Director
- Saket Chaudhary
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Comedy · Drama
- Cast
- Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal
Why it's in the canon
Deepak Dobriyal's performance turns a broad comedy into something genuinely uncomfortable.
A rich Chandni Chowk couple fake poverty to win a school's quota seat, and meet the family they are stealing it from.
Hindi Medium sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Saket Chaudhary.
- Released in 2017, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Drama.
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