The Extended Canon
Iqbal
इक़बाल · 2005
A deaf-mute farm boy wants to bowl for India, and hires an alcoholic ex-cricketer with buffaloes as payment.
- Director
- Nagesh Kukunoor
- Year
- 2005
- Genre
- Sports · Drama
- Cast
- Shreyas Talpade, Naseeruddin Shah, Shweta Prasad
Why it's in the canon
The most unsentimental underdog film India has made, on a budget that shows nowhere.
A deaf-mute farm boy wants to bowl for India, and hires an alcoholic ex-cricketer with buffaloes as payment.
Iqbal sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor — also responsible for Dor.
- Released in 2005, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Sports, Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Iqbal (2005) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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