The Extended Canon
Ishqiya
इश्क़िया · 2010
Two thieves on the run hide with a widow in Gorakhpur who turns out to be running something far larger.
- Director
- Abhishek Chaubey
- Year
- 2010
- Genre
- Crime · Comedy
- Cast
- Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi
Why it's in the canon
Vidya Balan's Krishna is one of the great femme fatales, and Gulzar's lyrics are filthy and gorgeous.
Two thieves on the run hide with a widow in Gorakhpur who turns out to be running something far larger.
Ishqiya sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Abhishek Chaubey — also responsible for Udta Punjab.
- Released in 2010, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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