The Extended Canon
Katha
कथा · 1983
The tortoise-and-hare fable restaged in a Bombay chawl, where the charming liar takes everything from the decent man.
- Director
- Sai Paranjpye
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- Comedy · Drama
- Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval
Why it's in the canon
A comedy with a genuinely bitter centre, and one of Naseer's most restrained performances.
The tortoise-and-hare fable restaged in a Bombay chawl, where the charming liar takes everything from the decent man.
Katha sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sai Paranjpye — also responsible for Sparsh, Chashme Buddoor.
- Released in 1983, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Drama.
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