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Ranked #85 of 100

Laapataa Ladies

लापता लेडीज़ · 2023

Two brides in identical veils are swapped on a train, and both accidentally get a look at a life they were never offered.

Director
Kiran Rao
Year
2023
Genre
Comedy · Drama
Cast
Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta, Sparsh Shrivastava, Ravi Kishan
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Why it's at number 85

India's Oscar entry for 2024. A comedy of errors that turns into a quiet manifesto.

Two brides in identical veils are swapped on a train, and both accidentally get a look at a life they were never offered.

Laapataa Ladies sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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