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
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.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Kiran Rao.
- Released in 2023, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Laapataa Ladies (2023) · 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
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