The Extended Canon
Lootera
लुटेरा · 2013
A zamindar's daughter in 1953 Bengal falls for an archaeologist who is neither, and the second half is a long winter.
- Director
- Vikramaditya Motwane
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha
Why it's in the canon
O. Henry's 'The Last Leaf' woven into the most beautifully shot Hindi romance of the 2010s.
A zamindar's daughter in 1953 Bengal falls for an archaeologist who is neither, and the second half is a long winter.
Lootera sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane — also responsible for Udaan, Trapped.
- Released in 2013, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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