The Extended Canon
Mardaani
मर्दानी · 2014
A Mumbai crime branch officer goes after a child-trafficking ring and its very ordinary young boss.
- Director
- Pradeep Sarkar
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Crime · Thriller
- Cast
- Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin
Why it's in the canon
Rani Mukerji anchoring a hard procedural, and a villain written as banal rather than theatrical.
A Mumbai crime branch officer goes after a child-trafficking ring and its very ordinary young boss.
Mardaani sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Pradeep Sarkar.
- Released in 2014, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Thriller.
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Film record Wikipedia — Mardaani (2014) · 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
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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