The Extended Canon
Margarita with a Straw
मार्गरीटा विद अ स्ट्रॉ · 2014
A young woman with cerebral palsy goes to NYU, falls for a blind activist, and comes home with things to tell her mother.
- Director
- Shonali Bose
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Drama · Coming-of-age
- Cast
- Kalki Koechlin, Revathi, Sayani Gupta
Why it's in the canon
A film about disability and bisexuality with no pity in it anywhere. Kalki Koechlin's finest work.
A young woman with cerebral palsy goes to NYU, falls for a blind activist, and comes home with things to tell her mother.
Margarita with a Straw sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shonali Bose.
- Released in 2014, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Coming-of-age.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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