Ranked #15 of 100
Masaan
मसान · 2015
Two lives on the Varanasi ghats: a girl shamed by a phone video, a boy from a cremation caste who falls in love upward. Won two prizes at Cannes.
- Director
- Neeraj Ghaywan
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Richa Chadha, Vicky Kaushal, Sanjay Mishra, Shweta Tripathi
Why it's at number 15
The gentlest film about caste and shame ever made in Hindi. Its last shot is a small act of mercy.
Two lives on the Varanasi ghats: a girl shamed by a phone video, a boy from a cremation caste who falls in love upward. Won two prizes at Cannes.
Masaan sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Haider — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan.
- Released in 2015, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Masaan (2015) · 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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