The Extended Canon
Monica, O My Darling
मोनिका, ओ माय डार्लिंग · 2022
A robotics engineer on the rise is blackmailed into a murder plan that immediately stops going to plan.
- Director
- Vasan Bala
- Year
- 2022
- Genre
- Neo-noir · Comedy
- Cast
- Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Sikandar Kher
Why it's in the canon
Achint's score, a full Vijay Anand homage, and the best-plotted Indian comedy-noir in years.
A robotics engineer on the rise is blackmailed into a murder plan that immediately stops going to plan.
Monica, O My Darling sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vasan Bala.
- Released in 2022, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Neo-noir, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Monica, O My Darling (2022) · 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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