The Extended Canon
Mukti Bhawan
मुक्ति भवन · 2016
A father announces he is going to Varanasi to die, and his exhausted son has to take unpaid leave to supervise it.
- Director
- Shubhashish Bhutiani
- Year
- 2016
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni
Why it's in the canon
Venice Horizons prize. A comedy about death and filial duty with a perfect final scene.
A father announces he is going to Varanasi to die, and his exhausted son has to take unpaid leave to supervise it.
Mukti Bhawan sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani.
- Released in 2016, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Mukti Bhawan (2016) · 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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