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.
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