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Ranked #69 of 100
Newton
न्यूटन · 2017
A rule-bound clerk insists on conducting a free and fair election in a Maoist-held forest where nobody wants one.
- Director
- Amit V. Masurkar
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Comedy · Political
- Cast
- Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav
Why it's at number 69
India's Oscar entry for 2017. A deadpan comedy about democracy that never sneers at anyone.
A rule-bound clerk insists on conducting a free and fair election in a Maoist-held forest where nobody wants one.
Newton sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Amit V. Masurkar — also responsible for Sherni.
- Released in 2017, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Political.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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