The Extended Canon
Nil Battey Sannata
निल बट्टे सन्नाटा · 2015
A domestic worker enrols in her own daughter's class to shame her into studying, and finds she likes maths.
- Director
- Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Riya Shukla
Why it's in the canon
A film about aspiration that never pretends the ladder is fair. Swara Bhaskar's best work.
A domestic worker enrols in her own daughter's class to shame her into studying, and finds she likes maths.
Nil Battey Sannata sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari.
- Released in 2015, 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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