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Photograph

फ़ोटोग्राफ़ · 2019

A Gateway of India street photographer asks a shy accounting student to pose as his fiancée for his grandmother.

Director
Ritesh Batra
Year
2019
Genre
Romance · Drama
Cast
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffar

Why it's in the canon

A romance made almost entirely of hesitation, and the best use of Mumbai's textures since The Lunchbox.

A Gateway of India street photographer asks a shy accounting student to pose as his fiancée for his grandmother.

Photograph sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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