The Extended Canon
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.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ritesh Batra — also responsible for The Lunchbox.
- Released in 2019, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Photograph (2019) · 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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