The Extended Canon
Qala
क़ला · 2022
A playback singer in 1940s Calcutta is haunted by the mother who never approved and the boy who was chosen instead.
- Director
- Anvita Dutt
- Year
- 2022
- Genre
- Drama · Musical
- Cast
- Tripti Dimri, Swastika Mukherjee, Babil Khan, Amit Sial
Why it's in the canon
Amit Trivedi's finest score of the decade and one of the best-designed period films of recent years.
A playback singer in 1940s Calcutta is haunted by the mother who never approved and the boy who was chosen instead.
Qala sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anvita Dutt — also responsible for Bulbbul.
- Released in 2022, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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