The Extended Canon
Raincoat
रेनकोट · 2004
Two former lovers meet in one room on one rainy afternoon and spend it lying to each other about how well they are doing.
- Director
- Rituparno Ghosh
- Year
- 2004
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Ajay Devgn, Aishwarya Rai
Why it's in the canon
O. Henry's 'Gift of the Magi' as a two-hander. Aishwarya Rai's most controlled performance.
Two former lovers meet in one room on one rainy afternoon and spend it lying to each other about how well they are doing.
Raincoat sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Rituparno Ghosh.
- Released in 2004, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Raincoat (2004) · 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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