The Extended Canon
Sardari Begum
सरदारी बेगम · 1996
A thumri singer is killed in a riot and a journalist niece reconstructs the life the family had disowned.
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Year
- 1996
- Genre
- Drama · Musical
- Cast
- Kirron Kher, Smriti Mishra, Rajeshwari Sachdev
Why it's in the canon
Kirron Kher's National Award and Vanraj Bhatia's most beautiful classical score.
A thumri singer is killed in a riot and a journalist niece reconstructs the life the family had disowned.
Sardari Begum sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shyam Benegal — also responsible for Manthan, Ankur, Bhumika.
- Released in 1996, in the 1990s — 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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