The Extended Canon
Sarfarosh
सरफ़रोश · 1999
An IPS officer chasing an arms pipeline discovers the ghazal singer he admires is at the other end of it.
- Director
- John Matthew Matthan
- Year
- 1999
- Genre
- Action · Thriller
- Cast
- Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Sonali Bendre, Mukesh Rishi
Why it's in the canon
A cop thriller that treats Muslim characters as people first — rare then, rare now.
An IPS officer chasing an arms pipeline discovers the ghazal singer he admires is at the other end of it.
Sarfarosh sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by John Matthew Matthan.
- Released in 1999, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Action, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Sarfarosh (1999) · 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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