The Extended Canon
Serious Men
सीरियस मेन · 2020
A Dalit assistant at a research institute passes his son off as a genius, and the con becomes everybody's project.
- Director
- Sudhir Mishra
- Year
- 2020
- Genre
- Satire · Drama
- Cast
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indira Tiwari, Aakshath Das
Why it's in the canon
The sharpest satire on caste, ambition and Indian scientific vanity in years.
A Dalit assistant at a research institute passes his son off as a genius, and the con becomes everybody's project.
Serious Men sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Sudhir Mishra — also responsible for Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi.
- Released in 2020, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Satire, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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