The Extended Canon
Shahid
शाहिद · 2012
The life of lawyer Shahid Azmi, who defended terror accused nobody else would, and was shot in his office for it.
- Director
- Hansal Mehta
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Biography · Legal
- Cast
- Rajkummar Rao, Prabhleen Sandhu, Baljinder Kaur
Why it's in the canon
Rajkummar Rao's National Award and a courtroom film with genuine moral stakes.
The life of lawyer Shahid Azmi, who defended terror accused nobody else would, and was shot in his office for it.
Shahid sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hansal Mehta — also responsible for Aligarh.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Legal.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Shahid (2012) · 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
No box-office figure, rating or audience score is printed on this page, because none has been independently verified for this film. The dated, sourced money figures the site does stand behind are on the box office page.
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