The Extended Canon
Shanghai
शंघाई · 2012
An activist is run over during a development project's rollout, and a bureaucrat's inquiry finds the state waiting for him.
- Director
- Dibakar Banerjee
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Political · Thriller
- Cast
- Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee
Why it's in the canon
Vassilis Vassilikos's 'Z' relocated to India with total conviction. Emraan Hashmi's best work.
An activist is run over during a development project's rollout, and a bureaucrat's inquiry finds the state waiting for him.
Shanghai sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Dibakar Banerjee — also responsible for Khosla Ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Political, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Shanghai (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
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