The Extended Canon
Stanley Ka Dabba
स्टेनली का डब्बा · 2011
A boy who never brings lunch is banned from the classroom by a teacher who eats everybody else's. Shot over months of real Saturdays.
- Director
- Amole Gupte
- Year
- 2011
- Genre
- Drama · Children
- Cast
- Partho Gupte, Amole Gupte, Divya Dutta
Why it's in the canon
The most truthful film about Indian childhood, made with actual children rather than performers.
A boy who never brings lunch is banned from the classroom by a teacher who eats everybody else's. Shot over months of real Saturdays.
Stanley Ka Dabba sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Amole Gupte.
- Released in 2011, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Children.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Stanley Ka Dabba (2011) · 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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