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Tamasha

तमाशा · 2015

A man who was a storyteller as a boy becomes a product manager, and the woman who met the real him won't accept the copy.

Director
Imtiaz Ali
Year
2015
Genre
Drama · Romance
Cast
Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone

Why it's in the canon

Divisive on release, now widely reassessed as Imtiaz Ali's most personal and structurally daring film.

A man who was a storyteller as a boy becomes a product manager, and the woman who met the real him won't accept the copy.

Tamasha sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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