The Extended Canon
Thappad
थप्पड़ · 2020
A husband slaps his wife once at a party. She asks for a divorce, and everyone tells her it was only once.
- Director
- Anubhav Sinha
- Year
- 2020
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza
Why it's in the canon
It holds its nerve for two hours on a single 'but'. Taapsee Pannu's best performance.
A husband slaps his wife once at a party. She asks for a divorce, and everyone tells her it was only once.
Thappad sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anubhav Sinha — also responsible for Article 15, Bheed.
- Released in 2020, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Thappad (2020) · 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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