The Extended Canon
Udta Punjab
उड़ता पंजाब · 2016
Four lives inside Punjab's drug economy: a rock star, a migrant labourer, a doctor and a cop who is late to everything.
- Director
- Abhishek Chaubey
- Year
- 2016
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh
Why it's in the canon
Alia Bhatt's most transformed performance, and a censorship battle that became a free-speech landmark.
Four lives inside Punjab's drug economy: a rock star, a migrant labourer, a doctor and a cop who is late to everything.
Udta Punjab sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Abhishek Chaubey — also responsible for Ishqiya.
- Released in 2016, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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