The Extended Canon
Vaastav
वास्तव · 1999
A pav-bhaji stall owner kills a man in a scuffle and is absorbed by the Mumbai underworld within a year.
- Director
- Mahesh Manjrekar
- Year
- 1999
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Sanjay Dutt, Namrata Shirodkar, Reema Lagoo
Why it's in the canon
Sanjay Dutt's career-best, and a mother's final act that is still argued about.
A pav-bhaji stall owner kills a man in a scuffle and is absorbed by the Mumbai underworld within a year.
Vaastav sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar — also responsible for Astitva.
- Released in 1999, in the 1990s — 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.
Film record Wikipedia — Vaastav (1999) · 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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