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.
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