A law student witnesses the struggles of the Rajputs, deception, homicide and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
Direction
Kashyap's operatic violence makes student politics feel like Game of Thrones.
Writing
Piyush Mishra's lyrics and dialogue are basically scripture for the disillusioned.
Acting
Kay Kay Menon's Dukey Bana is a masterclass in controlled, terrifying charisma.
Director
Anurag Kashyap
Raj Singh Chaudhary
Dilip Singh
Kay Kay Menon
Dukey Bana
Abhimanyu Singh
Rananjay "Ransa" Singh
Piyush Mishra
Prithvi Bana
Jesse Randhawa
Anuja
Ayesha Mohan
Kiran
Aditya Srivastava
Karan
Deepak Dobriyal
Rajendra Bhati
Pankaj Jha
Jarwal
Mukesh Bhatt
Bhanwar Singh
Mahie Gill
Madhuri
Neil Bhatt
Kesar
Teddy Maurya
Bahrupiya
Chittaranjan Giri
Police Inspector
Anurag Kashyap
Man in the Party
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film adapps the Dholpur succession crisis and Rajput resistance movements into a contemporary allegory about regional identity being crushed by centralized power.
Piyush Mishra wrote all songs and lyrics in five days while also playing Prithvi—his character's drunken breakdown in 'Sheher' was reportedly filmed while genuinely exhausted.
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