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Legal Films
5 films in the canon are filed under Legal, from 1986 to 2016.
5 films in this canon are filed under Legal, running from 1986 to 2016.
The genre is spread across the 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, with Rajkumar Santoshi, Hansal Mehta, Chaitanya Tamhane, Basu Chatterjee doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.
Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Damini दामिनी | 1993 | Rajkumar Santoshi | Drama, Legal |
| – | Shahid शाहिद | 2012 | Hansal Mehta | Biography, Legal |
| – | Court कोर्ट | 2014 | Chaitanya Tamhane | Drama, Legal |
| – | Ek Ruka Hua Faisla एक रुका हुआ फैसला | 1986 | Basu Chatterjee | Drama, Legal |
| – | Pink पिंक | 2016 | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | Legal, Drama |
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