B.R. Chopra's Kanoon, starring Ashok Kumar, is a Hindi courtroom drama about the death penalty and circumstantial evidence. It was unusual for its time in having no songs.
A Hindi film with no songs.
Quick check: Which 1960 Hindi courtroom drama by B.R. Chopra had no songs?
Waqt
Kanoon
Adalat
Mughal-e-Azam
Answer: B.
1986
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Twelve angry jurors, in Hindi
Basu Chatterjee's Ek Ruka Hua Faisla is a Hindi adaptation of Twelve Angry Men, in which one juror slowly persuades eleven others to reconsider a guilty verdict — striking because India had no jury trials by then.
Adaptation of Twelve Angry Men.
1993
Damini
"Tareekh pe tareekh"
Rajkumar Santoshi's Damini tells of a woman who fights to bring her in-laws to justice for a rape she witnessed. Sunny Deol's lawyer character's outburst "tareekh pe tareekh" (date after date) became the catchphrase for delays in Indian courts.
"Tareekh pe tareekh."
Quick check: The famous line "tareekh pe tareekh" about court delays comes from which film?
Damini
Meri Jung
Pink
Jolly LLB
Answer: A.
2014
Court
The Indian trial as it really is
Chaitanya Tamhane's Marathi film Court follows the prosecution of an ageing folk singer for allegedly inciting a sewer worker's suicide through a song. Its slow, realistic portrayal of trial-court procedure won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and was India's entry for the Oscars.
National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Quick check: Chaitanya Tamhane's film Court (2014) is in which language?
Marathi
Hindi
Bengali
Tamil
Answer: A.
2012
Shahid
A lawyer's life
Hansal Mehta's Shahid is based on the life of Shahid Azmi, a Mumbai lawyer who defended people accused in terrorism cases and was shot dead in his office in 2010.
Based on lawyer Shahid Azmi.
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Rustom · The Nanavati case retold
Article 15 · Caste and the police
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai · One lawyer against a godman
Kesari Chapter 2 · Sankaran Nair in court
To Kill a Mockingbird · Atticus Finch
Bleak House · Jarndyce and Jarndyce
The Trial · Josef K.
Twelve Angry Men · The jury room
The Merchant of Venice · A pound of flesh
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers · Five judges, five philosophies
Rumpole and Perry Mason · Fictional advocates
Indian Legal Memoirs · Lives in the law
The Case That Shook India · The Raj Narain election case
Judgment at Nuremberg · Judges on trial
A Few Good Men · "You can't handle the truth!"
Philadelphia · Discrimination and AIDS
Erin Brockovich · A toxic tort
Just Mercy · Bryan Stevenson
Anatomy of a Fall · A French trial
Legal Television · From Perry Mason to Suits
Aakrosh · A silenced tribal man and a young lawyer
Andha Kanoon · "Blind law" and a revenge drama
Meri Jung · A lawyer avenges his father's wrongful execution
Shaurya · A court-martial drama
No One Killed Jessica · The Jessica Lall case on screen
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Talvar · The Aarushi–Hemraj case from several viewpoints
Nerkonda Paarvai and Vakeel Saab · Tamil and Telugu remakes of Pink
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The Firm and A Time to Kill · John Grisham's early legal thrillers
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