Indian cinema has never been just about Bollywood. Be it the landmark art house tradition in Bengali cinema with masterpieces by Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, the path-breaking Malayalam cinema by masters like Adoor Gopalakrishnan or John Abraham, or Marathi cinema steeped in the culture of the land with the recent example of Sairat by Nagraj Manjule that is emerging as a runaway box office hit as well as a favourite among critics.

A poster of Marathi film Sairat that has received critical acclaim and rave commercial success