The Ordinary Star
2026, Hindi. Directed by Samreen Farooqui & Shabani Hassanwalia.
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is asked to study Ashok, the actual resident of the room the actor is going to inhabit for the filming of Star, Dibakar Banerjee’s short in Bombay Talkies, 2013. The fiction director, the documentary filmmakers and the actor, bit by bit, construct the lead character of Bombay Talkies, Porandar Vithal. Ashok feeds this construction through his own life. The Ordinary Star is a documentary that ponders over the nature and cost of the cinematic process, it’s invasiveness, it’s need to devour so that it can create, and the endless search to live a life less ordinary.
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- 1h 5m
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- Hindi
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- 29 October 2026
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The Ordinary Star runs 65 minutes (1h 5m).
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The Ordinary Star isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 October 2026. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Ordinary Star?
If you liked The Ordinary Star, try As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Sidney, A Toxic Love Story.
Who directed The Ordinary Star?
The Ordinary Star (2026) was directed by Samreen Farooqui and Shabani Hassanwalia and stars Dibakar Banerjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui.