Director
Gulzar
5 films in this canon, from 1971 to 1999. Highest ranked: #36.
Gulzar holds 5 films in this canon, spanning 1971–1999 across the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. The highest-ranked is Ijaazat (1987) at #36, which we describe as: Two ex-spouses stranded overnight at a railway waiting room unpack the third person who broke them.
The work here clusters around Drama, Political, Romance — a body of work consistent enough that the through-line is visible from any entry point. Full filmography, crew credits and awards are on Wikipedia and IMDb.
Below: every Gulzar film in the canon, each with its own page, external sources and streaming links. Browse the rest of the canon by decade, by genre, or start from #1.
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