The Extended Canon
27 Down
27 डाउन · 1974
A man who wanted to be a painter is put on the railways by his father and lives his whole life between stations.
- Director
- Awtar Krishna Kaul
- Year
- 1974
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- M. K. Raina, Raakhee
Why it's in the canon
Its director drowned before release. A lost-and-restored classic of the parallel wave.
A man who wanted to be a painter is put on the railways by his father and lives his whole life between stations.
27 Down sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Awtar Krishna Kaul.
- Released in 1974, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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