42
Ranked #42 of 100
Aandhi
आंधी · 1975
A politician on the campaign trail checks into a hotel run by the husband she left for public life.
- Director
- Gulzar
- Year
- 1975
- Genre
- Drama · Political
- Cast
- Sanjeev Kumar, Suchitra Sen
Why it's at number 42
Briefly banned during the Emergency for its perceived resemblance to Indira Gandhi. 'Tere Bina Zindagi Se'.
A politician on the campaign trail checks into a hotel run by the husband she left for public life.
Aandhi sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
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