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Ranked #35 of 100
Arth
अर्थ · 1982
A wife left for another woman refuses to take her husband back, and builds a life instead. Autobiographical and unsparing.
- Director
- Mahesh Bhatt
- Year
- 1982
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Why it's at number 35
The ending — 'no' — was radical in 1982 and is still bracing. Shabana Azmi's masterclass.
A wife left for another woman refuses to take her husband back, and builds a life instead. Autobiographical and unsparing.
Arth sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mahesh Bhatt.
- Released in 1982, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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