The Extended Canon
Baton Baton Mein
बातों बातों में · 1979
A Bombay Catholic family, the local train, and a courtship that keeps being derailed by everyone's opinion of it.
- Director
- Basu Chatterjee
- Year
- 1979
- Genre
- Romance · Comedy
- Cast
- Amol Palekar, Tina Munim, Pearl Padamsee
Why it's in the canon
The most affectionate portrait of Bombay's Christian community, on the 8:10 to Churchgate.
A Bombay Catholic family, the local train, and a courtship that keeps being derailed by everyone's opinion of it.
Baton Baton Mein sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Basu Chatterjee — also responsible for Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, Rajnigandha.
- Released in 1979, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Baton Baton Mein (1979) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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