The Extended Canon
Bawarchi
बावर्ची · 1972
A mysterious cook joins a permanently quarrelling joint family and quietly fixes every one of them before leaving.
- Director
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Year
- 1972
- Genre
- Comedy · Drama
- Cast
- Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri
Why it's in the canon
The purest expression of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's belief that decency is a technique.
A mysterious cook joins a permanently quarrelling joint family and quietly fixes every one of them before leaving.
Bawarchi sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee — also responsible for Anand, Chupke Chupke, Golmaal.
- Released in 1972, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Bawarchi (1972) · 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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