The Extended Canon
Bhuvan Shome
भुवन शोम · 1969
A rigid railway bureaucrat goes bird-hunting in Gujarat and is disarmed by a village woman who doesn't know who he is.
- Director
- Mrinal Sen
- Year
- 1969
- Genre
- Comedy · Drama
- Cast
- Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay
Why it's in the canon
The film usually credited with starting the Indian New Wave. Amitabh Bachchan's first screen voice work.
A rigid railway bureaucrat goes bird-hunting in Gujarat and is disarmed by a village woman who doesn't know who he is.
Bhuvan Shome sits in the 1960s alongside Mughal-e-Azam and Guide — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mrinal Sen.
- Released in 1969, in the 1960s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Drama.
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