The Extended Canon
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
चलती का नाम गाड़ी · 1958
Three brothers in a garage who have sworn off women, and the one who arrives at midnight with a broken car.
- Director
- Satyen Bose
- Year
- 1958
- Genre
- Comedy · Musical
- Cast
- Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Madhubala
Why it's in the canon
'Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si' — Kishore Kumar's greatest comic performance, opposite Madhubala.
Three brothers in a garage who have sworn off women, and the one who arrives at midnight with a broken car.
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Satyen Bose.
- Released in 1958, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) · 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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