The Extended Canon
Gaman
गमन · 1978
A UP villager drives a Bombay taxi and sends money home to a wife he is slowly becoming a stranger to.
- Director
- Muzaffar Ali
- Year
- 1978
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Gita Siddharth
Why it's in the canon
The definitive film about internal migration, and 'Seene Mein Jalan' is Bombay's saddest song.
A UP villager drives a Bombay taxi and sends money home to a wife he is slowly becoming a stranger to.
Gaman sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Muzaffar Ali — also responsible for Umrao Jaan.
- Released in 1978, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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