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Ranked #25 of 100
Garam Hava
गरम हवा · 1974
A Muslim shoemaker in Agra refuses to leave for Pakistan while Partition slowly dismantles his family and his business.
- Director
- M. S. Sathyu
- Year
- 1974
- Genre
- Drama · Historical
- Cast
- Balraj Sahni, Farooq Shaikh
Why it's at number 25
Balraj Sahni's last performance, and the most humane film ever made about Partition's afterlife.
A Muslim shoemaker in Agra refuses to leave for Pakistan while Partition slowly dismantles his family and his business.
Garam Hava sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by M. S. Sathyu.
- Released in 1974, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Historical.
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