Ijaazat

Why it's at number 36

'Mera Kuch Saamaan' — Gulzar's lyric that R. D. Burman said was a newspaper he was asked to set to music.

Two ex-spouses stranded overnight at a railway waiting room unpack the third person who broke them.

Ijaazat sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

The Bollywood 100

The essentials

Directed by Gulzar — also responsible for Aandhi, Talvar, Raazi.
Released in 1987, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
Filed under Drama, Romance.
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