The Extended Canon
Khubsoorat
खूबसूरत · 1980
A cheerfully anarchic guest arrives in a household governed by a matriarch's timetable and dismantles it with jokes.
- Director
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Year
- 1980
- Genre
- Comedy · Family
- Cast
- Rekha, Ashok Kumar, Dina Pathak, Rakesh Roshan
Why it's in the canon
Rekha's Filmfare-winning comic turn and Dina Pathak's most enjoyable performance.
A cheerfully anarchic guest arrives in a household governed by a matriarch's timetable and dismantles it with jokes.
Khubsoorat sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee — also responsible for Anand, Chupke Chupke, Golmaal.
- Released in 1980, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Family.
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