The Extended Canon
Mere Apne
मेरे अपने · 1971
An old widow taken in by a slum neighbourhood becomes the conscience of two youth gangs fighting for nothing.
- Director
- Gulzar
- Year
- 1971
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha
Why it's in the canon
Gulzar's directorial debut, and the first serious film about India's unemployed young men.
An old widow taken in by a slum neighbourhood becomes the conscience of two youth gangs fighting for nothing.
Mere Apne sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Gulzar — also responsible for Ijaazat, Aandhi, Talvar.
- Released in 1971, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Mere Apne (1971) · 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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