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.
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