The Extended Canon
Rajnigandha
रजनीगंधा · 1974
A woman engaged to a chronically late man meets an old flame in Bombay and has to work out what she actually feels.
- Director
- Basu Chatterjee
- Year
- 1974
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur
Why it's in the canon
The 'middle cinema' movement's founding hit — small, honest, and entirely about an interior decision.
A woman engaged to a chronically late man meets an old flame in Bombay and has to work out what she actually feels.
Rajnigandha sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Basu Chatterjee — also responsible for Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, Baton Baton Mein.
- Released in 1974, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Rajnigandha (1974) · 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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