The Extended Canon
Sadma
सदमा · 1983
A woman with retrograde amnesia reverts to a child's mind, and the man who protects her cannot be thanked when she recovers.
- Director
- Balu Mahendra
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Sridevi, Kamal Haasan
Why it's in the canon
The final railway-platform scene is the most devastating ending in Hindi cinema. Nothing else is close.
A woman with retrograde amnesia reverts to a child's mind, and the man who protects her cannot be thanked when she recovers.
Sadma 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 Balu Mahendra.
- Released in 1983, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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