The Extended Canon
Teesri Kasam
तीसरी कसम · 1966
A bullock-cart driver falls for a nautanki dancer he ferries to a fair, without understanding what her life is.
- Director
- Basu Bhattacharya
- Year
- 1966
- Genre
- Drama · Romance
- Cast
- Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman
Why it's in the canon
Phanishwar Nath Renu's story, Shailendra's production, and the most tender heartbreak in Hindi film.
A bullock-cart driver falls for a nautanki dancer he ferries to a fair, without understanding what her life is.
Teesri Kasam sits in the 1960s alongside Mughal-e-Azam and Guide — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Basu Bhattacharya.
- Released in 1966, in the 1960s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Romance.
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