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Khandaan (1979)

Khandaan poster
Directed by
Anil Ganguly
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
India
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother struggles to hold her family together through hardships. The story focuses on her sacrifices and the bonds between family members.

melodramaticemotionalfamily-centricnostalgicearnestmusicalsoapy

What happens

Khandaan (transl. Clan) is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language drama film, produced by Sibte Hassan Rizvi under the New World Enterprises banner and directed by Anil Ganguly. It stars Jeetendra, Sulakshana Pandit, Rakesh Roshan and Bindiya Goswami and the music was composed by Khayyam. It was a remake of the 1952 Bombay Talkies film Maa which was directed by Bimal Roy, in which Leela Chitnis played the eponymous role of the mother/Maa. Khandaan was remade in Telugu as Jeevitha Ratnam (1981). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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