1972:Adoor Gopalakrishnan debuts with 'Swayamvaram', a brilliant career begins.
1969: Mrinal Sen's 'Bhuvan Shome' heralds the birth of the New Wave.
1976: Ilayaraja arrives as the first sonic whizkid with 'Annikkili', redefines fusion.
Raj Kapoor releases 'Bobby', reviving the love story genre. Teenager Dimple Kapadia becomes the darling of the nation, only to retire from films, for now.
SOCIAL REGISTER
Sunil Gavaskar weds Marshneill; Rajiv Gandhi meets Italian Sonia Maino in Cambridge, and weds her in Delhi in February '68; poet Dom Moraes marries actress Leela Naidu
The decade's other famous celebrity marriages: Sanjay Gandhi-Maneka Anand, Pataudi-Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna-Dimple Kapadia, Amitabh Bachchan-Jaya Bhaduri, Dilip Kumar-Saira Bano.
