Indian Cinema at it's best
by asc642 | created - 18 Jun 2013 | updated - 05 Feb 2020 | PublicMy goal here is to focus on Indian Cinema and what goes beyond the norm (music and dance) and here I wanted to list films that focus on the daily struggle and the lifestyle of humans. Here through directors like Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Girish Kasaravalli,Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Aparna Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Jahnu Barua,and Goutam Ghosh. Even todays prodigies like Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair,Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Srijit Mukherjee, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Biju, and Bala. And Actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Manoj Bajpai, Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and many many more. Though I am not an Indian my goal is to understand Indian cinema a bit more through language (Hindi, English, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya, and many more), Art, and Culture from India to the diaspora (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the US). If you have any recommendations for any film comment below. Rate and Comment please on any film and also a saying "If there's no struggle, no progress" Thank You P.S: I would like to see a rating for films like Investment, The Bastard Child (more will come) And Happy New Years and support the LGBT community
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101. Moner Manush (2010)
150 min | Biography
The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a mystic music cult called Baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shahed Ali, Raisul Islam Asad, Champa
Votes: 1,462
102. Memories in March (2010)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
A mother finds out that her recently deceased son had a secret life.
Director: Sanjoy Nag | Stars: Deepti Naval, Raima Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Rajat Ganguly
Votes: 523
103. Dekha (2001)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Indrani Haldar, Kamal Kanjilal
Votes: 68
104. Aakrosh (1980)
144 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri
Votes: 1,185
105. Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man from Mumbai (then Bombay) is angry about various issues in different circumstances.
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Dilip Dhawan
Votes: 505
106. Ardh Satya (1983)
130 min | Crime, Drama
A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar
Votes: 2,043
107. Arth (1982)
138 min | Drama, Romance
A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran
Votes: 1,561
108. Bazaar (1982)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Family
A young man challenges traditional customs by standing up to the father of the woman he loves, who has promised her to a wealthy expatriate.
Director: Sagar Sarhadi | Stars: Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Supriya Pathak
Votes: 615
109. Chakra (1981)
140 min | Drama
Amma lives in Bijapur with her husband and son, Benwa. When a man attempts to sexually molest her, he is killed by her husband, the trio flee, but the husband is shot dead by the police. ... See full summary »
Director: Rabindra Dharmaraj | Stars: Savita Bajaj, Arun Bakshi, Suresh Bhagwat, Suhas Bhalekar
Votes: 193
110. Disha (1992)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The Sarpat family, who live in Bhukari, consist of Parsaram, who has been involved in digging a well for the past over 12 years and is now called 'Pagal Parsa'; his brother, Soma, who gets ... See full summary »
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Rajshree Sawant
Votes: 162
111. Ek Din Achanak (1989)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
A retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Shreeram Lagoo, Aparna Sen, Uttara Baokar
Votes: 355
112. Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990)
Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama
After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an ... See full summary »
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Pankaj Kapur, Irrfan Khan, Deepa Sahi
Votes: 1,542
113. Permission (1987)
137 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Meeting accidentally five years after their divorce, a couple reflects on how their marriage collapsed despite transparency.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Rammohan Sharma
Votes: 1,717
114. In Custody (1994)
PG | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A poet of Urdu fame is struggling with his legacy while an aspiring poet and historian comes to document him like never before and in return becomes custodian of the great poets last verses.
Director: Ismail Merchant | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth
Votes: 399 | Gross: $0.09M
115. Kalyug (1981)
152 min | Drama
This movie tells story of fierce and total competition of two related business families in the days of license raaj India. The overall plot is based on Mahabharat. This movie shows that how... See full summary »
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Raj Babbar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Votes: 583
116. Saaransh (1984)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
An old couple lend a room on rent after recent death of the bread earner of the family, their only son. A budding actress starts living with them, who is in love with a local politician's only son. The movie shows what later ensues.
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Soni Razdan, Madan Jain
Votes: 2,035
117. Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
An unemployed Muslim youth aspires to become a big-shot criminal but mends his ways with the help of his educated brother-in-law.
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Stars: Pawan Malhotra, Makrand Deshpande, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rajendra Gupta
Votes: 567
118. Dharavi (1992)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama
Rajkaran lives in Dharavi, the biggest slum in the world. He aspires to start his own business and even manages to do it. But several misfortunes land him back to square one, penniless and alone.
Director: Sudhir Mishra | Stars: Somesh Agarwal, Shabana Azmi, Pramod Bala, Madhuri Dixit
Votes: 368
119. Aghaat (1985)
138 min | Drama, Crime
Madhav Verma (Om Puri) is a dedicated, honest, and diligent union representative. He represents the majority of the employees in an organization, which recognizes his union. However, there ... See full summary »
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Bharat Gopy, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 166
120. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma
Votes: 10,096 | Gross: $2.08M
121. Satta (2003)
Not Rated | 153 min | Crime, Drama
Delhi-based, liberal-thinking, politician-hating Anuradha Sehgal re-locates to Mumbai, finds employment, meets and weds the state's aspiring Chief Minister, Vivek Chauhan. She soon finds ... See full summary »
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar | Stars: Raveena Tandon, Atul Kulkarni, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Govind Namdeo
Votes: 616
122. Mirch Masala (1986)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Thriller
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose ... See full summary »
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Ratna Pathak Shah
Votes: 1,555
123. 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
122 min | Drama, Romance
After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal
Votes: 433
124. Mandi (1983)
167 min | Comedy, Drama
Forbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge when sanctimonious politicians drive a madam's brothel from the heart of Hyderabad.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri
Votes: 952
125. Roja (1992)
137 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman from a village in Tamil Nadu marries a sophisticated city dweller and moves with him to Kashmir, where all is rosy - until he gets kidnapped by militants.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Arvind Swamy, Madhoo, Pankaj Kapur, Nassar
Votes: 13,716
126. The Seventh Horse of the Sun (1992)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance
On a lazy afternoon, a man shares his memories of a storyteller friend who once narrated a convoluted love story with intertwined plots. As these plots unravel, reality mixes with fiction.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Rajit Kapoor, Raghubir Yadav, Siraj Ahmed, Rakesh Dhar
Votes: 977
127. Rudaali (1993)
128 min | Drama
In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner... See full summary »
Director: Kalpana Lajmi | Stars: Rakhee Gulzar, Dimple Kapadia, Raj Babbar, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 586
128. Angoor (1982)
Not Rated | 131 min | Comedy
Based on Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors', this is a story of identical twins (2 pairs) and mistaken identities.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Deven Verma, Aruna Irani
Votes: 5,821
129. Sardar (1993)
175 min | Biography, Drama, History
An account of Vallbhbhai Patel's political life while India was taking first steps as an independent country.
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Paresh Rawal, Tom Alter, Deepika Amin, Riju Bajaj
Votes: 847
130. Gabhricha Paus (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Farmers held hostage by the weather often despair, and yet there is resilience to be found in the communities that depend on the damned rain.
Director: Satish Manwar | Stars: Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash, Aman Attar
Votes: 263
131. Mukta (1995)
Not Rated | 154 min | Drama
Mukta is the story of an upper caste girl and a lower caste boy who struggle against the contradictions of their caste, both in India as well as among a community of Indians who have settled abroad, in a supposedly liberated environment.
Director: Jabbar Patel | Stars: Sharad Bhutadiya, Avinash Deshmukh, Asavari Ghotikar, Vikram Gokhale
Votes: 80
132. Deool (2011)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama
Keshya, a simple villager believes that god has arrived in his village but everyone disbelieves him. Later when the politics plays its part things take a drastic change.
Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni | Stars: Nana Patekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Jyoti Subhash, Usha Nadkarni
Votes: 1,733
133. Simhasan (1979)
170 min | Crime, Drama
When Chief Minister of Maharashtra gets an anonymous call to warn him against possible rebellion in his party, all is not well. The current government is being questioned by opposition on a... See full summary »
Director: Jabbar Patel | Stars: Mohan Agashe, Suresh Bansale, Ravindra Bapat, Suresh Bhagwat
Votes: 235
134. Kaksparsh (2012)
140 min | Drama, Family, History
Uma loses her husband at a very young age and faces many hardships. The only support she gets is from her brother-in-law.
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar | Stars: Sachin Khedekar, Priya Bapat, Gauri Ingavale, Priya Umesh Kamat
Votes: 937
135. Vihir (2009)
120 min | Drama
Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is the more mature of the two, wants to escape his stifling surroundings. Sameer does not understand this. Then one day, ... See full summary »
Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni | Stars: Mohan Agashe, Madan Deodhar, Girish Kulkarni, Parna Pethe
Votes: 304
136. Balak Palak (2013)
109 min | Family
Helps parents to realize how important it is to communicate transparently with your child.
Director: Ravi Jadhav | Stars: Shashwati Pimplikar, Madan Deodhar, Bhagyashree Milind, Rohit Phalke
Votes: 1,903
137. Shala (2011)
108 min | Romance
Set in the 70's in rural India, four 9th grade kids were writing their destiny. Joshi (14) is madly in love with Shirodkar (14) a beautiful Indian looking girl. Both study in the same class. The age old question "What is love anyway?"
Director: Sujay Dahake | Stars: Anshuman Joshi, Ketaki Mategaonkar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Nandu Madhav
Votes: 1,998
138. Watch Indian Circus (2011)
101 min | Drama
Kajro (Tannishtha Chatterjee) and Jethu (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) are investing their life in fulfilling the eternal Indian dream of educating their children Ghumroo (Virendra Singh Rathod) and... See full summary »
Director: Mangesh Hadawale | Stars: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Virendrapratap Rathore, Suhani Oza
Votes: 57
139. Corrode (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A woman's need for an unfinished sculpture blossoms into an obsession.
Director: Karan Gour | Stars: Rasika Dugal, Alekh Sangal, Sudhir Pednekar, Adityavardhan Gupta
Votes: 325
140. Gattu (2011)
90 min | Drama
A cheeky nine-year-old boy called Gattu lives in Roorkee. The small town along with Gattu shares an obsession with flying kites and defeating the ruler of the skies above Roorkee.
Director: Rajan Khosa | Stars: Naresh Sharma, Mohammad Samad, Jayanta Das, Md. Sohaib
Votes: 432
141. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 122,373 | Gross: $2.20M
142. Like Stars on Earth (2007)
PG | 162 min | Drama, Family
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Votes: 206,786 | Gross: $1.22M
143. Nayakan (1987)
Not Rated | 145 min | Crime, Drama
A common man's struggles against a corrupt police force put him on the wrong side of the law. He becomes a don, who is loved and respected by many, but his growing power and influence exact a heavy toll.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Saranya Ponvannan, Delhi Ganesh, Janakaraj
Votes: 22,999
144. Kai Po Che (2013)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Sport
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Director: Abhishek Kapoor | Stars: Amit Sadh, Sushant Singh Rajput, Rajkummar Rao, Amrita Puri
Votes: 38,754 | Gross: $1.12M
145. Filmistaan (2012)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy
In Mumbai, affable Bollywood buff and wanna-be-actor Sunny, who works as an assistant director, fantasizes on becoming a heart-throb star. However, at every audition he is summarily thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Nitin Kakkar | Stars: Sharib Hashmi, Inaamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Gopal Datt
Votes: 3,660
146. Shahid (2012)
Not Rated | 129 min | Biography, Drama
The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Prabhleen Sandhu, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Baljinder Kaur
Votes: 17,754
147. Abu, Son of Adam (2011)
101 min | Drama
A poor aging couple struggle to fulfill their lifelong dream of going to Mecca for pilgrimage.
Director: Salim Ahmed | Stars: Salim Kumar, Said Alharbi, M.R. Gopakumar, Jaffer Idukki
Votes: 1,232
148. Ustad Hotel (2012)
151 min | Comedy, Drama
Faisi wants to go to UK to become a professional chef but circumstances force him to assist his grandfather in a small restaurant in Kozhikode city, changing his outlook on life forever.
Director: Anwar Rasheed | Stars: Dulquer Salmaan, Thilakan, Siddique, Nithya Menen
Votes: 16,552
149. Rat-Trap (1982)
121 min | Drama
The protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him.
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Jalaja, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Rajam K. Nair, Mavelikara Ramachandran
Votes: 567
151. Mukhamukham (1984)
107 min | Drama
The film starts in the early 1950s showing Sridharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to go underground after his name was ... See full summary »
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Alummoodan, Ashokan, Azeez, P. Ganga
Votes: 51
152. Vidheyan (1994)
112 min | Drama
Thommy is a loyal servant of Bhaskar Patel. But Patel is a ruthless tyrant. Thommy struggles between his moral sense and his professional sense. He is finally redeemed without compromising his duty as Patel's servant.
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Mammootty, M.R. Gopakumar, Tanvi Azmi, Sabitha Anand
Votes: 1,509
153. Kathapurushan (1996)
107 min | Biography, Drama
Against the history of Kerala, we see a young man grow up without a father, relate to the working class people employed in his feudal household, become an intellectual, land in prison, and find a cure for the stuttering that afflicts him.
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Vishwanathan, Mini Nair, Aranmulla Ponnamma, Urmila Unni
Votes: 134
154. Nizhalkkuthu (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Kaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess.
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Sukumari, Mallika, Thara Kalyan
Votes: 256
155. Naalu Pennungal (2007)
105 min | Drama
A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.
Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Padmapriya, Geethu Mohandas, Manju Pillai, Nandita Das
Votes: 185
156. Piravi (1989)
110 min | Drama
Raghu, the only son of Raghava Chakyar was born late for him. So he poured his entire love and affection on him. Raghu, studying in an engineering college in a far away city has to arrive ... See full summary »
Director: Shaji N. Karun | Stars: Premji, Archana, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, V.K. Sriraman
Votes: 294
157. Vanaprastham (1999)
119 min | Drama
An illicit relationship between a Kathakali dancer and a young woman from an upper caste family results in an illegitimate child. He faces hardships when she refuses to let him see their child.
Director: Shaji N. Karun | Stars: Mohanlal, Suhasini, Mattanoor Shankara Marar, Kalamandalam Gopi
Votes: 1,919
158. Kutty Srank: The Sailor of Hearts (2009)
127 min | Drama
Kutty Srank is a short-tempered, lonely, but law-abiding boatman whose work leads him to travel the back waters of Kerala. One day, when the local police station discovers an unidentified ... See full summary »
Director: Shaji N. Karun | Stars: Mammootty, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Meena Kumari Perera, Padmapriya
Votes: 656
159. The Way Home (2011)
95 min | Drama, Family
The plot revolves around a doctor with a haunting past. Now working at a Prison Hospital, the Doctor is assigned the case of a woman a surviving member from a notorious terrorist group. .... See full summary »
Director: Bijukumar Damodaran | Stars: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Govardhan B.K, Uday Chandra
Votes: 178
160. The Stranger (1991)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Bikram Bhattacharya
Votes: 4,388
161. The Branches of the Tree (1990)
130 min | Drama
Four brothers converge around an ailing father.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey
Votes: 852
162. An Enemy of the People (1989)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Votes: 1,574
163. The Home and the World (1984)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by ... See full summary »
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Gopa Aich
Votes: 1,896
164. Deliverance (1981 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
Untouchable shoemender Dukhi comes to the Brahmin's and asks him to arrange his daughter's engagement. The Brahmin belongs to a higher caste. He wants Dukhi to work for him (and for free) ... See full summary »
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe, Geeta Kak
Votes: 607
165. The Chess Players (1977)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal
Votes: 4,066
166. The Touch (1980)
145 min | Drama, Romance
Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, ... See full summary »
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sudha Chopra, Mohan Gokhale
Votes: 951
167. Yeh Nazdeekiyan (1982)
Drama, Romance
Sunil Verma is the head of an advertising agency, and lives with a middle-class life with his wife, Shobna. Although Sunil gets to meet many beautiful women during the course of his ... See full summary »
Director: Vinod Pande | Stars: Marc Zuber, Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi, Mala Jaggi
Votes: 45
168. Namkeen (1982)
112 min | Drama, Family
Namkeen revolves around Jugni, a folk theatre dancer who lives with her three daughters in a remote village, and how their lives change when a truck driver, begins living with them as a tenant.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Kiran Vairale
Votes: 519
169. Masoom (1983)
Not Rated | 165 min | Drama, Family
A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar
Votes: 4,404
170. Paar (1984)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
This is Goutam Ghose's speculative commentary on poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, based on Bengali story Paathi.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Anil Chatterjee
Votes: 556
171. Khandhar (1984)
106 min | Drama
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young... See full summary »
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Annu Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur, Sreela Majumdar
Votes: 309
172. Genesis (1986)
105 min | Drama
A parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their world, and her presence slowly disrupts their routine existence.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina
Votes: 141
173. Pestonjee (1988)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
Piroj and Pesi are best friends. They both meet the same girl for marriage but Pesi ends up marrying her. Later Piroj finds out that Pesi is having an affair. Piroj confronts Pesi but realizes things are complicated.
Director: Vijaya Mehta | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Cyprus Dastoor, Dady Dustoor, Anupam Kher
Votes: 309
174. Sati (1989)
140 min | Drama
Close to the holy River Ganga, an ancient tree provides shelter and comfort to Uma, a mute, orphan, Brahmin girl. Treated like a drudge by her cruel aunt, Uma is also cursed by a horoscope ... See full summary »
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Arun Bannerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Pradip Mukherjee
Votes: 150
175. Antarnaad (1991)
160 min | Drama
The story of Antarnaad is based on the work of Pandurang Shastri which over the last 36 years is revolutionizing the Indian countryside by transforming the lives of people in a way that can... See full summary »
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Om Puri
Votes: 133
176. Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Music
A small New Jersey town is caught in the grips of Bollywood fever as five Indian-Americans and one Jewish Indophile step up to the mic to crown the one and only DESI IDOL!
Director: Manish Acharya | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Ajay Naidu, Ayesha Dharker, Michael Raimondi
Votes: 803 | Gross: $0.04M
177. Bhavni Bhavai (1981)
135 min | Comedy, Drama
The atrocities on lower caste people displayed using folklore and ancient kingdom story. The digging of a step well in drought prone area and the exploitation of its lower caste people by the kingdom in a satirical manner.
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Gokhale, Om Puri
Votes: 150
178. Umbartha (1982)
151 min | Drama
After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash ... See full summary »
Director: Jabbar Patel | Stars: Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Shrikant Moghe, Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Votes: 161
179. Giddh: The Vulture (1984)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
In a remote rural town in India, live a young woman named Ahnami and her husband, Bhashya. Bhashya is a laborer who earns a daily wage, drinks alcohol with part of it, and gives the rest to... See full summary »
Director: T.S. Ranga | Stars: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar, Achyut Potdar
Votes: 76
180. Chidambaram (1985)
103 min | Drama
Muniyandi (Sreenivasan), a laborer in the farm, believes and respects Shivakami (Smita Patil). Muniyandi brings Shivakami to the farm after marrying her. She soon befriends Shankaran (Gopi)... See full summary »
Director: Govindan Aravindan | Stars: Mohan Das, Bharat Gopy, Smita Patil, Sreenivasan
Votes: 169
181. Valley of Flowers (2006)
155 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A great Asian love story, an unforgettable tale about passion, death and reincarnation. A mesmerizing Himalayan epic that spans two centuries, from the Silk Route of the early 19th century to the bustling metropolis of modern-day Tokyo.
Director: Pan Nalin | Stars: Milind Soman, Mylène Jampanoï, Naseeruddin Shah, Jampa Kalsang Tamang
Votes: 1,914
182. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1994)
158 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A dreamer falls for a girl who is in love with someone else and tries to create a rift between her and the man she loves.
Director: Kundan Shah | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Deepak Tijori, Rita Bhaduri
Votes: 19,454
183. Ek Ghar (1991)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Rajanna and Geeta arrive in the city with the hope of building a cozy little home. When they find their dream house, their happiness knows no bounds. Things are fine till, one day, a loud workshop opens up next door.
Director: Girish Kasaravalli | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Chanda, Rohini Hattangadi
Votes: 97
184. Mirza Ghalib (1988– )
27 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The story of the most admired poet in the History of Urdu and Persian writings, Mirza Ghalib.
Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Tanvi Azmi, Neena Gupta, Amjad Khan
Votes: 668
185. Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987)
Drama
Director: Sudhir Mishra | Stars: Manohar Singh, Habib Tanvir, B.M. Shah, Kusum Haidar
Votes: 50
186. Trikal (Past, Present, Future) (1985)
137 min | Drama
A Goan native returns to his now-derelict, palatial childhood home, recalling his family's interpersonal drama during the end of Portuguese rule.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Leela Naidu, Neena Gupta, Anita Kanwar, Soni Razdan
Votes: 303
187. Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984)
130 min | Drama
An old couple, Mohan Joshi (Bhisham Sahni) and his wife (Dina Pathak), sues their landlord (Amjad Khan) for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two ... See full summary »
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Stars: Bhisham Sahni, Dina Pathak, Mohan Gokhale, Deepti Naval
Votes: 197
188. Party (1984)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A planned social gathering is held to commemorate Divakar Barve for the award he receive pertaining his contributions to Indian Arts and films. The social event is greeted by some important... See full summary »
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Deepa Sahi, Ila Arun, Raju Barot, Mohan Bhandari
Votes: 629
189. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)
Not Rated | 132 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.
Director: Kundan Shah | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah
Votes: 14,728
190. Marhi Da Deeva (1989)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Dalit Jagseer Singh's troubles do not seem to end in this poignant portrayal of life in a small village of Punjab in newly independent India.
Director: Surinder Singh | Stars: Raj Babbar, Deepti Naval, Parikshit Sahni, Pankaj Kapur
Votes: 81
191. Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris (2006)
138 min | Drama, History
When the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bans music in India because he believes it turns people away from God, musicians go underground.
Director: Manoj Punj | Stars: Gurdas Maan, Juhi Chawla, Sushant Singh, Divya Dutta
Votes: 244
192. Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh (1999)
121 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Manoj Punj | Stars: Gurdas Maan, Divya Dutta, Gurkirtan, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 229
193. Mannat (2006)
165 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After the Indian Government ordered troops into the Soni Darbar in Amritsar, angering Sikhs worldwide, leading to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during 1984, followed by ... See full summary »
Director: Gurbir Singh Grewal | Stars: Jimmy Shergill, Kulraj Randhawa, Kanwaljeet Singh, Rupinder Rupi
Votes: 132
194. Dweepa (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama
Nagi is the pillar of her small family that includes her husband and her rigid father-in-law. Faced with the possibility of losing her home due to the construction of a dam, Nagi proves her strength.
Director: Girish Kasaravalli | Stars: Soundarya, Avinash, M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Harish Raj
Votes: 283
195. Haseena (2004)
90 min | Drama
Director: Girish Kasaravalli | Stars: Bhargavi Bodhini, Ruthu, Chitra Shenoy, Chaya Singh
Votes: 39
196. Ondanondu Kaladalli (1978)
Not Rated | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A mercernary sets out to assist a tribal chieftain to defeat the chieftain's brother who is now an opponent and an enemy.
Director: Girish Karnad | Stars: Shankar Nag, Sushilendra Joshi, Vasant Rao Nakod, Rekha Sabnis
Votes: 179
197. Utsav (1984)
145 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Based on the circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd Century CE, Sanskrit play "Daridra-Charudatta" by the famous Indian playwright Bhasa, "Utsav" faithfully follows Bhasa's story-line. Vasantasena, a... See full summary »
Director: Girish Karnad | Stars: Rekha, Amjad Khan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shankar Nag
Votes: 424
198. Cheluvi (1992)
102 min | Drama
Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is spotted by Kumar, the son of the village head.
Director: Girish Karnad | Stars: Girish Karnad, Sonali Kulkarni, Prashant Rao, Gargi Yakkundi
Votes: 107
199. Saptapadii (2013)
105 min | Drama, Family, Thriller
A businessman's wife is determined to cure a traumatized child by risking her own family life.
Director: Niranjan Thade | Stars: Swaroop Sampat, Manav Gohil, Hit Somani, Shailee Shah
Votes: 37
200. Antareen (1993)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A writer moves into the palatial house of a friend to find creative inspiration. A chance telephonic chat with a mysterious woman blossoms into love as he finally finds what he was looking for.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Anjan Dutt, Dimple Kapadia, Tathagata Sanyal
Votes: 166
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