Guru's List of All Time Best Bollywood Movies
by sarvagyanaguru | created - 09 Feb 2016 | updated - 14 Jun 2017 | PublicSelection of some of the best Hindi movies, arranged in no particular order
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1. Sholay (1975)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.
Director: Ramesh Sippy | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Amjad Khan
Votes: 58,724
2. Kaala Patthar (1979)
Not Rated | 176 min | Action, Drama, History
Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Rakhee Gulzar
Votes: 2,760
3. Chashme Buddoor (1981)
Not Rated | 145 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Two womanizing slackers, Omi and Jai (Rakesh Bedi and Ravi Baswani respectively) attempt to woo the new girl in the neighbourhood, and fail - miserably. Their third room-mate, shy, and a ... See full summary »
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Saeed Jaffrey, Rakesh Bedi
Votes: 2,647
4. Baton Baton Mein (1979)
112 min | Comedy, Romance
Nancy and Tony meet regularly on their daily commute to work and gradually fall in love. But when Tony shows reluctance toward marriage, Nancy's mother starts looking for a groom for her daughter.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Tina Ambani, Govardhan Asrani, David Abraham
Votes: 1,339
5. Katha (1983)
141 min | Comedy, Drama
Secretly in love with his neighbor, a mild-mannered clerk is heartbroken when his much bolder, more charming friend wins her heart instead.
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Hemu Adhikari
Votes: 1,328
6. Guide (1965)
Not Rated | 183 min | Drama, Romance
When mistaken to be a sage by some villagers, an ex-tour guide reflects on his past and lost love to search for spiritual wisdom to guide the villagers.
Director: Vijay Anand | Stars: Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwar Hussain
Votes: 8,592
7. 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
8. 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
9. Bandit Queen (1994)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 5,318 | Gross: $0.40M
10. 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: 206,699 | Gross: $1.22M
11. 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: 504
12. 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: 5,820
13. Shakti (1982)
166 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son... See full summary »
Director: Ramesh Sippy | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Smita Patil
Votes: 2,369
14. 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
15. Deewaar (1975)
Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Vijay struggles as a dockworker and eventually becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother Ravi is an educated, upright policeman. This divide causes problems in their relationship.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi
Votes: 11,716
16. Chhoti Si Baat (1976)
123 min | Comedy, Romance
A timid suitor seeks the help of a ruthless colonel to win the woman of his dreams when a bold young man begins to pursue her in this romantic comedy.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Amol Palekar, Govardhan Asrani
Votes: 4,500
17. Ittefaq (1969)
104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Nanda Karnataki, Sujit Kumar, Bindu Desai
Votes: 1,184
18. Bawarchi (1972)
Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Musical, Drama
A dysfunctional middle-class family is transformed due to the influence of their new multi-talented household servant - but he might be too good to be true.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bachchan, Usha Kiran, Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Votes: 4,413
19. Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)
Not Rated | 152 min | Drama, Musical
A lowly servant, Bhootnath gets close to the wife of his employer and narrates her story through his eyes and perspective.
Director: Abrar Alvi | Stars: Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, Rehman Khan, Waheeda Rehman
Votes: 1,851
20. Mili (1975)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Romance, Family
A reclusive, depressed man and a bubbly young woman fall in love but then find out that she has cancer.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Usha Kiran, Ashok Kumar
Votes: 1,452
21. Trishul (1978)
167 min | Action, Drama, Musical
An engineer visiting a town, has a brief affair with a local girl and walks off, leaving her with a child. The son grows up to avenge his deserted mother. Vijay is the angry young man playing the son.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini
Votes: 2,459
22. Pati Patni Aur Woh (1978)
141 min | Comedy, Romance
Adam & Eve live a worry-free life in paradise. They are instructed not to eat an apple. One day they cannot resist the temptation, and both take a bite out of it. Nature takes offense and ... See full summary »
Director: B.R. Chopra | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjeeta Kaur, Govardhan Asrani
Votes: 544
23. Thirst (1957)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Vijay, a talented but indigent poet, struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world.
Director: Guru Dutt | Stars: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Rehman Khan
Votes: 7,276
24. Parichay (1972)
145 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a ... See full summary »
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Jeetendra, Jaya Bachchan, Pran Sikand, A.K. Hangal
Votes: 964
25. 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: 14,725
26. Satya (1998)
Not Rated | 170 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An innocent man is embroiled in underworld after being falsely charged and sets out to punish the perpetrators who subjected his life to misery.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: J.D. Chakravarthi, Manoj Bajpayee, Urmila Matondkar, Paresh Rawal
Votes: 16,703
27. Gol Maal (1979)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
A man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss gets suspicious.
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma, Shobha Khote
Votes: 20,070
28. Chak De! India (2007)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Kabir Khan, the coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey Team, dreams of making his all-girls team emerge victorious against all odds.
Director: Shimit Amin | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge, Shilpa Shukla
Votes: 84,958 | Gross: $1.11M
29. Ghayal (1990)
Not Rated | 163 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ajay Mehra, an amateur boxer, takes revenge against Balwant Rai, a crooked businessman, after his elder brother is killed.
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Moushumi Chatterjee
Votes: 5,064
30. Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji (2011)
143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three roommates are in search of true love. They each find a girl with whom they fall head over heels in love with. Now they just have to get the women to reciprocate.
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee
Votes: 4,211
31. Dil Chahta Hai (2001)
Not Rated | 183 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity G Zinta
Votes: 75,788 | Gross: $0.30M
32. Shree 420 (1955)
168 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a young man from a small town decides to make it big in a city, he faces several challenges.
Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Nargis, Raj Kapoor, Nadira, Nemo
Votes: 3,006
33. Majboor (1974)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.
Director: Ravi Tandon | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Pran Sikand, Farida Jalal
Votes: 799
34. Swami (1977)
129 min | Drama
After she enters into an arranged marriage, a spirited and intellectual young woman tries to adjust to life with a man who was not her choice.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt, Dheeraj Kumar
Votes: 252
35. Haqeeqat (1964)
184 min | Action, Musical, War
A platoon of Indian soldiers encounters harsh realities while fighting in the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
Director: Chetan Anand | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Dharmendra, Vijay Anand, Indrani Mukherjee
Votes: 554
36. 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
37. Tezaab (1988)
Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Crime, Drama
From a very early age Mahesh Deshmukh has dreams of serving his country; his encouragement and dreams multiplies when his parents are killed by a gang of robbers who plan to loot the bank ... See full summary »
Director: N. Chandra | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey
Votes: 2,497
38. Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)
189 min | Drama, Romance
When a homeless and orphaned young man finds work in the house of a wealthy man, he falls in love with the daughter of that wealthy man. But things start to change a lot thereafter.
Director: Prakash Mehra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, Rekha
Votes: 3,054
39. Julie (1975)
Not Rated | 145 min | Family, Musical, Romance
Julie is an Anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic father and a domineering mother, a younger brother and sister. She falls in love with her best friend's brother Shashi ... See full summary »
Director: K.S. Sethumadhavan | Stars: Lakshmi, Vikram Makandar, Nadira, Utpal Dutt
Votes: 305
40. Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955)
Not Rated | 157 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman must be married to claim her inheritance; her misandrist aunt uses the newly-passed 1955 divorce bill to find her a temporary husband.
Director: Guru Dutt | Stars: Madhubala, Guru Dutt, Lalita Pawar, Johnny Walker
Votes: 662
41. Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958)
173 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.
Director: Satyen Bose | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Anoop Kumar, Kishore Kumar
Votes: 1,816
42. Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986)
Not Rated | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man lives a poor lifestyle in a small town with his older brothers. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler, but he has to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years old.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Om Prakash, Amjad Khan
Votes: 1,778
43. Madhumati (1958)
110 min | Fantasy, Musical, Mystery
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker, Pran Sikand
Votes: 1,580
44. Chitchor (1976)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Geeta ends up with two suitors after her father goes to bring home a prospective groom and mistakenly picks up the wrong man.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Zarina Wahab, Vijayendra Ghatge, A.K. Hangal
Votes: 759
45. Arjun (1985)
154 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Arjun Malvankar after his graduation thrives to get job. The corruption and injustice taking place in his community frustrates him to the extent of revolting with the help of some of his ... See full summary »
Director: Rahul Rawail | Stars: Sunny Deol, Dimple Kapadia, Raj Kiran, Anupam Kher
Votes: 1,118
46. Andaz Apna Apna (1994)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Two slackers competing for the affections of an heiress inadvertently become her protectors from an evil criminal.
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor
Votes: 55,270
47. Band Baaja Baaraat (2010)
Not Rated | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shruti and Bittoo become partners in their very own "Wedding planning ka bijness" in Delhi and in the process discover friendship, love and one another.
Director: Maneesh Sharma | Stars: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Ranjit Batra, Satender Bhardwaj
Votes: 18,111
48. Maachis (1996)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A realistic, hard-hitting portrayal of terrorism and youth in the Punjab after the 1984 riots.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Om Puri, Tabu, Chandrachur Singh, Kanwaljeet Singh
Votes: 2,439
49. Company (2002)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Seema Biswas
Votes: 16,155
50. English Vinglish (2012)
Not Rated | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A quiet, sweet tempered housewife endures small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter every day because of her inability to speak and understand English.
Director: Gauri Shinde | Stars: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand
Votes: 39,600 | Gross: $1.67M
51. Baazigar (1993)
Not Rated | 175 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon seduces the man's younger daughter, but she begins to suspect her new lover's connection with her elder sister and his ulterior motive.
Directors: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Dalip Tahil, Rakhee Gulzar
Votes: 30,009
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