Director
Bimal Roy
4 films in this canon, from 1953 to 1963. Highest ranked: #9.
Bimal Roy holds 4 films in this canon, spanning 1953–1963 across the 1950s, 1960s. The highest-ranked is Do Bigha Zamin (1953) at #9, which we describe as: A farmer walks to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw and save two acres of land.
The work here clusters around Drama, Romance, Fantasy — a body of work consistent enough that the through-line is visible from any entry point. Full filmography, crew credits and awards are on Wikipedia and IMDb.
Below: every Bimal Roy film in the canon, each with its own page, external sources and streaming links. Browse the rest of the canon by decade, by genre, or start from #1.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Do Bigha Zamin दो बीघा ज़मीन | 1953 | Bimal Roy | Drama |
| 26 | Bandini बंदिनी | 1963 | Bimal Roy | Drama |
| – | Devdas देवदास | 1955 | Bimal Roy | Romance, Drama |
| – | Madhumati मधुमती | 1958 | Bimal Roy | Romance, Fantasy |
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