Ranked #20 of 100
Anand
आनंद · 1971
A dying man decides to spend his last months making everyone around him lighter. The doctor who treats him never recovers.
- Director
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee
- Year
- 1971
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan
Why it's at number 20
'Zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi.' The warmest film about death in any Indian language.
A dying man decides to spend his last months making everyone around him lighter. The doctor who treats him never recovers.
Anand sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee — also responsible for Chupke Chupke, Golmaal, Bawarchi.
- Released in 1971, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Anand (1971) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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