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Ranked #26 of 100
Bandini
बंदिनी · 1963
A woman in prison for murder is offered freedom and love, and chooses the harder loyalty. Bimal Roy's last great film.
- Director
- Bimal Roy
- Year
- 1963
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Nutan, Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra
Why it's at number 26
Nutan gives what many critics call the finest performance by an actress in Hindi cinema.
A woman in prison for murder is offered freedom and love, and chooses the harder loyalty. Bimal Roy's last great film.
Bandini sits in the 1960s alongside Mughal-e-Azam and Guide — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Bimal Roy — also responsible for Do Bigha Zamin, Devdas, Madhumati.
- Released in 1963, in the 1960s — 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.
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