The Extended Canon
Jewel Thief
ज्वेल थीफ़ · 1967
A jeweller's son is repeatedly mistaken for a master thief he insists does not exist. The mistake keeps escalating.
- Director
- Vijay Anand
- Year
- 1967
- Genre
- Thriller · Mystery
- Cast
- Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala, Ashok Kumar, Tanuja
Why it's in the canon
Vijay Anand's plotting and 'Hothon Pe Aisi Baat' — the best-staged song of the 60s.
A jeweller's son is repeatedly mistaken for a master thief he insists does not exist. The mistake keeps escalating.
Jewel Thief sits in the 1960s alongside Mughal-e-Azam and Guide — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vijay Anand — also responsible for Guide.
- Released in 1967, in the 1960s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Thriller, Mystery.
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Film record Wikipedia — Jewel Thief (1967) · 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
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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