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Ranked #3 of 100
Mughal-e-Azam
मुग़ल-ए-आज़म · 1960
Sixteen years, a fortune, and a court dancer who says no to an emperor. The most expensive film of its era and still the most opulent frame in the canon.
- Director
- K. Asif
- Year
- 1960
- Genre
- Historical · Romance
- Cast
- Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala
Why it's at number 3
Scale as moral argument. 'Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya' remains the most defiant song ever picturised.
Sixteen years, a fortune, and a court dancer who says no to an emperor. The most expensive film of its era and still the most opulent frame in the canon.
Mughal-e-Azam sits in the 1960s alongside Guide and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by K. Asif.
- Released in 1960, in the 1960s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Historical, Romance.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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