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Ranked #40 of 100
Nishant
निशांत · 1975
A schoolteacher's wife is abducted by a landlord family and nobody in the village will move — until everyone moves at once.
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Year
- 1975
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri
Why it's at number 40
The final mob sequence is one of the most frightening endings in Indian cinema.
A schoolteacher's wife is abducted by a landlord family and nobody in the village will move — until everyone moves at once.
Nishant sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shyam Benegal — also responsible for Manthan, Ankur, Bhumika.
- Released in 1975, 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.
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