Ranked #32 of 100
Padosan
पड़ोसन · 1968
A simpleton in love with the girl next door hires a theatre troupe to lip-sync his way through a singing duel.
- Director
- Jyoti Swaroop
- Year
- 1968
- Genre
- Comedy · Musical
- Cast
- Sunil Dutt, Saira Banu, Kishore Kumar, Mehmood
Why it's at number 32
'Ek Chatur Naar' is the single funniest musical set-piece in the language.
A simpleton in love with the girl next door hires a theatre troupe to lip-sync his way through a singing duel.
Padosan sits in the 1960s alongside Mughal-e-Azam and Guide — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Jyoti Swaroop.
- Released in 1968, in the 1960s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Comedy, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Padosan (1968) · 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 The ranking and the case made for each placement — 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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