30
Ranked #30 of 100
Parinda
परिंदा · 1989
A brother returns from abroad to find his sibling deep inside a Bombay gang run by a man terrified of fire.
- Director
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Year
- 1989
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Madhuri Dixit
Why it's at number 30
The bridge between the 70s masala thriller and Satya. Binod Pradhan's cinematography is landmark.
A brother returns from abroad to find his sibling deep inside a Bombay gang run by a man terrified of fire.
Parinda sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra — also responsible for 12th Fail.
- Released in 1989, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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