The Extended Canon
Shree 420
श्री 420 · 1955
A graduate walks to Bombay with an honesty medal and is offered every possible way to sell it.
- Director
- Raj Kapoor
- Year
- 1955
- Genre
- Drama · Musical
- Cast
- Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira
Why it's in the canon
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A graduate walks to Bombay with an honesty medal and is offered every possible way to sell it.
Shree 420 sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Raj Kapoor — also responsible for Awaara.
- Released in 1955, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Musical.
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Film record Wikipedia — Shree 420 (1955) · 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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