Ranked #95 of 100
Silsila
सिलसिला · 1981
A man marries his dead brother's fiancée and cannot stop loving the woman he gave up. Cast with real-life resonance nobody could ignore.
- Director
- Yash Chopra
- Year
- 1981
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar
Why it's at number 95
Hindi cinema's most adult film about adultery, and 'Rang Barse' as a scene of pure danger.
A man marries his dead brother's fiancée and cannot stop loving the woman he gave up. Cast with real-life resonance nobody could ignore.
Silsila 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 Yash Chopra — also responsible for Deewaar, Darr, Kabhi Kabhie.
- Released in 1981, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Silsila (1981) · 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
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