By Genre

The Best Bollywood
Family Films

4 films in the canon are filed under Family, from 1980 to 2016.

4 films in this canon are filed under Family, running from 1980 to 2016. The highest-ranked is Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) at #89 — Fourteen songs, one wedding, one death, and the film that pulled the Indian family back into cinemas en masse.

The genre is spread across the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, with Sooraj Barjatya, Karan Johar, Shakun Batra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.

Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.

RankFilmYearDirectorGenre
89 Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! हम आपके हैं कौन..! 1994Sooraj BarjatyaRomance, Family
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... कभी खुशी कभी ग़म 2001Karan JoharFamily, Drama
Kapoor & Sons कपूर एंड संस 2016Shakun BatraDrama, Family
Khubsoorat खूबसूरत 1980Hrishikesh MukherjeeComedy, Family

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