The Best Bollywood
Musical Films

18 films in this canon are filed under Musical, running from 1951 to 2022. The highest-ranked is Pyaasa (1957) at #2 — A poet nobody wants alive and everybody wants dead.

The genre is spread across the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, with Raj Kapoor (2), Guru Dutt, Aditya Chopra, Muzaffar Ali 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.