By Genre
The Best Bollywood
Mystery Films
4 films in the canon are filed under Mystery, from 1967 to 2015.
4 films in this canon are filed under Mystery, running from 1967 to 2015.
The genre is spread across the 1960s, 1990s, 2010s, with Vijay Anand, Reema Kagti, Dibakar Banerjee, Ram Gopal Varma 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.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Jewel Thief ज्वेल थीफ़ | 1967 | Vijay Anand | Thriller, Mystery |
| – | Talaash तलाश | 2012 | Reema Kagti | Mystery, Drama |
| – | Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! डिटेक्टिव ब्योमकेश बख्शी! | 2015 | Dibakar Banerjee | Mystery, Thriller |
| – | Kaun? कौन? | 1999 | Ram Gopal Varma | Thriller, Mystery |
Other genres
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Drama 158Comedy 51Romance 36Thriller 30Crime 27Musical 18Biography 15Action 10Political 9Sports 7Satire 6Legal 5Historical 4Horror 4Family 4Neo-noir 4Coming-of-age 3Anthology 3Documentary 3Sci-Fi 2Fantasy 2Road 2Philosophy 1Heist 1Revenge 1Survival 1Adventure 1Surreal 1Avant-garde 1Dark comedy 1Children 1