THE BOLLYWOOD 100

By Genre

The Best Bollywood
Political Films

9 films in the canon are filed under Political, from 1975 to 2017.

9 films in this canon are filed under Political, running from 1975 to 2017. The highest-ranked is Aandhi (1975) at #42 — A politician on the campaign trail checks into a hotel run by the husband she left for public life.

The genre is spread across the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, with Gulzar (2), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Amit V. Masurkar, Sudhir Mishra 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
42 Aandhi आंधी 1975GulzarDrama, Political
55 Rang De Basanti रंग दे बसंती 2006Rakeysh Omprakash MehraDrama, Political
69 Newton न्यूटन 2017Amit V. MasurkarComedy, Political
– Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi हज़ारों ख़्वाहिशें ऐसी 2003Sudhir MishraDrama, Political
– Gulaal गुलाल 2009Anurag KashyapPolitical, Drama
– Hu Tu Tu हू तू तू 1999GulzarPolitical, Drama
– Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai अल्बर्ट पिंटो को गुस्सा क्यूँ आता है 1980Saeed Akhtar MirzaDrama, Political
– Shanghai शंघाई 2012Dibakar BanerjeePolitical, Thriller
– An Insignificant Man प्रूव्ड इनोसेंट 2016Khushboo Ranka, Vinay ShuklaDocumentary, Political

Other genres

Everything else in the canon

Drama 158Comedy 51Romance 36Thriller 30Crime 27Musical 18Biography 15Action 10Sports 7Satire 6Legal 5Historical 4Horror 4Family 4Mystery 4Neo-noir 4Coming-of-age 3Anthology 3Documentary 3Sci-Fi 2Fantasy 2Road 2Philosophy 1Heist 1Revenge 1Survival 1Adventure 1Surreal 1Avant-garde 1Dark comedy 1Children 1