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The Best Bollywood
Satire Films
6 films in the canon are filed under Satire, from 1956 to 2020.
6 films in this canon are filed under Satire, running from 1956 to 2020. The highest-ranked is Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) at #16 — Two photographers stumble on a builder-politician murder and end up hiding a corpse inside a live Mahabharata stage show.
The genre is spread across the 1950s, 1980s, 2010s, 2020s, with Kundan Shah, Anusha Rizvi, Shyam Benegal, 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.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro जाने भी दो यारो | 1983 | Kundan Shah | Comedy, Satire |
| 74 | Peepli Live पीपली लाइव | 2010 | Anusha Rizvi | Satire, Comedy |
| – | Mandi मंडी | 1983 | Shyam Benegal | Satire, Drama |
| – | Serious Men सीरियस मेन | 2020 | Sudhir Mishra | Satire, Drama |
| – | Jagte Raho जागते रहो | 1956 | Amit Maitra, Sombhu Mitra | Drama, Satire |
| – | Island City आइलैंड सिटी | 2015 | Ruchika Oberoi | Anthology, Satire |
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