Top 20 Essential Bollywood Films

This is a definitive list of the top Hindi / Bollywood films that occur in ALL three of these recent books about Bollywood films:

1) Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge Film Guidebooks), Tejaswini Ganti, 2004 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/Bollywood-Guidebook-Popular-Routledge-Guidebooks/dp/0415288541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200172166&sr=8-1)

2) 100 Bollywood Films (Bfi Screen Guides), Rachel Dwyer, 2006 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/100-Bollywood-Films-Screen-Guides/dp/1844570991/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200172337&sr=1-7)

3) The Essential Guide to Bollywood, Subhash K Jha, 2005 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Bollywood-Subhash-Jha/dp/8174363785/ref=pd_sim_b_njs_title_1)

Each book has a different total list based on different criteria ("key", "essential") but the 20 films on this list are the ones that each writer has included. The list is in chronological order (as are two of the book lists.)

Send to Printer Top 20 Essential Bollywood Films This is a definitive list of the top Hindi / Bollywood films that occur in ALL three of these recent books about Bollywood films: 1) Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge Film Guidebooks), Tejaswini Ganti, 2004 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/Bollywood-Guidebook-Popular-Routledge-Guidebooks/dp/0415288541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200172166&sr=8-1) 2) 100 Bollywood Films (Bfi Screen Guides), Rachel Dwyer, 2006 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/100-Bollywood-Films-Screen-Guides/dp/1844570991/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200172337&sr=1-7) 3) The Essential Guide to Bollywood, Subhash K Jha, 2005 ("amazon":http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Bollywood-Subhash-Jha/dp/8174363785/ref=pd_sim_b_njs_title_1) Each book has a different total list based on different criteria ("key", "essential") but the 20 films on this list are the ones that each writer has included. The list is in chronological order (as are two of the book lists.)
	1.		Awara - starring Raj Kapoor Nargis by Anyat Ullah Khan
	2.		Mother India by Mehboob Khan
	3.		Pyaasa
	4.		Mughal-E-Azam (2 Disc Set) by K. Asif
	5.		Gunga Jumna
	6.	?	The Guide by Vijay Anand
	7.		Aradhana
	8.		Pakeezah
	9.		Anand
	10.		Bobby (Rishi Kapoor)
	11.		Deewaar by Yash Chopra
	12.		Sholay
	13.		Amar Akbar Anthony
	14.		Arth
	15.		Parinda
	16.		Roja
	17.		Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! by Sooraj R. Barjatya
	18.		Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Sub Dol) by Aditya Chopra
	19.		Satya by John Mathew Matthan
	20.		Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India by Ashutosh Gowariker
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