Lists of Bests: Top 20 Essential Bollywood Films http://www.listsofbests.com/list/47933 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.) 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