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Films

Vintage

Bollywood films

that you must

see

Deepa Gahlot lists 10 vintage movies that every generation of film lovers
must see

Lists are made and changed frequently, as in Hindi films, which
times, trends and tastes change. But there was then picked up by
films that always make the cut—those other filmmakers down
vintage movies that every generation of the years. The romance-
film lovers must see to understand that cum-crime drama was
there is more to Hindi cinema than making about a good-hearted
100 crores. There was art, passion, social pickpocket who decides
commitment and also an understanding of to help a damsel in
the pulse of the audience. These are films distress and discovers
that are part of Bollywood history. Some after many twists and turns that he is the
are available on streaming platforms, most long lost son of a rich man. The film had
on YouTube, and other online sources sneaked in a patriotic song –Dur hato aye
duniya walon, Hindustan hamara hai--
10 vintage films in order of release: right under the noses of the British censors.
Kismet (1943): The music by Anil Biswas with Kavi
This Ashok Kumar-Mumtaz Shanti Pradeep’s lyrics, contributed to the film’s
starrer, directed by Gyan Mukherjee, was massive success.
the top grosser and longest running film
of all time—187 weeks at Kolkata’s Roxy Awara (1951):
cinema—till DDLJ broke the record. It was Even today, Russians can hum the title
the first film to use the lost-and-found plot track of this Raj Kapoor film, and in the

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