All Time Best Bollywood, a list by Stray

8.5

/502759/

86

/22453/

83

/8162/

4.4

/3205074/

95

/397/

95

/4558/

86

/60/

4.0

age 9+

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

86

8.7

/166018/

84

/1380/

79

/207/

4.1

/56857/

91

/11/

97

/71/

Based on the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, 12th Fail sheds limelight on fearlessly embracing the idea of restarting the academic journey despite the setbacks and challenges and reclaiming one's destiny at a place where millions of students attempt the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.

86

8.3

/57773/

81

/1045/

78

/128/

4.0

/64878/

100

/25/

94

/55/

age 13+

In 2001, somewhere in rural India, two young brides get accidentally swapped on a train. In the ensuing chaos, they both encounter a host of colourful characters, resulting in hilarious and unexpected consequences.

85

8.3

/229027/

81

/2465/

79

/1273/

4.0

/91563/

93

/14/

96

/2312/

age 13+

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

84

8.2

/114340/

79

/1884/

76

/589/

3.9

/46572/

100

/15/

90

/111/

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

84

8.4

/475217/

83

/5343/

79

/2609/

4.1

/175479/

100

/15/

93

/2218/

67

/4/

age 13+

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

84

8.0

/905435/

78

/17309/

77

/11065/

3.9

/623225/

92

/286/

90

/50237/

84

/36/

4.0

age 16+

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

83

7.9

/10973/

76

/135/

72

/113/

3.9

/9148/

93

/29/

93

/218/

79

/18/

4.0

After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.

83

8.0

/84360/

76

/953/

85

/4536/

4.0

/40695/

86

/7/

94

/960/

age 11+

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

83

8.1

/128413/

77

/1200/

73

/614/

3.9

/32896/

95

/64/

93

/1053/

84

/21/

3.5

age 11+

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain Russell has imposed an unprecedented land tax on its citizens. Outraged, Bhuvan, a rebellious farmer, rallies the villagers to publicly oppose the tax. Russell offers a novel way to settle the dispute: he challenges Bhuvan and his men to a game of cricket, a sport completely foreign to India. If Bhuvan and his men can defeat Russell's team, the tax will be repealed.

83

8.3

/238317/

80

/2736/

79

/1098/

3.9

/74954/

89

/18/

93

/135/

age 12+

Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

83

8.0

/246288/

76

/3573/

75

/2442/

3.7

/76173/

89

/112/

92

/2459/

79

/16/

4.0

age 12+

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

83

7.6

/230757/

75

/7261/

73

/4489/

3.8

/284536/

91

/116/

85

/4860/

90

/10/

4.0

age 8+

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

82

7.6

/2968/

76

/126/

75

/35/

3.9

/9040/

100

/23/

87

/16/

3.5

age 15+

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.

83

82

8.3

/50232/

79

/434/

71

/116/

4.0

/14108/

95

/20/

94

/39/

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

82

7.7

/30830/

74

/641/

74

/530/

4.0

/72278/

100

/39/

87

/565/

86

/16/

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

82

8.2

/94480/

80

/1134/

75

/389/

4.0

/56055/

89

/18/

86

/403/

age 13+

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

85

82

8.1

/4847/

80

/630/

78

/62/

4.0

/3225/

100

/27/

94

/26/

87

/7/

age 9+

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

82

7.6

/5708/

76

/165/

69

/69/

3.9

/7369/

98

/61/

78

/35/

83

/12/

4.0

A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

82

8.1

/62485/

77

/569/

70

/298/

3.9

/17998/

94

/18/

95

/634/

After his family is slain by the notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.

82

7.9

/64465/

76

/807/

73

/301/

3.9

/38939/

100

/6/

90

/1696/

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

82

8.0

/79422/

75

/709/

68

/317/

3.7

/20600/

100

/6/

95

/901/

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

82

8.2

/105216/

79

/808/

73

/359/

3.9

/28574/

89

/9/

91

/481/

age 9+

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

82

7.5

/62249/

76

/1020/

77

/585/

3.9

/60358/

100

/12/

88

/1240/

age 10+

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

82

7.9

/108656/

79

/3123/

79

/2086/

4.3

/675212/

89

/71/

93

/2267/

78

/18/

3.0

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

81

7.3

/6793/

73

/326/

74

/48/

3.6

/38199/

95

/75/

96

/45/

85

/7/

3.5

When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.

81

8.2

/72934/

78

/1242/

75

/304/

3.7

/41217/

87

/30/

95

/170/

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

81

8.1

/41015/

77

/624/

75

/168/

3.7

/13201/

90

/20/

94

/40/

A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When three girls go missing in the fictional village of Lalgaon, two of them are found dead and there is no trace of the third one. Where is she and who is responsible for this heinous act?

81

7.7

/89336/

75

/2168/

74

/1198/

3.8

/46922/

95

/59/

87

/2450/

83

/15/

age 9+

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

81

8.1

/69448/

76

/658/

72

/329/

3.8

/16758/

100

/7/

87

/254/

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

81

8.1

/126000/

75

/919/

71

/479/

3.8

/20376/

90

/10/

94

/972/

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.

81

8.1

/109525/

78

/1277/

78

/523/

3.8

/36627/

88

/17/

87

/174/

A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.

81

7.8

/66697/

77

/1575/

73

/777/

4.1

/66000/

97

/121/

87

/447/

76

/28/

age 12+

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

81

8.0

/264303/

81

/14332/

80

/6825/

3.9

/352145/

84

/268/

91

/1552/

69

/45/

3.5

age 13+

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

81

7.9

/695053/

77

/19709/

74

/13543/

3.7

/887452/

86

/253/

84

/9206/

79

/44/

4.0

age 12+

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

80

7.7

/8090/

75

/189/

75

/38/

3.9

/19979/

87

/54/

90

/25/

71

/8/

3.5

age 13+

The residents of Malegaon look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Amateur filmmaker Nasir Shaikh gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town.

80

7.1

/3235/

69

/140/

71

/42/

3.8

/21958/

100

/61/

81

/10/

79

/13/

4.0

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

80

7.0

/5381/

68

/232/

68

/77/

3.6

/18505/

99

/88/

82

/38/

87

/19/

4.0

age 14+

Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

80

7.7

/36607/

76

/595/

72

/181/

3.7

/17364/

100

/11/

82

/58/

age 13+

An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

80

8.0

/60442/

75

/519/

71

/243/

4.0

/21878/

88

/17/

86

/102/

age 16+

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.

80

8.1

/71026/

76

/708/

73

/292/

3.8

/24093/

92

/12/

85

/95/

age 14+

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

80

8.2

/106668/

80

/1334/

75

/462/

3.8

/23605/

78

/18/

91

/66/

age 14+

A simple street-smart man tries to protect his family from a cop looking for her missing son who was accidently killed by his daughter.

79

8.5

/2720/

78

/45/

78

/8/

3.8

/2609/

91

/23/

98

/4/

68

/6/

2.5

A turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiraling world of truth and disinformation.

79

7.6

/8141/

74

/298/

73

/148/

4.2

/46523/

98

/89/

75

/9/

82

/22/

3.0

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.

79

7.1

/13248/

70

/454/

68

/206/

3.9

/97599/

100

/158/

71

/62/

93

/35/

3.5

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

79

7.3

/1827/

73

/63/

73

/31/

3.7

/4964/

100

/52/

80

/10/

84

/13/

3.0

age 11+

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

79

7.8

/66030/

76

/679/

74

/293/

3.9

/22899/

93

/15/

88

/788/

67

/5/

age 11+

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

79

7.3

/27717/

71

/407/

68

/214/

3.8

/19698/

95

/131/

87

/1154/

77

/36/