The film tells the story of a young wealthy woman, Rosy (Waheeda Rahman), who is married to a much older man who does not respect her. Guide is a classic that addresses issues of complexity in relationships and faith. In 2004, it became the first black-and-white Hindi film to be digitally colored and re-released in theaters. While the characters of Akbar and Salim are historical figures, the details of the story are not based on real events.
The film evokes grandeur and hopeless romance. The production budget for a single song, “Why Fear When You Are in Love,” was almost as much as the budgets for entire films made at the time. Released in 1960, Mughal-e-Azam was the most expensive film ever made in Hindi cinema at the time. Prithviraj Kapoor plays King Akbar, the father of prince Salim, who opposes the young couple’s relationship. The story focuses on the romance between Prince Salim (Dilip Kumar) and a courtesan Anaar Kali (Madhubala). Mughal-e-Azam (“The Great Mughal”) is a love story set in Mughal India. The film was critically acclaimed and is considered to be one of the best Bollywood films of all time. As a new country, India was facing enormous poverty and the films of this era also spoke to this fact. This was an era in which Hindi cinema highlighted what ideal citizenship looked like for an average Indian. Mother India was released ten years after India’s independence from the United Kingdom. The story highlights sacrifice, virtue, honesty, and the role of women as mothers not just to their children but to land and the country. sole source of her family’s livelihood is a piece of land, whose rocky soil which makes it difficult to cultivate. Mother India tells the story of a woman named Radha, played by Nargis, whose husband leaves her as a result of poverty, forcing her to care for her two sons alone. Picking a “Top Ten” list from such a diverse category is a daunting task, so my colleague Abhijit Varde and I have each picked ten films from different genres that we consider contenders for the Top 10 Bollywood films. They are often musicals but can also lack any music at all. They can have low production values or high production values. They can be artistic or cheaply commercial. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in East Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle East.Īs films, Bollywood productions range widely. For example, only 300 of the roughly 2000 films produced in India in 2017 were Bollywood films.
India’s multilingual status means that cinema is produced in several languages across the country. “Bollywood” is the name that the Anglophone press in India gave to Hindi-language cinema in the 1970s.