In 1913 Dadasaheb Phalke released the first film of Indian cinema – Raja Harishchandra. At that time India was struggling for independence and No one ever thought that in next 100 years Indian cinema will became the leading film industry of the world. The film industry of India also known as Bollywood grew at a very fast rate in last 50 years. The number of films released every year has almost doubled in this period. On an average every year 1000 plus films are released and Bollywood holds a very handsome percentage in world cinema.
Even though Bollywood is the largest film producing industry in the world yet it suffers from several issues ranging from using copyright music and screenplays to not giving focus to new talents. Keeping this debate apart, I would say that Bollywood has improved a lot in past decade. The quality of films has improved and instead of serving illogical masala movies to fans, Bollywood has taken new shape and is giving way to directors and actors who can take risk and make films that are equally entertaining and near to reality.
Indian cinema is mainly known for making Romantic comedies, Romantic Musicals and Action romance films. Within India there are several other small sub industries to that share a good profit in Indian cinema. Bollywood mainly focuses on Hindi language films, while other sub industries focus on regional languages, Like Tollywood is known for Tamil Movies and Telugu Movies, Pollywood is known for Punjabi Movies, Kollywood is known for Kanadda, Malyali and Bengali Language films. Here in this list of greatest Bollywood films ever made, i have only included hindi language films.
Here is the list of 15 greatest Bollywood movies ever made:
1. Manjhi: The Mountain Man
2. Dhoom Series
3. Kai Po Che
4. Mukadar Ka Sikander
5. Pakeejah
6. The Lunchbox
7. Baby
8. Do Bigha Zameen
9. Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
10. Bajrangi Bhaijaan
11. Shatranj Ke Khiladi
12. Trishul
13. Drishyam
14. Salaam Bombay
15. Upkar