Let’s agree typical Bollywood movies are still stuck on the central theme of ‘Hero-Heroine-Villain’. Indeed, throughout the years, Bollywood has delivered some extremely spoiled movies and we all have been victims to it. Films like Himmatwaala, Humshakalas, Ready, Tees Maar Khan, Dilwale… However, we do not need to get so disappointed, there are still a few pearls of Bollywood film that don’t simply reclassify quality in Hindi film.
These films not just have some awesome plot and above all a solid story and splendid acting. There is no shortage of such quality motion pictures in Bollywood either, it’s simply that we don’t get the opportunity to hear much about them as a result of the budget and marketing methods of the film.
It’s tragic how most strange things make it to the best while the ones with genuine art remain at the bottom. Here are the absolute best-underrated Bollywood movies you need to watch, and we guarantee your faith in Bollywood’s capacity will be restored in the wake of viewing these films.
Masaan
Year: 2015
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan
Cast: Richa Chadda, Vicky Kaushal, Shweta Triphati, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj Tripathi
Ankhon Dekhi
Year: 2013
Director: Rajat Kapoor
Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Sanjay Misra, Seema Pahwa, Namit Das, Brijendra Kala
Haasil
Year: 2003
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Cast: Irfan Khan, Jimmy Sheirgill, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Ashutosh Rana Das, Tinnu Anand
Titli
Year: 2015
Director: Kanu Behl
Cast: Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl
I Am Kalam
Year: 2011
Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Cast: Harsh Mayar, Gulshan Grover, Pitobash Tripathy, Beatrice Ordeix
Shahid
Year: 2013
Director: Hansal Mehta
Cast: Rajkumar Rao, Prabhleen Sandhu, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Kay Kay Menon, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Manorama Six Feet Under
Year: 2007
Director: Navdeep Singh
Cast: Abhay Deol, Gul Panag, Raima Sen, Vinay Pathak, Sarika
Salaam Bombay
Year: 1988
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Shafiq Syed, Nana Patekar, Raghubir Yadav, Irfan Khan, Hansa Vithal
Baazi
Year: 1995
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Cast: Aamir Khan, Mamta Kulkarni, Paresh Rawal, Asrani, Kulbhusan Kharbanda
Rahasya
Year: 2015
Director: Manish Gupta
Cast: Tisca Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ashwini Kalsekar, Mita Vashisht
Filmistaan
Year: 2014
Director: Nitin Kakkar
Cast: Sharib Hashmi, Innamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Gopal Dutt, Ravi Bhushan
Dasvidaniya
Year: 2008
Director: Shashant Shah
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia, Rajat Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey, Saurabh Shukla
Raincoat
Year: 2004
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai, Annu Kapoor
Rockford
Year: 1999
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Cast: Nagesh Kukunoor, Nandita Das, Rohan Dey, Jayant Kripalani, Ulrika
Ship of Theseus
Year: 2012
Director: Anand Gandhi
Cast: Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah, Aida El-Kashef, Vipul Binjola, Amba Sanyal
Gulaal
Year: 2009
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Cast: Piyush Mishra, Kay Kay Menon, Mahi Gill, Abhimanyu Singh, Raj Singh Chaudhary
Sulemani Keeda
Year: 2013
Director: Amit V. Masurkar
Cast: Aditi Vasudev, Naveen Kasturia, Mayank Tewari, Amrita Rao, Karan Mirchandani
Do Dooni Char
Year: 2010
Director: Habib Faisal
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Aditi Vasudev, Archit Krishna
Phas Gaye Re Obama
Year: 2010
Director: Subhash Kapoor
Cast: Neha Dhupia, Sanjay Misra, Rajat Kapoor, Manu Rishi, Amole Gupte
Dor
Year: 2006
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Cast: Ayesha Takia, Nagesh Kukunoor, Gul Panag, Shreyas Talpade, Girish Karnad
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai
Year: 1980
Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Dilip Dhawan, Om Puri
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Year: 2008
Director: Nishikant Kamat
Cast: Irfan Khan, Nishikant Kamat, Soha Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal, R. Madhavan
Stanley Ka Dabba
Year: 2011
Director: Amol Gupte
Cast: Amol Gupte, Partho Gupte, Divya Dutta, Rajendra Zutshi, Divya Jagdale
Phobia
Year: 2016
Director: Pawan Kripalani
Cast: Radhika Apte, Satyadeep Mishra, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Ankur Vikal, Yashaswini Dayama
Trapped
Year: 2016
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Cast: Rajkumar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Patrick Graham, Khushboo Upadhyay, Hardik Mehta
Lipstick Under My Burkha
Year: 2016
Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Cast: Konkana Sen Gupta, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur, Vikrant Massey
Parched
Year: 2015
Director: Leena Yadav
Cast: Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Adi Hussain, Leher Khan
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