It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards.įire is a 1996 Highly acclaimed romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das.
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The Film got banned in India due to depiction of nudity and extreme rape scenes. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Direction for that year. The film stars Rekha, Indira Varma, and Naveen Andrews in lead roles.īandit Queen is a 1994 critically acclaimed Indian biographical film based on the life of Phoolan Devi. The Film got positive reviews from critics and won many Awards at Film Festivals. The Film depicts nudity and sexual scenes due to which it was banned by Censor Board of India. This Mira Nair’s critically acclaimed film is based on ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana. Here’s a list of movies which the Censor Board banned in India: However, many of these films get great critical acclaim and are must watch. Film depicting Vulgar Language, Sex Scenes, Nudity, religious issues, Violence etc are generally get into trouble.
But there are few films that doesn’t go too well with the censor board and these film either gets delayed for release or gets completely banned. Please let me know, if I am missing any good movie in this list.Each Year Bollywood produces large number of Films in different genres. I have compiled the list of 100 Best Bollywood Hindi Art Films. However, we can still see the touch of Parallel Cinems in the movies of Mani Ratnam, Nagesh Kukunoor, Anurag Kashyap etc. Underworld financing, political and economic turmoil, television and piracy proved to be fatal threat to parallel cinema, as it declined. The fact that investment returns cannot be guaranteed made art films less popular amongst filmmakers. Actors from commercial cinema such as Rekha and Hema Malini ventured into art cinema.Īlthough nothing much happened during late 80 and 90s for the parallel cinema, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! (1988) gathered a lot of National and International acclaim and is remembered till date as one of the finest Bollywood movies ever made on the daily lives of street-children of Mumbai.īy the early 1990s, the rising costs involved in film production and the commercialization of the films had a negative impact on the art films. Parallel cinema of 70s and 80s gave careers to a whole new breed of young actors, including Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Amol Palekar, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Pankaj Kapoor, Deepti Naval, Farooq Shaikh etc. These filmmakers tried to promote realism in their own different styles, though many of them often accepted certain conventions of popular cinema.
Benegal’s directorial debut, Ankur (Seeding, 1974) was a major critical success, and was followed by numerous works that created another field in the movement. This was led by such directors as Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Mani Kaul, Rajinder Singh Bedi and Saeed Akhtar Mirza, and later on Mahesh Bhatt and Govind Nihalani, becoming the main directors of this period’s Indian art cinema. Guru Dutt’s film Pyaasa (1957) featured in Time magazine’s “All-TIME” 100 best movies list.ĭuring the 1970s and the 1980s, parallel cinema entered into Bombay’s Hindi Film industry. Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zamin (1953) was both a commercial and critical success. Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar (1946), a social realist film won the Grand Prize at the first Cannes Film Festival. This new style of Cinema got world wide acclaim and fame.
These film makers used Cinema to highlight prevalent issues. That is why this period is still considered as the Golden Age of Indian cinema. For the first time, Cinema became the mirror of the contemporary Indian society as movies which were made during this period were largely influenced from Indian Literature and current socio-political situations. Shantaram. Real-life movies by these directors added a new perspective to the Indian movie industry. The Parallel Cinema movement started in the late 1940s to the 1960s, by India’s great filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Bimal Roy, Mrinal Sen, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Chetan Anand, Guru Dutt and V.
The culture of Art Films first started in Bengali film industry by critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak and others and then gained prominence in the other film industries of India including Hindi Film industry. Art Films are not considered to the part of mainstream cinema due to their serious content, realism and naturalism. Art Films, also known as Parallel Cinema, form an integral part of Bollywood. They are an alternative to the mainstream commercial cinema especially for the people who use their brain while watching movies.
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