1956 - Notable Films

Top Best Hindi Films

C.I.D.
Ek Hi Raasta
Chori Chori
Basant Bahar
New Delhi
Rajhath
Bhai Bhai
Toofan Aur Diya
Funtoosh
Inspector

Other Films

Anuraag (Hindi)
Arab Ka Saudagar (Hindi)
Awaaz (Hindi)
Badal Aur Bijli (Hindi)
Bajrang Bali (Hindi)
Durgesh Nandini (Hindi)
Fifty Fifty (Hindi)
Halaku (Hindi)
Heer (Hindi)
Hum Sab Chor Hain (Hindi)
Jagte Raho (Hindi)
Karwaan (Hindi)
Makkhee Choos (Hindi)
Mem Sahab (Hindi)
Pocket Maar (Hindi)
Rarichan Enna Pouran (Malayalam)
Tenali Ramakrishna (Telugu)

BAIJU BAWRA (1952) (All Time Top 99 Best Hindi Films)

Baiju Bawra is an award-winning 1952 Hindi movie directed by Vijay Bhatt. It stars Bharat Bhushan and Meena Kumari. The movie is based on the legend of Baiju Bawra from the days of Mughal Emperor Akbar in India. Baiju (Bhushan) is the son of a musician who also grows up to be a musician. He comes to believe that Tansen, the famed musician at the court of Akbar, is responsible for his father's death. The movie then follows Baiju's attempt to avenge his father's death by challenging Tansen to a musical duel. The film was both a commercial and critical success and catapulted both its lead actors into stardom. Meena Kumari went on to win the first-ever Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1954, the first of four Best Actress trophies she won in her career. The film's music director, Naushad, also received the inaugural Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the song "Tu Ganga Ki Mauj"; this was Naushad's first and only Filmfare Award win. BAIJU

PYAASA (1957) (All time Top 99 Best Hindi Films)

Pyaasa (English: The Thirsty) is a 1957 Indian film produced and directed by Guru Dutt. The film tells the story of struggling poet, Vijay (Guru Dutt), trying to make his works known in post-independence India. Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman in her first major leading role in Hindi cinema), a prostitute with a heart of gold, eventually helps him get his poems published. The music was composed by S.D. Burman. With the commercial success of thrillers like Baazi, Jaal, Aar Paar and C.I.D. as well as comedies like Mr. & Mrs. '55, Guru Dutt and his studio were financially secure and established. From 1957, he could now make movies he really wanted to make, including Pyaasa. In 2002, Pyaasa was ranked at #160 on the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll of all-time greatest films. In 2005, Pyaasa was rated as one of the 100 best films of all time by Time Magazine, which called it "the soulfully romantic of the lot." Indiatimes Movies ranks the movie amon

DO AANKHE BARAH HAATH (1957) (All time Top 99 Best Hindi Films)

The film was inspired by the story of an ' open prison ' experiment Swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara . Now Swatantrapur is part of Atpadi tehsil in Sangli district of Maharashtra. It was recounted by screenwriter G. D. Madgulkar to V. Shantaram. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films . During the filming V. Shantaram battled with a bull and he hurt his one eye during the stunt, though his eyesight survived. The film was later remade in 1975 in Tamil as Pallandu Vazhga starring M.G. Ramachandran and Latha , and in 1976 as the Telugu color film Maa Daivam starring N.T. Rama Rao and Jayachitra . Do Aankhen Barah Haath makes you want to believe in the innate decency of all human beings. And for how many films can one say that? Despite being a message film, it doesn't lapse into dull didacticism but remains cinematically alive throughout. The scene where one o

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