Pradeep Sarkar's 10 Best:


Charulata

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee
Director: Satyajit Ray


Seemabaddha

Cast: Ajoy Banerjee, Sharmila Tagore
Director: Satyajit Ray


Sholay

Cast: Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri
Director: Ramesh Sippy


Ankur

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag, Sadhu Meher
Director: Shyam Benegal


Masoom

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Jugal Hansraj
Director: Shekhar Kapur


Parinda

Cast: Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Madhuri Dixit
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra


Anubhav

Cast: Tanuja, Sanjeev Kumar
Director: Basu Bhattacharya


Lagaan

Cast: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker


Munnabhai MBBS

Cast: Sunil Dutt, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Gracy Singh
Director: Rajkumar Hirani


Parineeta

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Raima Sen, Dia Mirza
Director: Pradeep Sarkar

Amol Palekar's 10 Best:

"I have a simple yardstick to measure the movies worthy for this list," he explains to Raja Sen. "Each of them is a landmark film and has opened up a new avenue, and given us a new idiom in filmmaking."

"I have also consciously avoided any films that I am associated with, so that the objectivity of the selection is not questioned."


Sant Tukaram

Cast: Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri
Directors: Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal


Mughal-e-Azam

Cast: Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Prithviraj Kapoor, Durga Khote
Director: K Asif


Kaagaz Ke Phool

Cast: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt
Director: Guru Dutt


Sholay

Cast: Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan
Director: Ramesh Sippy


Garam Hawa

Cast: Balraj Sahni, Farooque Shaikh, Jalal Agha, Gita Kak
Director: M S Sathyu


Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri, Satish Shah
Director: Kundan Shah


Manthan

Cast: Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Shyam Benegal


Pather Panchali

Cast: Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Director: Satyajit Ray


Meghe Dhaka Tara

Cast: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray
Director: Ritwik Ghatak


Tabaranna Katha

Cast: Charu Haasan
Director: Girish Kasaravalli

Well, any one, who includes his solo directed venture! in 10 best I doubt his credibility!!
Parineeta is good, but not 10 best!

Now we will see with Palekar's Paheli, what are his waters?

Any idea if Garam Hawa available on DVD ??

Miyan arsh..thats the difference between a Khiladi (Amol Palekar..an actor and director par excellence)..and an Anari (Sarkar...which stars the original Anari...Saif Ali Khan )

I know for a fact that there is. I've seen it around. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to pick it up as yet.

As for Pradeep Sarkar selection; I'm totally shocked to see why anyone would ever pick a totally pointless film like Munnabhai MBBS as amongst the 10 best Indian films ever, it boggles the mind. Even as a film with a sole virtue to simply entertain, it still sucked.

As good as I though it may be and as much as I might have liked Parineeta, it surely does not belong on this list. Munnabhai on this list just smacks of bias to me. The presence of these two films in the list makes me question the sincerety and integrity of the whole list. But then again, if Mr. Ghai lists Taal as one of the ten best, then I guess by that standard Parineeta ought to be, the 'all time best' and surely Munnabhai would also figure somewhere on the list.

Sanjay and every one else! if you have gutts to appreciate quality films, Sethu's Garam Hawa is a MUST see!!
Dont miss it!

Darn, Ghai, remakes traiswaryiazed version of Pardes as Taal and call it Best ever!

and Here is Sarkar, who makes where Devdas meets 1942 a love story and calls it HISTORY!

BTW! Sanjay do you think Vidya Balan is where Sharmila meets Suchitra Sen! but not quite either!

Arsh bhai I have already seen Garam Hawa and I totally agree with you that it is a MUST see.

I'll reserve my judgement on that till I see Parineeta again, which should be as soon as I can find some time.