Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Aug 1983Two struggling photographers enter a world whose corruption is already absurdly well organised. The ensemble's escalating commitment makes the farce exhilarating. Its most distinctive pleasure is watching comic improvisation expose a system that has little interest in recognising the truth.0
  2. 2Chupke Chupke (1975)Chupke Chupke (1975) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Apr 1975Dharmendra's relish for linguistic precision turns a domestic deception into a running performance. The ensemble keeps answering one another rather than waiting for individual punchlines. Good subtitles help with the wordplay, but the shifting confidence is funny even before every verbal…0
  3. 3Gol Maal (1979)Gol Maal (1979) 8.5/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Apr 1979Amol Palekar's anxious respectability meets Utpal Dutt's magnificent certainty about how a proper employee should behave. The invented solution keeps creating more work. Its comic strength is the clarity with which a small lie becomes an entire social arrangement.0
  4. 4Angoor (1982)Angoor (1982) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 5 Mar 1982Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma give mistaken identity distinct rhythms of bafflement and suspicion. Gulzar makes repetition accumulate instead of merely recur. Choose it for farce whose complicated machinery remains easy enough to follow that you can enjoy the performances inside it.0
  5. 5Chashme Buddoor (1981)Chashme Buddoor (1981) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Apr 1981The friends' competing versions of themselves make the courtship comedy feel like an extension of shared lodgings. Farooque Shaikh and Deepti Naval provide an appealingly unforced centre. The supporting performances let boastfulness become funny without making sincerity look foolish.0
  6. 6Katha (1982)Katha (1982) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Dec 1982The contrast between patient work and effortless self-promotion is played out in a busy chawl. Farooque Shaikh's charm is deliberately dangerous, while Naseeruddin Shah makes reserve expressive. The comedy is sharpest when the neighbours' attention becomes something the characters have to compete…0
  7. 7Andaz Apna Apna (1994)Andaz Apna Apna (1994) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Apr 1994Aamir Khan and Salman Khan make vanity an inexhaustible source of confusion. The supporting villains are as committed to nonsense as the heroes. Its pleasure lies in escalating comic logic, with callbacks rewarding attention rather than a plausible romantic premise.0
  8. 8Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006)Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Sept 2006The family's land dispute becomes a problem for amateurs who have to invent a convincing performance of power. Boman Irani makes entitlement magnificently casual. The small hesitations and supporting reactions give the scam more comic life than a string of broad victories would.0
  9. 9Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008)Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 28 Nov 2008The thief is funny because his confidence exposes everybody else's hunger for status. Abhay Deol's dry performance leaves room for the ensemble's social detail. Choose it for a comedy that keeps asking why a desirable object seems to promise a desirable life.0
  10. 10Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Dec 2003The medical college's rules give Sanjay Dutt's improvised warmth plenty to collide with. Arshad Warsi turns practical loyalty into an excellent comic partnership. The sentiment is generous and broad, but the institution's everyday habits keep the jokes from floating free of their target.0