Best of Bollywood

As the South Asian International Film Festival kicks off in New York City, feed your Bollywood fever with TIME's list of the best Bollywood classics — as well as our Five Essential Bollywood movies to Netflix.

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Mother India - 1957

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Cast: Nargis, Sunil Dutt

Chic, sultry Nargis went prole — brilliantly — as a peasant mother defending her land and family in Mehboob Khan's blockbuster. It's a left-wing Gone With the Wind but grittier and more volcanic. Better songs, too.

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