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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Bombay - 1995

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Cast: Manisha Koirala, Arvind Swamy

Tamil director Mani Rathnam and composer A.R. Rahman had an India-wide hit with this political parable of a Hindu man and his Muslim bride in the 1993 Bombay riots. By turns sweet and furious, this is superb melodrama.

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