best movies about India
The 20 best movies about India and what they teach you I LOVE MOVIES and I love India. I have poured my heart into this post — some of my favourite movies about India. There are lots more, but these were chosen because I feel they are instructive in some way about the culture of India, and also accessible to foreign viewers. The following list of some of my favourite movies about India are not necessarily Indian-made movies — but movies that reveal the history and culture of the country. I have arranged them in chronological order of the time period they depict (not when they were made), so if you watch them in this order, you will get a sense of the history of India over the past couple of hundred years. Not too many “Bollywood films” on the list — but if you want to know more about the booming Hindi cinema industry in Bombay/Mumbai, read my Bollywood Primer . UPDATED APRIL 2020: This post is dedicated to Irrfan Khan , who died of cancer on April 29, 2020...