B-Town's favourite films

Naseeruddin Shah: Vijay Anand’s Guide, K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Stangelove, Stanley Donen’s Singin’ In The Rain, Sergio Leone’s The Good Bad & The Ugly, William Friedkin’s The French Connection.

Sudhir Mishra: Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, Guru Dutt’s Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam, Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen, Ketan Mehta’s Mirch Masala, Kundan Shah’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.

Amole Gupte:  Vishnupant Govind Damle’s Sant Tukaram, Ritwick Ghatak’s  Meghe Dhaka Tara, Paresh Mokashi’s Harishchandrachi Factory, Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, Satyajit Ray’s Charulata.

Dibakar Bannerjee: Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull, Joon-Ho Bong’s Memories Of Murders, Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra, most of Satyajit Ray’s works, Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen, most of Kurosawa’s works.

Tigmanshu Dhulia: Mehboob Khan’s Mother India, Nitin Bose’s Ganga-Jamuna, Kamal Amrohi’s  Pakeezah, Vijay Anand’s Guide, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: V Shantaram’s Do Aankhen Barah Haath, K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, Vijay Anand’s Guide,  Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool, Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali: Ritwick Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Kamal Aamrohi’s Pakeezah, Guru Dutt’s Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam, V Shantaram’s Navrang and Vijay Anand’s Guide.

Shoojit Sircar: Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and Apur Sansar, Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zameen, 
Mehboob Khan’s Mother India, MS Sathyu’s Garam Hawa.

Pritish Nandy: Satyen Bose’s Chalti Ka Naam Gadi, MS Sathyu’s Garam Hawa, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan, Sudhir Mishra’s Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Pankaj Parasher’s Chaalbaaz, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool, Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India, Saytajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khiladi.

Waheeda Rehman: Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met, Karan Johar’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Guide.

Gauri Shinde:  Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, Satish Manwar’s Gabhricha Paus, Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane, Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool, Balu Mahendra’s Sadma.

Siddharth Roy Kapoor: Sholay, Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa, Yash Chopra’s Deewaar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anand, Manmohan Desai’s Amar Akbar Anthony.

R Balki: Balu Mahendra’s Moondram Pirai, Gabhricha Paus,  Manmohan Desai’s Naseeb and Yash Chopra’s Trishul (actually all of the Bachchan films),  Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan and Shankar’s Robot.

Preity Zinta: Sholay, Kamal Amrohi’s Pakeezah, Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India, Sooraj Barjatya’s Maine Pyar Kiya  and Yash Chopra’s Veer-Zaara.

Mahesh Bhatt: Mother India, Pyaasa, Mughal-e-Azam, Satyajit Ray’s Devi and Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane.

Rahul Rawail: Mughal-e-Azam,  Raj Kapoor’s Bobby, Raj Kumar Hirani’s Munnabhai MBBS,  Vijay Anand’s Johnny Mera Naam.

David Dhawan: Manmohan Desai’s Amar Akbar Anthony, Vijay Anand’s Johnny Mera Naam, Satyen Bose’s Chalti Ka Naam Gadi, Raj Kumar Hirani’s Munnabhai MBBS, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anand.

Prosenjeet: Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay, K Vishwanath’s Shankarbharnam and Paresh Mokashi’s Harishchandrachi Factory.

Jackie Shroff: K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India, Mehmood’s Bombay To Goa, Vijay Anand’s Guide, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas.

Bappi Lahiri:  Mother India, Sholay, Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker, Guide and Prakash Mehra’s Namak Halaal.

Onir: Luis Bunuel’s Belle De Jour, Jeab-Luc Goddard’s Breathless, Ritwick Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Satyajit Ray’s Charulata,  Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education.

Santosh Sivan: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Charulata, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.

Shabana Azmi: Guide, Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool, Yash Chopra’s Deewaar,  MS Sathyu’s Garam Hawa, Shyam Benegal’s Ankur.

Saira Banu: Nitin Bose’s Ganga-Jumna, Bimal Roy’s Devdas,  Bimal Roy’s Madhumati, Ram Mukherjee’s Leader, Mehboob Khan’s Aan.

Raveena Tandon: Ravi Tandon’s Zindagi, Ravi Tandon’s Khel Khel Mein, Jyoti Swaroop’s Padosan, Ravi Tandon’s Majboor, E Niwas’s Shool.