List of Bollywood films of 1961
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A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1961:-
Highest-grossing films[]
The twenty highest-grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1961:[1]
| Rank | Title | Cast |
| 1. | Gunga Jumna | Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala |
| 2. | Junglee | Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu |
| 3. | Gharana | Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Asha Parekh |
| 4. | Aas Ka Panchhi | Rajendra Kumar, Vyjayanthimala |
| 5. | Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai | Dev Anand, Asha Parekh |
| 6. | Sasural | Rajendra Kumar, B. Saroja Devi |
| 7. | Hum Dono | Dev Anand, Sadhana, Nanda |
| 8. | Kabuliwala | Balraj Sahni |
| 9. | Zindagi aur Khwab | Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari |
| 10. | Shola Aur Shabnam | Dharmendra, Tarla Mehta |
| 11. | Jhumroo | Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Anoop Kumar |
| 12. | Nazrana | Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala |
| 13. | Pyar Ka Saagar | Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari |
| 14. | Maya | Dev Anand, Mala Sinha |
| 15. | Chhaya | Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh, Nirupa Roy |
| 16. | Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja | Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman |
| 17. | Manoj Kumar, Shakeela | |
| 18. | Manoj Kumar | |
| 19. | Mehmood, Ameeta | |
| 20. | Boy Friend | Madhubala, Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra |
A-G[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aas Ka Panchhi | J. Om Prakash | Rajendra Kumar, Vyjayanthimala | Family Drama | Music by Shankar–Jaikishan |
| Amar Rahe Yeh Pyar | Nalini Jaywant, Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Prabhu Dayal | Drama Family | Music by C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep | |
| S. N. Tripathi | Usha Kiran, , Sulochana Chatterjee, , Ratnamala, Sunder, , Dalpat, Jeevankala, Amirbai Karnataki | Mythology | Music: S. N. Tripathi Lyrics: B. D. Mishra | |
| I. S. Johar, Kumkum, | Comedy | Music by Chitragupta | ||
| Pradeep Kumar, Padmini, Nirupa Roy | Drama | Husnlal Bhagatram | ||
| R.K. Rehman | Shyam Kumar, , Kamran | Action | Music by | |
| Sheikh Mukhtar, , | Action | Chitragupta | ||
| Balraj Sahni, Pradeep Kumar, , Shashikala | Family Drama | Music by S Madan | ||
| Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan | Meena Kumari, Balraj Sahni | Family Drama | Sudhir Phadke | |
| Boy Friend | Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Madhubala | Romance | Shankar–Jaikishan | |
| Shashi Kapoor, Nanda, Manmohan Krishna | Romance Family | Music by Salil Chowdhary | ||
| Chhaya | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh | Music by Salil Chowdhary | |
| Mehmood, Ameeta, Minoo Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, R. D. Burman | Comedy Romance | Music by Rahul Dev Burman | ||
| Ashok Kumar, K.N. Singh, Amirbai Karnataki, Nishi | Action | Music by | ||
| Dharmputra | Yash Chopra | Shashi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Rehman, Nirupa Roy, Indrani Mukherjee | Social Family Drama | National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi Music by N.Dutta |
| Vishram Bedekar | Shakila, Helen, Abhi Bhattacharya, Om Prakash, Daisy Irani | Family | Music by N.Dutta | |
| Ashok Kumar, , Helen | Music by Usha Khanna | |||
| Gharana | S.S. Vasan | Rajendra Kumar, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar | Family Drama | Music by Ravi |
| Gunga Jumna | Nitin Bose | Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Nazir Khan | Drama Action | Music by Naushad |
H-O[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamari Yaad Aayegi | Kidar Sharma | Tanuja, Ashok Sharma | Romance Drama | Snehal Bhatkar |
| Hum Dono | Amarjeet | Dev Anand, Nanda, Sadhna | Drama Family Romance War | Entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival Music by Jaidev |
| L.R. Asthana | , , Jeevan, Agha | Drama Family | Chitragupta | |
| Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai | Nasir Hussain | Dev Anand, Asha Parekh, Pran | Romance | Music by Shankar–Jaikishan |
| Radhakant | Ranjan, Vijaya Choudhary, Jeevan | Fantasy | Music by S.N. Tripathi | |
| Dhirubhai Desai | Jayshree Gadkar, Manhar Desai, Lata Sinha, Veena | Mythology | Music by S. Mohinder | |
| Jaswant Jhaveri | Nirupa Roy, Jairaj, Bipin Gupta | Drama History | Music by | |
| Jhumroo | Shanker Mukherjee | Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Anoop Kumar, Chanchal | Romance Drama | Music by Kishore Kumar |
| Junglee | Subodh Mukherjee | Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu, Anoop Kumar, Lalita Pawar, | Romance | Intro: Saira Banu, Music by Shankar- Jaikishan |
| Kabuliwala | Hemen Gupta | Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran, Sonu, Baby Farida | Drama | A Bimal Roy Productions, Music by Salil Choudhary |
| Kishore Kumar, Kumkum, Anoop Kumar, Shashikala | Comedy, Crime | Music by Shankar–Jaikishan | ||
| H. S. Rawail | Manoj Kumar, Sayeeda Khan, Tarun Bose, Shubha Khote | Drama Family | Music by Suhrid Kar | |
| B.J. Patel | Ranjan, Jabeen, , Sunder, | Action | Sardul Kwatra | |
| J. Trivedi | Manhar Desai, Ajit, Nalini Chonker | Fantasy | ||
| Mahavat[2] | M. A. Thirumugam | Udaykumar, B. Saroja Devi | Drama | Music by Sudharshan. Dubbed from Tamil |
| Dharam Kumar | Ajit, Ameeta, Lalita Pawar, Helen | Family Drama | Music by composer | |
| Radhakant M Thakur | Anant Kumar, Dhumal, Asha | Social | Shashank Banerji | |
| Maya | D.D. Kashyap | Dev Anand, Mala Sinha | Drama Crime Romance | Salil Chowdhury |
| Memdidi | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Tanuja, Keysi Mehra, Lalita Pawar, Jayant, David | Drama | Music by Salil Choudhary |
| Hunsur Krishnamurthy | Nazima, Kanta Rao | Family Drama | Music by Arun Raghavan | |
| R. Bhattacharya | Pradeep Kumar, Sayeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Helen | Family Drama | Ravi | |
| Mr. India | G.P. Sippy | Geeta Bali, I. S. Johar, Helen, Feroz Khan | Comedy, Crime | Music by G.S. Kohli |
| Nari Ghadiali | Chitra, Asgar, Manju | Hanuman Prasad Triloki | ||
| Nazrana | Sridhar | Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala Gemini Ganesan, Usha Kiran | Family Drama | Music by Ravi |
| Aspi Irani | , Sudhir, Nazima, Mukri, Helen, Sulochana. | Music by Iqbal Qureshi | ||
| Opera House | Ajit, B. Saroja Devi, Lalita Pawar | Crime Thriller Romance | Music by Chitragupta |
P-Z[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passport | Pramod Chakravorty | Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, K.N. Singh | Thriller | Qamar Jalalabadi-Kalyanji Anandji |
| Pyaase Panchhi | Mehmood,Leela Mishra Ameeta,Malka,Niranjan Sharma,Uma Khosla, Agha,Jeevan, David | Romance, Comedy | Music by Kalyanji Anandji Assts by Laxmikant–Pyarelal | |
| Pyaar Ka Saagar | Devendra Goel | Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri | Romance, Drama | Music by Ravi |
| Ameeta, Sudesh Kumar, Shubha Khote, Mohan Choti, Helen | Romance | Music by Naushad | ||
| Mahesh Kaul | Honey Irani, Shrikant, Nishi, Manmohan Krishna | Drama Family | Music by Vasant Desai | |
| Chandrakant | Abhi Bhattacharya, Jayshree T, Shahu Modak, Leela Chitnis, Tiwari, , Tun Tun | Mythological | Music by | |
| Devendra Goel | Nirupa Roy, Kamran, Jairaj, Agha, Madhumati | Historical Romance | Music by Lachchiram Bhairam | |
| Manoj Kumar, Shakeela, , K. N. Singh, Helen | Romance | Music by Babul | ||
| Harnam Singh Rawail | Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Jeevan, Sunder | Romance | Music by Shankar Jaikishan | |
| Saaya | Shreeram | Nasir Khan, Nigar Sultana, Helen, Chitra, Madan Puri | Family Drama | Music by |
| Kumkum, , K. N. Singh | Thriller, Action, Romance | Music by Ravi | ||
| Sampoorna Ramayana | Babubhai Mistry | Mahipal, Anita Guha, Achala Sachdev, Lalita Pawar, | Mythological | Music by Vasant Desai |
| Pramod Chakravorty | Pradeep Kumar, Anita Guha, Shubha Khote, Om Prakash | Drama Social Family | Music by Madan Mohan | |
| B. J. Patel | Ranjan, Jeevan Kala, Tiwari | Music by Ajit Merchant, Lyrics: Indivar | ||
| Balraj Sahni, Geeta Bali, Chandrashekhar, Kamini Kadam | Romance Drama | Music by Salil Choudhary | ||
| Prakash Chabra | Premnath, Shyama, Jankidas, | Crime Action Drama | Music by Babul | |
| Saranga | Dhirubai Desai | Sudesh Kumar, Jayshree Gadkar | ||
| Sasural | T. Prakash Rao | Rajendra Kumar, B. Saroja Devi, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Dhumal | Family Drama | Music by Shankar Jaikishan |
| Prakash Rao | Jamuna, G. Varalaxmi | Mythological | Music by S. L. Merchant Shreeram, Lyrics by Bharat Vyas | |
| G. K. Ramu | Anjali Devi, Gemini Ganesan, Kamla Laxman, M. N. Nambiar. | Drama | Music by Dilip Dholakia | |
| Phani Majumdar | Children's Film | Received All India Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Children's Film | ||
| Prithviraj Kapoor, Nalini Jaywant | Costume Drama | Music by Madan Mohan | ||
| K. Anand | Krishna Kumari, Kamran | Action | Music by Harbans | |
| Nimmi, Suraiya, Vijay Dutt | Social Drama | Ghulam Mohammed | ||
| Shola Aur Shabnam | Ramesh Saigal | Dharmendra, | Romance Drama | Khayyam |
| Bhagwan | Kumkum, Purnima, Suresh, Anwar, Bhagwan, Helen | Musical | Music by Nissar | |
| Stree | V. Shantaram | V. Shantaram, Sandhya, Rajshree | Drama | Music by C. Ramchandra |
| Krishanan Panju | Balraj Sahni, Mala Sinha, Manoj Kumar | Family Social Drama | Music by Chitragupta | |
| Ram Narayan Gabale | Karan Dewan, Usha Kiran, Purnima, Jagirdar | Music by Mohd. Shafi | ||
| Teen Kanya: Tales of Three girls (Bengali) | Satyajit Ray | Chandana Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee, Kali Banerjee, Kumar Roy, Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Gita Dey | Anthology film | Based on short stories by Rabindranath Tagore |
| Nanabhai Bhatt | Suresh, Ameeta, Shammi, Honey Irani | Action Crime Drama | Music by Dilip Dholakia | |
| Romey Dey | Sheikh Mukhtar, Kumkum, Chandrashekhar, Madan Puri | Action Drama | Music by Chitragupta | |
| Nisar Ahmad Ansari | Vijay Kumar, Sayeeda Khan | Action | Music by Ravi | |
| Kedar Kapoor | Ashok Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Shakila, Dhumal | Action | Music by Roshan | |
| Wazir-e-Azam | R. S. Rahi | Chand Usmani, Nadira, Indira Billi, Bhagwan, Helen | Adventure, Costume Drama | Music by Robin Banerjee |
| Zabak | Homi Wadia | Mahipal, Shyama, Chitra | Costume Drama | Chitragupta |
| Zalim Jadugar | Sultan | Hercules, Neeta, Rajrani | Fantasy, Action | Music by Iqbal |
| Jayant Desai | Charlie, Chand Usmani, Naina, Iftekhar, Bhagwan, Helen | Social | Music by Iqbal Qureshi | |
| Zindagi aur Khwab | S. Banerjee | Meena Kumari, Rajendra Kumar, Jayant, Agha, Naaz, Pratima Devi, Jeevankala | Romantic melodrama | Music: Dattaram Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep |
References[]
- ^ Box Office India. "Top Earners 1961". boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
- ^ "Mahavat (1961)". GoMolo. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
External links[]
- Bollywood films of 1961 at the Internet Movie Database
- Indian Film Songs from the Year 1961 - A look back at 1961 with a focus on Hindi film songs
Categories:
- Lists of Bollywood films by year
- Lists of 1961 films by country or language
- 1961 in Indian cinema