With most movies talking about crime in India in the late eighties and nineties, one remembers the caper crime movies in Bollywood. Unfortunately, there aren’t many crime movies and most of the crime-focused movies out there talked more about the emotional turmoil of the criminal and how he came to be a criminal. You see, hedonism is still a foreign aspect of Bollywood. However, this does not mean that there are no crime-focused movies in Bollywood. Here’s a list of the top three crime-focused movies, which basically changed the way the world viewed Bollywood movies.

Parinda:

This movie is apparently the one that launched and relaunched the careers of at least three actors, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, and Jackie Shroff. Nana Patekar was a lesser known actor at the time, but had nonetheless shown that he had the acting knack to play the role of an easily angered don who was afraid of fire. Anil Kapoor needed a shot in the arm to boost his career that was about to be sandwiched between the lover boy and the older brother. Jackie Shroff needed something to show people that Subhash Ghai had made the right choice in casting him as the big-hearted ruffian and Nana Patekar wanted to make her mark on mainstream cinema.

The movie is one of the most skillfully made Bollywood movies, and you won’t find the usual song and dance routine, but rather welcome the songs and dances when they arrive, because you’re so overwhelmed by what’s going on on screen.

Scenes Highlights: Nana Patekar fits in when he sees fire and the climax where Jackie Shroff basically kills him by locking him in a room full of fire. Another notable scene is where his friend, a police officer, is shot at the Kabootar Khana, a place where pigeons are fed. Before saying it’s inspired by Quentin Tarantino, we guys didn’t even know him back then.

Dayavan:

Dayavan is one of those cult classics that had it all. The action, the emotion, the pathos of a person who was born into the world of crime and succumbs to it, all are portrayed on screen by one of the best actors on this side of the Arabian Sea, Kamal Hassan. The film has been remade and made in various languages ​​throughout India, and is one of the best scripts and stories in modern cinema.

Scenes to watch out for: Scene in which Dayavan kills a police officer for the first time. Scene where his wife falls from the balcony and the final sequence where Dayavan is killed by the crazy son of the policeman he had killed when he was young.

Agneepath:

While Parinda and Dayavan were cult and critical hits in their day, Agneepath is something I still remember today, with many people memorizing the dialogue. This movie saw a lot happening – it was another boost to Amitabh Bachchan’s career, people agreed that Mithun Chakraborthy can act, and it basically gave Bollywood the license to make movies about the crime infested world of that time. The movie is said to have been scaled down when it was first released, and only later did people understand what the movie was about.

These are the three movies that had the guts to challenge the mindset back then, and many would agree that movies like Johnny Gaddar, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, and even Shootout at Lokhandwala wouldn’t have been possible if these movies hadn’t had. success. first brand.