Director Subhash Ghai's 'Khalnayak', starring Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Jackie shroff, has been voted
as the third best film among the top ten movies ever made, in a British Film Institute 'Sight and Sound'
poll.
Among the other Indian directors voted for included legends Satyajit Ray and Guru Dutt. The other films in
the top ten include 'Manila by Night and 'The Opening of Misty Beethoven', a press release issued here said
today.
In 1952, 'Sight and Sound', a magazine of British Film Institute, polled the world's leading film critics to
compile a list of the best films of all times. The magazine has repeated this poll every ten years to show
which film stands the test of time in the face of shifting critical opinion. In 1992, a poll, asking directors for
their personal choices, was added.
The recent poll has been the largest and received contributions from 145 film critics, writers and
academicians and 108 film directors, the release added.
'Khalnayak' was one of the most succssful films that released in 1993. It dealt with terrorism, which, at that
time, was a relatively new theme for Bollywood.
'Khalnayak' is the story of a young man, Ballu Balram (Sanjay Dutt), and how he enters the world of crime
and eventually becomes a hardcore 'terrorist'.
His actions are attributed to issues like unemployment and to how his father had to suffer because he was
an honest man. These issues affect Ballu's psyche.
Khalnayak,third best film ever
Thursday, February 10, 2005 13:57 IST
