New Delhi: As Indian cinema turns 100 this year, we pay tribute to the men and women who used the celluloid as their canvas to paint larger-than-life dreams that galvanised generations of millions.
When Dadasaheb Phalke released the first Indian feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' on May 3, 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation Cinema, he pioneered an art form that was to become a national obsession.
In the last 10 decades, countless artistes have worked tirelessly every day, both behind the camera and in front of it, to better a medium that has grown in shape, form and content to a self-sustaining behemoth. There have been classics that have shaped not just the industry but also mirrored the changing society.
As Indian cinema turns 100, vote for your favourite actor, actress, film, director and music composer of all time.
We know how conflicting it is to ask you to pick your favourites from a list that could run into several pages of actors, actresses, directors, films, music composers and other supporting artistes from films that date back to the 1920s. So we have shortlisted batches of 20 from five main categories to kick-start a series of polls on the greatest names of Indian cinema. Vote for your favourite artistes.
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Poll
Who is India's greatest actor of all time?
Balraaj Sahni
Dilip Kumar
Guru Dutt
Om Puri
Naseeruddin Shah
MG Ramachandran
Shivaji Ganeshan
Uttam Kumar
Dr Rajkumar
Kamal Haasan
Mohanlal
Soumitro Chattopadhyay
Sanjeev Kumar
Gemini Ganesan
Pankaj Kapoor
Mamootty
NT Rama Rao
Mithun Chakraborty
Utpal Dutt
Chhabi Biswas
Who is India's greatest actress of all time?
Waheeda Rehman
Madhubala
Nargis
Sabitri Chatterjee
Meena Kumari
Nutan
Shabana Azmi
Smita Patil
Deepti Naval
Madhuri Dixit
Madhabi Mukherjee
Sharada
B Saroja Devi
Rakhee Gulzar
Kommareddy Savitri
Suraiya
Suchitra Sen
Sridevi
Devika Rani
Aishwarya Rai
Which is the greatest Indian film of all time?
Pyaasa (1957)
Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
Sholay (1975)
Guide (1965)
Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
Swayamvaram (1972)
Awaara (1951)
Bhuvan Shome (1969)
Maqbool (2003)
Damini (1993)
Koshish (1972)
Shyamchi Aai (1953)
Nayakan (1987)
Mirza Ghalib (1954)
Kabuliwala (1956)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Charulata (1964)
Marupakkam (1990)
Adaminte Makan Abu (2010)
Deool (2011)
Who is India's greatest director of all time?
Satyajit Ray
Mrinal Sen
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Mani Kaul
Shyam Benegal
Jahnu Barua
Gautam Ghose
Rituparno Ghosh
G Aravindan
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Bimal Roy
Shakti Samanta
Yash Chopra
Vishal Bhardwaj
Mani Ratnam
Rajkumar Hirani
K Balachander
Shankar
Manmohan Desai
Girish Kasaravalli
Who is India's best music composer of all time?
SD Burman
SP Balasubramanyam
Ilayaraja
Bhupen Hazarika
Hemant Kumar
Ismail Darbar
Khayyam
Naushad
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
OP Nayyar
AR Rahman
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Vishal Bhardwaj
Rahul Dev Burman
Kishore Kumar
Hridaynath Mangeshkar
M Balamuralikrishna
Madan Mohan
Satyajit Ray
Jaidev
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