Which three among the following would you consider the best films in the history of Hindi cinema

My first choice will always be Mugh-E-Azam for obvious reasons - it was the first magnum opus in the history of Indian Cinema, with magnificent and lavish sets, beautiful music scores and equally great performances by the cast.

Second choice is Mother India for stellar performances by the leading actors and its strong storyline of triumph of good over evil, especially the part where a mother kills her own evil son.

Third choice is of course, Sholay, a cult movie that broke all records of Hindi cinema. Though the serious contender is Pyasa, Sholay was and will become memorable for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it achieved the distinction of becoming the first truly Indian Western movie with all the paraphernalia such as horses, guns, horse-riding bandits, an outlawed and evil bandit leader and a couple of heroes who are originally outlawed criminals. The film was extremely good on all scores, acting, screenplay, music, strong dialogues etc. So this is the best contender for third choice.

Mughal-e-Azam
Mother India
Sholay are my all time great movies in the Indian film history.

My first choice go to Mother India. Second choice go to Pyaasa, and third choice go to Sholey.

I will go for Mother India as it was a social movie #1
My second choice is Sholey for its entertainment value
and obviously the Mughle E Azam despite all its fame and acting, sets and historical values is in fourth place after Pyasa, which was a gem for its characters played by great actors.

My choices....

First Mughal E azam.
Second Pyassa.
Third Mother India.

I like entertaining and action movie more.. So my first choice will be Sholey...

Second choice will be Mother India..

And third will be Mughal E azam.

I haven't seen any other movie you mentioned.

Pyaasa would definitely be on my list. It's a pure masterpiece by Guru Dutt. One more film i would like to add to the list is RANG DE BASANTI. Such brilliance in all respects of filmmaking needs to be appereciated.

I wold say Mughal-e-Azam to be the best movies among the choices yo gave. Its dialogue,sets,songs,acting everything was superb. I can't forget the dance and set of the song " Jab pyaar kiya to" Madhubala was looking gorgeous in the song.

My choices are:
First Mother India
Second Sholey
And third one is Mughal E azam.

SHOLEY

Here goes the top 3 in my opinion:
1, Pyaasa
2, Ankur
3, Sholay

Sholey, 3 idiots, Jodha Akbar.