Pather Panchali (1955), Mira Nair films such as Salaam Bombay! (1988), Aamir Khan 's Lagaan (2001) and Taare Zameen Par (2007). [ 17 ] The rags to riches underdog theme underlying the film was also a recurring theme in classic Bollywood movies from the 1950s through to the 1980s, when "India worked to