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2016 Rewind: 10 best Bollywood films of a year
- Updated: December 24, 2016
How does one even try a year-ender list like this, though awaiting a garland of violent trolls and intelligent naysayers going, “What? Really?” Well, ideally, we don’t. You can’t review apples and oranges. But hey, somebody has to. And it’s fun, and apples and oranges are fruits, since can’t we review them? So well, here’s what we suspicion were a 10 best Bollywood cinema of 2016. we don’t know how many of them you’ve already seen. Most of these we can locate again. But afterwards again… Okay, so let a arguments begin!
1. Dangal: Yeah, it’s turn roughly a cliché already to call it a best film of 2016. And a initial initial was that it’d be a clichéd, strict-coach, loser talent ‘sports film’, that it’s so not, while it splendidly explores not only wrestling as a sport, though relations — between multitude and girls, father and daughter, competition and government, city and village… And many significantly, Aamir and his annual Christmas audience! Nobody we know left disappointed; nonetheless again.
2. Pink: Films are meant to entertain, or rather engage. But some, we suspect, should only turn partial of propagandize curriculum. This brilliantly edited thriller set around a garland of immature singular Delhi girls, should be done imperative observation to conflicting infrequent misogyny of North India. A stupendous, timely wake-up call.
3. Kapoor Sons: Minimalistic, realistic, hard-hitting, and presumably a many personal film in a mainstream space this year, this play about a dysfunctional Indian family rivals a best of a genre conflicting a world, with some severely top-notch performances from everyone, in sold veterans, Ratna Pathak Shah, and a darling Rishi Kapoor. Do revisit this family if we haven’t, and we might only find your possess somewhere in it too!
4. MS Dhoni: The Untold Story: Chronicles a life and times of one of a many renouned vital Indians, with such excellent use of SFX, vehement story-telling, and hey, Sushant Singh Rajput in his element, essaying a arise and arise of Dhoni and tiny city India into Indian cricket. And well, finally, a film on cricket that gets a cricket right! Haven’t watched anything like this in Bollywood before.
5. Aligarh: Dark, quiet, deeply unfortunate loyal story of homophobia that defines a society, and perhaps, a college campus as well. Who improved than Manoj Bajpayee to beam we into a mind of a soft-spoken Professor Ramchandra Siras, a male of letters, wrecked by hatred and prejudice around him. Few films let we into a character’s life so gently, so beautifully.
6. Udta Punjab: The conflicting of a Punjab of mustard fields we’ve always consumed in Bollywood movies, this kick-ass, smartly destined thriller entertains nonetheless jolts we into acknowledging drugs as a scandal of Punjab’s girl in a state of fast disarray. Some films are reduction dangerous, though equally gratifying highs of their own. Udta is clearly one of them.
7. Fitoor: What’s a list that doesn’t hang a neck out? I’ll tell we since Fitoor belongs here. First of all, you’ve not seen it. The bad press ensured few have. Give it a shot: check out a overwhelming locations, fanciful camerawork, dual of a hottest looking actors on shade (Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif), and arguably a best Bollywood soundtrack this year (title track, and ‘Pashmina’ in particular). The story, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, was never going to severely defect anyway. All this put together creates Fitoor, IMHO, a many under-rated mainstream film this year. Hence a soothing dilemma on this page!
8. Neerja: Set flattering many in one vast room with a whole lot of people in it — a inside of an aircraft. Capturing an eventuality (hijacking of Pan Am moody 73 in 1986), and one person, moody attendant Neerja Bhanot’s purpose in it, that is frequency driven by manic movement or plain mortal combat. And nonetheless a film binds your courtesy for dual hours plus. This must’ve been a toughest film to direct. And Ram Madhvani pulls it off with immature Sonam Kapoor. Wow. No, seriously, wow!
9. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil/ Befikre/ Dear Zindagi: Okay, rom-coms tend to have a polarising outcome on renouned appeal; they always have. But what’s there not to adore about films that during each turn simulate a loves and lives of a contemporary immature — gripping it all fun, even frothy sometimes, nonetheless excavate really severely into a many evident #FirstWorldProblem of a times: choice, or rather, too many choices. Why settle for a relationship, and contingent heartbreak, when hook-ups and friendships suffice? Yes, this is a coffee emporium review of a amiable immature in 2016. These 3 splendidly enacted, destined dramas are also some of a best review starters we know.
10. Fan/Sultan/Airlift: What’s common to these 3 unconditionally manifold films? They have vital super-stars, solemnly though surely, perplexing to mangle a mould, pull a envelope, and go over what their core audiences have always demanded or approaching from them anyway. Akshay Kumar (Airlift) was a initial to take a lead in that instruction by a approach (with likewise intelligent thrillers like Special 26, and Baby). Sensible and fun, Sultan, with Salman Khan, lerned to demeanour and perform like a veteran wrestler, rising internal dialect, is a distant cry from Salman Khan who’s been personification Salman Khan for a integrate of generations now. And if anybody had told me, during a commencement of a year, that there is a Shah Rukh Khan film entrance adult that has no songs in it, we wouldn’t have believed it. Fan needs to be seen to be believed, enjoyed and whole-heartedly embraced. These are signs of good super-star times ahead.
Those that should’ve done it too…
- Nil Battey Sannata: Clever, funny, deeply penetrable of a ‘lives of others’, an comprehensive gem of a tiny film with a biggest heart this year.
- Raman Raghav 2.0/Kahaani 2: Grittily picturised, excellent investigate of a underbelly, with dual of a excellent actors in city — Vidya Balan (Kahaani 2), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Raman Raghav 2.0) — enormous their tools to nearby perfection.
- Tere Bin Laden 2: Mild exhale of uninformed atmosphere in a year of some severely unintelligent sequels, this rather under-rated comedy was LOL humorous in a goofiest arrange of way.
- Waiting: How does even one lay by a two-character, conversational film, set outward a sanatorium ICU ward, with both characters watchful for their particular kin to get okay? You do it, since it’s created so well, and it stars Naseer (and Kalki).
- Wazir: Tightly packaged thriller, with all a equipment we will need to safeguard a eyes stay glued to a shade — drama, twist, action, some excellent camera work, and hey, dual lead actors, Bachchan Sr and Farhan Akhtar, jamming flattering good on a screen. Paisa vasool, alright.