‘Badlapur se Bajirao Mastani tak aur Tevar se Tamasha tak’, the hindi
film industry delivered some amzing stories and some blockbusters as well.
While the much hyped and the commercial giant Bombay Velvet flopped, small
budget movies like NH10 and Badlapur made their mark. This year saw Suraj Barjatya
coming back to Bollywood and bringing back Prem. Also Aishwarya Rai came back
with Jazba. Let’s roll our eyes on the year
2015’s top ten movies that Bollywood gave us.
Badlapur
2015 started off with a bang for Varun Dhawan who smashed the box
office and his chocolate boy image with his power packed performance as Raghu,
in this movie. Add to that a character with negative shades, so naturally
played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Radhika
Apte makes 2015 work for herself with her genuine performances in Badlapur,
Hunterr and Manjhi – The Mountain Man.
The movie is hard hitting, gripping and its brilliant music score by
Sachin-Jigar makes you fall in love with this movie.
Piku
This Shoojit Sircar creation is a beautiful narration of the
relationship between a father and a daughter. Amitabh Bachhan continued to rule
the cinemas with Piku after the magnificent Shamitabh. The characters and the
looks being created for the legend are enviably wonderful for his
contemporaries. The unusual pairing between Deepika Padukone and Irfan Khan
turned out to be very subtle and natural. The simplicity of this movie backed
with an amazing music score by Anupam Roy makes it one of the ‘must watch’ of
2015, or rather an all time favourite.
Qissa
This movie is a hard hitting tale of a girl raised as a boy. Irfan Khan plays the father who wants his
third child to be a male to carry on his legacy; but when he gets to know that
even his third child is not a boy, he just cannot accept his fate. So, he
raises her as a boy; even names him Kanwar Singh, but things start getting complicated
as Kanwar starts growing up. And when he also gets Kanwar marry a girl, there
is trouble, a lot of trouble. An unusual
storyline supported with the brilliant performances of Irfan Khan and
Tillottama Shome makes this movie weird and wonderful at the same time.
Drishyam
Drishyam is the Hindi remake of a Tamil movie with the same name. The
film is a thrller drama which keeps you on your seats till the last scene. Drishyam was critically well received unlike
the other south indian remakes; Tevar and Gabbar Is Back which also released in
2015. The slow reason not to miss the movie is its story and an engaging
screenplay.
NH10
An average Indian movie goer is getting more intelligent as 2015 comes
to an end. People are looking out for quality and small budget movies are
actually gaining much more recognition and business than their richer
counterparts. Dum Lagake Haisha, Talwar,
Court among other low budget films were accepted wholeheartedly by a common
movie goer. NH10 is about righteousness, revenge and Anushka Sharma’s power
act. Watch NH10; it will be the most thrilling
2015 movie you’ll see.
Talvar
The movie is based on the infamous double murder of Aarushi and Hemraj.
Apparently, another movie called Rahasya
starring Kay Kay Menon was also loosely based on the same murder case. The
thoroughly engaging script for the movie has been written by Vishal Bharadwaj. Irfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma were a lovely
couple back in 2009 in Life in a Metro, but they are poles apart in this movie. Neeraj Kabi had a great year with a
performance oriented role in Talwar and a negative character in Detective
Byomkesh Bakshi. Detective Byomkesh Bakshi is also one of the better movies of
2015 which did not do well at the cinemas.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
This movie is actually one of the good movies starring Salman Khan
after a long time. The movie is commercial, but sensible cinema at the same
time. Off late, Salman only focuses on the number of whistles that he will get
in the hall. But, Bajrangi is both whistle-worthy and noteworthy. After being a
weird negative character in Badlapur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui got a lovable role in
Bajrangi Bhaijaan. He also played Manjhi in the movie Manjhi – The Mountain Man
which is also one of the good movies of the year 2015.
Dum Lagake Haisha
Actors make movies and movie make stars, Ayushman Khurana and his choice
of movies are worth a mention; Vicky Donor, Nautanki Saala, Hawaizada – all
movies have a different flavour. Sanjay Mishra plays Ayushman’s father in the
movie and as always he plays so lovely. In fact, 2015 has been a year of
Supporting actors; Nawazuddin siddiqui in Badlapur and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Tabu
in Drishyam, Tanvi Azmi in Bajirao Mastani, Radhika Apte in Badlapur, Deepak
Dobriyal in Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Konkona Sen Sharma in Talvar amongst
others. Dum Lagaake Haisha is a sweet story with sweet performances and sweet
characters. The good old 90s music by Anu Malik brings back Kumar Sanu to our
playlists again.
Bajirao Mastani
Deepika Padukone had a great 2015 with Piku, Tamasha and Bajirao
Mastani. Although Tamasha did not do so
well, she rocked the box office with her latest as Mastani. Bajirao Mastani is
the grandest and the most controversial biopic in 2015 amidst Main Hoon Charles
Sobhraj and Hawaizaada. The movie
focuses on the love story of Bajirao and Mastani. The movie must be watched for
its larger than life portrayal of the great Maratha Peshwa Bajirao Ballal.
Masaan
Richa Chadda’s impressive filmography got even more impressive with
this film. Set in Banaras, this movie also stars Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj
Tripathi. Two stories run in parallel till they meet only in the last scene.
One of the stories has a very sweet budding romance between Vicky Kaushal and
Shweta Tripathi. Both, Richa Chadda and
Vicky Kaushal lose their love and start feeling trapped in Banaras ironically
in a city where Hindus believe to set their soul free by performing their last
rites at the Ganga ghat. Song composed
by Indian Ocean capture the essence of the movie without breaking the
narrative, unlike many other movies.
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