And the Best Hindi film of 2008 is
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And the Best Hindi film of 2008 is….!
2008 has nothing more to offer and is coming to an in a couple of days..all awards will start, Filmfare, Screen, Zee, Stardust and what not. I want to analyze the Hindi films that impacted me the most! The list below is in no particular order:
Mithya: If not for Anurag Kashyap’s post, I would not have even recognized that Mithya’s concept is a What if from Don! When the duplicate Don is put in place, faking amnesia, What if he suffers actually from Amnesia?!! The characters were real, believable and the performances were excellent. Mithya was fun all along and completely unpredictable. Great watch!
Jodha Akbar: The scale was huge and so was the ambition of the filmmaker. Jodha Akbar suffered from what, in my opinion, a common mistake committed sometime or the other by all talented filmmakers – overindulgence! But the music, performances and the chemistry between the lead pair salvaged the show. Jodha Akbar was not a film without flaws, but which film is?
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na: Abbas Tyrewala’s debut and I was surprised to note many reviewers chided Abbas for his script. I thought the script was quite clever. The way the Khan brothers and Imran Khan’s Nightmare/Dream is integrated into the climax is an example of clever writing. And not to forget ARR’s fabulous score. Kabhi Kabhi Aditi, IMO, was the year’s best number, but unfortunately the filmmaker did not do justice to it on screen. The performances by the entire cast were superb but special mention must go to Ratna Pathak Shah. She also delivers arguably the best written line in 2008 – Phone pe Beta, Phone pe!
Rock On – One of the members of Magik has brain tumour, one of the members’ ex happen to be the wife of a rock concert organizer, one of the earlier competitors to Magik eventually becomes the Rock Concert Finale’s organizer. Rock on was filled with Cliches. But as a film it worked beautifully. The music, the cinematography, the narrative, the perfect cast all came together and indeed created Magik.
A Wednesday – Some said that the message the film delivered was irresponsible..some said the BGM was too loud. Some said it did not work as a thriller. But A Wednesday worked for me big time. A less than two hour film, edge of the seat narrative, lovely touches by the first-time director(he could have avoided certain RGV clich'©s like the actor getting threatening calls), an unexpected twist in the climax…but A Wednesday will be remembered for a long time primarily due to the two leading men, Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher.
Dasvidaniya – A concept which could have gone either way..too risky man. If I make a film, I’ll play safe and will not choose such a ‘bucket list’ concept. A Director supremely confident of his craft came out trumps in creating an emotional impact on his ‘intellegent’ audience.
Rab Ne Bana di Jodi – I hated the bike chase, I hated the Sumo wrestling sequence, I hated the word Rab, I hated when finally Rab solved all problems. I came out saying ‘lousy film, man’. Yet after a fortnight, there are many sequences which are staying with me. Suri picking up the rose and keeping it back in the vase as an afterthought; Taani standing with the tray when Suri starts saying she is really sick; Raj talking to the mannequin of Suri; Taani, to overcome her frustrations, keeps doing household chores which have already been done! I did not want to include the film in this list, but I guess the film included itself..power of Rab J
Ghajini – You know from the promos that it is a revenge saga..even if you missed it, the first scene of the film tells you that Sanjay Singhania’s girlfriend is killed. Then when you get introduced to Kalpana and your heart warms up to her, you get this ticklish uneasiness, is she going to be killed? And I think that’s why the film is successful. Not because of 8 pack abs, not because of the promos, not because of dumbing down Memento, but because the love story works!
Oye Lucky Lucky Oye – It is irony that the film which has two ‘Lucky’ in its title turned out to be the unluckiest film of 2008. I generally do not buy any Hindi film DVDs because, they are anyway showing all these films in one channel or the other. But I have decided to buy OLLO DVD, not because Dibankar deserved better luck in the Box office, but because I truly believe that this is the best film of 2008.
You may disagree with me! You are welcome to put down your best in the comments. And before anyone trashes me for not including Aamir, have not watched it guys. Was not able to catch in UTV also since I was traveling, hope they show it again in the near future!
Tags: Dasvidaniya, Ghajini, mithya, Rab ne bana de jodi, RNBJ
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Cool list. I have not seen Ghajini, Dasvidaniya and OLLO yet :-(
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I also liked Kunal Khemu movie Superstar. I thought it was pretty decent. Few neat songs.
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I am confused about Mithya or was it a confusing film for me. I thought the movie did not find its tone. Was it humor, black humor, tragedy, thriller or all. Otherwise, I liked the idea.
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Aamir rocks. Fabulous movie and fantastic music.
i agree with you on this that, OLLO is “the” best film of the year 2008 but i think you missed out one something in your list and that is ‘mumbai meri jaan”. i haven’t seen any bomb blast movie covering such a deep and varied aspect of society. lot of routes have been taken in the past to make a film on blast after math, but here what we see is the fact which is so close to the reality. esp, the madhvan story as a middle class, high value, patriotic guy, whose thinking get completely shattered by the bomb blast. about Mithya, you are spot-on on the fact that it was indeed a much much better but underrated film as compared to others in the list. the black humor and the small star cast didn’t work for many,or say they didn’t understood it well.
)Ghajini stood out in its performance, music and as you said, the love story. im pleased that they didn’t go all memento way of storytelling, coz im sure that wud have been bash by audience(call it irony ;).
rock on was also gud but i guess it got more to do with its background score and also because many people thinks it was made my Farhan Akthar (poor abhishek kapoor
but OLLO is above all n kudos to dibakar for such well craft film. and this year’s best film is-OLLO
I feel ‘Sarkar Raj’ is one of the best movies of 2008..It may not be the best movie of RGV..but,i loved the performances and direction.Even i liked ‘mukhabhir’…it had a great story…
“And I think that’s why the film is successful. Not because of 8 pack abs, not because of the promos, not because of dumbing down Memento, but because the love story works!”
i totally agree with you. Its the love story and Asin which raised the movie (Gazini) to very good from just good.
my list i will remove
welcome to the sujjanpur – best movie of the year
oye lucky oye – only movie which i watched two times in multiplex, will be first in que to buy the dvd.
dasvidaniya – as per Rangan its todays ANAND, totally agree
AAMIR -
rock on – full of cliches , yet unconventional in tretenment and superb performance by farhaan, arjun, keny, sahana and purab.
other excellent efforts:
mumbai meri jaan
a wenesday
tahaan
u me aur hum
oh typo…
instead of “my list i will remove”
read as “my list”.
pfc technical team
why there is no edit button for comments????
I do like most of the films mentioned by you.Ghajini & RNBDJ were not great at all.But I respect Aamir & SRK for having done something
“different” within the commercial format.But yes I also liked Aamir, Tahaan, Mumbai Meri Jaan a lot.Aamir was truly an interesting film ( inspite of the influence of Cavite- look at the way Mumbai was shown in the movie-superb)& Tahaan was a very deserving film but sadly unnoticed.Mumbai Meri Jaan had a good style of narration & competent performances.
Where is MMJ, best movie of the year IMO.
You will be slaughtered on PFC for keeping Ghajini and RNBDJ on your list, trust me!! I haven’t seen the latter but Ghajini was good timepass.
I would suggest Aamir and MMJ (quite cliched but superb performances!)
“The performances by the entire cast were superb but special mention must go to Ratna Pathak Shah. She also delivers arguably the best written line in 2008 – Phone pe Beta, Phone pe!”
Couldn’t agree with you more on that.
I haven’t seen Mithya, RNBDJ, Dasvidanya and OL LO yet. But from all that I’ve seen….Aamir would be the best movie this year, followed very closely by Rock On. As movies, both of them worked like a charm….all the elements came together to create extremely memorable films.
I like the rest of the movies in ur list as well…Jodhaa-Akbar, JTYJN, A Wednesday and Ghajini. They were all flawed in some way or the other, but made for interesting cinema.
I, too, agree that Jaane Tu…had a very clever script. And despite having a predictable story, it was unpredictable in its treatment. Esp. loved the Sohail & Arbaaz part…Baloo Bhaiyaa & Bagheera Bhaiya…coming to discotheques mounted on their horses….lol, that was funny !!!
If double negative == positive, that might have caused double ‘lucky’ to be unlucky for otherwise a great movie like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. Definitely, one of the best of the year.
Was listening today to Dibakar (not Dibankar) audio i’view posted elsewhere on this site – a must-listen for everybody. Awesome discussion.
The big banners have failed this year: Jodhaa Akbar was too much like a text book, RNBDJ must be yet another SRK mindless affair (haven’t seen), forgot Ghajini 15 min after walking out of the theater (I became the victim of short term memory loss), Jaane Tu was yet another stupid college love story (that appeals to teens or people who are stuck in their teens) and so on.. though Bachna Ae Haseeno was decent watch. Yet to see few more mainstream ones, Dostana, Fashion and Race. Seemingly okay.
But the smaller films are the real winners, smaller is just a box-office relative term, but these movies are really BIG!
- Dasvidaniya
- Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
- Aamir
- A Wednesday
- Mumbai Meri Jaan
- Rock On
- Welcome to Sajjanpur
Yet to see Mithya, Tahaan etc ..
Musically, few albums worked great from start till finish – Rock On was the greatest album, so was Aamir. Oye Lucky is tremendous, Jannat was superb! (almost every song’s a winner)
Some movies had few memorable songs: Dasvidaniya had a couple composed by the Kailasa band. Jaane Tu had a nice jazz track. Drona had few absolute worthy tracks (just forget the movie, listen to ‘Oop Cha’, & the title track, and remix of both – Sunidhi Chauhan rocks). Dostana had the song ‘Desi Girl’ which we love to hate. ‘Mit Jaaye’ from Kidnap, ‘Khuda Jaane’ from Bachna Ae Haseeno, ‘Pehli Nazar Mein’ from Race are some of the finest singles of the year.
Now lookin fwd to DevD in 2009. Hope it works both moviewise and musicwise!
Yes I forgot to add Welcome to Sajjanpur.It was quite enjoyable.And purely from the time pass angle I liked Tashan ( I can handle the brickbats), Bhootnath ( except the climax),
Jannat mainly due to the music- which was a delight and Dostana- atleast the first half was certainly entertaining.Of course I repeat these 4-5 movies are mainly time-pass movies & no where good/great movies which I’ve already listed.
Vishesh: Thanks for the comment. But tell me one thing – why is it so important to slot a film?
Skywalker – Sethu: I plead guilty – I missed MMJ!
Girish: I thought Sarkar Raj was a very ordinary film. I have not seen Mukhbir.
Faltutimepass – Sethu: Have not seen Tahaan also :-(
Abhishek: “You will be slaughtered on PFC for keeping Ghajini and RNBDJ on your list” – Well, I liked them, boss! Can’t help it, na!
Sethu: Somehow, Welcome to Sajjanpur did not work me. May be because I saw it in Ega – I don’t know. It simply did not connect at all.
Anand- time to say same pinch again
I saw it Ega myself – but I still connected to it.
Abhishek: “You will be slaughtered on PFC for keeping Ghajini and RNBDJ on your list”
PFC is not some kind of fascist forum, where people are going to get shot, for the movies they watch. There have been equal number of posts for and against Ghajni, RNBDJ here. And posts which have been critical of Ghajni, RNDBJ have got lot of critical comments too.
PFC is not meant for certain kinds of cinema, as some misinformed heroes or heroines seem to think.
Thanks Ratnakar!
GR8 RATNAKAR !!!
GK
@ 12 Anand,
Oh no, I was not trying to slot the film. Sorry if it came across like that. It was just that watching Mithya was very unsettling experience for me. It started off as funny, black humor movie which I was enjoying and then it ended up being dramatic and phir thoda tragic so I was not able to keep up with changing tone of the movie.
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I guess, it was meant to be like that. Some how it did not end up being appealing to me. In hindsight, the story was neat and Ranvir Shorey was excellent.
Oh yeah, I liked WTS and B-e-H too. How could I forget the former.
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Dostana was strictly OK, SiK was bad. Tashan was fun in parts. TPTM was OK to bad.
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Umm, I don’t see lot of mention of Fashion, was it that bad?
Ratnakar: I would like to believe what you say is true but I think you are only partly right. The intention of PFC is to run a healthy blog on Cinema, I agree. But in a blog, it is difficult to control all comments and therefore there have been occasions earlier where there were personal attacks here in PFC. For instance, Tanul Thakur posted something on why he thinks he will not like Ghajini about a couple of months back. And till today he is being called names.(Not even on his post but also posts where he makes comments).
I really think Abhishek has taken this into consideration and said something in jest!
Vishesh: Thanks for the clarification.
“It was just that watching Mithya was very unsettling experience for me. It started off as funny, black humor movie which I was enjoying and then it ended up being dramatic and phir thoda tragic so I was not able to keep up with changing tone of the movie” – Thats is called a Roller coaster ride :-)
And thats why I loved it.
Anand generally in PFC, editors do have the right to delete offensive comments. So thankfully PFC wont degenerate to the Rediff level.
My comment was not just for Abhishek, of late have been seeing a trend among many people to make abusive comments about PFC , without even trying to understand what the site is all about. You try reasoning with them, try showing them otherwise, they dont seem to care.
I say this because, personally majority of my articles on PFC have been on mainstream cinema, or mainstream actors. There have been dissenting voices too, but i was never accused of trying to dumb down PFC. This is a site where different voices exist, and calling it a psuedo site, just because there are articles which dont confirm to your view point is not done.
Sure Ratnakar, but these dissenting voices only make the discussions interesting right? As long as the language used is above a certain standard, what is wrong in someone calling PFC a Pseudo site? or what is wrong in someone saying that you are trying to dumb down PFC?That is someone’s opinion and he is entitled to his opinion, right?
Well if some 1 has an opinion in saying PFC is a pseudo site, or that im dumbing down PFC or whatever, then i guess i have every right to counter either argument.
Anyway dont want to hijack ur post further, have fun, and i guess a beer, if we do meet in Chennai.
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PFC is a Dharamshala but an open one where there is no restriction on anybody’s entry so all kind of people with all kind of motives come here and stay for a while and try to fulfil their desires and go.
Some may treat it as a place where any kind of dirt can be thrown. It may be a sulabh shauchalya type place for some.
It may even be a brothel kind of place for some.
Some may come just to release negative emotions accumulated inside and once they exploit somebody here they feel relieved inside.
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Different people may stay in a Dharamshala to fulfil their respective desires but Dharamshala has its own nature.
If a person has brought a minor girl into the Dharamshala and stays there and rapes her then its an individual act. Its not charateristic of dharamshala but of that rapist.
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There is a tale in Bodhist literature.
Lord Budha has finished his discourse in the evening and he says in the end, Please go and do your respective duties or works.
A thief was also attending the discourse and he thought that now its night and he has to go to steal something.
A prostitute was also listening Budha’s sayings and she thought,” now its time for me to do some business, let me go to be ready so that I can allure customers”.
A priest was there and he thought,” O God this is my time to light the candles before Lord’s statues and to pray”.
A homelady was there and she thought that she should reach home fast as her husband would be reaching after doing hard work all the day and she should make food for him.
Different people associated with different oocupations and thought processes took Budha’s sayings in different way.
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For sane minds PFC always remains as a place to interact with people, who share liking towards a common field that is cinema.
Its flowing like a river, spoil it if you like and then it will be needing a treatment plant. Keep it clean and it may bring clean enjoyment and growth for all.
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Rk Jee, thanks a lot for the Gyaan.
Vishesh- thanks for reminding me B-E-H was good fun for me too.In fact the 1st half was such a fun ride for me that I actually saw the movie twice
And Fashion was a decent product too.
RK: Well said!!
RK- are aapke vichar se main bahut hi sehmat hoon.
Thats a lovely way of analysing what PFC is & what it means to a lot of people.
@Ratnakar,
Sir, Gyan and negative emotions/feelings/thoughts are the only commodities left in present era, which can be given free of cost.
Why singers did not sing, Gyan bantate chalo, instead pyar bantate chalo.
But you dont need any gyan. You already are Gyani.
Vishesh – Sethu: I liked B-E-H but didn’t care much for Fashion. I thought it was similar to Page 3.
Did anyone watch Oh My God? Anurag Kashyap said it was a good effort but it did not release in Chennai (same like Hulla).
guys i think we started off our comments on the best film of the year but it seems to be going on some “gyaan” which i think every one in PFC is aware of. im sure everyone has cleared in his/her mind about what PFC is all about. thanx RK for ur info
@ratnakar and anand- what’s your take on the topic?
RK ji,
Your comment reminds me so much of Madhushala :-)
Time to raise the flagging spirits!
In dry state, it means, its time for a cutting chai :-)
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Thanks to RNBDJ and Ghajini; OLLO, OMG and even Yes Man vanished from theaters here. Oh yeah Dostana bhi purana ho gaya.
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Hmm, it seems 2008 has been a real lousy year at every front. No great movies, all the mayhem, slow down, sirf cricket team ne laaj bachayi aur Olympics, of course.
@ 23 Anand,
You are absolutely right. Mithya should be fun for the same reason I did not like it at that time. I guess I should revisit that movie. Just like a bad hair day, I may have a bad movie day :-)
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That reminds me of two things:
a) Is there any place or post at PFC where I can comment on anything random about movies?
b) Has it ever happened that you did not enjoy a movie because there was dissonance with your mood and movie (because of genre or whatever reason). But when you revisited, you ended up liking it?
@Anand,
On topic,
2008 should be an above average year and some good and many satisfactory films came this year and all kinds of films, big budget, small budget films were made, released and seen and appreciated as per their merits. Thats a good sign. Hopefully there will be a sanity regarding right price of stars and right budget for the films in coming year so that more transparency enter into the field and good films with right cast could be concieved.
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skywalker,
off topic,
all know Phhool todna mana hai in a garden but people pluck them off the plants and authorities have to reiterate or keep notice boards.
Humanbeing has no special heating period and its production system works 24X7X365 all through the year hence we can not sing, considering this real birth data in mind, Jala do phoonk dalo alphabets ki kitabein because all know abcd xyz and can make words.
That will be the day when all will be knowing something and will be accepting that thing as it is.
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Vishesh,
Madhushala, Dr Bachchan wali? or wine shop .
Chai is good.
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With your Chai topic,
let me remind former PM, late VP Singh’s poem.
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Kaash uska dil ek tharmas hota
ek baar chah bhari
garam ki garam banee rehatee
par kambakht ye ketali niklee”.
-” May God rest his soul in peace ”
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Sorry Anand for deviating your thread from main topic for a while. Please carry on discussion on films of 2008.
Anand- as far Hindi cinema distribution/exhibition in Chennai is concerned- its more or less the same set of multiplexes/theatres that are in the fray.The regular ones are Sathyam Cinemas, Inox,Mayajaal& Ega Complex.Also in the fray is Melody & nowadays Woodlands Complex.I will discount an occasional player like an Abhirami mega mall+multiplex or a
Sangam complex here.And Sathyam Cinemas also happens to be the direct/indirect distributor for most of the hindi films- big or small.When I say indirect- I mean thats in tie- up with a big player like a UTV, YRF etc.So generally whatever is not picked up by Sathyam usually doesnt end up releasing in Chennai.There are exceptions of course – one such movie being Ugly Aur Pagli.I think Anand I’ve got an idea for a write-up now.
Vishesh: I’ll answer b) first!
There have been a few films which I did not like initially, Guna, Thevar Magan for instance. I now think they are masterpieces. Please also refer my take on RNBDJ in the post.
Coming to your answer on a)
http://passionforcinema.com/about/#write
RK: ‘Sanity regarding right price of stars’ – Incredible wish but I think you ask for too much!!
Sethu: Great – I enjoyed your thoughts on redistribution – looking forward to your post.
I am no film student, just a guy who is passionate about cinema. From a technical perspective my vote goes to Aamir. The symbolism, the BGM, the plot, the direction. It was awesome! Raj Kumar is the new find. I hear he has worked with Anurag earlier. Is it true? I cant wait for Baaraa Aana. Other movies I liked: WTS, OLLO, Mithya, A Wednesday, JA and Ghajini. This year should be known for UTV( new-wave), Rahman and great debuts!( Technical too, not just debut actor and actress )
@ Rk. Yup Dr. Bachhan waali Madhushala.
About the VP Singh poem, did he really wrote that?
Emotional Atyaachar ho gaya! Hadippa.
Do stars really ask for the moon as claimed by media or some of it is made-up stories?
Something like Akki getting 9 freaking crores for Jumbo. Ouch!
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@ Anand: Thanks for the link. Though, I meant more in terms of dropping a comment about random thought related to Cinema. Some of the things may not merit an entire article.
@Vishesh,
Yes, 16 aane his own poem. Late VP Singh wrote it himself. He was a good poet or say artist as he painted as well.
Artist, hence Moody
Thats different that he did not arrange singers like Jagjit Singh to sing his poems like few leaders did.
Guess movie stars dont get affected by recession and slow down. Must be the only profession, where you get paid a fortune, even if you are not doing well.
Apart from politicans that is.
Anand@ 45- thanks for the feedback.
Vishesh@ 47- yes Akki getting 9 crores for Jumbo is certainly too much.And I say this because if this figure is true how on earth will Percept make any money on the movie.There’s the dubbing rights cost, the dubbing cost, Akki’s 9 crores, payment to Ram Sampath,marketing cost.And after all this they screen it along with Ghajini & hardly 2 weeks from RNBDJ- fat chance that the’ll recover the costs incurred.
movies to look forward to in 2009?
I am not very relegious about the Syd Field kind of ‘measuring tape’ approach towards script structure. But when you see the OLLO you start to believe. Here is a movie which has almost all ingredients. Direction with maturity, novel backscore mixing, actors who dont let down the dialogue, interesting situations, a middle class scenario with which any one can identify. But still the movie doesnt work. Especially in the second half.
The reason is that it doesnt has a proper structure. Script has situations haphazardly arranged. They doesnt arrange themselves into a linear narrative.
Lucky does thefts. And does it again. and again. All the issues associated with it; be it his parents, his girl friend, his friction with his godfather, everything hovers around. None of these elements is indispensible- which is always a danger sign.
It would be interesting to know whether the decision not to adhere to the 3 act structure was intentional from the part of writer. Was it another attempt at novelty?
Hey you missed out Welcome to Sajjanpur!!!It was real fun.And Ila Arun was fantastic….and yes,Dostana was not bad too!!!
And one good thing this year is that most of the films that were successful were small in budget and big in content..
I somehow agree with scriptlarva @ 53. OLLO was excellent for a lot of reasons but for the one that scriptlarva just pointed out.:)
My post @ 56
Hey PFC. where’s my smilie icon.
I don’t know if this has been brought up on PFC earlier…but anyways. I had a heavy sense of deja vu while watching Fashion. Couldn’t understand why though. The mystery was finally solved one fine day when I was browsing through some of my old notes on films I watched.
Fashion was a cleverly modified version of the HBO movie Gia. It was the first time I’d seen an Angelina Jolie movie and I was completely smitten by her.
In the movie, Gia (a supermodel) goes through different phases in her personal and professional life. Madhur Bhandarkar has simply broken down those phases into different characters – In fact, Shonali, Meghna and Janet were all first seen in Gia. So much for “research”.
So I have my own reservations about Fashion being called a good piece of work.
The other movies that I liked in 2008 were WTS, OLLO, Mithya, MMJ, A Wednesday & Maharathi.
@scriptlarva [cmt # 53]: totally agree. i found it to be a sequence of events stitched together with cinematic brilliance, but it lacked the soul. there was no binding factor between the sequences. it was all like mutually exclusive events tat can be viewed in parts, but as a whole it did not cut ice with the audience because of lack of structure.
Scriptlarva – crazyrals: Pity that the movie did not work for you. Did you enjoy the thefts in the first half? The same magic is not there in the second half, right? Have you thought why? Was it a mistake on the part of the filmmaker or was it a deliberately done? If it is deliberately done, why? :-)
The magic is back once Lucky gets caught and the way he handles all the victims who are looking at things that he has stolen…why? :-)
Crazyrals – It did not cut ice with the audience because the movie’s audience were in no mood to go to a theatre..it has nothing to do with linear narrative.
Abhay – Movies to look forward to in 2009? Wow, that calls for a separate post, but let me just give the names:
Naan Kadavul
Dev D
Chandni Chowk to China
My name is Khan
Agent Vinod
Imitiaz Ali’s Next
Ashokavanam
Endhiran
Ayan
3 idiots
Pa
Slumdog Millionaire
Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam
Goa
Jayakumar’s next
Sultan – The Warrior
Luck by Chance
Luck
What’s your Rashee?
Rann
New York
London Dreams
Delhi 6
Kites
Wow!! 2009 looks very promising!
@Anand #22: yaar, gaaliyan to padti hain, ab kya karein?
. But, this time I dunno why I itoo indulged myself but then retracted myself back. I guess there are lots of positives to be taken, and if one can just ignore some elements here and there, you can have a ball at PFC! I, for sure, do! 
@ Anand
we said the same thing about 2008 :@
personally for me my favourite indian film of 2008 would be Oye lucky and then rab ne bana di jodi
@ projekt iView authors…,
can u make a separate post about “find of 2009″ too…, i think it will be an interesting post too..,
Great List, but what about RACE? OM SHANTI OM???????????????????/
Navin: Race??!! :-(
Om Shanti Om was in 2007.
I feel that “A Wednesday” is by far the best of 2008. Personally this is the best film I have ever seen.
OLLO hands down took the cake for me. i haven’t felt so satisfied and fulfilled after watching a movie in a long long time now. definitely the best this year had to offer. can’t wait for the dvd.