Bollywood 2008 My 10
It’s kind of a ritual for critics in the West to pick their favourite 10 films of the year gone by and even here in Bollywood newspapers and news channels are pouncing on the habit. But sadly, most of the papers and channels pick the Top 10 based on box office collections. While that to me is a great barometer to judge the quality of the film, it is not necessarily the best one. The paper I write for, they too, are going by the box office profits as a basis for zeroing on the best films of the year 2007. Which gives me complete liberty to pick my favourite 10 Bollywood films of this year. Here they are in no particular order with 5 keywords for each on why I have put them on the list. There’s a disclaimer in the end – the films I haven’t watched.
1. Mithya – Dark, Script, Lyrical, Ranvir, Satirical
2. Jodhaa Akbar – Rahman, Javed Akhtar, Hrithik-Ash, Lyrical, Old-school
3. Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na – Fresh, Imran, Rahman, Abbas Tyrwalla, Fun
4. Mumbai Meri Jaan – Responsible, Heartfelt, Climax, Irrfan, Kay Kay
5. Rock On!! – Farhan, Climax, Script, Music, Life
6. The Last Lear – Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan
7. Welcome to Sajjanpur – Script, Shreyas, Ravi Jhankal, Shyam babu, Satirical
8. Fashion – Music, Mugdha, Kangana, Madhur, Shockers
9. Dostana – Fun, Abhishek, Music, Bodies, Boman
10. Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye – Real, Abhay, Dibakar, Richa, Loneliness
And the 10 I hated… and why
1. Race – Gimmicky, Manipulative, Loopholes, Fruits, Anil Kapoor
2. Tashan – Anil Kapoor, OTT, Garish, Story, Style
3. Love Story 2050 – Baweja, Baweja, Baweja, Baweja, Baweja
4. Mission Istaanbul – Zayed, Viveik, Girls, Apoo Lakhia, Script
5. Singh is Kinng – Inane, Idiotic, Pee-on-the-face, Akshay, Jaaved Jaaferi
6. Phoonk – Gimmicky, Funny, Eventless, Cliched, RGV
7. Drona – Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan
8. Kidnap – Cleavage, Cleavage, Cleavage, Cleavage, Cleavage
9. Karzzzz – oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
10. Ghajini – Loud, Violent, Mindless, Aamir, Pradeep Rawat
Disclaimer: Haven’t seen Dasvidaniya, Yuvvraaj, Heroes, Golmaal Returns, Tahaan, Ru Ba Ru, Sunday, Bhram, Krazzy 4, Sirf, Jimmy, Summer of 2007, Khushboo, Haal-e-Dil, Contract, Mann Gaye Mughal-e-Azam, Money Hai To Honey Hai, Chamku, C Kkompany, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex and Meerabai Not Out
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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
personally, dont agree with fashion. thought it was too pretentious and typical madhur bhandarkar “in-your-face, non-subtle” movie. dostana is questionable, but to each his/her own…
Where Aamir Wednesday Mumbai meri jaan in the list
A wednesday deserves a place in the top ten more than Fashion.As a concept and story A wednesday was fresh and of course the performances were great.I agree with you on the bottom 10 except Ghajni.You can put Haal e Dil there.Pure torture material.
1. Rock On (well edited, fresh story, nice screenplay, songs, acting,,,,,)
2. Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Naa (nice & fresh, well hyped)
3. Ghajini (My desi Kill Bill!, sad comparison i know, but Aamir can even pull this, I never thought so!!)
4. Rab Ne bana di jodi(Everyone expects DDLJ kind of magic from them, its the expectations that killed the movie for everyone i presume)
5. Jodhaa Akbar(although long, but kudos to Ashutosh to pull it off)
6. Oye Lucky Lucky Oye(The best movie ever!!!!!)
7. Mithya(dark, unlike hindi movies)
8. Tashan (Loud, garish,cliche celebration)
9. Aamir(nice build up to the climax)
10. A Wednesday(no one mentions the restrained performance from Jimmy Shergill)
I should watch : Dasvidaniya, Mumbai Meri Jaan(since its on everyone’s list).
Wow RACE(everything can happen, anything can happen, depends on who is available on that day’s shoot), a rare gem of a movie.
Finally someone else who also liked Tashan :D
Dostana was one of the trashiest films of the year without a doubt.
The best films of the year(in order,IMO):Tahaan,Oye Lucky,A Wednesday,The Last Lear,Sarkar Raj,Oh My God,Mithya,Aamir,Tashan
“Phoonk – Gimmicky, Funny, Eventless, Cliched, RGV”
I don’t agree.It may not be a great movie,but do not deserve all these things written above
Tejas, me too Tashan lover.
this would make my list of the worst top ten list ever merely for the mention of the pretensefest last lear
Tejas and Tushar, I also enjoyed Tashan…I loved the title track…
Pratim Da,
Kidnap: How can you hate cleavage :-))
LS2050: Which Baweja or both?
This year there was no stand out film like”BLACK FRIDAY” last year.These were the best films of 2008 for me in no particular order
1)ROCK ON
2)MITHYA
3)A WEDNESDAY
4)WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR
5)OYE LUCKY LUCKY OYE
6)AAMIR
7)DASVIDANIYA
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
1)TAHAAN
2)MUMBAI MERI JAAN
3)JODHAA AKBAR
4)SARKAR RAJ
Regards,
Santino
1)wednesday
2)ollo
3)mithya
4)mumbai meri jaan
5)rock on
6)welcome to sajjanpur
7)RNBDJ
8)jodha akbar
plan on watching tahaan aamir and dasvidaniya hopefully in this month..
1. JTYJN
3. Mithya
3. Aamir
4. Rock On
5. A Wednesday
6. OLLO
7. Dostana
8. Jodha Akbar
9. Mumbai Meri Jaan
Havn’t yet seen Fashion, Tahaan, Dasvidaniya
Don’t ever want to see Tashan, Drona, Love Story 2050