Which is the last Bollywood film you saw ?

There is only one movie that I will unreservedly - not that af would be waiting for my recommendation but riccost pottappuram adhai handle pannalainaa apram enna hubber - maqbool but it is quite famous.

Small movies and unknown surprisesnA, the following few surprised me by being better than I thought they'll be
Pinjar - I have a weaknes for partition dramas unless it is of the gadar type. Manoj Bajpai was one of the reasons ofcourse but urmila surrprised me here
Haasil - actually it is quite famous as up politics movie
Waisa bhi hota hai 2 - I think there is no WBHH1 but they named it part 2 - the film lives up to that zaniness.
Sehar
Ah! There seems to be a pattern there - I can't place my fingers on it though!

I see few Hindi movies, still most of those were popular ones and also listing is an interesting exercise :-)

However, you probably would have seen these all, AF :

lagAn (2001)
rang de basanthi (2006)
chak de India (2007)
cheeni kum (2007)
Munnabhai MBBS (2003)
black (2005)

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Originally Posted by Plum

Waisa bhi hota hai 2 - I think there is no WBHH1 but they named it part 2 - the film lives up to that zaniness.

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:cool2: theres one more thing we agree on......part of the reason i liked it was because i was getting tired of mumbai-noir genre movies and this was a welcome relief :lol: ......vaare wah, this goes to show there are lot of "above-average" movies in this decade.....

im still trying to put a comprehensive list :D

Thanks app_eng. Other than 4 and 6 I have seen everything.

Thanks to plum too.

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Originally Posted by app_engine

I see few Hindi movies, still most of those were popular ones and also listing is an interesting exercise :-)

However, you probably would have seen these all, AF :

lagAn (2001)
rang de basanthi (2006)
chak de India (2007)
cheeni kum (2007)
Munnabhai MBBS (2003)
black (2005)

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heres my list- most likely to change:

2000
Astitva - pretty good characterisation and ferfarmnses
Split wide open - first hard hiting arty movie i have seen in my life other than the malayalam ones during sunday DD1 days

2001
Dil chahta hai - mid summer south-mumbai dream, to me this is the first Multiplex movie of India (i mean the content)
Lagaan - avid fan of sports movies can never miss this movie...had a pretty big canvas of characters and believable knots and situations...
Zubeidaa - Rahman and Benegal. period

2002
Bend it like beckham - absolutely beautiful movie - oru ponnoda manasu etc, friction & frndship between races, generation gap between NRI parents and NRI kids.......
Company - path breaker to mumbai underworld genre in the sense it started making movies on live examples......Ramu without Anurag - a big test for the former....
mr. and mrs.iyer - ISI mark art movie :lol:

2003
3 deewarein - gripping movie
Munnabhai - hats off hirani
Paanch - Enter the man - Anurag
Raghu Romeo - Rajat Kapoor's version of Guna, ofcourse not a patch on Guna
Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II - very good entertainer and has a beautiful subtext of mocking then existed mumbai-underworld movies

2004
Maqbool - macbeth masterpiece
Socha na tha - Imtiaz's mouth watering debut which held a great promise to bollywood's future
Swades - my most personal film of the decade

2005
Black Friday - devastating piece of cinema by Anuragji
Iqbal - another sports movie which has a pretty strong cricket selection related political commentary as well

2006
Ahista Ahista - soft tale of love and lost love......
Don - a remake which had its own brain
Khosla ka ghosla- the point where bollywood took off from other industries and left others far behind
Omkara - othello refabricated into a mindblowing piece
Rang De Basanti - cult movie of the decade
Mixed doubles - Rajat kapoor strikes gold in this category

2007
Chak de India - another sports movie i loved
Cheeni kum - beautiful simple movie and ofcourse raaja sir
Jab we met - jab bhi Imtiaz makes movies, i love it....the most enjoyable dialogues that u would ever come across...
Johnny Gaddar - multi-threaded, multi-sequence thriller of our generation
Manorama six feet under - detective movie with uneasy noir subtext
No smoking - a bizzaire journey into ANurag's surreal world
Taare zameen par - poem

2008
Aamir - scariest film i have ever seen......the real life danger of jehad thumping on the face
A wedensday - crisp action masla movie on a common man
Oye lucky lucky oye - abstract movie on a thief - very different feel
Jaane tu ya jaane na - brilliant movie with brilliant cast, dialogues, characterisations and great music...
Mitya - beautiful movie with great variations in tone and emotions.....

2009
DevD - if tarantino makes a love story, this is how it would be,
Gulaal - brilliant movie on student politics which goes in all possible directions that a human mind can take
Kaminey - why werent all our masala movies made like this all these 80 yrs?

Thanks Maddy. I haven't seen many films in this. That is some crisp intro about each and every film. I have bookmarked this page now.

i have missed out a host of glaring obvious ones(which i cant recollect now) and host of shabana azmi, konkana sen, ragul bose small movies with hindo-english titles.......honestly there are lots of them :lol:

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Johnny Gaddar - multi-threaded

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:lol2:

Saw the Rann trailer. AB's voice/pronunciation seems different. Aanaa ramagopalanai namburadhai niruthi konja naaL aachu.


btw inge yaarumE Rocket Singh, Raat gai baat gayi ellAm pakkaliyA ?

Notably absent film I strongly recommend is "Hazaaron Kwaishein Aisi".

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Notably absent film I strongly recommend is "Hazaaron Kwaishein Aisi".

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adhu romba obvious-nu sollalai. I thought Kaminey, DevD, this etc were quite obvious choices...even Omkara. Somehow I was under the impresion that we were discussing lesser known ones.

HKA-kku veLLi kiNNamae uNdu. (Gold being Maqbool)

One more - Gangajaal - devagaNam, Crazy Singh ellAm irundhum somehow director managed an engaging movie. Support cast was envy-generating.

nalla pEru vAngina nAn pArkadha padangaL:
parzania
That Saif-Nasseer Parsi movie - forgot the name
Makdi by Vishal Bharadwaj
Godmother - national awardlAm koduthAnga but didnt hear great reviews

Maddy list-la Manorama and Mithya - how did I miss these two!