This year we saw a surgence of new directors and actors providing not only entertainment but also making one think while watching their master-piece. Movies from diverse spectrum were recieved with rave reviews and the crews efforts were praised. Here is a list of this years Top 10 Bollywood movies providing amusement and making audiences drool over the teams labor.
10: Ishaqzaade
An unconventional hero with coarse mannerism and a gutsy heroine are the lead characters in this flick. The debutant male lead showers confident in his role which is not typically bollywood-hero tailored and thus engages audience in this family-feud saga.
Minuses : cliches
Genre :Romance,Drama
Director :Habib Faisal
Cast :Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Gauhar Khan
Writer :Habib Faisal
Music Director :Amit Trivedi
Producer :Aditya Chopra
Banner :Yash Raj Films
Release Date :May 11th 2012
Run time : 120 minutes
Box-Office :Hit
9: Delhi Safari
One of the best animated movies to come
from Indian studio till date with alluring elements will keep not only your kid
but also you engross in this 95-min adventure. The movie talks about wildlife
issues keeping the humor in script intact
Plusses :Animation,Story, Screenplay, Direction,
Performance of cast and Crisp pacing
Minuses : Music
Genre :Animation
Director :Nikhil Advani
Cast :Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Ayesha Takia,
Boman Irani, Akshaye Khanna, Swini Khara, Prem Chopra, Saurabh Shukla, Sanjay
Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal, Girish Dhamija
Writers : Girish Dhamija, Suresh Nair
Music Director :Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy
Mendonca
Producer :Mukesh Talreja
Banner :People Tree Films Pvt Ltd
Release Date :October 19th 2012
Run time : 95 minutes
Box-Office :Flop
8: Barfi!
A love triangle
with an incorruptible script which makes you smile as the deaf and mute hero
cannot utter a word is a rare in bollywood cinema. This movie was criticized
for many scenes which were a straight lift from Gone Baby Gone
and Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton comedies.
Plusses :Story, Cinematography, Direction, Performance of cast and
Music
Minuses : Screenplay and long running time
Genre :Comedy,Romance
Director :Anurag Basu
Cast :Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana
D'Cruz, Akash Khurana, Sumona Chakravarti
Writer :Anurag Basu
Music Director :Pritam Chakraborty
Producer :Siddharth Roy Kapur, Ronnie Screwvala
Banner :UTV Motion Pictures
Release Date :September 14th 2012
Run time : 150 minutes
Box-Office :Super-Hit
7: Shanghai
The Director and
male lead of this movie enthralls us with a breathtaking political thriller.
The actors in supporting roles to play an important role like Supriya Pathak
madam-CM and Farooque Shaikh as hands-on bureaucrat are delight to watch.
Plusses :Story, Screenplay, Direction, Performance
of cast and Crisp pacing
Minuses :Climax
Genre :Politics, Thriller
Director :Dibakar Banerjee
Cast :Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Pitabash
Tripathy, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Farooq Shaikh, Supriya Pathak,
Anant Jog, Scarlett Mellish Wilson
Writer :Urmi Juvekar
Music Director :Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar
Ravjiani
Producer :Ajay Bijli, Sanjeev K Bijli, Dibakar
Banerjee, Priya Sreedharan
Banner :PVR Pictures
Release Date :June 8th 2012
Run time : 120 minutes
Box-Office :Hit
6: English Vinglish
This movie relates
to most of the Indian housewives as their inability to speak English thus
driving themselves far from society .But this movie talks about self-belief as
the protagonist takes up a 4-week English speaking course and succeeds in
achieving respect from her husband and daughter.
Plusses :Story, Screenplay, Direction and Sridevi
Minuses : Each student in the classroom delivers
a message making it typecast for such a movie
Genre :Comedy-Drama
Director :Gauri Shinde
Cast :Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Mehdi Nebbou,
Adil Hussain, Priya Anand, Ajith Kumar, Navika Kotia, Sulbha Deshpande,
Shivansh Kotia
Writer :Gauri Shinde
Music Director :Amit Trivedi
Producer :Sunil Lulla, R Balki, Rakesh
Jhunjhunwala
Banner :Hope Productions, Eros International
Release Date :October 5th 2012
Box-Office :Super-Hit
5: Talaash
Aamir Khan is the
most dependable among bollywood stars when it comes to reading audiences and
critics mind and Talaash proved his might. A thriller with the right mix
of story, paranormal act and terrific performance keeps you engage but still
the movie lacks whodunit complexity or mystery clutch.
Plusses :Deatailed view about Mumbai
streets,Songs and Performance of cast
Minuses : Suspense and exploring relationships at
various levels falls flat
Genre :Drama, Suspense
Director :Reema Kagti
Cast :Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rani
Mukherjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shernaz Patel, Raj Kumar Yadav, Vivek Madan,
Subrat Dutta, Suhasi Goradia Dhami
Writers :Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar
Music Director :Ram Sampath
Producer :Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh
Sidhwani
Banner :Aamir Khan Productions, Excel
Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment
Release Date :November 30th 2012
Box-Office :Super-Hit
4: Paan Singh Tomar
Undoubtedly one of
the best biopic this year with Irrfan Khan playing steeplechase
champion-turned-dacoit Paan Singh Tomar with grace. Though the movie was in
cans for almost 2 years; it was a hit when released. More than providing
entertainment it asks questions like – Why an athlete of Paan Singh Tomar’s
stature become a dacoit? and What does these sporting stars do after their
field-glory days are over?
Plusses :Story, Screenplay, Direction and Irrfan
Khan
Minuses : Language is a barrier for Non- Chambal
natives
Genre :Crime, Action
Director :Tigmanshu Dhulia
Cast :Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Vipin Sharma,
Imran Hasnee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Zakir Hussain, Rajendra Gupta, Khan Jahangir
Khan, Brijendra Kala, Sitaram Panchal
Writers :Sanjay Chauhan, Tigmanshu Dhulia
Music Director :Abhishek Ray
Producer :Ronnie Screwvala
Banner :UTV Motion Pictures
Release Date :March 2nd 2012
Box-Office :Super-Hit
3: Gangs of Wasseypur
Mafia-war with
bullets firing from all quarters is shown with a glimpse of Tarantinoesque art
is what you get from watching this flick. With many characters and plenty of
violent scenes this movie appeals to those die-hard crime-drama fans. You will
be eager to watch the second part of this one as we head towards climax .
Plusses :Story, Screenplay, Direction, Songs and
Performance of cast
Minuses : Timing of 2 hour 40 min, Plenty of
Characters
Genre :Crime, Action
Director :Anurag Kashyap
Cast :Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
Piyush Mishra, Reema Sen, Jaideep Ahlawat,Richa Chadda, Mukesh Chhabra, Harish
Khanna, Huma Qureshi, Raj Kumar Yadav, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Zeishan Quadri,
Yashpal Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi,Vinit Singh, Vipin Sharma, Jameel Khan
Writers :Zeishan Quadri, Sachin Ladia, Anurag
Kashyap
Music Director :Sneha Khanwalkar
Producer :Anurag Kashyap, Sunil Bohra, Guneet
Monga
Banner :Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release Date :June 22nd 2012
Run time : 159 minutes
Box-Office :Hit
A woman arrives in
Kolkata searching for her missing husband and discovers mysteries on the street
and lanes of the city. A superb thriller with fine performances from the lead
cast. Above all beauty of Kolkata is shot with excellence.
Plusses :Story,
Screenplay, Direction, Performance of cast, Climax and Crisp pacing
Minuses :Its set
in real location so you see bystanders staring at actors
Genre :Drama
Director :Sujoy Ghosh
Cast :Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay,
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Darshan Jariwala
Writers :Sujoy Ghosh, Advaita
Music Director :Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar
Ravjiani
Producer :Sujoy Ghosh, Kushal Gada
Banner :Pen India Pvt Ltd, Boundscript Motion
Pictures Pvt Ltd, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release Date :March 9th 2012
Run time : 122 minutes
Box-Office :Super-Hit
1: Vicky Donor
Story about a Delhi
youth becoming a sperm donor , fathering 53 children and his romance with
Bengali girl is shown with innocence. The Director, Producer and lead actor are
debutants and still the movie fares better than the other released this year.
Plusses :Story, Screenplay, Direction, Songs and
Performance of cast
Minuses : Towards second half the pace of the
movie slows down
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director :Shoojit Sircar
Cast :Ayushman Khurana, Yami Gautam, Annu
Kapoor, John Abraham, Dolly Ahluwalia, Kamlesh Gill, Jayant Das, Swaroopa
Ghosh, Bhupesh Kumar, Inderpal Singh, Krishna Bisht, Kiran Lall
Writer :Juhi Chaturvedi
Music Director :Abhishek
Producer :John Abraham
Banner :Rising Suns Films Pvt Ltd, JA
Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Eros Entertainment
Release Date :April 20th 2012
Run time : 125 minutes
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