Hop on as we are heading back to 2008's bollywood carvan.If 2007 was ruled by SRK's CHAK DE INDIA and Mr. perfectionist's TAARE ZAMEEN PAR then 2008 was the year of the underdog.Now you might be thinking that 2008's big money spinners were also from the same actors but, you know for me box office success has never been a criteria for judging movies.2008 has been an exceptional year in the sense that we had competent movies in every genre.Though we had a dismal start with only fairly competent movies like RACE,JANNAT,JODHA AKBAR in the first half of the year,then first surprise came in the form of JAANE TU....and things really picked up from there.
It was a romantic comedy with lots of gimmicks and it was followed by ROCK ON!!!! that insisted that we should follow our dreams.Actors did appreciable work in both the movies but what set them apart from other movies was the manner in which they were executed.Then came A WEDNESDAY which was a blend of power packed performance by Naseerudin Shah and contrived direction from Neeraj Pandey.OYE LUCKY ....starring Abhay Deol was not a big money spinner but was one good movie and the credit for that goes to the lucky himself for his commendable performance.And who can forget Amar Kaul(Vinay Pathak) from DASVIDANIYA.
I thought of giving list of 5 HITS and PITS of 2008 but i'm glad as usual i managed to stay far away from the rotten stuff of 2008 and there are so many movies worth recommendation.So here's a list of 10 movies you shouldn't have missed in 2008-
1)JAANE TU YA JAANE NA 6)ROCK ON!!!!!
2)A WEDNESDAY 7)AAMIR
3)MUMBAI MERI JAAN 8)SHAURYA
4)DASVIDANIYA 9)WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR
5)MITHYA 10)OYE LUCKY LUCKY OYE
Rotten Stuff-LOVE STORY ,HELLO,TASHAN,KARZZZ.....(I won't waste my precious time describing them)
Now there were few underdogs who were shadowed by glitz of the stars,I take this opportunity to mention year's most indulging performances,one is given by KK Menon in SHAURYA and the other by Ranvir Shourie in MITHYA.Being so much dissapointed by these biased award shows i'm announcing my own set of awards and i take this oath that here only hard work and creativity will be acknowledged and honoured.
So please cast your precious vote and keep those comments pouring...............................
8 comments
oye...mjhe aaj kal kuch samajh nhi aarah...state of ma mind is...vry bad
Posted on January 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM
"Words alone won’t change our films, actions would....For anykind to work, you have to first buy tickets.....so i guess either we do it by doing it or just give up the pretensions of really wanting a change and acknowledge we are the bitches masquerading as cinema lovers"Anurag Kashyap.
Now lemme ask how many of these 10 movies hve u seen in theaters..!!!!
my guess is...Jane tu ya jane na and Dasvidaniya.......wat about other 8 or 7 small movies.....????
Posted on May 2, 2009 at 6:00 AM
DUDE yaar being a movie buff i do want to see all these movies in theatres but neither my dad own any multiplex nor do i get tickets for free.......
i choose to see small budget movies in theatres over shahrukh khan type movies n dats my little contribution to this emerging new meaningful cinema
i hope m doing right
Posted on May 14, 2009 at 7:54 PM
and wat about piracy????.....downloading stuffs
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Yaar v r nt d 1 at fault
industry needs to sort this out wid websites in terms of royalty paid as it is globally as far as music is concerned
neway it is a fair point but u cant see all movies in theatre unless someone pay for it
so chooze wisely
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM
“I can't talk about piracy and I don't want to. It's a moral thing within you, I can't teach morals to you, it's a conscience thing- AR RAHMAN"
First of all i must clear dat i m a BIG part in pirating both moves n music....i download 3 movies at a time each nite....
and secondly firmly agrees dat all d movies cannot be seen in theaters, it requires money.....
but this is not d reason to shield piracy...ofcourse we r at fault...at current stage many movies(not all gud) get released on moserbaer at 30 to 40 rps DVD within a month of release(we cannot ask for lesser than dis for sum entertainment)...many sites provide paid music download...there r stores like BIGFLIX to rent movies....but V prefer d way which suits n comfortable to us....
dis is not to offend any1 but to share a healthy discussion..hopefully
Posted on May 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM
no it's very encouraging to have such discussions though condition of m blog is a testimony to d fact dat ppl r nt interested.
d same thing v r tryin to do in our community to get as many ppl as possible to share their views on how we can bring reform in our society
Posted on May 16, 2009 at 9:53 PM
hahaaha....koi chakkar nai bro....
they say "TWO MAKES A COMPANY, THREE MAKES A CROWD".
Posted on May 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
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