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MEHTA the culture as shown in Hollywood films. Features Editor: PAWAN GUPTA We have compiled the best and the notable Hindi movies of the year gone by. Some of them have not done well commercially, Consulting Editor: yet have garnered critis appeal. Like Om Dar Ba Dar, Gulabi JOHNSON THOMAS Gang, Ankhon Dekhi and Lakshmi to name a few. Yet there were other well made films and successful at the box office like Correspondents: ANIZ FILMVALA Mary Kom, City Lights and Queen - the best film by Kangana RASHIDA MUKADAM Ranaut. LOKESH SASTRY There is also a crisp feature on the girls to be watched out in Photo Editor: Filmy Town. Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, Taapsee Pannu RAMAKANT MUNDE and Evelyn Sharma are here to stay in the Bollywood film industry. This new gen actresses are smart enough to choose Editorial Office: and sign their films. 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Mehta FILMY TOWN February 2015 3 Bollywood Picks Of 2014 By Film Critic Johnson Thomas (All in the range between fantasy ‘ Hawaa Hawaai’ tried to give 2 ½ * and 3 ½ * Rating - non-traditional sports (Skating) a broader Not listed in order of Merit) band-with in the mainstream and man- aged to do that quite successfully. There really hasn’t been any great film this year. Sandeep Verma’s thriller ‘Manjunath’ What we have therefore based on true life incidents( about whistle- blowers risking their lives to expose is a list of pleasurable wrong-doing in the public sector) was films, some of solid tech- quite a triumph in terms of tension and nique, some with strong affect. riveting themes and some with stand-out per- Mrutyunjay Devvrat’s ‘Children Of War’ formances. dared to focus on the tortured and the damned during the Bangladesh uprising. Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Though small-budget it still managed to Lovely’ starring an ensemble pack a sucker punch. cast and boasting of an inter- nationally renowned Hansal Mehta’s ‘Citylights’ focused on Nawazuddin Siddiqui, scored the struggle for survival of a flop-business- a hit on the festival circuit but man turned security personnel in a big the lay critics and audience city. A quickie from the Bhatt camp, it found it wanting. nevertheless did not match up to Mehta’s much cel- this was one of the better ef- ebrated effort ‘Shahid’ even though it had forts of the year! note-worthy performances from Raj Kumar Rao, Patralekha and especially- The NFDC produced Kamal Manav Kaul. Swaroop’s ‘Om Dar Ba Dar’ never could find a release date in the what- to the magic with a heart-felt perfor- Nitin Kakkar’s maiden directorial effort seems-like decades after it’s making. Un- mance! The film also managed to spark ‘Filmistan’ was unarguably the best ef- apologetic about it’s hallucinatory (read a minor frenzy at the BO! fort of the entire list –in terms of tech- experimental) realm, this film was differ- ent from the run-of-the-mill and therefore Rajat Kapoor’s dark com- interesting. edy ‘Ankhon Dekhi’ was quite surprisingly fluid and Nila Madhab Panda’s ‘Babloo Happy Hai’ engaging with Sanjay tried hard to make HIV/Aids awareness Mishra giving a gem of a acceptable to the masses but the sur- performance as the angst reptitious story-telling format was a little ridden protagonist. too stretched out to be completely en- gaging. Nevertheless this film had a Nagesh Kukunoor’s strong enough take away. ‘Lakshmi’ was a raw and hurtful take on female traf- Vinil Mathew’s ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ from ficking. It was a pleasant the Karan Johar stable was funny enough experience even though a and had sparkling chemistry between the notable one! lead pair Siddharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra to add some excitement Girish Malick’s ‘Jal’ set in to the mad-cap dramatics. a desert was cinemato- graphically poignant even Nishta Jain’s documentary ‘Gulabi Gang’ though the telling of the tale pre-empted the Madhuri-Juhi starrer on wasn’t smooth, dramatic or the same subject and also managed to exciting enough. make a better mark at the BO. Certainly worthy of a Best Tag! Feroz Abbas Khan’s Politi- cal satire ‘Dekh Tamasha Vikas Bahl’s ‘Queen’ warmed the cock- Dekh’ was verbally pungent les of our hearts with it’s subjective, ear- and quite well knitted. nest appeal and Kangana Ranaut added Amole Gupte’s children’s 4 February 2015 FILMY TOWN Bhaag’ but some true- ‘Happy Ending’ was a fun outing thanks grit moments help it to Govinda’s stellar turn as an ageing su- make the cut. perstar on a career down-turn. Habib Faisal’s Amit Vats’ ‘Titoo MBA’ had a fresh ‘Daawat-E-Ishq’ had storyline, some engaging performances some interesting in- from Nishant Dahiya Pragya Jaiswal and gredients but the over- Abhishek Kumar and also had peppy all concoction wasn’t music to match! as rich as the milieu it was set in.