The Best of Bollywood and Hollywood 2017.

Overall 2017 has been a disappointing year for cinema, both in terms of content and revenue. There have been 214 releases out of which there have been only 20 successes (semi hit and above) and hence Bollywood has been poorer compared to 2016. But amidst a lot of poor movies, there was some content-driven cinema which really made it tough for me to choose a Bollywood No.1! And surprisingly, this time I do not have a Bollywood favorite but a Hollywood favorite. So here are my Top 10 Bollywood and Top 5 Hollywood movies.

10. Meri Pyaari Bindu & Tumhari Sulu: Nuanced Performances, Storytelling, and foot tapping Music.
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9. Qarib Qarib Singlle: Performances, Dialogues, Direction.
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8. Mom: Performances and Direction.
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7. Hindi Medium: Performances, Dialogues, Music and Saba Qamar.
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6. Trapped: Gritty Storytelling, Layered Story, and Rajkummar Rao.
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5. Bareilly Ki Barfi and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan: Performances, Simplicity, Music, Dialogues, and Direction.
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 4. Newton: Performances, Nuances of Social Issues, Direction. [The biggest flaw because of which Newton didn't feature in Top 3 was because it's pace, which tremendously lowered its impact.]
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 3. Secret Superstar: Emotional Quotient, Performances, water-tight screenplay, lyrics, climax, and direction.
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2. Lipstick Under My Burkha: Performances, Story, Direction, Cinematography, Screenplay, and Aahana Kumra.
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Bareilly Ki Barfi : Performances, Simplicity, Music, Dialogues, and Direction.
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So these were my pick for the Best of Bollywood 2017. And it is pretty evident that 2017 belonged to women as the Top 3 were either acted or directed by women and most films featuring here were dominated by females.


HOLLYWOOD:


 5.The Greatest Showman:
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4. Dunkirk:
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3. Lady Bird:
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2. Get Out & Breathe:
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1. Wonder: 2017's BEST MOVIE.
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Thus 2017 offered a mixed bag when it came to the cinema but it the last month, it hit a six with Wonder. Brilliantly enacted, Excellently adapted and outstandingly executed!

Hope 2018 offers better films!

Comments

  1. Ashish.aswal280629 December 2017 at 16:42

    Wonder woman .. denail ... The dark tower .. The lego batman movie ... logan .. american made ...

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ashish.aswal280629 December 2017 at 16:44

    And the best of all .. The darkest Hour

    ReplyDelete

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