Bollywood's Half Yearly Performance: 2018

2018 has been a very successful and surprising year for Bollywood. From surprising money spinners to surprising flops, the audience has finally been able to give an indication that they would like to appreciate content driven cinemas more, over Salman Khan type of cinema.

                                       

Before we begin discussing the best Bollywood offered, let's have a look at Bollywood's worst:

3.)  Welcome to New York: Still figuring out what this movie was about.

                                                       

2.) Baaghi 2: Calamity of a movie.

                                             

1.) Race 3: The grief of witnessing this movie on the silver screen is beyond words. 

                                                  

Where these movies were mind-numbing, there were quite a lot of good movies that came out of Bollywood in this half of 2018. They are(in order of preference):

5.) Sonu ke Titu ki Sweety: Consistently hilarious.

                                               

4.) Blackmail: Dark, Wicked, and well made.

                                                

3.) Raazi: Story, execution, performances and Alia Bhatt!

                                                 

2.) Sanju: A superior movie in all aspects.

                                                  

1.) October: Doesn't hit a false note anywhere. A clear winner.

                                         

Bollywood has churned out some fantastic cinema in the past 6 months along with some exceptional performances by the cast. So here are my top picks so far:

Best Actor: Ranbir Kapoor for Sanju.

                                                          

Best Actor(female): Arguably, Anushka Sharma for Pari.

                                                  

Best Supporting Actor Male: Vicky Kaushal in Sanju.

                                                   

Best Supporting Actor Female: Gitanjali Rao in October.

                                                    

Best Music Album: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for Raazi.

                                                                    

Honourable Mentions: Padmavat, Padman, Veerey Di Wedding(just because it was pure fun).

                                          

With a successful first half, all eyes are now on the second half of 2018, which has an interesting lineup of movies like Soorma, Karwaan, Fanney Khan, Mulk, Zero, Thugs of Hindustan, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga etc. Bollywood has got some real content to offer so let's hope they are all successful in delivering what we expect of them.

   

P.S. This list is totally based on my opinion. Please do share your opinion on it.