Report Card 2018: A Heart vs Mind Battle!

2018 has been an interesting year for the film industry around the world. With some major banners falling below expectations and small banners springing up surprises. The net revenue of Bollywood has grown from $116.8 billion in 2017 to $132.8 billion in 2018. In a first, there was a failure of domination of the Khans at the box office that was surpassed by Khurana, Rao and Kaushal aka Talents and Story. Like it is, if there are good films, there are bad films.

                          

 Before discussing the good films, here are 5 films that disappointed me the most:

5.) Namaste England: Regressive, Demeaning and Poorly Acted and Directed.

                                                           

4.) Welcome to New York: Still figuring out what they wanted to deliver.

                                                              

3.) Race 3: Anything and everything happening.

                                                       

2.) Thugs of Hindostan: Childish and immature.

                                                        

1.) Zero: A perfect Zero (in every department).

                                                         

Where all the Khans failed at delivering content and numbers, there were certain surprises that sprung out of the oblivion. So, here are my Bollywood favourites from the year.

                                             
10.) TIE

• Baazaar: Performances, direction and Story.

                                                        

• Simmba: Ranveer, Message, first half and TOTAL MASALA entertainment(with forced songs and excessive moral policing though).

                                                         

9.) Manmarziyaan: Music, towering performances by the 3 actors.

                                              

8.) Tumbbad: Novel, Interesting, Cinematography and Intriguing.

                                                        

7.) Raazi: Performances, Music and Story.

                                                         

6.) Sanju: Good as an independent movie but not as a biopic.

                                                       

5.) Mulk: Important, Relevant and Interesting.

                                                           

3.)     TIE:

•  Stree: Experimental, Unique and Performances.

                                                          

•  Badhaai Ho: Unconventional and Super Entertaining.

                                                   

2.) October: Does it have a false Note? The only place where it lacks or loses to the top movie is Music, otherwise, it's perfect.
                                                    

1.) Andhadhun: Tabu- The name is enough! Everything including Music.

                                               


Best Actor (Male): Ranbir Kapoor for Sanju.

                                              

Best Actor (Female): Tabu for Andhadhun and Neena Gupta for Badhaai Ho.

                                             

                                             

Best Supporting Actor (Male): Manoj Pahwa for Mulk.

                                             


Best Supporting Actor (Female): Surekha Sikri for Badhaai Ho.

                                              

Best Music: Amit Trivedi for Manmarziyaan.

                                               


Best Director: Sriram Raghavan for Andhadhun.
                     
                                                

Honourable Mentions: Blackmail, Kaalakandi, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, Pari.



Overall, 2018 was a great year for the Hindi film industry in a long long time and we hope that 2019 is bigger and better and we hope that good cinema gets its due while we have a power packed 'masala' entertainer once in a while!

So here is my report card for Bollywood movies this year! Kindly let me know your favourites too!