31 December 2015

Everything I Watched in 2015

Feature Films/Documentaries:

January '15

1 U Me Aur Hum ** 2008 Ajay Devgn
2 Jalwa ** 1987 Pankaj Parashar
3 Masoom ** 1960 Satyen Bose
4 The Imitation Game *** 2014 Morten Tyldum
5 The Interview *** 2014 Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
6 Teen Bahuraniyan * 1968 S. S. Balan, S. S. Vasan
7 Big Hero 6 *** 2014 Don Hall, Chris Williams
8 Whiplash ***1/2 2014 Damien Chazelle
9 Videsh - Heaven On Earth * 2008 Deepa Mehta
10 American Sniper ** 2015 Clint Eastwood
11 Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon *** 2003 Chandan Arora
12 Jaagriti *** 1954 Satyen Bose
13 I *** 2015 Shankar
14 Sikandar ** 2009 Piyush Jha
15 Ferry (Kashti) ** 1954 Hemen Gupta
16 Sarhad ** 1960 Shankar Mukerjee
17 Miss Mala ** 1954 Jayant Desai
18 Dumb And Dumber *1/2 1994 Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
19 Aaj Ka M.L.A. Ram Avtar *1/2 1984 Narayana Rao Daseri
20 Anurodh ** 1977 Shakti Samanta
21 Joroo Ka Ghulam ** 1972 A. Bhimsingh
22 Jawab *1/2 1955 Ismail Menon
23 Baby ***1/2 2015 Neeraj Pandey
24 Ek Nazar ** 1972 B. R. Ishara
25 Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke *** 1957 P. L. Santoshi
26 Naach *** 2004 Ram Gopal Varma
27 Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja *1/2 1961 H. S. Rawail
28 Ardhangini ** 1959 Ajit Chakraborty
29 Midnight's Children ** 2013 Deepa Mehta
30 Daddy ***1/2 1989 Mahesh Bhatt
31 Foxcatcher ** 2014 Bennett Miller
32 Subah ** 1984 Jabbar Patel

February '15

33 The White Balloon ***1/2 1995 Jafar Panahi
34 Aage Badho *1/2 1947 Yeshwant Pethkar
35 Pehli Jhalak ** 1955 M. V. Raman
36 Kashinath ** 1943 Nitin Bose
37 Antaheen *1/2 1986 Dinesh Lakhanpal
38 Zid 1/2 2014 Rohit Malhotra
39 Zed Plus ** 2014 Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi
40 Grave Of The Vampire *1/2 1972 John Hayes
41 Akalmand ** 1966 Roop K. Shorey
42 Hum Hindustani *1/2 1960 Ram Mukerji
43 Neighbors *** 2014 Nicholas Stoller
44 Chacha Chowdhary * 1953 Raja Paranjpe
45 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) **** 2014 Alejandro González Iñárritu
46 I Am Offended - 2014 Jaideep Varma
47 Before Sunset ***1/2 2004 Richard Linklater
48 Shamitabh *** 2015 R. Balki
49 Chetna *1/2 1970 B. R. Ishara
50 Hum Ek Hain ** 1946 P. L. Santoshi
51 Just Married *** 2007 Meghna Gulzar
52 Ilzaam *1/2 1954 R. C. Talwar
53 New Delhi Times *** 1986 Romesh Sharma
54 The Slumber Party Massacre * 1982 Amy Holden Jones
55 The Grand Budapest Hotel **** 2014 Wes Anderson
56 Kannathil Muthamittal *** 2002 Mani Ratnam
57 The Theory of Everything *** 2014 James Marsh
58 Loins of Punjab Presents *** 2007 Manish Acharya
59 The Raid 2 *** 2014 Gareth Evans
60 Selma *** 2014 Ava DuVernay
61 Nai Umar Ki Nai Fasal ** 1965 R. Chandra
62 La vendedora de rosas (The Rose Seller) ** 1998 Victor Gaviria
63 Badlapur ***1/2 2015 Sriram Raghavan
64 Qissa ***1/2 2015 Anup Singh
65 Thevar Magan ***1/2 1992 Bharathan
66 Blue Ruin *** 2014 Jeremy Saulnier
67 Gone Girl *** 2014 David Fincher

March '15
68 Fury **1/2 2014 David Ayer
69 Goodfellas ***** 1990 Martin Scorsese
70 Dum Laga Ke Haisha ***1/2 2015 Sharat Kataria
71 Kingsman: The Secret Service *** 2015 Matthew Vaughn
72 India's Daughter - 2015 Leslee Udwin
73 Fading Gigolo *** 2014 John Turturro
74 Andhera 1/2 1980 Tulsi, Shyam Ramsay
75 Samadhi ** 1950 Ramesh Saigal
76 NH10 **** 2015 Navdeep Singh
77 Daayan 0 1998 Dharam
78 Chudail No. 1 0 1999 R. Kumar
79 Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyan - 2012 Nakul Singh Sawhney
80 Hunterrr ** 2015 Harshvardhan Kulkarni
81 Books In The Big City - 2014 Sayalee Karkare
82 Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind **** 2004 Michel Gondry
83 Parivar *1/2 1956 Asit Sen
84 Casino **** 1995 Martin Scorsese
85 Babel ***1/2 2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu
86 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb *** 1964 Stanley Kubrick

April '15
87 Jerry Maguire *** 1996 Cameron Crowe
88 Begin Again *** 2013 John Carney
89 Anhe Ghore Da Daan **1/2 2011 Gurvinder Singh
90 Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! *** 2015 Dibakar Banerjee
91 Fast & Furious 7 *** 2015 James Wan
92 Before Midnight **** 2013 Richard Linklater
93 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes *** 2014 Matt Reeves
94 In The Mood For Love ***1/2 2000 Wong Kar-wai
95 Computer Chess ** 2013 Andrew Bujalski
96 Nayak ***1/2 1966 Satyajit Ray
97 The Departed **** 2006 Martin Scorsese
98 Dolly Ki Doli *** 2015 Abhishek Dogra
99 Silver Linings Playbook ***1/2 2012 David O' Russel
100 Deep Red ** 1975 Dario Argento
101 American Psycho *** 1999 Mary Harron
102 Tevar * 2015 Amit Sharma
103 Journey 2 The Mysterious Island *1/2 2012 Brad Peyton
104 Humko Deewana Kar Gaye *1/2 2006 Raj Kanwar
105 Immortals * 2011 Tarsem Singh
106 Tamas  **** 1988 Govind Nihalani
107 The Hundred Foot Journey ** 2014 Lasse Hallstrom
108 Margarita With A Straw *** 2015 Shonali Bose
109 Court ****1/2 2014 Chaitanya Tamhane
110 Apocalypse Now **** 1979 Francis Ford Coppola
111 Face/Off *** 1997 John Woo
112 Bahu Ki Awaaz * 1985 Shashilal Nair
113 Baghi Shahzada * 1963 Maruti
114 I Spit On Your Grave * 1978 Meir Zarchi
115 I Spit On Your Grave * 2010 Steven R. Monroe
116 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre * 2003 Marcus Nispel
117 Around The World In 80 Days *1/2 2004 Frank Coraci
118 The Invisible Man ***1/2 1933 James Whale

May '15
119 Little Manhattan *** 2005 Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett
120 Bombay Velvet *** 2015 Anurag Kashyap
121 Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) **** 2015 George Miller
122 Piku **** 2015 Shoojit Sircar
123 Windstruck *** 2004 Kwak Jae-yong
124 Hungama Bombay Ishtyle ** 1978 Siraj Ayesha Sayani
125 Tanu Weds Manu Returns ***1/2 2015 Aanand L Rai
126 Jaldeep ** 1956 Kidar Sharma
127 Jai Ho - 2014 Umesh Aggarwal

June '15
128 Ilaaka * 1989 Aziz Sejawal
129 Hatyara * 1998 T. L. V. Prasad
130 The Godfather **** 1972 Francis Ford Coppola
131 Dil Dhadakne Do ***1/2 2015 Zoya Akhtar
132 Jaal * 1986 Umesh Mehra
133 Welcome To Karachi * 2015 Ashish R. Mohan
134 Gabbar Is Back ** 2015 Krish 
135 Mr. X * 2015 Vikram Bhatt
136 Seducing Mr. Perfect ** 2006 Kim Sang-woo
137 The Godfather Part II **** 1974 Francis Ford Coppola
138 Jurassic World (3D) *** 2015 Colin Trevorrow
139 The Godfather Part III ***1/2 1990 Francis Ford Coppola
140 Charulata ***1/2 1964 Satyajit Ray
141 My Little Bride ** 2004 Kim Ho-jun
142 Ex Machina *** 2015 Alex Garland
143 Forrest Gump **** 1994 Robert Zemeckis
144 When Harry Met Sally *** 1989 Ro Reiner
145 Hola Venky ** 2015 Sandeep Mohan
146 Dharam Sankat Mein *** 2015 Fuwad Khan
147 M ***1/2 1931 Fritz Lang
148 Shaala *** 2011 Sujay Dahake

July '15
149 50/50 ** 2011 Jonathan Levine
150 The 39 Steps ***1/2 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
151 The Last Days Of Pompeii  *1/2 1959 Sergio Leone
152 Memories of Murder **** 2003 Bong Joon-ho
153 Killa **** 2015 Avinash Arun
154 Nebraska **** 2013 Alexander Payne
155 The Man with the Movie Camera - 1929 Dziga Vertov
156 Notorious **** 1946 Alfred Hitchcock
157 Rear Window **** 1954 Alfred Hitchcock
158 Dead Poets Society ** 1989 Peter Weir
159 Guddu Rangeela *1/2 2015 Subhash Kapoor
160 Papanasam **** 2015 Jeethu Joseph
161 Moscow On The Hudson **1/2 1984 Paul Mazursky
162 Drishyam ***1/2 2013 Jeethu Joseph
163 Bangalore Days *** 2014 Anjali Menon
164 ABCD 2 *1/2 2015 Remo D'souza
165 Baahubali: The Beginning **** 2015 S S Rajamouli
166 Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho ** 2015 Vinod Kapri
167 Hamari Adhuri Kahani 0 2015 Mohit Suri
168 World's Greatest Dad *** 2009 Bobcat Goldthwait
169 Alone *1/2 2015 Bhushan Patel
170 Good Will Hunting *** 1997 Gus Vant Sant
171 Roman Holiday *** 1953 William Wyler
172 The Colossus Of Rhodes *1/2 1961 Sergio Leone
173 Bajrangi Bhaijaan ***1/2 2015 Kabeer Khan
174 Rebecca ***1/2 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
175 Zodiac ***1/2 2007 David Fincher
176 A Walk To Remember *1/2 2002 Adam Shankman
177 Good Morning, Vietnam ***1/2 1987 Barry Levinson
178 In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones *** 1989 Pradip Krishen
179 Masaan ***** 2015 Neeraj Ghaywan 
180 Kill The Messenger *** 2014 Michael Cuesta
181 Sleepless In Seattle *** 1993 Nora Ephron
182 John Wick *** 2014 Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
183 Citizen Kane *** 1941 Orson Welles
184 Se7en **** 1995 David Fincher
185 A Fistful Of Dollars *** 1964 Sergio Leone
186 For A Few Dollars More **** 1965 Sergio Leone
187 The Namesake *** 2007 Mira Nair
188 Killing Them Softly *1/2 2012 Andrew Dominik
189 Kaaka Muttai ***1/2 2015 M. Manikandan

August '15
190 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation *** 2015 Christopher McQuarrie
191 Manjhi: The Mountain Man **1/2 2015 Ketan Mehta
192 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ***1/2 2014 Ana Lily Amirpour
193 It Follows *** 2015 David Robert Mitchell
194 Carmen - 1915 Cecil B. DeMille
195 Monsieur Verdoux ***1/2 1947 Charlie Chaplin
196 There Will Be Blood ***1/2 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson
197 Mohalla Assi **1/2 2015 Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi
198 Limelight ***1/2 1952 Charlie Chaplin
199 Bangistan * 2015 Karan Anshuman
200 Brothers *1/2 2015 Karan Malhotra
201 Drishyam **1/2 2015 Nishikant Kamath
202 Yennai Arindhaal *** 2015 Gautham Menon
203 Ashadh Ka Ek Din - 1971 Mani Kaul
204 Rain Man *** 1988 Barry Levinson
205 American History X *** 1998 Tony Kaye
206 P.S. I Love You *1/2 2007 Richard LaGravenese
207 Love Is Strange *** 2014 Ira Sachs
208 '71 *** 2014 Yann Demange
209 A Most Violent Year ** 2014 J.C. Chandor
210 Sachche Ka Bol-Bala *1/2 1989 Dev Anand
211 Main Solah Baras Ki * 1998 Dev Anand
212 Jaaneman *1/2 1976 Chetan Anand
213 Ishk Ishk Ishk * 1974 Dev Anand
214 Love At Times Square * 2003 Dev Anand
215 Aurat *** 1940 Mehboob

September '15

216 Melancholia ** 2011 Lars von Trier
217 Anand Aur Anand * 1984 Dev Anand
218 Shehnai ** 1947 P. L. Santoshi
219 Allah Rakha *1/2 1986 Ketan Desai
220 Welcome Back * 2015 Anees Bazmi
221 Palay Khan *1/2 1986 Ashim S. Samanta
222 Hero ** 2015 Nikhil Advani
223 All Is Well * 2015 Umesh Shukla
224 The Naxalites ** 1980 Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
225 Katti Batti *1/2 2015 Nikhil Advani

October '15
226 Talvar **** 2015 Meghna Gulzar
227 Inkheart ** 2008 Iain Softley
228 Jeena Yahaan *** 1979 Basu Chatterjee
229 White House Down * 2013 Roland Emmerich
230 Death Proof *1/2 2007 Quentin Tarantino
231 Elizabeth Ekadashi *** 2014 Paresh Mokashi
232 Jamaica Inn ** 1939 Alfred Hitchcock
233 Double Jeopardy *1/2 1999 Bruce Beresford
234 Aadmi Aur Aurat *** 1984 Tapan Sinha
235 Main Aur Charles *** 2015 Prawaal Raman
236 Titli **** 2015 Kanu Behl

November '15
237 Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 *** 2015 Luv Ranjan
238 Shadyantra * 1990 Rajan Johri
239 Satya Bol **1/2 2004 Sanjay Upadhyay
240 Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid *** 2012 Nila Madhab Panda
241 My Wife's Murder *** 2005 Jijy Philip
242 Main Zinda Hoon ** 1988 Sudhir Mishra
243 Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain *** 2014 Ravi Kumar
244 Calcutta Mail *** 2003 Sudhir Mishra
245 Duck, You Sucker! *** 1971 Sergio Leone
246 X: Past Is Present * 2015 Raja Sen & Others
247 Spectre **1/2 2015 Sam Mandes
248 Nayakan **** 1987 Mani Ratnam
249 The Bourne Identity *** 2002 Doug Liman
250 The Bourne Supremacy *** 2004 Paul Greengrass
251 The Bourne Ultimatum *** 2007 Paul Greengrass
252 Mankatha *** 2011 Venkat Prabhu
253 Grave Of The Firefiles **** 1988 Isao Takahata
254 Jackie Brown ***1/2 1997 Quentin Tarantino
255 Magnolia **** 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson
256 Tamasha **** 2015 Imtiaz Ali
257 Inside Llewyn Davis ***1/2 2013 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
258 Chaitali **1/2 1975 Hrishikesh Mukherjee

December '15
259 Buddha Mil Gaya  *** 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee
260 Pride *** 2014 Matthew Warchus
261 Idiot  - 1991 Mani Kaul
262 Godmother *** 1999 Vinay Shukla
263 Apne Paraye ** 1980 Basu Chatterjee
264 Inside Out **** 2015 Pete Docter
265 The King's Speech *** 2010 Tom Hooper
266 The Game *** 1997 David Fincher
267 Panic Room *** 2002 David Fincher
268 Life Itself *** 2014 Steve James
269 Minority Report **** 2002 Steven Spielberg
270 Tumhare Liye * 1978 Basu Chatterjee
271 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ** 2015 Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
272 Bajirao Mastani *** 2015 Sanjay Leela Bhansali
273 Inception **** 2010 Christopher Nolan
274 The Intern *** 2015 Nancy Meyers
275 Born On The Fourth Of July ***1/2 1989 Oliver Stone
276 Octopussy ** 1983 John Glen
277 Breakfast At Tiffany's *** 1961 Blake Edwards
278 Danny Collins *** 2015 Dan Fogelman
279 A Few Good Men *** 1992 Rob Reiner

TV Shows / Web Series:
  1. Fargo (Season 1) (2014)
  2. Man's World (Season 1) (2015)
  3. TVF Pitchers (Season 1) (2015)
  4. Permanent Roommates (Season 1) (2014)
  5. Star Bestsellers (1999-00) (Episodes: Witness, Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechara, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Masoom, Tripti, Fat Chance, Zebra 2, The Ring)
  6. Bang Baaja Baaraat (Season 1) (2015)
  7. Byomkesh Bakshi (1993-97) (Episode 1-12)
  8. Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984) (Episode 1-26)
Non-Feature Films:
  1. His New Job (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  2. The Crush (2010; English; Michael Creagh)
  3. Bunny (2015; Hindi; Vasan Bala)
  4. Lights Out (2013; Swedish; David F. Sandberg)
  5. R.I.P. (Romance In Piece) (2015; Hindi; Shlok Sharma)
  6. The Champion (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  7. Ahalya (2015; Hindi; Sujoy Ghosh)
  8. In The Park (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  9. Police (1916; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  10. A Night In The Show (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  11. By The Sea (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  12. A Night Out (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  13. Work (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  14. The Tramp (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  15. The Bank (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  16. A Jitney Elopement (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  17. A Woman (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  18. Shanghaied (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  19. Burlesque On Carmen (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  20. Triple Trouble (1918; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  21. His Regeneration (1915; Silent; Charlie Chaplin)
  22. Agli Baar (2015; Hindi; Devashish Makhija)
  23. One Day Mataram (2015; Hindi; Vijayeta Kumar)
  24. El'ayichi (2015; Hindi; Devashish Makhija)
  25. Rated R For Nudity (2011; English; Denis Villeneuve)
  26. Nayantara's Necklace (2015; Hindi; Jaydeep Sarkar)
  27. Meri Rachna (2014; Hindi; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
  28. The Balloon Smile (2014; Hindi; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
  29. Where It All Begins (2014; Silent; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
  30. Torture Porn (2015; English; Brandon Christensen)
  31. Lot 254 (2012; English; Toby Meakins)
  32. Phil·a·del·phi·a (2015; English; Broadway)
  33. The Cabin (2014; English; Devin Morse)
  34. Breathe (2013; English; Toby Meakins)
  35. Tuck Me In (2014; English; Ignacio F. Rodo)
  36. Stone (2014; Silent; John Smith)
  37. Night Watchmen (2015; English; Brandon Christensen)
  38. Tea Time (2009; Silent; Erik Deutschman)
  39. The Eight Column Affair (1987; Hindi; Sriram Raghavan)
  40. Jangle Bells (2015; Hindi; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
Summary:

Theatre viewing - 33
Home viewing - 246

Language-wise:

Bengali - 02
Cantonese - 01
English - 124
German - 01
Hindi - 126
Italian - 02
Japanese - 01
Korean - 04
Malayalam - 02
Marathi - 04
Persian - 02
Punjabi - 02
Silent - 02
Spanish - 01
Tamil - 05

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