Everything I Watched in 2016

Feature Films/Documentaries:

January '16

1	Munich	***1/2	2005	Steven Spielberg
2	Shame	***1/2	2011	Steve McQueen
3	Rush Hour	**	1998	Brett Ratner
4	Rush Hour 2	*1/2	2001	Brett Ratner
5	Rush Hour 3	*	2007	Brett Ratner
6	Crimson Peak	***1/2	2015	Guillermo del Toro
7	Phantom	*1/2	2015	Kabir Khan
8	Tunnu Ki Tina	*1/2	1997	Paresh Kamdar
9	The Walk	***1/2	2015	Robert Zemeckis
10	Wazir	***	2016	Bejoy Nambiar
11	Final Destination 3	*1/2	2006	James Wong
12	Sicario	**	2015	Denis Villeneuve
13	Dilwale	*	2015	Rohit Shetty
14	Meera	**	1979	Gulzar
15	An Affair To Remember	***	1957	Leo McCarey
16	The Hateful Eight	*****	2015	Quentin Tarantino
17	Avatar (3D)	***	2009	James Cameron
18	The Diary of a Teenage Girl	***	2015	Marielle Heller
19	Pratidwandi	***1/2	1970	Satyajit Ray
20	Aranyer Din Ratri	***	1970	Satyajit Ray
21	Dallas Buyers Club	***	2013	Jean-Marc Vallée
22	Changing Lanes	***	2002	Roger Michell
23	The Lone Ranger	*1/2	2013	Gore Verbinski
24	Elysium	***	2013	Neill Blomkamp
25	Bridge of Spies	***	2015	Steven Spielberg
26	The Sugarland Express	**	1974	Steven Spielberg

The Best of 2016

BEST FILMS 2016

10. Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921)

9. Neerja

8. Fan

7. Raman Raghav 2.0

6. Dear Zindagi

5. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

4. Udta Punjab

3. Aligarh

2. Pink

1. Dangal

Special Mentions:

Airlift, Nil Battey Sannata, Phobia, Waiting, Budhia Singh – Born To Run, M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story

BEST PERFORMERS (MALE)

8. Shah Rukh Khan (Dear Zindagi)

7. Rishi Kapoor (Kapoor & Sons)

6. Shah Rukh Khan (Fan)

5. Amitabh Bachchan (Pink)

4. Ranbir Kapoor (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)

3. Sushant Singh Rajput (M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story)

2. Manoj Bajpayee (Aligarh)

1. Aamir Khan (Dangal)

BEST PERFORMERS (FEMALE)

8. Kalki Koechlin (Waiting)

7. Radhika Apte (Phobia)

6. Sonam Kapoor (Neerja)

5. Alia Bhatt (Dear Zindagi)

4. Shabana Azmi (Neerja)

3. Swara Bhaskar (Nil Battey Sannata)

2. Alia Bhatt (Udta Punjab)

1. Anushka Sharma (Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)

BEST SONGS 2016

10. Kaari Kaari (Qurat Ul Ain Balouch; Pink)

9. Saathi Rey (Arko; Kapoor & Sons)

8. Jag Ghoomeya (Neha Bhasin; Sultan)

7. Haanikarak Baapu (Pritam, Sarwar Khan, Sartaz Khan Barna; Dangal)

6. Sarsariya (Shashwat Singh, Shashaa Tirupati; Mohenjo Daro)

5. Just Go To Hell Dil (Amit Trivedi, Sunidhi Chauhan; Dear Zindagi)

4. Da Da Dasse (Kanika Kapoor, Babu Haabi; Udta Punjab)

4. Doli Re Doli (Shankar Mahdevan, Meme Khan; Mirzya)

3. Channa Mereya (Arijit Singh; Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)

2. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Arijit Singh; Ae Dil Hai Mushkil)

1. Pashmina (Amrit Trivedi; Fitoor)

BEST SOUNDTRACKS 2016

6. Dear Zindagi (Amit Trivedi)

5. Dangal (Pritam)

4. Mirzya (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)

3. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Pritam)

2. Udta Punjab (Amit Trivedi)

1. Fitoor (Amit Trivedi)

Books I Read in 2016

(in alphabetical order)

English

1. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
2. Coolie (Mulk Raj Anand)
3. Conversations With Mani Ratnam (Baradwaj Rangan)
4. Day Scholar (Siddhartha Chowdhury)
5. Diksha at St. Martin's (Siddhartha Chowdhury)
6. Guns & Thighs (Ram Gopal Varma)
7. Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts (Arun Khopkar)
8. Mrs Funnybones (Twinkle Khanna)
9. Name Place Animal Thing (Mayank Shekhar)
10. Patna Roughcut (Siddhartha Chowdhury)
11. Sholay: The Making of a Classic (Anupama Chopra)
12. Stars From Another Sky (Saadat Hasan Manto)
13. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
14. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad (Twinkle Khanna)
15. The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
16. Written by Salim-Javed: The Story of Hindi Cinema's Greatest Screenwriters (Diptakirti Chaudhary)

Hindi

1. 6 Crore Ka Murdaa (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
2. Guru Dutt (Nasreen Munni Kabir)
3. Hum Na Marab (Gyan Chaturvedi)
4. Katil Kaun (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
5. Mujhse Bura Kaun (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
6. Mujhse Bura Koi Nahi (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
7. Narak Yaatra (Gyan Chaturvedi)
8. Neem Ka Ped (Rahi Masoom Raza)
9. Os Ki Boond (Rahi Masoom Raza)
10. Rehan Par Ragghu (Kashinath Singh)
11. Singla Murder Case (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
12. Topi Shukla (Rahi Masoom Raza)
13. Short Stories (Satyajit Ray)
14. Short Stories (Amrita Pritam)

Cinema

Cinema means much more to me than it does to people I know. I live, eat, drink, breathe cinema.

I’m the sort of guy who will forgo a meal to watch a movie. In the past few years, I have spent a good portion of my time and money, gave up on my sleep and social obligations, and tried to satisfy my hunger for movies in every possible way.

Still, the more films I watch, the more I get the feeling that I have very limited understanding of cinema. I need to see much more. Even after watching more than three thousand movies, so far, I don't think my hunger is gonna be satisfied ever. I'm yet to explore a lot of great cinema. Call me mad, crazy or whatever, but sometimes I think, I should take a break from everything – for at least a year – and watch only films. And it doesn't really sound bad, as I'm free of responsibilities - now as well as in near future. And the interesting thing is: nobody, in my real life, knows my love for cinema; not even my family. Cinema is still a big taboo in my family. Over the years I’ve realised that your family and friends will never understand your craziness about movies. You can’t convince them. You shouldn’t even try. People think that there’s nothing that can be gained from Cinema. That’s why I love Twitter. I met some of the craziest cinephiles, there only.

Someday, someone will understand my madness. (In real life.) Hopefully, someday, I’ll do something related to it, as well. So far, I just could not figure out what I would really do, but there’s something else that is yet to come in my life; don’t know what, but I know I’m made for something else.

~

Multilingual Films

Bilinguals:
2019	Saaho (Hindi/Telugu)	Sujeeth
2019	Thackeray (Hindi/Marathi)	Abhijit Panse
2018	Vishwaroop 2/Vishwaroopam 2 (Tamil)	Kamal Haasan
2017	The Ghazi Attack (Hindi/Telugu)	Sankalp Reddy
2016	Sala Khadoos/Irudhi Suttru (Tamil)	Sudha Kongara
2013	Zanjeer/Thoofan (Telugu)	Apoorva Lakhia
2013	Vishwaroop/Vishwaroopam (Tamil)	Kamal Haasan
2013	Satya 2 (Hindi/Telugu)	Ram Gopal Varma
2013	David (Hindi/Tamil)	Bejoy Nambiar
2010	Rakht Charitra/Rakta Charitra (Telugu)	Ram Gopal Varma
2010	Raavan/Raavanan (Tamil)	Mani Ratnam
2010	City of Gold/Lalbag Parel (Marathi)	Mahesh Manjrekar
2009	13B/Yavarum Nalam (Tamil)	Vikram Kumar
2007	Jai Jagannatha (Odia/Hindi)	Sabyasachi Mohapatra
2005	Mumbai Xpress/Mumbai Express (Tamil)	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
2004	Yuva/Aaytha Ezhuthu (Tamil)	Mani Ratnam
2001	Abhay/Aalavandhan (Tamil)	Suresh Krissna
2000	Hey Ram (Hindi/Tamil)	Kamal Haasan
2000	Astitva (Hindi/Marathi)	Mahesh Manjrekar
2000	Dil Hi Dil Mein/Kadhalar Dhinam (Tamil)	Kathir
1995	Criminal (Hindi/Telugu)	Mahesh Bhatt
1994	Anokha Premyudh/Prema Sikharam (Telugu)	Satya Gopal Ram
1993	Ashaant/Vishnu Vijaya (Kannada)	Keshu Ramsay
1992	Drohi/Antham (Telugu)	Ram Gopal Varma
1991	Inspector Dhanush/Police Mathu Dada (Kannada)	Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
1990	Ek Ghar/Mane (Kannada)	Girish Kasaravalli
1987	Maha Yatra/Antarjali Jatra (Bengali)	Gautam Ghose
1984	Parama/Paroma (Bengali)	Aparna Sen
1982	Apeksha/Aparoopa (Assamese)	Jahnu Barua
1982	Sookha/Bara (Kannada)	M. S. Sathyu
1982	Subah/Umbartha (Marathi)	Jabbar Patel
1981	Barsaat Ki Ek Raat/Anusandhan (Bengali)	Shakti Samanta
1978	Kondura/Anugraham (Telugu)	Shyam Benegal
1977	Godhuli/Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane (Kannada)	Girish Karnad, B. V. Karanth
1977	Anand Ashram (Hindi/Bengali)	Shakti Samanta
1976	Rakshaa Bandhan/Khamma Mara Veera (Gujarati)	Shantilal Soni
1975	Amanush (Hindi/Bengali)	Shakti Samanta
1972	Pinjra (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1970	Khilona/Engirundho Vandhaal	Chander Vohra
1966	Ladki Sahyadri Ki/Iye Marathichiye Nagari (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1960	Bindiya/Thilakam (Tamil)	Krishnan-Panju
1956	Jagte Raho/Ek Din Raatre (Bengali)	Amit Maitra and Sombhu Mitra
1954	Chaitanya Mahaprabhu/Bhagwan Shri Krishna Chaitanya (Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1953	Mahatma (Hindi/Marathi)	Datta Dharmadhikari
1952	Yatrik/Mahaprasthaner Pathey (Bengali)	Kartick Chattopadhyay
1952	Chhatrapati Shivaji (Hindi/Marathi)	Bhalji Pendharkar
1951	Sansar/Samsaram (Tamil)	S. S. Vasan/Chandru
1951	Ratnadeep/Ratnadeepam (Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1950	Mashaal/Samar (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1950	Gharbaa/Ram Ram Pahune (Marathi)	Dinkar D. Patil
1949	Apna Desh/Nam Nadu (Tamil)	V. Shantaram
1948	Chandralekha (Hindi/Tamil)	S. S. Vasan
1947	Matawala Shair Ram Joshi/Lokshahir Ram Joshi (Marathi)	V. Shantaram, Baburao Painter
1945	Hamrahi/Udayer Pathey (Bengali)	Bimal Roy
1944	Ramshastri (Hindi/Marathi)	Vishram Bedekar, Gajanan Jagirdar, Raja Nene
1944	Mali/Bhakticha Mala (Marathi)	Keshavrao Date
1943	Paraya Dhan/Bichar (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1943	Rani/Chandar Kalanka (Bengali)	P. C. Barua
1942	10 O' Clock/Daha Wajhta (Marathi)	Raja Nene
1941	Sant Sakhu (Hindi/Marathi)	Vishnupant Govind Damle
1941	Padosi/Shejari (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1941	Lagan/Parichaya (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1941	Amrit (Hindi/Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1940	Nartaki (Hindi/Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1940	Kumkum The Dancer (Hindi/Bengali)	Modhu Bose
1939	Sapera/Sapurey (Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1939	Aadmi/Manoos (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1939	Adhikar (Hindi/Bengali)	P. C. Barua
1939	Dushman/Jiban Maran (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1938	Street Singer/Sathi (Bengali)	Phani Majumdar
1938	Raja Gopichand (Hindi/Marathi)	Bhalji Pendharkar
1938	Jwala (Hindi/Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1938	Gopal Krishna (Hindi/Marathi)	Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
1938	Dharti Mata/Desher Mati (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1938	Brahmachari (Hindi/Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1938	Abhagin/Abhigyan (Bengali)	Prafulla Roy
1937	Duniya Na Mane/Kunku (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1937	President/Didi (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1937	Mukti (Hindi/Bengali)	P. C. Barua
1937	Dharmaveer (Hindi/Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1937	Vidyapati/Bidyapati (Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1936	Sunehra Sansar/Sonar Sansar (Bengali)	Debaki Bose
1936	Manzil/Grihadah (Bengali)	P. C. Barua
1936	Chhaya (Hindi/Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1935	Dhoop Chhaon/Bhagya Chakra (Bengali)	Nitin Bose
1935	Nigah-E-Nafrat/Vilashi Ishwar (Marathi)	Master Vinayak
1935	Dharmatma (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1935	Chandrasena (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1934	Partha Kumar (Hindi/Marathi)	Bhalji Pendharkar
1934	Mohabbat Ki Kasauti/Rooplekha (Bengali)	P. C. Barua
1934	Amrit Manthan (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1934	Akashwani (Hindi/Marathi)	Bhalji Pendharkar
1933	Sairandhari (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1933	Rajrani Meera/Meerabai (Bengali)	Debaki Bose/Hiren Bose, Basanta Chatterjee
1933	Naagan Ki Raagini/Karma (English)	J.L. Freer Hunt
1932	Shyam Sundar (Hindi/Marathi)	Bhalji Pendharkar
1932	Jalti Nishani/Agnikankan (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1932	Maya Machhindra (Hindi/Marathi)	V. Shantaram
1932	Ayodhya Ka Raja/Ayodhyecha Raja (Marathi)	V. Shantaram
Trilinguals:
2017	The House Next Door/Aval (Tamil)/Gruham (Telugu)	Milind Rau
2016	Tutak Tutak Tutiya (Hindi/Tamil/Telugu)	Vijay
2016	Luv U Alia (Hindi/Kannada/Telugu)	Indrajit Lankesh
2015	Kill Them Young/Maanja (Telugu)/Care of Footpath 2 (Kannada)	Kishan Shrikanth
2001	Little John (Hindi/Tamil/English)	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
1999	Kaama Tantra/Kaama (Tamil)/Kama (Telugu)	Ashok Kumar
1953	Chandirani (Hindi/Tamil/Telugu)	P. Bhanumathi
1941	Raj Nartaki (Hindi/Bengali/English)	Modhu Bose