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

February '16

27	The Terminal	***	2004	Steven Spielberg
28	Raiders of The Lost Ark	***	1981	Steven Spielberg
29	Close Encounters of The Third Kind	***	1977	Steven Spielberg
30	Junun	-	2015	Paul Thomas Anderson
31	Drohi	**	1992	Ram Gopal Varma
32	Chhote Nawab	*1/2	1961	S. A. Akbar
33	Saving Private Ryan	****	1998	Steven Spielberg
34	Haye Mera Dil	*1/2	1968	Ved-Madan
35	Everest	**	2015	Baltasar Kormákur
36	Jaws	***	1975	Steven Spielberg
37	The Ususal Suspects	**	1995	Bryan Singer
38	Short Term 12	***1/2	2013	Destin Daniel Cretton
39	Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem	****	2014	Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz
40	Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer	***	1986	John McNaughton
41	Adaptation	***	2002	Spike Jonze
42	The Master	***1/2	2012	Paul Thomas Anderson
43	The Aviator	****	2004	Martin Scorsese
44	Snowpiercer	***	2014	Bong Joon-ho
45	Cast Away	***	2000	Robert Zemeckis
46	(500) Days of Summer	***	2009	Marc Webb
47	Fitoor	**1/2	2015	Abhishek Kapoor
48	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	***	2008	David Fincher
49	Ghayal Once Again	**	2015	Sunny Deol
50	Cape Fear	***1/2	1991	Martin Scorsese
51	45 Years	***	2015	Andrew Haigh
52	Airlift	***	2015	Raja Krishna Menon
53	Spy	***	2015	Paul Feig
54	While We're Young	**	2014	Noah Baumbach
55	Kanchivaram	***	2008	Priyadarshan
56	The Martian	***	2015	Ridley Scott
57	The Sixth Sense	***	1999	M. Night Shyamalan
58	The Revenant	****	2015	Alejandro González Iñárritu
59	Aligarh	***1/2	2016	Hansal Mehta
60	Mad Max	**1/2	1979	George Miller
61	Mad Max 2	***	1981	George Miller
62	Inherent Vice	**	2014	Paul Thomas Anderson

March '16

63 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ***1/2 1985 George Miller 64 Blood Diamond **** 2006 Edward Zwick 65 Jai Gangaajal *1/2 2016 Prakash Jha 66 Love and Mercy ** 2014 Bill Pohlad 67 Shabnam **1/2 1949 Bibhuti Mitra 68 Aasha *** 1957 M. V. Raman 69 Man of Steel **** 2013 Zack Snyder 70 Ant-Man *** 2015 Peyton Reed 71 Victoria ***1/2 2015 Sebastian Schipper 72 Amar Saigal *** 1955 Nitin Bose 73 Aadmi - 1939 V. Shantaram 74 Garam Coat **1/2 1955 Amar Kumar 75 Neel Kamal *1/2 1947 Kidar Sharma 76 Valmiki ** 1946 Bhalji Pendharkar 77 Bahen ** 1941 Mehboob 78 Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) *** 2016 Shakun Batra 79 Neerja ***1/2 2016 Ram Madhvani 80 Zootopia (3D) **** 2016 Byron Howard, Rich Moore 81 Rahi **1/2 1953 Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 82 Stree *** 1961 V. Shantaram 83 Wahan - 1937 K. Narayan Kale 84 Daaera *1/2 1953 Kamal Amrohi 85 The King of Comedy ***1/2 1982 Martin Scorsese 86 Who's That Knocking At My Door *** 1967 Martin Scorsese 87 After Hours **** 1985 Martin Scorsese 88 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (3D) ** 2016 Zack Snyder 89 The Dreamers *** 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci

April '16

90 Anita ** 1967 Raj Khosla 91 Post Box 999 * 1958 Ravindra Dave 92 Kung Fu Panda 3 (3D) ***1/2 2016 Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Alessandro Carloni 93 Ki & Ka *** 2016 R Balki 94 Apradhi Kaun ** 1957 Asit Sen 95 The Jungle Book (3D) **** 2016 Jon Favreau 96 Kaafiron Ki Namaaz *1/2 2016 Ram Ramesh Sharma 97 Joi Baba Felunath *** 1979 Satyajit Ray 98 Angry Indian Goddesses ** 2015 Pan Nalin 99 Exam ** 2009 Stuart Hazeldine 100 Fan ***1/2 2016 Maneesh Sharma 101 In The Realm Of Senses * 1976 Nagisa Oshima 102 Paruthi Veeran *** 2007 Ameer Sultan 103 Visaranai **** 2016 Vetrimaaran 104 O Kadhal Kanmani ***1/2 2015 Mani Ratnam 105 The Untouchables **1/2 1987 Brian De Palma 106 Insomnia ***1/2 2002 Christopher Nolan 107 Nil Battey Sannata *** 2016 Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari 108 Nina Forever *** 2015 Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine 109 Boogie Nights **** 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson

May '16

110 Baaghi **1/2 2016 Sabbir Khan 111 The Last Temptation Of Christ **** 1988 Martin Scorsese 112 New York, New York *** 1977 Martin Scorsese 113 Lust, Caution *** 2007 Ang Lee 114 Captain America: Civil War (IMAX 3D) *** 2016 Joe Russo, Anthony Russo 115 Sairat ****1/2 2016 Nagraj Manjule 116 Kundun *** 1997 Martin Scorsese 117 The Dictator *** 2012 Larry Charles 118 Dirty Harry *** 1971 Don Siegel 119 Deadpool **** 2016 Tim Miller 120 The Age of Innocence **** 1993 Martin Scorsese 121 New York Stories **1/2 1989 Martin Scorsese/Francis Ford Coppola/Woody Allen 122 Azhar *1/2 2016 Tony D'souza 123 Room *** 2015 Lenny Abrahamson 124 Katyar Kaljat Ghusali ***1/2 2015 Subodh Bhave 125 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom *** 1984 Steven Spielberg 126 Iron Man **** 2008 Jon Favreau 127 Boy Friend *1/2 1961 Naresh Saigal 128 Vertigo **** 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 129 Paisa Hi Paisa *1/2 1956 Mehrish 130 Hansa *** 2012 Manav Kaul 131 Raagini ** 1958 Rakhan 132 Iron Man 2 *** 2010 Jon Favreau 133 The Angry Birds Movie (3D) *** 2016 Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly 134 Waiting *** 2016 Anu Menon 135 Veerappan *1/2 2016 Ram Gopal Varma 136 Phobia *** 2016 Pawan Kripalani 137 10 Cloverfield Lane *** 2016 Dan Trachtenberg 138 The Color of Money *** 1986 Martin Scorsese

June '16

139 Mean Streets **** 1973 Martin Scorsese 140 Boxcar Bertha *** 1972 Martin Scorsese 141 Rosemary's Baby **** 1968 Roman Polanski 142 Soodhu Kavvum *** 2013 Nalan Kumarasamy 143 Spotlight **** 2015 Tom McCarthy 144 Housefull 3 * 2016 Sajid-Farhad 145 The Conjuring 2 *** 2016 James Wan 146 Django *** 1966 Sergio Corbucci 147 The Water Horse *** 2007 Jay Russell 148 Udta Punjab ***1/2 2016 Abhishek Chaubey 149 Dhanak ** 2016 Nagesh Kukunoor 150 Te3n *** 2016 Ribhu Dasgupta 151 Nastik ** 1954 I. S. Johar 152 Ek Din Ka Sultan ** 1945 Sohrab Modi 153 Wrong Turn * 2003 Rob Schmidt 154 Too Big to Fail ** 2011 William Hurt  155 Aliens ** 1986 James Cameron 156 Fast Five **1/2 2011 Justin Lin 157 Raman Raghav 2.0 ***1/2 2016 Anurag Kashyap 158 The Danish Girl *** 2015 Tom Hooper 159 Miss Frontier Mail - 1936 Homi Wadia

July '16

160 Carry On Jatta ** 2012 Sumeep Kang 161 Red Cliff *** 2008 John Woo 162 Nightcrawler **** 2014 Dan Gilroy 163 Brahman Naman *** 2016 Q 164 Sultan *** 2016 Ali Abbas Zafar 165 A Throw Of Dice **** 1929 Franz Osten 166 The Perks of Being a Wallflower **1/2 2012 Stephen Chbosky 167 Bringing Out The Dead **** 1999 Martin Scorsese 168 The Deer Hunter **** 1978 Michael Cimino 169 Premam *** 2015 Alphonse Puthren 170 Madari *1/2 2016 Nishikant Kamath 171 Toy Story ***1/2 1995 John Lasseter 172 Kabali *1/2 2016 Pa. Ranjith 173 The Terminator *** 1984 James Cameron

August '16

174 Dishoom **1/2 2016 Rohit Dhawan 175 Shaitaan *1/2 1974 Firoze Chinoy 176 The English Patient **** 1996 Anthony Minghella 177 Brokeback Mountain **** 2005 Ang Lee 178 A Countess from Hong Kong *** 1967 Charlie Chaplin 179 My Left Foot ***1/2 1989 Jim Sheridan 180 Punch-Drunk Love *** 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 181 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ***1/2 1974 Martin Scorsese 182 Hard Eight ***1/2 1996 Paul Thomas Anderson 183 A King in New York *** 1957 Charlie Chaplin 184 Budhia Singh - Born To Run *** 2016 Soumendra Padhi 185 The Nice Guys ***1/2 2016 Shane Black 186 Byomkesh Bakshi *** 2015 Anjan Dutt 187 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ***1/2 2011 David Fincher 188 Antarmahal *** 2005 Rituparno Ghosh 189 Thalapathi *** 1991 Mani Ratnam 190 Mohenjo Daro *** 2016 Ashutosh Gowariker 191 Ronin *** 1998 John Frankenheimer 192 Blackhat ** 2015 Miachael Mann 193 Schindler's List ***** 1993 Steven Spielberg 194 Steve Jobs *** 2015 Danny Boyle 195 Rustom ** 2016 Tinu Suresh Desai 196 Happy Bhag Jayegi ** 2016 Mudassar Aziz 197 War Dogs *** 2016 Todd Philips

September '16

198 The Illusionist ** 2006 Neil Burger 199 The Man From Nowhere *** 2010 Lee Jeong-beom 200 Don't Breathe ***1/2 2016 Fede Alvarez 201 Akira * 2016 A.R. Murugadoss 202 Kitaab ***1/2 1977 Gulzar 203 Parched *1/2 2015 Leena Yadav 204 Last Tango in Paris **1/2 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 205 Awakenings *** 1990 Penny Marshall 206 Martha Marcy May Marlene *** 2011 Sean Durkin 207 Taxi *** 2015 Jafar Panahi 208 Chungking Express ***1/2 1994 Wong Kar-wai 209 Pink **** 2016 Anirudhha Roy Chowdhury 210 Scent of a Woman **1/2 1992 Martin Brest 211 Amores Perros ***1/2 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 212 21 Grams *** 2003 Alejandro González Iñárritu 213 …Jayate *** 1997 Hansal Mehta 214 M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story *** 2016 Neeraj Pandey

October '16

215	Mirzya	*1/2	2016	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
216	Guddu Ki Gun	*	2015	Sheershak, Shantanu
217	Sully	***	2016	Client Eastwood
218	Queen of Katwe	***	2016	Mira Nair
219	Zulfiqar	**	2016	Srijit Mukherji
220	Chhoti Chhoti Baten	***	1965	Motilal
221	Y Tu Mamá También	***	2001	Alfonso Cuarón
222	Shivaay	**	2016	Ajay Devgn
223	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil	***1/2	2016	Karan Johar

November '16

224 Doctor Strange (IMAX 3D) ***1/2 2016 Scott Derrickson 225 Saat Uchakkey * 2016 Sanjeev Sharma 226 Saaheb ** 1985 Anil Ganguly 227 Qatl ** 1986 RK Nayyar 228 Train To Busan **** 2016 Yeon Sang-ho 229 Trishna *1/2 2011 Michael Winterbottom 230 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (3D) ***1/2 2016 David Yates 231 Sixteen ** 2013 Raj Purohit 232 Parzania *** 2006 Rahul Dholakia 233 Before the Flood - 2016 Fisher Stevens 234 The Evil Within ** 1970 Lamberto V. Avellana 235 The Handmaiden **** 2016 Park Chan-wook 236 Under The Shadow ***1/2 2016 Babak Anvari 237 The Wailing  *** 2016 Na Hong-jin 238 Biutiful *** 2010 Alejandro González Iñárritu 239 Lost in Translation *** 2003 Sofia Coppola 240 Lights Out *** 2016 David F. Sandberg 241 In A Valley Of Violence *** 2016 Ti West 242 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade *** 1989 Steven Spielberg 243 Dear Zindagi ***1/2 2016 Gauri Shinde 244 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial *** 1982 Steven Spielberg 245 The Truman Show ***1/2 1998 Peter Weir 246 True Romance *** 1993 Tony Scott

December '16

247 Joint Security Area *** 2000 Park Chan-wook 248 Tootsie ** 1982 Sydney Pollack 249 India In A Day - 2016 Richie Mehta 250 Kahaani 2 *** 2016 Sujoy Ghosh 251 Children of Men ***1/2 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 252 Chauranga * 2016 Bikas Ranjan Mishra 253 Patang ** 2011 Prashant Bhargav 254 The Greasy Strangler *** 2016 Jim Hosking 255 Arrival ***1/2 2016 Denis Villeneuve 256 Moana (3D) *** 2016 Ron Clements, John Musker 257 Inside Job **** 2010 Charles Ferguson 258 Michael Madhan Kama Rajan *** 1990 Singeetam Srinivasa Rao 259 12 Angry Men **** 1957 Sidney Lumet 260 Sex, Lies, and Videotape *** 1989 Steven Soderbergh 261 Great Expectations *** 1998 Alfonso Cuarón 262 We Are What We Are ** 2013 Jim Mickle 263 La La Land  ***** 2016 Damien Chazelle 264 Rogue One (IMAX 3D) *** 2016 Gareth Edwards 265 Befikre **1/2 2016 Aditya Chopra 266 Shaun of the Dead *** 2004 Edgar Wright 267 Victoria No. 203 ** 1972 Brij 268 Abhay **1/2 2001 Suresh Krissna 269 Let The Right One In **1/2 2008 Tomas Alfredson 270 Starred Up *** 2013 David Mackenzie 271 Dangal ****1/2 2016 Nitesh Tiwari

TV Shows / Web Series:

1. Fargo (Season 2) [4/5]
2. Sherlock (Season 1-3, The Abominable Bride) [5/5]
3. Game of Thrones (Season 1-6) [4/5]
4. Friends (Season 1-5) (4/5)
5. The Office (Season 1-2) (3/5)
6. Permanent Roommates (Season 2) [3.5/5]
7. Life Sahi Hai (Season 1) [2/5]
8. Baked (Season 1) [2.5/5]
9. I Don't Watch TV [3/5]
10. TVF Tripling [3.5/5]
11. Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (Episode 27-33, 35, 48, 55)

Non-Feature Films:

1. Beyond The Tides (2015; Chinese; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
2. Naach Ganesh (2011; Silent; Bikas Ranjan Mishra)
3. Makhmal (2014; Hindi; Faraz Ali)
4. Naamkaran (2006; Bengali; Konkona Sensharma)
5. Taandav (2016; Hindi; Devashish Makhija)
6. Queen of Hearts (2016; Hindi; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
7. Techsex (2016; Hindi; Shailendra Singh)
8. India Tomorrow (2016; Hindi; Imtiaz Ali)
9. 3 On A Bed (2012; Bengali; Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti)
10. The Haunted Castle (1896; Silent; Georges Méliès)
11. Santa Claus (1898; Silent; George Albert Smith)
12. The Monster (1903; Silent; Georges Méliès)
13. The Haunted House (1908; Silent; Segundo de Chomón)
14. Kriti (2016; Hindi; Shirish Kunder)
15. Kathakaar (2015; Hindi; Abhimanyu Kanodia)
16. Int. Café: Night (2014; Hindi; Adhiraj Bose)
17. Ouch! (2016; Hindi; Neeraj Pandey)
18. Raakh (2016; Hindi; Milap Zaveri)
19. Inner Workings (2016; English; Leo Matsuda)
20. Chutney (2016; Hindi; Jyoti Kapur Das)

Summary:

Theatre viewing - 50

Home viewing - 221

Language-wise:

Bengali - 06

Cantonese - 01

English - 152

French - 01

Hindi - 85

Japanese - 01

Korean - 05

Malayalam - 01

Mandarin - 01

Marathi - 02

Persian - 02

Punjabi - 01

Silent - 01

Spanish - 03
Swedish - 01

Tamil - 07

Urdu - 01

Repeat Viewing:

• The Jungle Book (2016; Jon Favreau) [4/5]
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015; George Miller) [4/5]
• Tamasha (2015; Imtiaz Ali) [4/5]
• Masaan (2015; Neeraj Ghaywan) [5/5]
• Ugly (2014; Anurag Kashyap) [4/5]
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013; Martin Scorsese) [5/5]
• Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2) (2003-04; Quentin Tarantino) [5/5] 
• Gangs of Wasseypur (I & II) (2012; Anurag Kashyap) [5/5]
• Once Upon A Time in America (1984; Sergio Leone) [5/5]
• Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino) [5/5]
• Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016; Anurag Kashyap) [3.5/5]
• Black Friday (2007; Anurag Kashyap) [4.5/5]
• Ijaazat (1987; Gulzar) [3/5]
• The Dictator (2012; Larry Charles) [3/5]
• Rockstar (2011; Imtiaz Ali) [4/5]
• Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015; Matthew Vaughn) [3/5]
• Rangeela (1995; Ram Gopal Varma) [3.5/5]
• Sarkar (2005; Ram Gopal Varma) [3.5/5]
• Jab We Met (2007; Imtiaz Ali) [3/5]
• Bypass (Short) (2003; Amit Kumar)
• 7 Khoon Maaf (2011; Vishal Bhardwaj) [3/5]
• Chak De India (2007; Shimit Amin) [4/5]
• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016; Karan Johar) [3.5/5]
• Inglorious Basterds (2009; Quentin Tarantino) [5/5]
• Django Unchained (2012; Quentin Tarantino) [5/5]
• The Hateful Eight (2015; Quentin Tarantino) [5/5]
• Chasme Buddoor (1981; Sai Paranjpye) [4/5]
• Gulaal (2009; Anurag Kashyap) [4/5]