Everything I Watched in 2018

Feature Films/Documentaries:

January '18 

1	Good Time	***1/2	2017	Ben and Josh Safdie
2	The Householder	***	1963	James Ivory
3	IT	****	2017	Andy Muschietti
4	Thelma	***1/2	2017	Joachim Trier
5	Detroit	****	2017	Kathryn Bigelow
6	Par Ek Din	-	2017	Jaideep Varma
7	Crossing Bridges	***1/2	2013	Sange Dorjee Thongdok
8	Marjorie Prime	**	2017	Michael Almereyda
9	Tanna	****	2015	Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
10	Land of Mine	***1/2	2015	Martin Zandvliet
11	Amma Ariyan	***	1986	John Abraham
12	Ghashiram Kotwal	-	1976	K. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Kamal Swaroop
13	Fences	***	2016	Denzel Washington
14	Mukkabaaz	****1/2	2018	Anurag Kashyap
15	Jackie	***	2016	Pablo Larraín
16	Hidden Figures	***	2016	Theodore Melfi
17	Kaalakaandi	**1/2	2018	Akshat Verma
18	The Beguiled	***	2017	Sofia Coppola
19	Loving Vincent	***	2017	Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
20	Spielberg	****	2017	Susan Lacy
21	The Lost City of Z	***	2017	James Gray
22	Pyasa Shaitan	1/2	1984	Joginder
23	I Am Not Your Negro	***	2016	Raoul Peck
24	Memoir of a Murderer	****	2017	Won Shin-yun
25	Aval	***	2017	Milind Rau
26	Toni Erdmann	***	2016	Maren Ade
27	Padmaavat (3D)	**1/2	2018	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
28	Stronger	***	2017	David Gordon Green
29	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	**1/2	1997	Jay Roach
30	Youth	***	2015	Paolo Sorrentino
31	Jana Aranya	***1/2	1976	Satyajit Ray
32	Cujo	**	1983	Lewis Teague
33	Sikkim	***	1971	Satyajit Ray

Books I Read in 2018

English

1. We Indians (Khushwant Singh)
2. The Best Baker In The World (Raja Sen)
3. Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
5. The Complete Adventures of Feluda: Vol. 1 (Satyajit Ray)
6. Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
7. Calling Sehmat (Harinder Sikka)
8. The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves (Jai Arjun Singh)
9. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Arundhati Roy)
10. The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma (Kidar Sharma)
11. Falling in Love Again (Ruskin Bond)
12. Speaking of Films (Satyajit Ray)

Hindi

1. Do Log (Gulzar)
2. Aag Ka Dariya (Qurratulain Hyder)
3. Udaas Naslain (Abdullah Hussain)
4. Na Bairi Na Koi Begana: Volume 1 (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
5. Vishvaas Ki Hatya (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
6. Fifty-Fifty (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
7. Kaanpta Sheher (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
8. Dial Hundred (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
9. Kaagaz ki Naav (Surendra Mohan Pathak)
10. Conman (Surendra Mohan Pathak)

The Best of 2018 in Hindi Films

BEST FILMS

1. Mukkabaaz

2. Andhadhun

3. Tumbbad

4. Manmarziyaan

5. Bhavesh Joshi Superhero

6. October

7. Mulk

8. Raazi

9. Stree

10. Gali Guleiyan

Honourable Mentions:

Pad Man, Beyond the Clouds, Bioscopewala, Lust Stories, Soorma, Karwaan, Laila Majnu, Love Sonia, Manto, Pataakha, Sui Dhaaga: Made in India, Badhaai Ho

BEST PERFORMERS (MALE)

1. Vineet Kumar Singh (Mukkabaaz)

2. Manoj Bajpayee (Gali Guleiyan)

3. Ayushmann Khurrana (Andhadhun)

4. Avinash Tiwary (Laila Majnu)

5. Priyanshu Painyuli (Bhavesh Joshi Superhero)

6. Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Manto)

7. Ranveer Singh (Padmaavat)

8. Vicky Kaushal (Sanju)

9. Abhishek Bachchan (Manmarziyaan)

10. Rishi Kapoor (Mulk)

Honourable mentions:

Ravi Kishan (Mukkabaaz), Akshay Kumar (Pad Man), Varun Dhawan (October), Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju), Pankaj Tripathi (Stree), Sunil Grover (Pataakha), Soham Shah (Tumbbad), Gajraj Rao (Badhaai Ho)

BEST PERFORMERS (FEMALE)

1. Taapsee Pannu (Manmarziyaan)

2. Tabu (Andhadhun)

3. Bhumi Pednekar (Lust Stories)

4. Anushka Sharma (Pari)

5. Zoya Hussain (Mukkabaaz)

6. Radhika Madan/Sanya Malhotra (Pataakha)

7. Alia Bhatt (Raazi)

8. Neena Gupta (Badhaai Ho)

9. Gitanjali Rao (October)

10. Rasika Duggal (Manto)

BEST SONGS

1. Paintra (Divine; Mukkabaaz)

2. Ruby Ruby (Shashwat Singh, Poorvi Koutish; Sanju)

3. Hafiz Hafiz (Mohit Chauhan; Laila Majnu)

4. Grey Walaa Shade (Harshdeep Kaur, Jazim Sharma; Manmarziyaan)

5. Wo Ladki (Arijit Singh; Andhadhun)

6. Raazi (Arijit Singh; Raazi)

7. Ishq Di Baajiyaan (Diljit Dosanjh, Shankar Mahadevan; Soorma)

8. Nainowale Ne (Neeti Mohan; Padmaavat)

9. Tumbbad (Ajay Gogavale; Tumbbad)

10. Chaav Laaga (Papon, Ronkini Gupta; Sui Dhaaga: Made in India)

BEST SOUNDTRACKS

1. Manmarziyaan (Amit Trivedi)

2. Mukkabaaz (Rachita Arora, Nucleya, Vineet Kumar Singh)

3. Laila Majnu (Niladri Kumar, Joi Barua, Alif)

4. Andhadhun (Amit Trivedi, Raftaar)

5. Raazi (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy)