I’m not ranking these films, because each film has different stories, different characters, and a different plot.
From a pregnant woman searching for her missing husband,
to Janardhan Jakhan chasing his dream,
to a quirky relationship of a daughter and her father
to a self realisation of Fuddu,
to life of Mumbai’s street rapper.
Every film is beautiful in its own World. Every film is different from one another.
So here are the Top 20 films of this Decade –
UDAAN
IMDB RATING- 8.1
PLOT- Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.
GUZAARISH
IMDB RATING – 7.4
PLOT – A paralyzed Magician-turned-Radio Jockey files a Petition in Court seeking permission to end his life.
LOOTERA
IMDB RATING – 7.3
PLOT- An aristocrat’s daughter falls in love with a visiting archaeologist, but he holds a secret that could drive them apart.
UDTA PUNJAB
IMDB RATING – 7.8
PLOT – A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.
BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG
IMDB RATING – 8.2
PLOT – The truth behind the ascension of Milkha Singh who was scarred because of the India-Pakistan partition.
ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA
IMDB RATING – 8.1
PLOT – Three friends decide to turn their fantasy vacation into reality after one of their friends gets engaged.
KAHAANI
IMDB RATING – 8.1
PLOT – A pregnant woman’s search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met him.
GULLY BOY
IMDB RATING – 8.2
PLOT – A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
ANDHADHUN
IMDB RATING – 8.3
PLOT – A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist, who must now report a crime that he should technically know nothing of.
TUMBBAD
IMDB RATING – 8.2
PLOT – A mythological story about a goddess who created the entire universe. The plot revolves around the consequences when humans build a temple for her first-born.
MADRAS CAFE
IMDB RATING – 7.7
PLOT – An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
PIKU
IMDB RATING – 7.6
PLOT – A quirky comedy about the relationship between a daughter and her aging father, whose eccentricities drive everyone crazy.
MASAAN
IMDB RATING – 8.1
PLOT – Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
A DEATH IN GUNJ
IMDB RATING – 7.6
PLOT – Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
THE LUNCHBOX
IMDB RATING – 7.8
PLOT – A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR I & II
IMDB RATING – 8.2
PLOT – A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
DELHI BELLY
IMDB RATING – 7.6
PLOT – Three struggling room-mates unknowingly become potential prey of a ruthless gangster.
OCTOBER
IMDB RATING – 7.5
PLOT – A group of interns are going through the usual grind when suddenly an accident changes their lives. The protagonist can’t get let go of it and becomes obsessed with it. What does it all lead to? Is it love or something else?
TALVAR
IMDB RATING – 8.2
PLOT – An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.
ROCKSTAR
IMDB RATING – 7.7
PLOT – Janardhan Jakhar chases his dreams of becoming a big Rock star, during which he falls in love with Heer.
Written by Girish Kumar
