It's time to seize the day and live life to the recommends #KalHoNaaHo, #SaifAliKhan ,written and directed #StayHome #HealthyAtHomeĪ post shared by Film Companion on at 12:10am PDTĪshutosh Gowarikar, the director of this film, is better known for Lagaan, our big ticket to the Oscars, with a story of cricket and colonization. But here, it is just one of the many strands in the background, along with Kantaben, the iconic homophobic help, and the Gujju-cult in peak stereotype, as an over-excited, and overwhelming people. The cross-religious affair in this film that leaves the older generation livid is a classic one.
Set in New York, the visuals might be familiar to the American but the emotional undercurrents are very much Bollywood. The dream sequence song, ‘Kaisi Hai Yeh Rut’ takes all the excessive cliches of the Bollywood love song- the riverside and the moon and the dolphins- and weaves it into a warm expression of love.Īn emotionally exhausting see-saw between teary smiles and fiery sighs, this is a story about a terminally ill patient who falls in love, just enough to let her go. It’s an ode to the movies and how we use it as an excuse to hold hands, and fall in love. Watch out for ‘Woh Ladki Hai Kahan’ where the characters watching the film become the characters in that film, dancing in endearing, silly, simple steps choreographed by Farah Khan. Farhan Akhtar’s directorial debut of youth who shrink and grow into love and lovelessness, is in another sense a coming-of-wage film, with the characters reconciling their passions to their pockets.įor the uninitiated, the song picturizations might jar.
This is the definitive coming-of-age, buddy film of the 2000s. And no, the 2004 colourized Mughal-e-Azam doesn’t count. These are contemporary movies from the past two decades. Additionally these might not be the best films we have made they are a mere flavour of the many shades of Hindi cinema. What this list doesn’t do, however, is shatter that stereotype.