Rajashri Venkatesh
2017 has shown some amazing movies to Bollywood lovers! There was crime, there was passion and definitely more drama. Have a look at what you have missed in Bollywood cinema!
Directed by Rahul Dholakia. With Raj Arjun, Shubham Chintamani, Shubham Tukaram, Dhanveer. A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.
Directed by Shree Narayan Singh. With Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Bhumi Pednekar, Rajesh Sharma. A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.
Directed by Saket Chaudhary. With Irrfan Khan, Neha Dhupia, Saba Qamar, Sanjana Sanghi. A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.
Directed by Suresh Triveni. With Vidya Balan, Neha Dhupia, Manav Kaul, Vijay Maurya. Vidya Balan (Sulochana a.k.a. Sulu) essays the role of a beautiful, enthusiastic and happy-go-lucky Mumbai housewife whose routine life changes when she unexpectedly lands herself with the exciting job of a night RJ (radio jockey) on a leading radio station.
Directed by Advait Chandan. With Zaira Wasim, Meher Vij, Raj Arjun, Tirth Sharma. Insia is a 14 year-old from Vadodara who dreams of being a singer one day.
Directed by Milan Luthria. With Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta. An Indian queen asks her bodyguard to steal back gold taken from her by the Indian government during The Emergency period in 1975.
Directed by Amit Masurkar. With Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghuvir Yadav. A government clerk on election duty in the conflict ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. With Kangana Ranaut, Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Edward Sonnenblick. A love triangle forms against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Directed by Anshai Lal. With Anushka Sharma Kohli, Diljit Dosanjh, Suraj Sharma, Mehreen Pirzada. A man must marry a tree to ward off threats to his love-life, but the tree turns out to have more spirit than the man bargained for.
Directed by Hansal Mehta. With Kangana Ranaut, Sohum Shah, Esha Tewari, Jason Louder. A socially criticized girl who is financially cornered, becomes an outlaw to dodge the situation.
Directed by Srijit Mukherji. With Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Pallavi Sharda. The story of eleven prostitutes who refuse to part ways with their brothel and each other during the partition between India and Pakistan.
Directed by Apoorva Lakhia. With Shraddha Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Siddhant Kapoor, Uttam Halder. This is the story of the slightly-less-notorious sister of a notorious gangster.
Directed by R.S. Prasanna. With Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Seema Bhargava, Anshul Chauhan. In this remake of Kalyana Samayal Saadham (2013), a couple fall in love but then the groom discovers that he suffers from erectile dysfunction.
Directed by Ranjit Tiwari. With Farhan Akhtar, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Gippy Grewal. Set in a jail in Lucknow, a group of prisoners form a music band.
Directed by Sankalp Reddy. With Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri. A Pakistani submarine, Ghazi plans to secretly attack Vizag port. For doing so, it has to get past Indian submarine S21.
Directed by Tanuja Chandra. With Irrfan Khan, Parvathy, Bajrangbali Singh, Anud Singh Dhaka. Yogi and Jaya, who have polar opposite personalities and sensibilities, meet via a online dating app. This encounter turns into so much more when the two travel to Rishikesh.
Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia. With Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rajesh, Nishikant Kamat, Anand Ingale. From the rough streets and back alleys of Central Mumbai comes the sensational true story of Arun Gawli, a man who scripted his own destiny, eventually going on to become one of India's most feared gangsters. Today he remains an enigmatic figure; at once a volatile, power-hungry criminal for some and the respected "Daddy" or a modern day Robin Hood for the working-class neighborhood he belongs to.
