Some good movies you may have missed - Part II

Continuing with the topic regarding movies that got overlooked, a few more names come to mind….

Haasil: Hassil had a new director Tigmanshu Dhuliya and a non-star cast, Jimmy Shergil and Ashutosh Rana were the most known names in the lineup, with one character artist names Irffan Khan as the main antagonist. Till date people who have watched the movie have only positive feedback, it was this performance of his which caught the eye of the industry over Irffan Khan. A story revolving around student politics in UP, with Jimmy and his lady love Hrishita Bhatt caught in the middle, this is one compelling watch, not worth missing. (Genre: Drama, Politics) 

 

99: Time and again people try to imitate Guy Ritchie and his style of film making with multiple storylines intercommoned in a single movie, seldom does anyone succeeds, well 99 seams to be the exception, with some unconventional casting and good performances backed by a good script the movie is worth a watch. (Genre: Comedy)

 

Ek Hasina Thi: A very talented director came to Indian cinema through this movie, Sriram Raghvan, Saif Ali Khan gave one of his best performance till date in the movie, a no nonsense revenge drama, to some extent lifted from “If Tomorrow Comes” a novel by Sydney Sheldon, worth a watch for any thriller fan. (Genre: Thriller, Crime)

 

Chupke Se: It is a nice feel good movie, where the heroine tells a lie that her name is just for fun, but than is forced to keep up with the lie and suddenly all her life starts getting impacted by the deception. The movie is light and funny, with some exceptional ‘shyari’ by Om Puri’s character, he plays a don who is desperate for publicity. All in all it makes a decent watch with family.

(Genre: Romance, Comedy)

Some good movies you may have missed

Bollywood makes more than 100 movies in a year, many belonging to big production houses, some with popular stars, some with great music, hype, publicity etc etc etc….

But not all movies get same kind of attention, some time due to lack of big stars, some time due to lack of publicity and some times just because the timing is not right, which causes some good or even fantastic movie to go unnoticed, so today I would like to list a few movies that I like a lot but may not be very popular, but I believe if these movies were given the right platform they could have landed in the category of hit movies when released.

Sehar: Arshad Warsi is known to be funny; he is part of many comedy franchise movies like Golmal, Dhamaal, Munnabhai. It may be hard for people to believe that he can act in a serious role, but he did exactly that in Sehar (2005). A realistic thriller with UP’s Mafia-Political collaboration as the back drop. Watch this for Arshad Warsi’s subtle performance and for Pankaj Kapoor of course. (Genre: Drama, Politics, Crime)

3 Deewarein: When I first heard about the plot of this movie, I was horrified as it was story of three prisoners who have been awarded capital punishment in a jail, waiting to be hanged and how they interact with a journalist. I thought it was a documentary wrongly classified as a commercial movie, however I watched the movie due to the director i.e. Nagesh Kucknoor, and I was so wrong, this was a beautiful movie with virtually no melodrama and a great story with an amazing climax. (Genre: Drama, Crime)

 

Via Darjeeling: A few friends are sitting in a house in Kolkata, sipping tea and coffee, just a casual get together; however the things become interesting as soon as one of the friends who is a Police Inspector starts telling them about an unsolved case where a man disappeared from Darjeeling, and the Police could not find any trace of him, and suddenly all the people in the room starts throwing their own theory of what actually could have happened. (Genre: Suspense, Crime)   

7 ½ Phere: It is one movie where Irrfan Khan starred opposite Juhi Chawla, interesting combination by all means. Story is about Juhi who wants to make a TV show about a real Indian wedding while actually shooting the program during the marriage ceremony, the problem is that no one is allowing her to do so in their home, how ever our hero Irffan falls pray to Juhi’s charm and allows her to shoot the marriage ceremony in his house secretly by installing cameras in different rooms of the house. And chaos begins… (Genre: Comedy, Romance)  

The above mentioned movies although not very popular may still make a good watch rather than some highly hyped but content less movies which are popular these days. So take some risk and make a pick.