2018 was the year of Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khurrana. A record number of movies entered the Rs 100-crore club and it was the new actors who won hearts with their performances.
If Bollywood gave us Race 3, we also watched gems like Sanju, Padmaavat, Gold, Stree and Raazi. The year gave us these handful of refreshingly original and brilliant movies. Although some didn’t do as much business, they were the real winner as far as storyline, screenplay, direction and performance are concerned.
We have the list of movies you need to watch before the year ends, so invite your friends home and start the marathon.
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1. Manmarziyaan
The movie is Anurag Kashyap’s spin on relationships of the new generation. Full of emotions and details of the modern-day love, the movie will take you on a roller-coaster ride right from the start. The powerhouse of Manmarziyaan are the three protagonists Rumi, Vicky, and Robbie (played by Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal, and Abhishek Bachchan). Watch the movie and you will know it is not your average love story.
IMDB Rating: 7 Stars
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2. AndhaDhun
With AndhaDhun, Bollywood saw an intelligent and structured crime drama in 2018. Ayushmann plays a blind pianist who gets caught up in a murder. It isn’t pretty late into the movie that the story starts unfolding into twists and turns. A surprise will be thrown at you when you least expect it. If you still have no reasons to watch the film, do it for Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu.
IMDB Rating: 9 Stars
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3. Badhaai Ho
What happens when you mix a good script, a stellar cast, and mind-blowing performance? Well, you get Badhaai Ho! With humour and emotions at just the right points, Badhaai Ho is a reflection of the hypocrisy of the society that associates sex only with the youth and shames the middle-aged for their healthy relationships. Ayushmann Khurrana gives another splendid performance, but his parents in the movie (played by Neena Gupta and Gajraj Rao), who are expecting another child, give power-packed performances.
IMDB Rating: 8.2 Stars
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4. Love Per Square Foot
Netflix’s first mainstream digital-only film is a thoughtful ode to love and the city of Mumbai. The film perfectly captures a couple’s dreams of owning a house in the city and making it big in life. It is splendid how beautifully the essence of the city and the chemistry of a couple has been brought alive in the film. Watch it for Vicky Kaushal and you’ll love him more after.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
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5. October
Perhaps the best performance of Varun Dhawan so far, October is a tale of love and loss. The movie can be slow at times, but that is exactly how you can capture the true essence of a movie that is not just a love story, but a story of internal battles.
IMDB Rating: 7.6 Stars
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6. Karwaan
As the name suggests, Karwaan is about a road flick that three visibly different people had to take due to a cruel twist of fate. The film is about life, death, some hard realisations, and bittersweet experiences of life. The effectiveness of the movie lies in how perfectly it shows the generation gap between young people who are separated by only a decade.
IMDB Rating: 7.6 Stars
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7. Lust Stories
This Netflix Originals has four short films directed by four most popular directors of Bollywood, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. The film is about lust, guilt, shame and forbidden relationships. The movie will take you into the homes of four couples: a husband who can’t satisfy his wife; a man who is having an affair with his househelp; a woman having an extramarital affair with her husband’s best friend; and a professor who is sleeping with her student. Monisha Koirala is a part of the movie and Vicky Kaushal is again at his best. Fun Fact: Karan Johar had offered Vicky Kaushal’s role to Ayushmann first.
IMDB Rating: 6.6 Stars
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