The Chronicles of 2013 shan, January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 Hi, tanqeed members. Although I have been visiting tanqeed for almost 2 years now, this is my first post. I have a habit of making best and worst lists at the end of every year on my blog, and would like to post my 2013 list as my first post on tanqeed. Looking forward to some interesting discussions. 🙂As 2014 begins, it is time to list out what appealed to me most and what repelled me in 2013.Movies I absolutely loved… Kai Po Che – Delightfully heartbreaking tale of friendship and ambitions stymied by fate! Raanjhanaa – Wonderfully realistic and irrational love story that ends as tragically as it begins Raam Leela – A brash, colorful take on the bard’s eternal love story accentuated by spirited performances Madras Cafe – A hard-hitting docu-drama that takes sides but reveals enough while doing so Lootera – A slow, yet impactful retelling of O. Henry’s Last Leaf with melodious music and beautiful framesMovies that were flawed but watchable… Special 26 – A trying-to-be-smart film, which has its monents but which goes a tad too far in trying to swindle the viewers, not to mention the damage done by unnecessary songs and a tame romantic angle Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – An at-times gripping biographical with unnecessary songs and bravado scenes to live out the fantasy of Milkha Singh B. A. Pass – Faithful translation of Railway Aunty that focuses more on the lurid and less on the emotions Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns – Interesting story brought down by the hammy Mahie Gill and the underwhelming climax Aurangzeb – Interesting take on Don and The Devil’s Double that is a little stretched and often underwhelming Bombay Talkies – A couple of fantastic stories (Star, Murabba) marred by a couple of cheesy ones (Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh, Sheila Ki Jawaani)Movies I thought were overrated… Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani – A coming of age film that focuses too much on long legs and pretty visuals and delves very little into the subject matter The Lunchbox – A pretentious and boring film with some good moments Shuddh Desi Romance – Unrelatable yawn-fest, where you lose track of who wants what as quickly as the characters in the film Ghanchakkar – Too underwhelming for its own goodMovies I hated… Grand Masti – Unfunny, boring and lame Zanjeer – Ghastly! Chennai Express – Squanders some interesting ideas to deliver a stereotypical unfunny comedy with a hammy SRK in every frame The Attacks of 26/11 – Terrible attempt at homage to the dastardly acts, punctuated with irritating background music, pathetic camera angles and deliberately bad acting Chashme Baddoor – Bad remake of a really funny film, even Dibyendu Sharma couldnt save this one Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara – Yawn-inducing soporific film about clowns who happen to be gangstersAnd now for the awards….Best Actor Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che Akshay Kumar – Special 26 Dhanush – Raanjhanaa Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Ranveer Singh – Lootera Ranveer Singh – Raam LeelaBest Actress Deepika Padukone – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Sonam Kapoor – Raanjhanaa Sonakshi Sinha – Lootera Deepika Padukone – Raam Leela Shilpa Shukla – B. A. PassBest Film Kai Po Che Raanjhanaa Lootera Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Raam Leela Madras CafeBest Director Abhishek Kapoor – Kai Po Che Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB Anand L Rai – Raanjhanaa Vikrmaditya Motwane – Lootera Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Raam Leela Shoojit Sircar – Madras CafeBest Supporting Actor Rajkumar Yadav – Kai Po Che Amit Sadh – Kai Po Che Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB Boman Irani – Jolly LLB Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub – Raanjhanaa Paresh Rawal – Table No. 21 Rishi Kapoor – Aurangzeb Nawaazuddin Siddiqui – Bombay TalkiesBest Supporting Actress Kalki Koechlin – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Swara Bhaskar – Raanjhanaa Konkona Sen Sharma – Ek Thi Daayan Supriya Pathak – Raam LeelaBest Music Director Amit Trivedi – Kai Po Che Mithoon, Jeet – Aashiqui 2 Pritam – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Amit Trivedi – Lootera A R Rehman – Raanjhanaa Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Raam LeelaBest Song Maanjha – Kai Po Che Tum Hi Ho – Aashiqui 2 Sunn Raha Hain Na Tu – Aashiqui 2 Badtameez Dil – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Manmarziyaan – Lootera Raanjhanaa – Raanjhanaa Lahu Munh Lag Gaya – Raam Leela Ambarsariya – Fukrey Zinda – Bhaag Milkha BhaagBest Male Playback Singer Amit Trivedi – Manjha, Kai Po Che Arijit Singh – Tum Hi Ho, Aashiqui 2 Ankit Tiwari – Sunn Raha Hain Na Tu, Aashiqui 2 Amit Trivedi – Ghanchakkar Babu, Ghanchakkar Benny Dayal – Badtameez Dil, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Sukhvinder Singh – Piya Milenge, Raanjhanaa Shiraz Uppal, Jaswinder Singh – Raanjhanaa, Raanjhanaa Javed Ali – Tum Tak, Raanjhanaa Amitabh Bhattacharya – Ankahee, Lootera Amitabh Bhattacharya – Shikayatein, Lootera Siddharth Mahadevan – Zinda, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Arijit Singh – Laal Ishq, Raam Leela Shail Hada – Lahu Munh Lag Gaya, Raam LeelaBest Female Playback Singer Shreya Ghoshal – Sunn Raha Hain Na Tu, Aashiqui 2 Shruti Pathak – Shubharambh, Kai Po Che Sona Mohapatra – Ambarsariya, Fukrey Rekha Bharadwaj – Kabira, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Shalmali Kholghade – Balam Pichkari, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Shreya Ghoshal – Banarasiya, Raanjhanaa Monali Thakur – Sawaar Loon, Lootera Shilpa Rao – Manmarziyan, Lootera Shreya Ghoshal – Nagada Sang Dhol, Raam LeelaBest Lyrics Mithoon – Tum Hi Ho, Aashiqui 2 Irshad Kamil – Milne Hai Mujhse Aayi, Aashiqui 2 Swanand Kirkire – Manjha, Kai Po Che Swanand Kirkire – Shubharambh, Kai Po Che Amitabh Bhattacharya – Khoon Choos Le, Go Goa Gone Amitabh Bhattacharya – Badtameez Dil, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Irshad Kamil – Tum Tak, Raanjhanaa Amitabh Bhattacharya – Shikayatein, Lootera Amitabh Bhattacharya – Manmarziyan, Lootera Amitabh Bhattacharya – Sawaar Loon, Lootera Prasoon Joshi – Zinda, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Siddhartha-Garima – Lahu Munh Lag GayaWorst Actor Imran Khan – Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara Shah Rukh Khan – Chennai Express Ram Charan – Zanjeer Vivek Oberoi – Grand Masti Ranbeer Kapoor – BesharamWorst Actress Sonakshi Sinha – Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara Sonakshi Sinha – R… Rajkumar Amisha Patel – Race 2 Priyanka Chopra – Zanjeer Pallavi Sharda – BesharamWorst Film Himmatwala Race 2 Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara Zanjeer Besharam Boss Gori Tere Pyaar MeinWorst Director Sudhir Mishra – Inkaar Abbas Mustaan – Race 2 Ram Gopal Verma – The Attacks of 26/11 Abhinav Kashyap – Besharam Apoorva Lakhia – Zanjeer Milan Luthria – Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara Post Views: 55 Articles Exclusive Abhishek KapoorAkshay KumarArticlesDeepika PadukoneExclusiveFarhan AkhtarKai Po CheLooteraMadras CafeRaanjhanaaRajkumar YadavRam LeelaRanveer SinghShoojit SircarSonakshi SinhaSonam KapoorSupriya PathakSushant Singh Rajput
Good post shan. Agree with first two category but the third category of yours will also fall in first category of mine, movies I liked.Best actor should go to Rajkumar Yadav for Shahid & Supporting should go to Zeeshan for Ranjhana.Best actress is Off course Deepika for CR/YJHD/Ramleela & supporting actress should go to swara Bhaskar for Ranjhanna.Best song – Sun raha haina tu Best Singer male – Amit Trivedi for Ghanchakkar babu or Arjit for Tum hi ho. Best singer female – Sona Mohapatra for AmbrasiyaBest Director – either lootera or Madras cafeLog in to Reply
Thanks FS. Unfortunately, havent seen Shahid yet, so cannot comment.Zeeshan was fantastic in Raanjhanaa but I feel he did not have enough footage and as a resultant, could not make enough impact to get the nod ahead of Rajkumar Yadav. Same with Swara Bhaskar.Music category is an open field this year with so many fantastic songs! It is hard to pick only one 🙂Best director is a tough race too, but I feel Abhishek Kapoor did really well to convert the very filmy Chetan Bhagat book into a very likeable and gripping film. That has as much to do with the script as with direction. Then again, to each his own. 🙂Log in to Reply
Best Movies of 2013 for me Madras Cafe Shahid Special 26 Raanjhana Jolly LLB The LunchboxMovies I found Average/timepass – Krrish 3, Race 2, Grand Masti, CE, Kai Po CheMovies I hated – Besharam, Himmatwala, Dhoom 3, OUATIMDBest Actor Dhanush – Raanjhanaa Rajkumar Yadav – Shahid Irfan Khan – The Lunchbox Akshay Kumar – Special 26 Arshad Warsi – Jolly LLB Emraan Hashmi – Ghanchakkar Aditya Roy Kapoor – Aashiqui 2Best Actress Deepika Padukone – Chennai Express Nimrat Kaur – The Lunchbox Vidya Balan – Ghanchakkar Shraddha Kapoor – Aashiqui 2Best Director Shoojit Sircar – Madras Cafe Hansal Mehta – Shahid Neeraj Pandey – Special 26 Anand L Rai – Raanjhanaa Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLBBest Supporting Actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub – Raanjhanaa Amit Sadh – Kai Po Che Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB Boman Irani – Jolly LLB Anupam Kher (Special 26) Prakash Belawadi – Madras CafeBest Supporting Actress Swara Bhaskar – RaanjhanaaLog in to Reply
Best Movies of 2013 for me (Hindi)Ghanachakkar Madras Cafe Dhoom 3 Special 26Movies I found Average/timepass – Jolly LLB, Krrish3, CE, Kai Po CheMovies I hated – YJHDBest ActorAkshay Kumar – Special 26 Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB Emraan Hashmi – Ghanchakkar Aamir Khan – Dhoom 3Best Actress Deepika Padukone – Chennai Express Deepika Padukone – YJHD Kangana – Krrish3Best Director Raj Kumar Gupta – Ghanachakkar Shoojit Sircar – Madras Cafe Neeraj Pandey – Special 26 Vijay Krishna Acharya – Dhoom 3Log in to Reply
Thanks for sharing, Ritz. Agree with most, except Dhoom 3. Although I didn’t hate it like most people here, I found it to be very average (at times even below average) and not worthy of any nominations.Log in to Reply
I don’t have list of movies but only one as best of year can only be one.Ranjhanaa. Lately not seen such terrific jugalbandi or sometimes triplebandi in any movies as displayed here by Dhanush – Zeeshan ( Terrific) – Swara Bhaskar and thn icing on cake was wonderful wonderful dialogues…distant second will be S26.Tried to watch both YJHD and KPC. couldn’t complete both, later was very mediocre novel by CB and movie didn’t engage me. Tried my best.Log in to Reply
Completely agree on Raanjhanaa, Tulmul. It is almost a masterpiece. Loved it when I watched it first, loved it even more on the second watch. The triplebandi is just awesome! Dhanush brings in a lot to the table and I feel without him, this film wouldn’t have been so effective. Of course, the direction is good too, but Dhanush elevates the film to a different level altogether.Log in to Reply
Good choices .Best Movies of 2013 for me Ghanchakkar,Shahid,Madras CafeMovies I found Decent – Ranjhaana,Special 26,Jolly llb,Fukrey,KPC,GGG,CE .Best Performance Dhanush – Raanjhanaa Rajkumar Yadav – Shahid Arshad Warsi – Jolly LLB Emraan Hashmi – Ghanchakkar Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub – Raanjhanaa Amit Sadh – Kai Po Che Deepika Padukone – Chennai ExpressLog in to Reply