My Favorite Movies of 2008

Apart from the absurdity like Love Story 2050, Drona, Tashan, Singh is Kinng, Karzzzz ,I believe 2008 have been a superb year for Indian film Industry. This year witnessed an effort towards making serious and sincere movies from film makers. It was a good year for a audience like me to catch a single moment of transcending pleasure. Though exceptions of regular film makers will always be there whose instincts are driven more with box office collections than to present an idea.In this context, Shahrukh Khan who came back to prove his dominance with a dreamland movie like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which is not the demand we have from Shahrukh today. Also in the race of becoming the number one and be most profitable actor, Aamir Khan too became a part of raw commercial product like Ghajjini.

Some remarkable movies that arrived:

A Wednesday
A suspense of cat and mouse that ends in a serious note. It is not just gun for gun but a loud and clear message that what a common man can do if bureaucrats and politicians fails to control terrorism because at the end of the day it is the common man who is affected not the elite group. When the elite group doesn’t care about us then we have to make them hear .The movie exaggerates that security services and politicians work with sound coordination but it’s okay for two hours worthy entertainment

Rock On:
A movie that uses the spirit of music to focus friendship, love and dreams. It is something that remarks a new beginning for Indian Music regarding Rock culture as well as the new Indian Cinema. Thanks to Farhan Akhtar for his courage to sings and making them really ROCK ON! Biggest strength of the movie is that it is not about music but uses music to explore the story.

Dasvidaniya
Before watching this movie I had more expectations from Vinay Pathak and without no doubt, he has lived up to expectations. The movie is successful in delivering the old flavor of characters, but having seasoned with masala of subtle humor. This movie remarks as the message of simple man with simple ambitions of his life. It is about those dreams we forget to see, in the rush of life, being mere unimportant to world around us. We must care about people we love, but lets not forget ourselves

Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
It is a movie subtle in humor even than movies like Dasvidaniya, in a sense, that to find the meaning of humor you need to know and understand the cultures and whims of society we live in. I will say it will be an insult to call it comedy film. It is very serious movie about love, hate, family, society and most importantly about self. A very simple movie of a simple person but with a complex life who happens to be a thief and expressed in very simple notions of common man characters whom you can find just around the corner of your street or colony.

Aamir
Another flick on terrorism!! The movie which say we individuals are not Muslims or Hindus and not even Indians, we are human in the first place. That's enough for this movie to count upon. But nonetheless the movie picked the subject with a different approach. An individual who happens to be a Muslim and is well to do is made to do what he never could do. But in the end a man decides himself of his fate. Without any significant budget, without any prominent cast it was a greatly developed movie. Kudos to Raj Kumar Gupta and who in his very first flick unbelievably given the moments of secularism, religion and terrorism.

Slumdog Millionaire
What more is left to say about this movie? This movie is set in the backdrop Mumbai slums and is about a low class person living in those slums. The movie is about a person who hails from slums of Mumbai and goes onto become a millionaire and finds his love of life in the end. The important thing is that movie is not about India and slums. It is about the victory of optimism in the face of adversities. It won't be wrong to put it in genres of comic, tragedy and love story; but in the end bottom line is that how a man can live his life in this cynical world with nothing but a bit of hope. The movie is beautifully played with a mixture of strong emotions and a sense to send a message to audience through this medium but without forgetting that entertainment is primary objective of this medium.

The Dark Knight
When you will watch The Dark Knight on a big screen then it would be a grand visual pleasure comparable to few other pleasures one can think of immediately. I can't remember the last time I felt this satisfied coming out of a film. Important thing about director Christopher Nolan's latest Batman sequel is that it's not only a spectacular comic-book movie, but also one with an intellectual heart. It's not all about chases and explosions and action scenes – although there's lots of that – it's also a really smart film about characters with edge and a plot that actually seems to make sense. Inheriting the character completely, delivering a OSCAR deserving performance that is hard to forget even days after you've watched the film, the late Heath Ledger is The Joker who proved himself as undoubtedly the finest, most menacing villain in any comic-book movie yet.

Wall E
Unlike any animation film you've seen before, Wall-E is a film with hardly any dialogue. Our hero himself doesn't speak at all, communicates at best in a few bleeps and other sounds. And yet the film itself has so much to say.
It makes a very pointed statement about the consumerist nature of humans and also about the state of our environment. But in the end, Wall-E is really an unconditional love story. Its charm lies in the fact that it's about a robot who's gifted with such humanity.

Kung Fu Panda
The real fun in Kung Fu Panda comes from the action scenes which are packed with energy and full of crazy little moments that'll have you in splits throughout. It's also impossible not to lose your heart to Po, the klutzy, couch-potato panda who gets his attitude from Jack Black's amazing voice Kung Fu Panda is a visually stunning film whose animation is part-computer generated part-hand drawn, it's the kind of photorealistic 3-D animation that makes characters and locations come alive because they're so intricately detailed and fantastically executed.