If you could show four Bollywood movies to foreigners, what would they be?

[WhenSultansBowled]

Again Anurag Kashyap, looks like cinema lovers outside India don't even try other directors' movies, btw the Mukkabaz lead was Danish in GANGS of wasseypur.

Loved the song though by Divine and Nucleya painthra.

Recommend some

(I've bookmarked [MENTION=77677]IgnitedMind[/MENTION]'s post)

 

[JaDed]

Kagaz ke phool is the Macbeth of Bollywood, Dutt based it on an Indian directors life (dunno the name), and Dutt himself went through very similar circumstances afterwards and ended up dying prematurely. Him and Madhubala in Bollywood and James Dean in Hollywood were the tragedies of those times

Yes but Dutt was sad at KKP not doing well, also as per his mother and Dev Anand he was depressed and had been suicidal before.

I think Meena Kumari is a tragedy as well, took her death to make Pakeezah a success ,unfortunate.
Sanjeev Kumar not tragedy but again too early, like Smita Patil.

Meena Kumari was huge in rural areas like almost unprecedented imo.

 

[JaDed]

Recommend some

(I've bookmarked [MENTION=77677]IgnitedMind[/MENTION]'s post)

To add to his post:

Badlapur and various other recommended on the forum.

 

[JaDed]

GOW is top tier movie. The way director introduces new characters and how easily he develops in a few minutes is Oscar-worthy IMO. Iconic stuff. I'll watch 'Ugly' next.

Ugly is remarkable sad again didn't do well.at BO.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

After going though this thread I watched the GOW, it’s a very good movie, definitely top tier for Indian cinema. It’s a crime drama, direction, culture, story line, language in the movie was not just Indian but very specific to that area. They did a very good job in telling the story. Brutal and rawness in their life and culture was portrayed in HBO style, normally you don’t associate that with Indian movies.

Cast of movie was also again strong actors, not good looking one. That’s why they are not famous like the Khans and Bachans. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is probably one of the best actor ATM in Indian cinema, his acting in always very natural to the role and evolves so well within the movie.

Thanks guys for recommending this, I would definitely recommend GOW to others. I will look into some other recommendations in this thread, when get a time

Man I salute the director for his cast. His cast are average looking people but awesome actors. This fact alone differentiates him from mainstream BWood (and I must emphasize I don't watch mainstream Bwood movies).

 

[JaDed]

Man I salute the director for his cast. His cast are average looking people but awesome actors. This fact alone differentiates him from mainstream BWood (and I must emphasize I don't watch mainstream Bwood movies).

Mukesh Chabbra is the casting director Bhai, [MENTION=5869]yasir[/MENTION] as well, Mukesh was selected by Anurag because he did well on Chillar Party, sadly he is moved on to directing now.

 

[DeadBall]

To add to his post:

Badlapur and various other recommended on the forum.

Very raw and gritty movie according to Bollywood standards. Highly recommended.

 

[DeadBall]

GOW is top tier movie. The way director introduces new characters and how easily he develops in a few minutes is Oscar-worthy IMO. Iconic stuff. I'll watch 'Ugly' next.

Highly recommended, the "twist" in the end will leave you evaluating things from a very different perspective.

 

[khan991]

Yeh saali zindagi, 3 idiots, drishyam and vaastav

 

[TQ89]

He made Badlapur recently and imo better than those two, that movie was good from start to finish.

Yup that movie was good too. Varun's performance surpised me the most. He is pretty good actor if he does good movies and not the masala **.

 

[JaDed]

Yup that movie was good too. Varun's performance surpised me the most. He is pretty good actor if he does good movies and not the masala **.

I agree, he is trying though, 'October' being one.

 

[Belawal2014]

Any good Indian movies that are on Netflix?

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Highly recommended, the "twist" in the end will leave you evaluating things from a very different perspective.

Woah. Watched it last night. What an ending. Caught me off guard.

Narcissist pos, the whole bunch of em.

Highly recommended movie: 'Ugly (2013)'. Game me the famous Korean revenge trilogy vibe

 

[Sachin136]

None from this millenium, because even though there are some that aren't too bad, they don't match up even close to a lot of the 50s-70s movies. Maybe just a song like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9kxpUcWID0 to show them that the Hindi film industry is dead now.

But for your friends, you should check out classics like Guide, Kagaaz ke Phool, pretty much any Guru Dutt movie, etc.

 

[Hamza_]

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