Best Film:
From the slim pickings this year, I"ll go with Band Baaja Baaraat. Frothy but realistic, fun but down to earth, YRF comes up with the film that reminds you why you love Bollywood. It's the kind of sweet, earthy, lovely little movie that no other industry in the world can come up with.
Honorable mention: none (the caveat being that I have seen very few BW films this year)
Worst Film:
Too many to count. Tees Maar Khan, Golmaal 3, Dabangg, Action Replay, We are Family, Kites, and many more I can't remember.
Best Actor:
Shah Rukh Khan, My Name is Khan
Honorable mention: Ranveer Singh, Band Baaja Baaraat
Worst Actor:
Himesh Reshamiyya, Kajra Re
Honorable Mention: Salman Khan, Veer & Abhishek Bachchan, Raavan & Imran Khan, I Hate Love Stories
Best Actress:
Anushka Sharma, Band Baaja Baaraat
Honorable mention: none
Worst Actress:
Sonam Kapoor, I Hate Love Stories
Honorable Mention: Deepika Padukone, Break ke Baad & Kajol, My Name is Khan & Priyanka Chopra, Pyar Impossible
Best Music:
Amit Trivedi, Aisha
Honorable mention: Salim Sulieman, Band Baaja Baaraat
Worst Music:
Chance Pe Dance, Pritam
Honorable mention: Tees Maar Khan, Vishal Shekhar & My Name is Khan, Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Best Song:
Gal Mitthi Mitthi Bol, Aisha
Honorable mention: Ainvayi Ainvayi, Baad Baaja Baaraat
Worst Song:
My Name is Sheila, Tees Maar Khan
Honorable mention: Hudd Hudd Dabangg Dabangg, Dabangg
Best Promo:
Theatrical trailer of My Name is Khan
Honorable mention: First promo of Raavan, with Abhi jumping off the cliff
Worst Promo:
Tees Maar Khan, all trailers. Khanon me Khan... ugh!!
Best Posters:
Action Replay, a riot of colors
Worst Posters:
Robot, stupidity and tackiness galore
Best Hollywood film:
ReplyDeleteBlack Swan. Beautiful, ugly, and thrilling, Black Swan is like watching great literature unfolding on screen. You'll never look at ballet the same way again.
Honorable mention: The Social Network
Best TV show:
ReplyDeleteMad Men, sterling representation of 1960s America. Thoughtful, entertaining and intelligent, it's everything television is capable of being but rarely is.
Worst TV show:
Jersey Shore. Extremely entertaining and trashy, it's the worst best television around. You can't turn your eyes away from the catastrophe.
Best Desi TV show:
ReplyDeleteIndian Idol, nobody ever gets tired of music. Reminds one of old forgotten songs and an easy, breezy evening watch.
Worst Desi TV show:
Emotional Atyachar. Falls into the tacky, trashy and highly entertaining Jersey Shore category. Highly likely to be completely fake, it still gets a snicker out of the audience.
Best Scandal:
ReplyDeleteRanbir Kapoor. RK cheating or not cheating on Deepika Padukone. Ranbir dating or not dating Sonam Kapoor. Ranbir stealing or not stealing Katrina Kaif from Salman Khan. Ranbir's dad fighting or not fighting with Karan Johar. RK RK RK is it.
Worst Scandal:
The Bachchan family and their various antics, zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Best Bollywood News:
Farah Khan and SRK dumping each other. Hallellujah! The world thanks them.
Worst Bollywood News:
Priety Zinta threatening to make new movies constantly.
LOL! Nia is on a roll! Even if I do not agree with all your lists, it is a fun read! BUT Hud Hud Dabangg? Come on, that is half way decent.
ReplyDeleteOh I forgot Worst Hollywood Movie:
ReplyDeleteHands down, worst movie from Hollywood would have to go to Sex and the City 2. Atrocious from beginning to end. Pathetic old women navel gazing and walking around half dressed in a conservative Muslim country in the name of independence and enlightenment. Disgusting!
Pardesi, there are worse songs than that but I wanted to choose relatively well known music. Picking random songs people have barely heard of makes it boring.
ReplyDeleteIt's like picking Aakhri Decision for Worst Movie, which it probably is, but then who cares about it anyway. :P
LOL - Aakhari Pasta = WIN!
ReplyDeleteAakhari Decision = FAIL!!!
Agree with Pardesi's comment fun to read but disagree on some choices.
ReplyDeleteBand Baaja Barati was decent one time watch. Where do you find plannars dancing? If they dance who is going to manage the arrangements? The conflict and resolution between lead pair was too easy in other words staged.
Dabangg was a designer masala fare. Transition between scense was so abrupt, I don't know if they hired any editors for the movie. It has some good one liners and songs but that is it. The movie tone was uneven. At times it was very serious and at times it was crazily comical.
and I liked TMK :grin:
best movie - LSD
ReplyDeletebest director - dibakar banerjee
best music - ishqiya
honorable mention udaan , striker
best actor - none
best female actor - vidya in Ishqiya
Best song - dil to bachcha hai ji
Deepika in break ke baad was actually really good . dont know where it came in worst of 2010 .
Nia - Thanks for the entertaining list. LMAO on the Ranbir Kapoor scandals. So true. The boy gets around...he should endorse a condom brand.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing you stuck to mainstream commercial films for the list. My Best Movie pick is Udaan. I cried tears of joy at the end. Any movie that makes me cry out of happiness gets my vote.
Happy New Year!
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