Readers Choice: Best Films Of 2009
Last updated on: January 14, 2010 10:01 IST
Image: A poster of Kaminey
As always, dear readers, you've surprised us.
We asked you to pick the year's best film, and you haven't topped your list with the year's biggest hit and have left out films we ourselves couldn't imagine leaving out. Surprise, surprise.
As always, you're the boss. Here are your five best films of 2009:
5. Kaminey
Vishal Bhardwaj's rollercoaster ride featuring twins and twists came in to round off your list, just when we thought you'd left all the voting to four names.
Indeed, such a landslide has it been towards the top three that this Shahid-Priyanka starrer was in danger of being ignored. A fine film and a fine choice.
4. Dev D
Image: A poster of Dev D
Anurag Kashyap's Dev D is a psychedelic thrillride, featuring Abhay Deol as a modern day drug-loving Devdas, an excessive lout torn between the rustic and undeniable charms of Mahie Gill's Paro and the sauciness of Kalki Koechlin's Chanda.
The real hero, however, was Amit Trivedi, crafting the soundtrack to a generation.
3. Wanted
Image: A scene from Wanted
On a good day, Salman Khan can take anything and make it work, and so it was with this unashamedly cheesy film by Prabhu Deva.
A remake of smash Tamil hit Pokkiri, Wanted is a tacky but thoroughly enjoyable film, a superhit in the Ghajini sense of the word.
2. 3 Idiots
Image: A scene from 3 Idiots
The biggest moneyspinner in the history of Hindi cinema, few films have captured the public imagination quite like Rajkumar Hirani's 3 Idiots.
The film has broken records all over the place and continues to make money, and characters like Chatur and Rancho are being quoted wildly. All is, indeed, well.
1. Paa
Image: A poster of Paa
You love Amitabh Bachchan, and why not? The veteran actor traded in his iconic baritone to play progeria patient Auro, with son Abhishek playing his father.
A nuanced performance from Vidya Balan helps Balki's film shine, and clearly a lot of us were left teary-eyed by this powerful melodrama. Your pick for film of the year.
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