10 Best Bollywood Movies Of 2014

2014 is now over and it’s time to judge the best movies of that year. So who will going to judge that, it will be yours truly? Hence, my choice of best movies of 2014 from all the movies released last year will be:

Ranking	The Chosen One	Show Me....Details	Phata Poster
1.	Haider	I assume this will be voted unanimously among best movie of this year. The closest competitors may be Queen or PK.
2.	Queen	A movie that redefined storytelling and also a welcome change from hero dominated industry and this is the core reason to place it above the third choice.
3.	PK	This nanga punga dost delivered magic, with all the controversies and release issues will place it as third best movie of the year. I know it’s a hard choice between second and third place.
4.	2 States	A movie from bestselling novel with all ingredients that Bollywood movies are famous for.
5.	Highway	The story of Veera and Mahabir was very well written and directed. A must watch for this year.
6.	Mary Kom	A biopic which becomes the first Hindi film to be to be screened on the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival, do worth a mention here including the review or acceptance it received after its release. Even choreographers in Gujarat had incorporated "Mary Kom" punching-style in Garba for Navaratri this year.
7.	Ek Villain	It’s high in this order because of the song, music, melody, dialogues and performances. Whereas the script and story is also not that bad and probably one of the highest earned movie among most of the movies in this list.
8.	Finding Fanny	A movie with cast as Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur can't go much wrong and it did received many critical acclaims to be in this list.
9.	Bhoothnath Returns	Story of Bhoothnath played by Amitabh Bachchan at his age of 70+ years do need a mention in this list along with the child artist Parth who naturally fit into his character. This is definitely a must watch movie for children and adult alike.
10.	Khoobsurat	This is a Disney product and they did what they do the best, to churn out a happy go lucky movie. You can't do much and only enjoy this movie with your "Maa Ka Phone Aaya". You know what I mean.

Mentioned below are the ones which missed the mark, eventually there are place for only 10. Here the respective roles are played by unknown or not so known actors and people still liked those movies. It’s definitely the victory of cinema as a whole. Included them as they were the underdog releases of this year and still performed best to their potential. Also the movie Youngistan can be remembered for last performance by the legend Farooq Sheikh. 

Some of the money minting machine at box office, like Bang Bang, Kick and Happy New Year which also released last year would have found a place in this list too but I tried to find a genuine list in terms of Quality not Quantity.

Let me know if you agreed to this list or not.

©Tapas Majumdar