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Top 5 Bollywood movies of 2019
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2/12/2025
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Before the curtains come down on Bollywood in 2019, here’s a look at films that shined
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It was in star-driven movies that held any steam in Bollywood in 2019.
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Khan's or Kumar's did not have any sway at the box office,
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and it's only the good stories that shone bright.
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Here are my top 5 picks, in no particular order of preference.
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The first movie that you must have on your list is perhaps Ayushman Khurana's Article 15.
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Now, this is a very neat procedural crime thriller
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about two young women who get sexually violated and are hung on a tree.
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Ayushman Khurana plays a very erudite, elitist cop who's a Brahmin,
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he belongs to the upper caste, and how he's on call to investigate
00:39
the death and disappearance of missing women in a small village.
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It's a very interesting movie because it's not often that in Bollywood
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they tackle grim subjects with such gravitas.
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In fact, Ayushman Khurana, as this cop, is brilliant.
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He gives a wonderfully restrained performance as well,
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and every other actor in this movie has done their bit to elevate this
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crime thriller into one of the most must-watch movies of the year.
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Gully Boy is another movie that has to appear on your must-watch list in 2019.
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Director Zoya Akhtar takes you into the Mumbai slums,
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into the life of an angst-ridden Murad, played brilliantly by Ranveer Singh.
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One of the best parts about this film is that you know Ranveer Singh
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as this flamboyant actor in real life,
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but he gives one of the most restrained performances of his career
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as this angst-ridden rapper.
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In fact, one of the best parts about this movie was also actor Siddhant Chaturvedi.
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He was the Bollywood breakout star of the year.
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Gully Boy did the impossible.
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Through a Bollywood film, they managed to make life about rappers
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and the way they talk about their struggles and poverty into a very entertaining tale.
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I would give Gully Boy a chance and watch out for their performances.
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It's Ranveer Singh and Siddhant Chaturvedi that really shines.
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There's also actor Alia Bhatt, who does a great job as this feisty girlfriend.
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They've won several awards.
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In fact, this was also India's nomination to the Oscars
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in the Best Foreign Film category,
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but it did not win because it was loosely inspired by another Hollywood flick.
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So people were not too happy with the nomination, but it's a movie worth watching.
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2019 was the year that saw the return of Priyanka Chopra to Bollywood screens.
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The Sky Is Pink is a sobering movie about a terminally ill teen
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and how a family grapples with the tragedy.
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There's Farhan Akhtar and Priyanka Chopra, whose life comes to a standstill
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when they realise that their daughter is sick and perhaps dying.
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The Sky Is Pink is a very sobering movie, but it's also very touching.
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In fact, it's a movie that presses all the right buttons of joy, of sadness,
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of death being the greatest leveller.
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So watch this movie if you're in the mood for a very emotionally,
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not manipulative, but a riveting tale.
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The fourth movie on my list is Mardani 2.
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2019 was a year that did not have many women-empowering dramas in Bollywood.
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However, Rani Mukerji made her mark as Shivani Roy as a tough-as-nails cop.
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She's on a trail to nab a serial rapist played brilliantly by Vishal Jethwa.
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One of the best parts about this movie is that it has no songs to structure the narrative.
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It's song-free and it's very procedural in the way it goes about solving the crime.
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Rani Mukerji is wicked in this movie,
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and watching the villain and the actress pa is a treat to watch.
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My fifth choice is a very controversial one.
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It's Kabir Singh starring Shahid Kapoor.
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Now hear me out here.
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I know it's one of the most divisive movies of 2019
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because it's celebrated a hero that's toxically male and very, very sexist.
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He's also a misogynist.
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So it's not easy to like this emotionally damaged man-child who's also a surgeon in the movie.
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His warp relationship with Preeti played by Kiara Advani forms the crux of this warp love story.
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There's not much to love here in terms of the couple,
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but the way it was acted was brilliant.
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Shahid Kapoor is wonderfully despicable as a surgeon who's an alcoholic and a substance abuser.
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There's a lot to hate in this movie,
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but what makes it appealing is also the performances.
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And it's a story that did not go well down with the critics,
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but it's one of the highest grossers of 2019.
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If you can forget the debate about whether Bollywood movies should reflect reality
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or whether they should glorify its heroes, toxically male heroes as somebody great,
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then perhaps there's a lot to enjoy in Kabir Singh.
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This is my top five list of Bollywood films.
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But if you're in the mood to watch more movies,
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perhaps pick up a tabloid or go online on gulfnews.com
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to see our list of movies that shone in 2019.
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Have a great time at the movies.
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