Top Critic Rated Hindi Movies of 2018

Raazi (HINDI)
Vicky Kaushal , Alia Bhatt , Amruta Khanvilkar Soni Razdan
Director: Meghna Gulzar
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How do you make a patriotic film without any bombastic dialog and still manage to move the most cynical filmgoer to tears? Raazi is one of the finest films to come out of Bollywood. It is the story about a young Kashmiri girl who marries into a Pakistani general's family and in her own way and at great danger to her life spies for India and practically saves the day during the war between Pakistan and India in 1971. It is a tale well told and brilliantly acted. Must watch! Read Review
Tumbbad (HINDI)
Sohum Shah , Harish Khanna , Ronjini Chakraborty Anita Date
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
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In a village that seems to be doomed by the gods, there is one family that lives unafraid. A family that knows the secret hidden inside the womb of the goddess. The brilliant scary, horrifying film is based on a couple of stories written by Marathi writer Narayan Dharap who in turn was inspired by Stephen King. The writing is practically flawless, the music is haunting and the performances jaw-dropping good. Brilliant watch. Read Review
Sir (HINDI)
Tillotama Shome , Vivek Gomber , Geetanjali Kulkarni Ahmareen Anjum
Director: Rohena Gera
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Rohena Gera's Sir is a simple portrait of a relationship between a young architect and his live-in maid. Not a moment in this film seems unauthentic. And, while little seems eventful here, a lot of it still lingers in the mind long after the first viewing. Read Review
Sui Dhaaga (HINDI)
Varun Dhawan , Anushka Sharma , Raghuvir Yadav Govind Pandey
Director: Sharat Katariya
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If there has been a Hindi film this year that has managed to keep me constantly smiling like an idiot yet always on the verge of tears the way this Sharat Katariya film does, I do not remember it. What I shall not forget is to recommend that you should take everyone you know and go watch Sui Dhaaga as soon as possible. Read Review
Manmarziyaan (HINDI)
Abhishek Bachchan , Taapsee Pannu , Vicky Kaushal Abdul Quadir Amin
Director: Anurag Kashyap
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Her hair is dyed red and his is blue and they are kindling and fire. Physical and irresistible. Her family would like them to get married but he doesn't show up. Every single time. She's as fiery as her hair, and she gets married to another, an exact opposite of her lover. A twisted Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, perhaps, but what a mush, fun ride. Who'd have thunk Anurag Wasseypur Kashyap could be exquisitely drippy in love?! Read Review
Manto (HINDI)
Nawazuddin Siddiqui , Rasika Dugal , Tahir Raj Bhasin Javed Akhtar
Director: Nandita Das
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A magical mystery tour into the life and works of writer Saadat Hasan Manto who was born in British India, moved to Pakistan after the Partition and yet lived for Bombay that was in his heart. Manto was an iconoclast and his anguished life celebrated the vile and the forgotten. This film neatly weaves the stories he wrote into the life he lived and leave us wondering: is he the better storyteller or is God? Not commercial at all, but what a brilliant cinematic experience. Read Review
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain (HINDI)
Sanjay Mishra , Pankaj Tripathi , Shivani Raghuvanshi Ekavali Khanna
Director: Harish Vyas
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A lovely story about love, duty, everyday life set in Benaras. A grouchy, crotchety man who does his duty by his wife and daughter announces that he has arranged for his daughter to be married off. The daughter rebels and questions her dad: do you even know what is love? How the question is answered is this lovely tale of heartache and love and new beginnings. Read Review
PadMan (HINDI)
Akshay Kumar , Sonam Kapoor , Radhika Apte Sudhir Pandey
Director: R. Balki
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This is a dramatised biopic of India's sanitary 'Pad' man, who in his quest for making cheaper sanitary napkins for his wife, suffered socially, was ostracised and then ultimately acknowledged for his innovation. Akshay Kumar does a fabulous job as small town inventor but the story comes together only in the second half with the arrival of Sonam Kapoor who guides him to greatness. If you can endure the slow, unmoving first half, this film is socially relevant. Read Review
Padmaavat (HINDI)
Deepika Padukone , Ranveer Singh , Shahid Kapoor Aditi Rao Hydari
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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The story of a beautiful, faithful queen and a lustful invader who will stop at nothing is told in three very long hours. The costume drama is beautiful and Rajasthan is a great setting for this tale of Rajput valor. But the talk of pride and glory is so endless, it makes you want to run into your sword out of sheer boredom. But Ranveer Singh makes a brilliant hammy villain, and Deepika is luminous. Read Review
Hichki (HINDI)
Rani Mukerji , Harsh Mayar , Sachin Pilgaonkar Supriya Pilgaonkar
Director: Siddharth P Malhotra
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Take all the underdog students and hero teacher films and add a dose of Right To Education and a give the teacher Tourettes so we also learn to empathise with differently abled people. The film checks all the boxes of stereotypes and yet only a couple of scenes manage to touch you. It's neither Dangerous Minds, nor is it To Sir With Love. Rani Mukherji needed a stronger, smarter script. Read Review
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (HINDI)
Kartik Aaryan , Nushrratt Bharuccha , Sunny Singh Alok Nath
Director: Luv Ranjan
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'Bromance or Romance' is the underlying premise of the battle of the sexes film. Although it feels misogynistic to paint women the way they have in the film, it is so delightful and frothy and fun, you come away smiling. Are all girlfriends needy or plain manipulative? Will Sonu save his best friend Titu from his girl? What is true love? Do Punjabis drink and wed? The film is a tad too long, but has enough to make you finish gigantic popcorn tubs. Read Review
AndhaDhun (HINDI)
Ayushmann Khurrana , Radhika Apte , Tabu Anil Dhawan
Director: Sriram Raghavan
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A blind piano player, his cat, an ageing has-been Bollywood star, his wife, her lover, and a dark, dark comedy about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This film by Sriram Raghavan has a fabulous first half which makes you want to rate it a notch higher. But in the second half you wonder why the movie gets too clever for its boots, preening about the fact that the director can add more twists at will. Read Review
October (HINDI)
Varun Dhawan , Banita Sandhu , Gitanjali Rao Sahil Vedoliyaa
Director: Shoojit Sircar
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Shoojit Sircar has managed to turn a singing, dancing, goofball called Varun Dhawan and shown us that the lad can get the audience to cry and laugh and be on his side. October is an unlikely film for Bollywood so used to boy meets girl and falls in love narrative, that a story about human empathy is rare. The film falters because it takes it own time and feels like it is stuck in a loop, but if you are patient, the reward is wonderful. Read Review
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (HINDI)
Sonakshi Sinha , Jassi Gill , Jimmy Shergill Piyush Mishra
Director: Mudassar Aziz
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In the first part of the film, Happy was chased all over Pakistan by politician Bagga and the policeman Usman Afridi. This time there's another Happy, and she in China, chased by Chinese henchmen who think she's the original Happy. Bagga and Afridi have also been kidnapped and they're on the run too. If you cannot laugh at racially insulting jokes, you will laugh at the physical ones. The writing is superb and you will end up enjoying yourself immensely. Read Review
Laila Majnu (HINDI)
Tripti Dimri , Avinash Tiwary , Sumit Kaul Mir Sarwar
Director: Sajid Ali
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It's the love story everyone has seen growing up, our very own Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy made popular and unforgettable. But this pair of doomed love birds are modern, cell phone carrying teens. The gal is meh, so the magic of instant love seems to be missing. But the writing is brilliant and the lad is too. Looks like Imtiaz Ali has got his mojo back. Read Review
Gali Guleiyan (HINDI)
Manoj Bajpai , Ranvir Shorey , Neeraj Kabi Shahana Goswami
Director: Dipesh Jain
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This is not your regular Bollywood offering. It is a claustrophobic tale of a man caught inside a warren of small, dark narrow alleys, where you can barely see the sky, and although he wants to escape, he is caught by the overhead wires. It is also the story of a young lad, abused by his father and brow beaten into accepting his fate that means no escaping from this hell hole... The film is shot beautifully and all characters are brilliantly etched in their pain. You will come away shook. Read Review
Simmba (HINDI)
Ranveer Singh , Sara Ali Khan , Sonu Sood Ajay Devgn
Director: Rohit Shetty
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A street smart orphan realises that the corrupt cops have money and power, so he grows up to become one. Ranveer Singh crackles in the title role of Simmba and wins us over in this simple tale of bad cop turning into gold. Eminently watchable! Read Review
Apaharan (HINDI)
Ajay Devgn , Bipasha Basu , Mohan Agashe Yashpal Sharma
Director: Prakash Jha
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Nobility combined with mobility. Interesting gripping combination. 'Apaharan', Prakash Jha's harsh and brutal political commentary on the state of anarchy a.k.a Bihar, makes for riveting viewing. You know it's true. Read Review



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