Year 2011 in Bollywood has been the year of innovation and movies that were close to real life. Here's a list of some movies that left the audience speechless and were applauded for their off-beat themes.
In this film, based on the gruesome Jessica Lal Murder case in 1999, director R.K. Gupta succeded in onscreen reiteration of the entire incident.
With Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan (as Sabrina Lal) in it, the story unfurls the hidden undesirable and heinious aspects of our system. The movie earned appreciation from critic and Rani won the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for her role.
Stanley Ka Dabba is a gibe on proverbial killjoy teachers. The magnificent simplicity of this Amol Gupte film is something much adored by the audience. Partho Gupte, the young Stanley, too succeeded in winning hearts of the audience and critics alike.
Amid bans and threats this high voltage onscreen politico-social drama of Prakash Jha tried to reveal the sore truth of lower castes and Reservation Policy in India. It had Amitabh Bachhan, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead.
Up till an extent the movie succeeded in communicating the message it was carrying and got quite a respectable rating from the critics for the storyline and picturisation.
Well the charm of Big B seems to be never ending. In BHTB also Big B's appearance as a foreign-returned contract assassin with a feather touch of histrionic comedy has proved that the man still has the potential to vitalize any and every kind of script.
This larger then life movie of Ranbir Kapoor in the last quarter of the year made every body bow to the versatile potential of this budding superstar.
The movie knitted around aspirations, love and separation has proved that this charming Kapoor has immense calibre. Rockstar was thoroughly welcomed by the critics for its outstanding picturisation and Ranbir's acting