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Top 10 Movies of The Decade
What movies we've got to see this decade! So much experimentation, so much innovation! So many new directors and perceptions.
We have compiled a list of some of the best movies of the decade. Take a look! -
Kaho Naa... Pyar Hai (2000)
Director: Rakesh Roshan
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Amisha Patel
Every generation of teenage girls needs a poster boy to pin their dreams on.
With Kaho Naa...Pyaar Hai, millions found their dreamboat in Hrithik Roshan: a cool, contemporary beefcake with enviable floor-scorching skills.
Producers rushed to sign him up while mafia dons sought his dad's cell phone number. -
Dil Chahta Hai (2001)
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Cast: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Khanna
The call centre revolution had just happened when Farhan Akhtar's debut film came calling.
Fresh in style and sensibility, Dil Chahta Hai illustrated that attitude was the new cool and friends the new family. The movie fared moderately but Aamir's goatee left a deep imprint on many young faces.
A cult flick for GenNow, DCH continues to occupy gigabyte space in their mind-space. -
Lagaan (2001)
Director: Ashutosh Gowarikar
Cast: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh
Few movies have been as interactive as Lagaan. Auditoriums turned into cricket stadiums as audiences watched a group of villagers take on a team of colonial sahibs in an unlikely bat-and-ball contest.
If Italians know anything about cricket today, the Oscar-nominated movie should get more credit than ICC -
Gadar - Ek Prem Katha (2001)
Director: Anil Sharma
Cast: Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, Amrish Puri
In civilised drawing room gatherings, it is hard to find somebody who liked Gadar which only underlines the schism between upper middle-class aesthetics and mass sensibilities.
For the searing interreligious Indo-Pak love story broke all box-office records and set up Sunny Deol as the ultimate desi hulk.
Who else could take on an entire platoon of Pakistanis and make it look credible? -
Devdas (2002)
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai
For purists, he could have been Durgadas, Dave Das but certainly not the protagonist of Saratchandra's literary imagination. And Shah Rukh always seemed ready to stammer K..k..Kiran, rather than utter Pa..pa..Paro.
But for many, especially those who hadn't seen the earlier versions, the Rs 50 crore epic was the grandest of love tales where 19th century rural Bengal resembled 18th century Italy and Paro was the epitome of coiled passion -
Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006)
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan
Goons, when played by heroes, generally have a heart of gold. That's one of the time-tested cliches of Mumbai cinema.
But making Mahatma Gandhi a bhai's conscience keeper was among Bollywood's most inventive ideas. The movie coined the word, Gandhigiri, and brought it into the popular lexicon. The movie is gone but the word lives on. -
Rang De Basanti (2006)
Director: Rakeysh Mehra
Cast: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan
What political science professors and student leaders failed to achieve in decades, Rang De Basanti accomplished in three hours: it introduced political imagination as an idea into the heads of an apolitical generation.
Dudes, too, care for their country was the cool message. The movie enthused a generation to carry out candlelight protests, write social blogs and acquire the spunk to face water cannons. -
Chak De! India (2007)
Director: Shimit Amin
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Shilpa Shukla, Chitrashi Rawat
Hockey is history in India today. But in the deft hands of director Shimit Amin and writer Jaideep Sahni, it became a different ball game: a drama of redemption.
The movie had no love songs or item numbers, not even a conventional heroine. But the life stories of the little women and the man who inspired them made for an un-miss-able, uplifting movie. -
Taare Zameen Par (2007)
Director: Aamir Khan
Cast:Amir Khan, Darsheel Safary
The 2007 Bollywood film that tells the story of an nine year old child who suffers greatly until a teacher identifies him as dyslexic.
It is produced by Aamir Khan Productions, and was initially conceived of and developed by the husband and wife team, Amole Gupte and Deepa Bhatia. The film stars Khan and Darsheel Safary, features music by the trio, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Taare Zameen Par was released on 21 December 2007 with 425 prints across India.
It grossed Rs.131 crore (US$ 27.9 million) worldwide. -
3 Idiots (2009)
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cast :Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni & Boman Irani.
3 Idiots is a 2009 Bollywood comedy film with a screenplay by Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat.
3 Idiots broke all box office records upon release. In its four-day first weekend, the film netted INR 380 million, and broke the record held by Ghajini for the first weekend collections. By the first week, the film netted INR 790.5 million, again breaking the box office record held by Ghajini.
At the end of its theatrical run in India, it broke all box office records for Indian box office collections, and is the first Bollywood film to cross the INR 2 billion mark in India itself. Currently, it is the highest-grossing Bollywood film according to net collections, earning INR 2.024 billion (US$ 44,720,996).
