TOP TEN INDIAN MOVIES

-ANAND (1971)

• Plot: The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the full before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

•Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

•Written by : Bimal Dutta, Gulzar D.N. Mukherjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Biren Tripathy.

•Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal.

-DRISHYAM (2013) Crime, Drama, Thriller.

•Plot: A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.

•Director: Jeethu Joseph

•Writer: Jeethu Joseph

•Starring: Mohanlal, Meena, ansiba.

-NAYAKAN (1987) Crime, Drama

•Plot: An anti-government union leader's only son Sakthivel is arrested by the police to find his whereabouts. They trick Sakthivel into believing them as his well-wishers and release him. When Sakthivel meets his father, the police kill the latter. Feeling betrayed, Sakthivel stabs the police inspector and runs away to Bombay, where he is raised by Hussain, a kind-hearted smuggler living in the Dharavi slums.

•Directed by: Mani Ratnam

•Written by: Mani Ratnam

•Starring: Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Karthika

-Anbe Sivam (2003) Adventure, Comedy, Drama.

•Plot: Two men, one young and arrogant, the other damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.

•Two men, one young and arrogant, the other damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.

•Directed by: Sundar C.

•Written by: Kamal Haasan

•Starring: Kamal Haasan, R. Madhavan, Kiran Rathod.

-GOL MAAL (1979) Comedy, Romance.

•Plot: Studious Laxman (Sharman Joshi) always seems to get into trouble when he hangs out with his mischievous childhood buddies Madhav (Arshad Warsi), Gopal (Ajay Devgan) and Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor). Laxman is evicted from his college dormitory after it's discovered that his friends have been using the room as a base of operations. Hapless Laxman and his friends must then find refuge in the home of an elderly couple, whose house, it turns out, contains a cache of hidden jewels.

•Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

•Writers: Sailesh Dey & Sachin Bhowmick

•Starring: Amol Palekar, Deven Verma, Shubha Khote & Manju Singh

-DANGAL (2016) Action, Biography, Drama.

•Plot: Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters struggle towards glory at the Commonwealth Games in the face of societal oppression.

•Directed by: Nitesh Tiwari

•Written by: Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, Nikhil Meharotra

•Starring: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh.

-BLACK FRIDAY (2004) Action, Crime, Drama

•Plot: Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

•Director: Anurag Kashyap

•Writers: Anurag Kashyap (screenplay), Hussain Zaidi (book), Piyush Mishra (lyrics)

•Starring: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Shrivastava, Imtiaz Ali

-VIKRAM VEDHA (2017) Action, Crime, Thriller

•Plot: Ruthless cop wages a war against an unscrupulous gangster. However, certain events lead to the cop questioning his principles and motives. This leaves behind a battle between good and bad with what is good and what is bad being unclear.

•Directors: Gayatri , Pushkar

•Writers: Manikandan, Gayatri, Pushkar.

•Starring: R. Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar.

-LIKE STARS ON EARTH (2007) Drama, Family

•Plot: Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi is an 8-year-old boy who dislikes school and fails every test or exam. He finds all subjects difficult, and is belittled and berated by his teachers and classmates. But Ishaan's internal world is full of wonders that he is unable to convey to others, magical lands filled with colour and animated animals. He is an artist whose talent is unrecognised.

•Directed by: Aamir Khan

•Written by: Amole Gupte

•Starring Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma.

-JAANE BHI DO YAARO (1983) Comedy, Drama

•plot: Two friends, attempting to start-up their own photo studio, come across shady dealings, corruption and murder, and must fight to bring the guilty to light.

•Director: Kundan Shah

•Writers: Ranjit Kapoor, Satish Kaushik.

•Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve, Satish Shah.