Selection by: Planet Bollywood
Staff
| # |
Movie |
Starring |
Music |
Director |
| 10 |
Bend It Like
Beckham |
Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Anupam Kher |
|
Gurinder Chadha |
Albeit somewhat
superficial, there's tons of fun in Chadha's soccer story. The dubbed Indian title was
most apt: "Football Shoot-ball, Haye Rabba". |
| 9 |
Mere
Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai |
Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill, Sanjana, Bipasha Basu,
Alok Nath, Saurabh Shukla, Neena Kulkarni, Bindu |
Jeet-Pritam |
Sanjay Gadhvi |
Hard to determine what scored more with
audiences: the "My Best Friend's Wedding" adapted
tale or Shamita Shetty's sultry "Sharara Sharara" item number. |
| 8 |
Aankhen |
Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar,
Paresh Rawal, Arjun Ramphal, Sushmita Sen, Aditya Panscholi with Bipasha Basu and Kashmira
Shah in Special Appearance |
Aadesh Shrivastava, Jatin - Lalit
& Nitin Raikwar |
Vipul Amrutlal Shah |
The plot sounded preposterous before the
film's release, but with Amitabh at the cast's helm and a talented new director on deck,
Aankhen scored a pretty clean loot. |
| 7 |
Road |
Manoj Bajpai, Vivek Oberoi, Antra Mali, Makhrand
Deshpande, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Raj Zutshi and Ganesh Yadav. Special Appearances by
Ganesh Acharya and Koena Mitra |
Sandesh
Shandilya, Nitin Raikwar |
Rajat Mukherjee |
We were all glad to see Mukherjee trying
something different again in his second directorial venture. If only the filmmaker didn't
feel the need to use the lengthy two hour plus Bollywood convention for this cinematic
journey. |
| 6 |
Deewangee |
Ajay Devgan, Akshaye Khanna, Urmila Matondkar, Seema
Biswas, Suhasini Mulay, Farida Jalal, Suresh Oberoi |
Ismail Darbar |
Anees Bazmee |
Slick, boys and girls, slick! How else can
we describe the superb Devgan-Khanna performances and quick pacing of the flick. |
| 5 |
Humraaz |
Bobby Deol, Amisha Patel and Akshaye Khanna |
Himesh Reshammiya |
Abbas-Mustan |
Akshaye Khanna scored a second time with
the murder mystery formula. But this time, Himesh Reshammiya lent the proceedings some
bloody good songs too. |
| 4 |
Saathiya |
Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherjee, Sandhya Mridul, Tanuja,
Satish Shah, Sharat Saxena, Shahrukh Khan (s.a), Tabu (s.a) |
A R Rahman |
Shaad Ali |
It was hard for Shaad Ali to strike out
with a remake of Mani Ratnam's Alai Payuthey. But his transporting of it to a North Indian
milieu was almost perfect. |
| 3 |
Devdas |
Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Jackie
Shroff, Kiron Kher, Smita Jaykar, Vijayendra Ghatge, Tiku Talsania, Milind Gunaji, Ananya,
Dina Pathak and Vijay Crishna |
Ismail Darbar |
Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
Here's more fuel for the fire that the film
should not have been India's official entry for the Oscars. There's never been a more
glossy or opulent looking Bollywood product than Bhansali's Devdas, but is that enough to
be called the best from India? |
| 2 |
Monsoon Wedding |
Nasserudin Shah, Lilette Dubey, Vasundhra Das,
Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Parvin Dabas, Sameer Arya, and Khulbhushan Kharbandha |
Michael Daaney |
Mira Nair |
There's a simple reason Nair's wedding
dramedy made $20 million globally; she knows how to have fun, but doesn't mince her words
on serious topics. |
And, Favourite Movie of 2002 was: Company
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Manisha
Koirala, Mohanlal, Antara Mali, Seema Biswas, Introducing Vivek Oberoi, Isha Koppikar
& Urmila in special appearances
Director: Ram Gopal
Varma
Music: Sandeep Chowta
|
Mr. Varma continues to take Indian
cinema to lofty heights. And international studio houses (20th Century Fox) have finally
jumped at the chance to sponsor this genius' vision. No other Indian director would dare
create this superb allegory for the corporate world in a mafia enterprise. |
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