Subhash K Jha picks his 12 favourite Hindi films of 2015

By Subhash K. Jha - December 22, 2015 - 10:51 AM IST

It was the year of promises masterpieces and the unexpected surprises. While films like Dibakar Bannerjee's Detective Byomkesh Bakshi and Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet proved colossal disappointments, surprises came in big and small packets. Luv Ranjan's cocky Pyaar Ka Puchnaama 2 jostled for attention with the big cruise down the Mediterranean in Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadkne Do. And dark angry films Meghna Gulzar's Talvar, Sriram Raghavan's Badlapur and Navdeep Singh's NH10 rubbed shoulders with the big silly comedies like Anees Bazmi's Welcome Back and Rohit Shetty's Dilwale. Amidst the furor of assorted films here are the ones that I loved the most.Subhash K Jha picks his 12 favourite Hindi films of 2015

1. Bajirao Mastani: Saving the best for the last, the year-end brought a bonafide epic into theatres. Bajirao Mastani is an operatic historical. Every component from the songs and the background music to the dances and fights, from the poetry to sabre...it's all food for the eyes and the soul. Sanjay Bhansali makes films. The others make an effort.

2. Piku: The most surprising hit of the year was also the scatological neo-classic of the Hindi cinema. Amitabh Bachchan played a Bhadra Lok obsessed with his bowel movement. Deepika Padukone was his harassed daughter. An Irrfan Khan was the guy driving the father and daughter to Kolkata as the pair drive each other crazy. Bass, itni si baat and itni badi film. Shoojit Sircar is a man of who works wonders with bodily fluids. Vicky Donor would vouch for that.

3. Bahubali: S S Rajamouli's fantasy-epic showed us what we can do to the Hollywood Spectacle if we put our art and heart into it. Bahubali was a dreamscape laid out in a panoramic sweep the sucked audiences into never-never land. This was fable so flamboyant it made The Lord Of The Rings seem redundant, at least for a while. And yes, the hitherto unknown Telugu star Prabhas was suddenly much sought-after in Bollywood. Rajamouli is the first real cross-over director from the South whose Telugu film has made Bollywood sit up and...just gawk. Wow!

4. Masaan: On the other end of scale from Bahubali is debutant director Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan. Epic in its own unique niche way this is the story about the burning ghats of Varanasi and the dying embers of a dignity denied to a girl Richa Chadha whose only crime was pre-marital sex with her boyfriend. Many strands of oppression and thwarted emotion coursed through the veins of this vibrant view of Varanasi. I can't wait to see what Ghaywan does next. PS .We only had to see Sanjay Mishra in Masaan and then at the end of the year in Dilwale to realize what mainstream Bollywood does to talented actors when they need extra cash.

5. Titli: Another debutant director Kanu Behl scored big with his Dilli-wali version of the

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