RRR
RRR feels in many ways like the ideal entrance for Western audiences into the world of Indian cinema; with a dramatic story that’s equal parts familiar and foreign and music and action that feel like the best of what Hollywood has ever tried to offer, it earns its place among the greats.
Gangs of Wasseypur
Gangs of Wasseypur is an incredibly long (and resultingly difficult to follow in places) but deeply satisfying crime epic that has all the best pieces of western gangster flicks played out in the streets of an outlying Indian province with all of the additional complexities that that entails, earning it recognition as one of the Greatest Films of All Time.
Sita Sings the Blues
Paley’s blend of animation styles go a long way in keeping the film engaging, but it’s really the actual retelling of the Ramayana that give Sita Sings the Blues the edge that it needs to earn a place among the greats.
Lagaan: once Upon a Time in India
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India excels in so many genres of filmmaking and manages to blend them all together into a cohesive film and story about the people of India triumphing over their colonizing invaders that deserve a place among the Greatest Films of All Time.
All That Breathes
All That Breathes is an excellently shot documentary that delivers a fairly fresh and unique take on nature documentaries and highlights its subjects’ passion for their work in the process.
The Lunchbox
Comedy, unique storytelling, and solid side characters build The Lunchbox into a great film, worth watching despite its lack of conclusive ending and its potentially problematic central relationship.