2015 Preview – Most Anticipated Movies

– Prakshid Meshram

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15 MOST ANTICIPATED HINDI FILMS OF 2015 IN MAINSTREAM AND INDIE SECTIONS

So here we are, in the heroic new world of 2015. 2014 comes to an end in just a few days and the year was mostly a let down in comparison to the strong 2012 & 2013. Nevertheless, some of the best films from some of the best auteurs of the Indian movie scene helped lend the year some colour – Haider by Vishal Bhardwaj, Queen by Vikas Bahl, Highway by Imtiaz Ali, 2 States by Abhishek Varman, PK by Rajkumar Hirani, to name a few. But one look at the release calendar of next twelve months will reveal why the cinematic landscape for 2015 looks far more exciting. With the cinematic return of filmmakers like Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Basu, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Anurag Kashyap and Imtiaz Ali among many others. 2015 is going to rise and shine with the new hope and excitement.

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From the list of 2015 releases, I have picked the Top 15 Films I’m Most Looking Forward to in Mainstream and Indie Sections. Let us know what you are anticipating in the comment box. Here they are in reverse order.

MAINSTREAM SECTION

15.  WAJIR

Directed by – Bejoy Nambiar

Produced by – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani

Written by – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi

Cast – Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar and Aditi Rao Hydari

Music by – Ankit Tiwari

Genre – Action Thriller, Drama

Logline – It revolves around a paralysed chess grandmaster and an ATS officer.

Release Date – NA (Not Announced) [Expected Summer 2015]

Teaser

 

14.  HUMARI ADHURI KAHAANI

Directed by – Mohit Suri

Produced by – Mukesh Bhatt

Written by – Mahesh Bhatt

Cast – Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi and Rajkumar Rao

Music by – Mithoon and Ankit Tiwari

Lyrics by – Manoj Muntashir and Mithoon

Genre – Romantic Drama

Logline – While most love stories end with the couple getting married, this one is about finding soul mate after marriage.

Trivia – It is said to be the love story of Mahesh Bhatt’s parents, Nanabhai Bhatt and Shirin and his stepmom.

Release Date – June.12.2015

 

13.  MIRZIYA

Directed by – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Written by – Gulzar

Produced by – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Anand Mahindra

Cast – Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Waheeda Rehman and Sonam Kapoor

Music by – Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Lyrics by – Gulzar

Genre – Romantic Drama

Logline – Set in Rajasthan and Ladakh, a contemporary take on the tragic love tale of the folklore, Mirza-Sahiba.

Release Date – NA

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12.  SHAMITABH

Written & Directed by – R. Balki

Produced by – Sunil Lulla, R. Balki, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, R. K. Damani, Abhishek Bachchan and Gauri Shinde

Cast – Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, Akshara Haasan, Rekha and Abhinaya

Music by – Ilaiyaraaja

Lyrics by – Swanand Kirkire

Genre – Drama

Premise – A superstar lending his voice to a deaf and mute junior artiste who wants to make it a BIG in the industry. When junior artist become a Star, a ego clash break out between the two over the success.

Trivia – Mahesh Bhatt, Karan Johar, Anurag Basu, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Rajkumar Hirani, Gauri Shinde, Rohit Shetty along with lyricist Javed Akhtar and producers Boney Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor would do cameos in the film.

Release Date – Feb.06.2015

Audio Trailer

 

11.  PHANTOM

Directed by – Kabir Khan

Produced by – Sajid Nadiadwala

Written by – Hussain Zaidi

Cast – Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif

Music by – Pritam

Lyrics by – Kausar Munir

Genre – Spy-Action-Thriller, Crime Drama

Logline – Based on Hussain Zaidi’s unreleased book, it is set against post 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai & their fallout, counter-terrorism and global terrorism. A counter-terrorist deputed to tackle a post 26/11 scenario, and the plot revolves around Indian secret agents working to combat global terrorist outfits.

Release Date – April.03.2015

 

10.  PIKU

Directed by – Shoojit Sircar

Written by – Juhi Chaturvedi

Produced by – Ronnie Lahiri

Cast – Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jishu Sengupta.

Music & Lyrics by – Anupam Roy

Genre – Family Drama

Logline – A slice-of-life cinema, Piku is a quirky roller-coaster ride of a crazy father-daughter relationship.

Release Date – April.30.2015

 

9.  SHAANDAAR

Directed by – Vikas Bahl

Written by – Anvita Dutt

Produced by – Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl and Karan Johar

Cast – Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Pankaj Kapur, Sanjay Kapoor, Shibani Dandekar, Anjana Sukhani, Sanah Kapoor and Karan Johar.

Music by – Amit Trivedi

Lyrics by – Anvita Dutt

Genre – Rom-Com Drama

Logline – The two insomniacs fall in love in the middle of a larger than-life elaborate destination wedding during long, sleepless nights.

Release Date – NA (Expected July/August.2015)

 

8.  FITOOR

Directed by – Abhishek Kapoor

Produced by – Siddharth Roy Kapur & Abhishek Kapoor

Written by – Supratik Sen and Abhishek Kapoor

Cast – Rekha, Katrina Kaif, Aditya Roy Kapur, Lara Dutta, Talat Aziz, Akshay Oberoi and Ajay Devgan.

Music by – Amit Trivedi

Lyrics by – Swanand Kirkire

Genre – Romantic Drama

Logline – It is a story of love lost and realized over the course of two generations. An adaptation of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic novel “Great Expectations”, it’s a passionate love saga about an orphan who falls for a rich and heartless girl.

Premise – Fitoor revolves around 13-year old Noor who’s a Shikara rover living around Dal Lake. Noor is lured into the world of the Begum- a wealthy woman played by Rekha who stays in her dilapidated Kashmiri mansion in the valley. Noor falls in love with her adopted daughter Firdaus – a gorgeous child who is being raised to break hearts.

The Story begins in the winters of Kashmir where a beautiful, ordinary boy finds himself in a world where important people, expensive things and social interaction is common.

“Season change, years pass and the red, looming Chinars shed their leaves. Noor (Aditya Roy Kapur) leaves behind a familiar Kashmir and becomes an artist that is fast grabbing eyeballs in the swanky city of Delhi. He raises the bar for himself and strives to be a part of the upper class circles that Firdaus (Katrina Kaif) moves around in. But does Noor really belong to their world? Does Firdaus even love him back?”

Release Date – NA (Expected Nov/Dec.2015)

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7.  BOMBAY VELVET

Directed by – Anurag Kashyap

Written by – Gyan Prakash, Vasan Bala, S. Thanikachalam, Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap.

Produced by – Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap, Madhu Mantena and FOX Star Studios.

Cast – Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Raveena Tandon, Karan Johar, Kay Kay Menon, Sidhartha Basu, Vivaan Shah.

Music by – Amit Trivedi

Lyrics by – Amitabh Bhattacharya

Genre – Musical Drama

Logline – An ordinary man goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a ‘Big Shot’.

Synopsis – It is the first film of the trilogy based on historian Gyan Prakash’s book “Mumbai Fables”, set in Bombay of early 1950s to late 1970s, a story of how the city of Mumbai became a metropolis against the backdrop of love, greed, violence and jazz music. The film tells the story of a boxer and an aspiring jazz singer and how their hopes and dreams collides with their individual realities. It’s about jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good life.

Release Date – May.15.2015 (Could get a big bow at The 68th Annual Cannes Film Festival 2015 in May)

 

6.  BAJIRAO MASTANI

Written, Produced & Directed by – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast – Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Tanvi Azmi, Sukhada Khandkekar, Anuja Gokhale, Aditya Pancholi, Mahesh Manjrekar

Music by – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Lyrics by – Prashant Ingole

Genre – Period Romantic Drama

Logline – Set during the 18th Century (1700-1740 AD), the tale of romance between a warrior and second Peshwa of the Maratha empire BajiRao I and his second wife Mastani and their relationship with his first wife Kashibai.

Release Date – Dec.25.2015

 

5.  JAGGA JASOOS

Written & Directed by – Anurag Basu

Produced by – Anurag Basu and Ranbir Kapoor

Cast – Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Govinda

Music by – Pritam

Lyrics by – Amitabh Bhattacharya

Genre – Spy-thriller, Drama, Musical (Traditional Musical on the lines of Hollywood Musicals)

Logline – The story revolves around a gifted teenage detective who goes country hopping in the search of his missing father with his ladylove assistant.

Trivia – 1] The film will be a musical in a traditional sense and apparently will have around 20 tracks.

2] It is a child detective project on the lines of like ‘Indiana Jones’ meets ‘Tintin’.

Release Date – Oct.02.2015 (Expecting a premiere at The 40th Annual Toronto International Film Festival 2015 in Sept.)

 

4.  DIL DHADAKNE DO

Directed by – Zoya Akhtar

Written by – Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar

Produced by – Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar

Cast – Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab, Vikrant Massey, Parmeet Sethi, Ridhima Sud.

Music by – Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Lyrics by – Javed Akhtar

Genre – Family Drama

Logline – It revolves around a dysfunctional Punjabi family that doesn’t get along and fights a lot with each other who take a cruise trip in the Mediterranean to bond again.

Outline – Ranveer Singh plays Kabir, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Ever since his childhood, he was raised to take over his father’s company. But this isn’t what he wants to do. He loves planes, he wants to be pilot. Because of his miscommunication he is in a lot of pain. And of course until he meets Farah played by Anushka Sharma…Farah is someone who escaped her home because of her love for dance and someone who followed her dreams and passion and because of that she is epitomizing the person Kabir wants to be. Farah is a free bird, Kabir is in the cage…After meeting with her, Kabir tries to escape the situation he is in.

Farhan Akhtar plays the character called Sunny. He is a journalist and ex-boyfriend of the character played by Priyanka Chopra. Characters of Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh are siblings and Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah are cast as their parents.

Release Date – June.05.2015

 

3.  RAEES

Directed by – Rahul Dholakia

Produced by – Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar

Cast – Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mahira Khan

Music by – Ram Sampath

Lyrics by – Javed Akhtar

Genre – Crime Drama

Synopsis – Set in early 80s to late 90s, it is loosely based on the real life incidents. It is the real story behind the illegal liquor trade in the state of Gujarat fuelled by Government’s age-old prohibition laws. It is all set to address a state-wide issue of prohibition of alcohol in Gujarat and how it fuels the rampant illegal selling and consuming of liquor. It talks on the sensitive issues namely – the impact of dry laws on socio, religious & cultural ethos and the liquor policy in the state. It covers a gamut of related issues ranging from revenues to religion, the politics of prohibition to communalism and mafiaraaj. It is inspired by the modus operandi of real life gangsters, bureaucrats, politicians and police officers, spanning the last two decades.

Release Date – NA (Expected Nov/Dec.2015)

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2.  FAN

Directed by – Maneesh Sharma

Produced by – Aditya Chopra

Written by – Habib Faisal

Cast – Shah Rukh Khan

Genre – Drama

Logline – An extra-ordinary, heart-touching and moving journey of a die-hard crazy FAN who is keen on to meet his Idol and God- the biggest superstar of the universe. One being the ruling superstar while other is a common man. Both will be a lookalikes, with “One being blessed by luck as the other will be cursed by life”.

Release Date – August.14.2015

 

1.  TAMASHA

Written & Directed by – Imtiaz Ali

Produced by – Sajid Nadiadwala

Cast – Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone

Music – A. R. Rahman

Lyrics by – Irshad Kamil

Genre – Musical Romantic Drama

Logline – “It’s about a boy and a girl who meet in unusual circumstances, where they are uninhibited. But when they meet later, he has changed. He is now what the world wants him to be. Does she still want him?”

Premise – Ranbir Kapoor will be seen as a nomad who entertains people while on his travel. He plays a free spirit who wants everybody around him to be happy. He doesn’t have permanent home but wanders from place to place, going out of his way to please people.

In Corsica, RK’s character bumps into Deepika’s character who is a huge fan of the French comic series, Asterix, which is set in Corsica. She has set out on an adventure, following the trail of characters in the series (Asterix & Obelix). Turns out RK is equally fascinated with the same series, the two meet and sparks fly and bond over their love for the comic series and together they explore the island, forming a troupe of sort and staging dramatic plays (Tamashas) and falling passionately in love along the way.

Release Date – Dec.25.2015

Behind the scenes of Tamasha shoot in Corsica, France

 

INDIE SECTION

 

After that formidable looking mainstream list, it is time to start getting excited about the independent films. Because if these Top 15 listed below are any indication, it looks like a very promising year on that front too!

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So without further ado, take a fast look at The Top 15 Indie Films which I have my eyes on. Here’s the round up in reverse order-

15.  DUM LAGA KE HAISHA

Written & Directed by – Sharat Katariya

Produced by – Maneesh Sharma

Cast – Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Kumar Sanu, Sonakshi Sinha.

Music by – Anu Malik

Genre – Drama

Synopsis – From overcoming his fear of the English language to dealing with an overbearing father, Prem (Ayushmann) discovers that his oversized and mismatched wife, Sandhya (Bhumi), who he is thought was a spanner in his business and life, will actually lead him to something quite cool.

Release Date – April.24.2015

 

14.  DIVINE LOVERS

Directed by – Sai Kabir

Produced by – Shailesh R. Singh, Leonard Glowinski, Irrfan Khan

Cast – Irrfan Khan & Kangana Ranaut

Genre – Romantic Drama

Logline – A complicated modern love story set against the background of the lives of lower middle class people.

Release Date – NA

 

13.  SAAT HINDUSTANI

Directed by – Karan Boolani

Written by – Mehul Suri and Nidhi Mehra

Produced by – Rhea Kapoor and Anil Kapoor

Cast – Seven New Fresh Faces

Music by – A. R. Rahman

Genre – Coming-of-age youth drama

Logline – It is based on real life incidents about Indian students living abroad.

Release Date – NA

 

12.  CHAURANGA

Written & Directed by – Bikas Ranjan Mishra

Produced by – Onir & Sanjay Suri

Cast – Soham Maitra, Riddhi Sen, Ena Saha, Sanjay Suri, Tannishtha Chatterjee.

Genre – Drama

Music – Vivek Philip

Logline – A fourteen year old dalit boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.

Trivia – 1] The film was developed at the Screenwriters’ Lab organized by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival and the ScriptStaion of Berlinale Talent Campus, a part of Berlin Film festival.

2] The film won Golden Gateway of India Award for Best Film (India Gold) at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival 2014.

3] It won “Incredible India” Award for the best project of co-production market at the NFDC Film Bazaar, International Film Festival of India, Goa 2011 and Script funding from Goteborg International Film festival, Sweden.

Release Date – NA

Chauranga Q & A Mumbai Film Fest 2014

 

11.  RUNNING SHAADI.COM

Directed by – Amit Roy

Written by – Navjot Gulati

Produced by – Shoojit Sircar, Ronnie Lahiri and Crouching Tiger Motion Pictures

Cast – Amit Sadh, Taapsee Pannu and Arsh Bajwa.

Music – Abhishek-Akshay and Zeb

Genre – Rom-Com

Logline – It’s about the unique concept of helping people run away with the love of their life to get married. The unlikely duo of a conscientious Bihari and Sardaarji geek stand up and create a platform providing “High Take Social Service” to Indian couples who wants to spend their lives with their soul mates.

Release Date – NA

 

10.  COURT

Written & Directed by – Chaitanya Tamhane

Produced by – Vivek Gombar

Cast – Usha Bane, Vivek Gomber, Pradeep Joshi, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Shirish Pawar, Vira Sathidaar

Music by – Sambhaji Bhagat

Genre – Drama

Premise – A sewerage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trail unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

Trivia – 1] It won two prizes at the 71st annual Venice Film Festival 2014- The Lion of the Future Award for the Best First Feature and also adjusted to the Best Film in Orizzonti or Horizons category.

2] Court won Golden Gateway of India Trophy for the Best Film in International Competition section at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival 2014. It also won Best Director Award for Chaitanya Tamhane and Special Jury Mention to the ensemble cast.

Release Date – NA

Chaitanya Tamhane on Court at Mumbai Film Festival 2014

 

9.  TITLI

Directed by – Kanu Behl

Produced by – Dibakar Banerjee and Aditya Chopra

Written by – Sharat Katariya and Kanu Behl

Cast – Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi

Music by – Sneha Khanwalkar

Genre – Drama

Synopsis – In the badlands of Delhi’s dystopic underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of violent car-jacking brotherhood plots a desperate bid to escape the family business. His Struggle to do so is countered at each stage by his indignant brothers, who finally try marrying him off to settle him.

Titli finds an unlikely ally in his new wife, caught though she is in her own web of warped reality and dysfunctional dreams. They form a strange, beneficial partnership, only to confront their inability to escape the binding of their family roots. But is escape, the same as freedom?

Trivia – The film was screened at the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival 2014 in Un Certain Regard Section.

Release Date – NA

Trailer

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8.  ROCKY HANDSOME

Directed by – Nishikant Kamat

Written by – Ritesh Shah

Produced by – Sunir Khetrapal and John Abraham

Cast – John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Nathalia Kaur.

Genre – Action-Thriller

Logline – An adaptation of the 2010 Korean Film “The Man From Nowhere”, it revolves around the journey of lone crusader who sets out on murderous rampage against the drug mafia when the only person he cares for and shares a special bond, a seven-year old girl, is taken away from him, along with her mother.

Trivia – The film will have four songs composed by multiple composers.

Release Date – Feb.06.2015

7.  HAWAAIZADA

Directed by – Vibhu Puri

Produced by – Vishal Gurnani, Rajesh Banga, Vibhu Puri and Reliance Entertainment

Written by – Vibhu Puri and Saurabh Bhave

Cast – Ayushmann Khurrana, Pallavi Sharda, Naman Jain and Mithun Chakraborty

Music – Rochak Kohli, Mangesh Dhakde, Ayushmann Khurrana & Vishal Bhardwaj

Lyrics by – Vibhu Puri

Genre – Biopic, Drama

Logline – Set in 1895 Bombay, it’s based on the life of Maharashtrian scientist Shivaji Bapuji Talpade who credited to have constructed and flown India’s first unmanned airplane.

Release Date – Jan.30.2015

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6.  BANANA

Directed by – Sajid Ali

Produced by – John Abraham

Cast – 17-year old Newcomers and John Abraham

Music by – Joi Barua

Genre – Coming-of-age Drama

Logline – It’s a slice-of-life cinema which traces the journey from adolescences to teenage. It’s about a young boy and how he deals with the new adventures of life. It’s about friendship, loyalty and love set in Jamshedpur. It’s about ups and down of school life.

Release Date – NA

 

5.  DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY!

Directed by – Dibakar Banerjee

Produced by – Aditya Chopra and Dibakar Banerjee

Cast – Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee, Divya Menon, Meiyang Chang.

Music by – Joint Family

Genre – Spy-Crime-Thriller

Based on – Byomkesh Bakshi by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Synopsis – In a contemporary interpretation of war torn Calcutta during the 1940’s, the film follows the first adventure of Byomkesh, fresh out of college, as he pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world. It’s his wits against the most villainous arch criminal the world has seen, in a world of murder, international political intrigue and seduction.

Release Date – April.10.2015

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4.  MADAMJI

Directed by – Madhur Bhandarkar

Produced by – Madhur Bhandarkar, Priyanka Chopra and Ram Mirchandani

Cast – Priyanka Chopra

Music by – Salim-Sulaiman

Genre – Drama

Logline – Set in the murky world of politics, it will show the journey and struggles of an item girl who climbs the ladder of success and becomes a top-notch politician.

Release Date – NA

 

3.  NH-10

Directed by – Navdeep Singh

Produced by – Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikas Bahl, Anushka Sharma & Sunil Lulla

Written by – Sudip Sharma

Cast – Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumar, Deepti Naval

Music by – Amit Trivedi

Genre – Road Crime Thriller

Logline – It is a gritty, edge-of-seat thriller about a couple’s road trip that goes completely wrong. A woman, stacked against all odds, manages to not just stick it out but indeed give it back.

Release Date – March.06.2015

 

2.  TANU WEDS MANU Season 2

Directed by – Anand L. Rai

Written by – Himanshu Sharma

Produced by – Kishore Lulla and Anand L. Rai

Cast – R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill, Swara Bhaskar and Dhanush in a Cameo.

Music by – Krsna

Genre – Rom-Com Drama

Logline – It will revolve around the married life of Tanu and Manu.

Trivia – Kangana will be seen playing double role, one is of the spirited athlete and other is the fun-loving desi girl.

Release Date – NA

 

AND TOP of the List is….

 

1.  NYODDA

Directed by – Meghna Gulzar

Produced by – Vishal Bhardwaj, Junglee Pictures

Cast – Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, Soham Shah and Tabu

Music by – Vishal Bhardwaj

Lyrics by – Gulzar

Genre – Drama, Thriller

Brief –

Nyodda is fictional dramatization of true life events revolving around Aarushi Talwar murder case investigation. Produced by Junglee Pictures and VB Pictures, it’s written by Vishal Bhardwaj and is directed by Meghna Gulzar.

Boasting of power packed performances by Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, and Soham Shah, it also has Tabu in a special appearance.

With Gulzar’s lyrics, Vishal Bhardwaj’s music and cinematography by Pankaj Kumar (Haider, Ship Of Theseus), the thriller  is a work of fiction which is based on one of the most intriguing and talked about double murder case in recent history.

Release Date – NA

Trivia – The movie was earlier titled Talwar.

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So why are these films on the list? Is it even a question? Well all the films have a strong stacked cast, promising directors and filmmakers, well-known heavy collaborations & their exceptional past works, wide range of exciting genres and great sounding premise which has a potential to make these films big enough to made it in the final tally.

 

Every New Year, cinema promises a bevy of new releases and 2015 is no different, so even beyond this extensive slate of display, there is still so much that I’m curious and intrigued about, even if my expectations are slightly tempered for one reason or another. So if this list doesn’t feature one of your favs, that doesn’t mean I ignored, forgot or am not excited about that film; rather those films simply missed the cut.

 

THE TOP 10 MOST AWAITED SOUNDTRACKS OF 2015

Music always plays a huge role in Hindi film scene. Each year has given us many melodious and rocking albums, and this year being so crowded with amazing filmography, the excitement towards the tunes is not one, two or three but infinite notches higher. So let’s take a quick namecheck of the Top 10 Soundtracks that are on their way to enthrall your heart strings and get you grooving.

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1] TAMASHA – A. R. Rahman/Irshad Kamil

2] JAGGA JASOOS – Pritam/Amitabh Bhattacharya

3] BOMBAY VELVET – Amit Trivedi/Amitabh Bhattacharya

4] DIL DHADAKNE DO – Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy/Javed Akhtar

5] BAJIRAO MASTANI – Sanjay Leela Bhansali/Prashant Ingole

6] FITOOR – Amit Trivedi/Swanand Kirkire

7] SHAANDAAR – Amit Trivedi/Anvita Dutt

8] HUMARI ADHURI KAHAANI – Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari/Manoj Muntashir, Mithoon

9] PHANTOM – Pritam/Kausar Munir

10] MIRZIYA – Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy/Gulzar

** ABCD 2 – Sachin-Jigar/Mayur Puri, Priya Panchal

** Mr. X – Jeet Gannguli, Ankit Tiwari & Mithoon/Manoj Muntashir, Abhendra Upadhyay, Monish Kaushal, Mithoon.

 

As always dig in, sound off. Do share your thoughts about the list. Till then live cinema and love cinema.

[Note:-All announced release dates are tentative and are subject to change anytime.]

 

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