10 Best Bollywood Movies You Should Watch

Wondering which Bollywood movie shall I watch? Well, I'm going to tell 10 of the best Bollywood movies which I think you definitely should not miss watching. 

1. 3 Idiots

Release date: December 25, 2009

Cast: Amir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Om Vaidya, Kareena Kapoor, Ali Fazal, Javed Jaffrey
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Screenplay: Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Based on: Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
Genre: Comedy-drama
The movie is inspired from Chetan Bhagat’s book ‘Five Point Someone’. It’s a story about three boys (Rancho, Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi) who meet in an engineering college. The film is focuses on Indian education system on how colleges put pressure on students for good grades. 

2. Barfi

Release date: Sepetember 14, 2012

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopda, Illeana D'Cruz, Ashish Vidyarthi
Director: Anurag Basu
Screenplay: Anurag Basu
Genre: Romance/Comedy
The movie is set on 1970s and is a story of a man, Murphy ‘Barfi’ Johnson who is a born deaf-mute boy, from Darjeeling and his relationship with two women, Shruti and Jhilmil (who is an autistic girl). This movie shows that love requires no language.

3. Rockstar

Release date: November 11, 2011

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shammi Kapoor, Piyush Mishra, Kumud Mishra
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Written By: Imtiaz Ali
Genre: Romance/Musical
Rockstar is a musical drama based on a character of Janardan Jakhar who is brought up in a middle-class family. His dream of being a Rockstar like Jim Morrison takes him in a journey of love, pain and tragedy. He realizes the only thing common among musical stars is tragedy which is lacking in his life. This movie shows the process of how a middle-class boy becomes Jordan from Janardan.

4. Dangal

Release date: December 23, 2016

Cast: Amir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khuranna
Director: Nitesh Tiwar
Written By: Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, Nikhil Meharotra
Genre: Biography/Sports/Drama
Dangal is a movie of a real-life patriotic fighter Mahavir Singh Phogat who raised his daughters to be a World-Class fighter. Phogat himself is a former wrestler who had to quit because of family pressure. His dream of making his son a Gold medalist for India shatters as his wife gives birth to four daughters. His daughters were not less than boys as they beat-up a boy in their locality. Then Phogat decides to make them future wrestlers and starts to train them day and night. In the later part of the movie it is shown that both of his daughters end up wining for the country.

5. Taare Zameen Par

Release date: December 21, 2007

Cast: Darsheel Safary, Amir Khan, Tanay Chheda, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Director: Amir Khan
Written By: Amole Gupte
Genre: Drama
Taare Zameen Par is a story about an 8-year-old child (Ishaan) suffering from dyslexia, a neurological disorder, who has trouble coping with daily life, recognizing letters and can hardly read and write because of poor motor skills. He is academically poor but is good in arts. Teachers and family not recognizing his disorder thought him to be dumb and lazy. Substitute teacher played by Aamir Khan helps the boy in improving his life and making others realize that every child is special.

6. Andhadhun

Release date: October 5, 2018

Cast: Tabu, Ayushmann Khuranna, Radhika Apte

Director: Sriram Raghavan

Written By: Sriram Raghavan, Hemanth M. Rao, Pooja Ladha Surti, Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar

Genre: Comedy/Thriller

Akash played by Ayushmann Khuranna is a pianist pretending to be a blind. In the process he is invited by former superstar to play at his anniversary but fate has other decision as he witnesses the murder of the actor by his wife. And then life of Akash changes as he has to deal with everything and even loses his eyesight for real

7. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Release Date: May 31, 2013
Cast: Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Kalki Koechlin and Aditya Roy Kapur
Director: Ayan Mukherji
Screenplay: Ayan Mukherji
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is a story that tells you about how sometimes letting things go is the best you can do and if it is meant for you it will definitely come back to you. The movie depicts the story between Kabir aka Bunny and Naina. They were the old classmates who happen to meet on trekking where Naina falls for Bunny but destiny had different plans for them as Bunny gets an acceptance letter from Northwestern University of Chicago for journalism. After eight years, they meet again at their friend’s wedding. This time Bunny falls for Naina and stays with her and expressed his love by putting aside his dream job. 

8. PK

Release Date: December 19, 2014

Cast: Amir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjay Dutt
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Written By: Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi
Genre: Romance/Drama
An alien, Aamir Khan, lands on Earth for his research mission. He is completely naked and is also robbed on the very first day on the planet. The only way he could get back to his planet is with the help of remote which gets stolen. In the process of finding his remote back he learns to wear clothes, languages, money, friendship and everything that is there to learn. He knew in order to survive in this planet he needs to learn people’s language and that he could only do by holding hands of people for few hours. Because of his weird behavior people gave him the name of PK (which is a slang for being drunk in Hindi). In his journey on the Earth, he earns friends like Bhairav Singh and Jata Janani aka Jaggu. In the movie PK questions about spiritual odyssey and exposes the godmen named Tapasvi who happens to have his remote. On the process of exposing Tapasvi, Jaggu is reconnected with her love Sarfaraz. With the help of Jaggu, PK is successful on getting back his remote and returning to his planet.

9. My Name is Khan

Release Date: February 12, 2010
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill
Director: Karan Johar
Screenplay: Shibani Bathija
Genre: Drama/Romance
Rizwan is a Muslim who has Asperger’s Syndrome moves to the United States with his mother and brother. While working as an herbal salesman for his brother’s, he meets Mandira who is a Hindu and a single mother. They later marry and start their new life. Post 9/11 every Muslim in America is doubted and Mandira’s son is killed because of his surname ‘Khan’. She blames Rizwan for the death of her only child and doesn’t want him in her life. Rizwan not wanting to split up asks her what he has to do to be in her life, responding sarcastically she asks him to tell President of United States that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. And he sets on a journey to prove it and also succeeds on it.

10. Veer Zaara

Release Date: November 12, 2004

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukharjim Kironn Kher, Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee, Hema Malini
Director: Yash Chopra
Written By: Aditya Chopra
Genre: Romance/Drama
Veer-Zaara is a love story of Veer and Zaara. In this love story there is separation, courage and sacrifice among these two. Veer is an Indian Air Force pilot who is sent to prison under false accusations whereas Zaara is a daughter of a Pakistani Politician. Saamiya Siddiqui is a Pakistani lawyer who is given her first case to solve this unsolved case of Veer who hadn’t spoken to anyone for 22 years. Veer tells her how he met Zaara, what happened and everything and Saamiya later wining the case and reconnecting him with his long-lost love of his life Zaara.