The best Manoj Bakshi’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Manoj Bakshi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Manoj Bakshi.
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
5.6/10
Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.
Miss Lovely
7.5/10
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.
Ujda Chaman
6.9/10
A balding 30-year-old bachelor in search of a beautiful wife is given a deadline to find one or remain celibate forever.
Kaamyaab
7.8/10
The human drama is based on an interesting premise of a seasoned character actor who decides to come out of retirement and begin a quest for a record of some sorts, that elusive 500th role, the one for which he shall be remembered forever.
Door Ke Darshan
6.1/10
When the matriarch of a dysfunctional family wakes up after a long induced coma, the members of the household set aside their differences to help her adapt to the changes.
Kajarya
6.4/10
Set in the present times against two backdrops, New Delhi with its shining buildings and apparent cosmopolitan veneer thinly veils an underbelly of crimes against women and corruption at all levels. And a small village just 80 kilometers from New Delhi that is stuck in a time warp. Kajarya a woman in her early thirties has a strange but important place in the village social structure; she murders unwanted girl infants in the garb of religion. Meera is a rookie reporter.
Unfreedom
5/10
A Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her activist bisexual lover with intent to marry. The resulting torture and violence evokes a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom.
14 Phere
6.3/10
Sanjay, a Rajput from Jahanabad, falls in love with his college senior Aditi, a Jat from Jaipur. They want to get married, but don't want to hurt their families. So they plan to get married by arranging a fake set of parents. Will they succeed?
Sherni
6.8/10
A jaded forest officer leads a team of trackers and locals intending to capture an unsettled tigress while battling intense obstacles and pressures, both natural and man-made.
