This is my favourite post of the year, every year. It usually comes a few days after Aamir Khan waits for everyone to showcase their best, and then blows away the competition in a Bhuvan-esque fashion. Here's a recap of the years gone by 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015.
This year was special in quite a few ways for my movie watching experience.
This year was special in quite a few ways for my movie watching experience.
This was the year of #100MoviesPact, conceived by Diptakirti of Bollybook fame (perhaps somewhat inspired by his wife's #100SareesPact from the previous year) and participated with religious zeal by a group of us 10 friends. Rules were simple, as long as you watched a 100 different movies between Jan-1 to Dec-31, 2016 it counted. The #100MoviesPact became the #1000MoviesPact (100 X 10) as the year drew to a close and on Christmas afternoon we managed to record our 1,000th movie.
The other shout out of the year goes to the Seattle Public Library. A ridiculously comprehensive catalog, from Kanchenjungha to Karan Arjun, from the latest Hollywood blockbusters to obscure Iranian titles of the past, it has it all. And all of this for the princely sum of $0 per movie, $0 per year, $0 for membership. God bless the American Public Library system.
Now coming to the numbers.
I personally missed the #100MoviesPact but quite happy with 76 movies for the year (up from 53 last year). While watching movies in theaters remained a luxury with a toddler, I did manage to catch 4 (Fan, Dear Zindagi, Kahaani 2, and Dangal), 1 more than last year. Also, 30 of the 76 movies watched this year were 2016 releases (again up slightly from 26 last year).
Now for the popular summary table, in its 10th year now (only for current year releases):
Year # Seen Hindi:English:Bangla Top Rating Avg. Rating
2007 32 22:10:0 9.0 5.78
2008 30 23:7:0 8.5 6.35
2009 24 18:6:0 9.0 6.85
2010 25 16:9:0 8.5 6.62
2011 22 15:6:1 8.5 6.77
2012 28 12:11:5 9.0 7.33
2013 28 14:14:0 9.0 7.12
2014 16 10:6:0 9.0 6.16
2015 26 20:6:0 9.0 6.55
2016 30 17:13:0 9.5 6.98
Happy to have watched a bunch of good movies, thanks to great recommendations by the #100MoviesPact gang, greater discretion used due to lack of time thanks to parenting duties, and of course the great Seattle Public Library system. The average of 6.98 is one of the best over the last 10 years and the trend seems to be going the right way. FYI, the overall average i.e. not just looking at 2016 releases was 7.31, highly boosted by a bunch of Satyajit Ray DVDs and also the Oscar nominated movies from last year.
The split of the movies by source can be found below, almost all of the DVD-Loaned were from the library again.
| DVD - Loaned | 47 |
| Netflix | 8 |
| Amazon Prime Video | 6 |
| In-Flight | 5 |
| DVD - Owned | 5 |
| Theatre | 4 |
| Amazon Instant Video | 1 |
| Grand Total | 76 |
I also ended up watching movies in 7 languages, which was a new high for me.
| English | 48 |
| Hindi | 18 |
| Bangla | 4 |
| Turkish | 3 |
| Spanish | 1 |
| Romanian | 1 |
| Marathi | 1 |
| Grand Total | 76 |
And now for rankings. As always, Top 5 Hindi and Top 3 English movies of the year. Disclaimer: I haven't watched a bunch of highly acclaimed Hollywood movies, and among the Bollywood ones of note that I missed out on were: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Aligarh, Neerja, Sultan, and Phobia.
English Movies
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane
4. Elvis & Nixon
3. The Jungle Book
2. Eye In The Sky
1. Zootopia
| Zootopia | 9.0 |
| Eye In The Sky | 9.0 |
| The Secret Life of Pets | 8.0 |
| The Jungle Book | 8.0 |
| Elvis & Nixon | 8.0 |
| Carol | 8.0 |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane | 8.0 |
| Weiner | 7.0 |
| Deadpool | 7.0 |
| Suicide Squad | 6.0 |
| Jason Bourne | 6.0 |
| Finding Dory | 6.0 |
| Brahman Naman | 6.0 |
| Kung Fu Panda 3 | 5.5 |
| Now You See Me 2 | 5.0 |
| Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | 4.0 |
| London Has Fallen | 2.0 |
Hindi Movies
5. Waiting
4. Kapoor & Sons
3. Nil Battey Sannata
2. Pink
1. Dangal (Movie Of The Year)
(Full List)
| Dangal | 9.5 |
| Pink | 9.0 |
| Nil Battey Sannata | 8.5 |
| Waiting | 8.0 |
| Kapoor & Sons | 8.0 |
| Fan | 7.5 |
| Dear Zindagi | 7.5 |
| Kahaani 2 | 7.0 |
| TE3N | 6.5 |
| Raman Raghav 2.0 | 6.5 |
| Fitoor | 6.5 |
| Airlift | 6.5 |
| Wazir | 6.0 |
Special mention to Fan, perhaps the only movie (at least parts of the 1st half) which I can ever find somewhat autobiographical:)
And below please find the rest of 46 movies, by language, by rating, which I saw this year but were released earlier.
Please do share your thoughts and lists, and wish you a very happy 2017 movie watching year.
| Bangla | Aparajito | 9.0 |
| Apur Sansar | 8.5 | |
| Pather Panchali | 6.5 | |
| Ganashatru | 6.0 | |
| English | Spotlight | 9.0 |
| Midnight in Paris | 9.0 | |
| The Danish Girl | 8.5 | |
| The Big Short | 8.5 | |
| In The Loop | 8.5 | |
| Gone Baby Gone | 8.5 | |
| Zelig | 8.0 | |
| The Walk | 8.0 | |
| Steve Jobs | 8.0 | |
| Planes, Trains & Automobiles | 8.0 | |
| Pawn Sacrifice | 8.0 | |
| Martian | 8.0 | |
| Love and Death | 8.0 | |
| LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring | 8.0 | |
| Fatal Attraction | 8.0 | |
| Brooklyn | 8.0 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | 8.0 | |
| Trumbo | 7.5 | |
| The Revenant | 7.5 | |
| Purple Rose of Cairo | 7.5 | |
| Ex-Machina | 7.5 | |
| Creed | 7.0 | |
| Black Mass | 7.0 | |
| 45 Years | 7.0 | |
| The Man From U.N.C.L.E | 6.5 | |
| Spectre | 6.5 | |
| Penguins of Madagascar | 6.5 | |
| Our Brand Is Crisis | 6.0 | |
| Kingsman | 5.5 | |
| Furious 7 | 5.5 | |
| Johnny English | 5.0 | |
| Hindi | Shatranj Ke Khiladi | 8.5 |
| Shanghai | 7.5 | |
| Margarita With A Straw | 7.5 | |
| Tamasha | 6.5 | |
| Baahubali | 6.0 | |
| Marathi | Court | 8.0 |
| Romanian | Buna! Ce faci? | 7.0 |
| Spanish | Wild Tales | 8.5 |
| Turkish | Mustang | 8.5 |
| Taxi | 8.0 | |
| Offside | 7.5 |
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