

The strength of “Uyare” lies in the honest and diligent performance of Parvathy, which pulls you emotionally even in the shaky, melodramatic patches of the film. Uyare Manu Ashokan | Social Drama | Malayalam Recommended Read – The 10 Best Hindi Films of 2019 20. Let us have a look at The Best Indian movies of 2019. Hopefully, upcoming Bollywood movies and regional films are as good as the films listed below. The hyper-stylized visual narration feels often punctured by the hollow philosophy it wants to preach. Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s “ Super Delux”, hailed as a revolutionary film of the Tamil new wave is crowded with half baked subplots that do not come together in the end. Even the cameo of Kirti Kulhari comes with sentimental baggage, and it leaves her character feeling more like dead weight, instead of the ace it could have been. The character arc of Vickey is sketched unevenly and it could be misunderstood as if he helmed the surgical strike to avenge the personal loss, rather than the tragic terrorist event in the URI base camp. These, while often intended as a catalyst, feel at times manipulative and disjointed.Īditya Dhar’s URI: “The Surgical Strike” manufactures the melodrama using every character to generate the emotional connection during the attack on terrorists in its third act. The singularly focused narrative is muddled with clunky subplots. The sudden tonal shift of the film is jarring.


The subtle and understated narrative in the first act feels compromised by the last two, as if to please the crowd. It left me cold by the time end credits rolled. Zoya Akhtar and Ranveer Singh’s ‘ Gully Boy‘, much raved about, was a missed opportunity. 2019 has been a strange year for Indian films, especially Bollywood movies.
