When stars and characters of different skills and designs combine under an eager director’s supervision, ensemble casts unfold like a treat prior to the cinephile.
Believe Padosan, Kalyug, Mandi, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Khamosh, Celebration, Satte Pe Satta, Andaz Apna Apna, Monsoon Wedding or Bhoot and rejoice.
One of the reasons that we are all fired up at the possibility of Aasman Bhardwaj’s directorial debut Kuttey is that it stars Tabu, Arjun Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Radhika Madan, Naseeruddin Shah, Shardul Bhardwaj and Kumud Mishra. The diverse casting lineup alone is worth the price of admission.
As the criminal activity caper strikes the screens this Friday, Sukanya Verma looks at the 10 finest ensemble Hindi movies in current times.
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, O My Beloved
Vasan Bala’s suspenseful hodgepodge of popular culture referrals has rather a line-up with Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Akanksha Ranjan, Sikandar Kher, Zayn Marie Khan and Sukant Goel.
A guy juggles between blackmail, murder, conspiracies, cover-ups and examination as individual and expert life collide, paving the way for a series of characters like the one in charge’ child, her disgruntled brother, a motley bunch of associates and a curious cop to take on the case.
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi Seema Pahwa makes her directorial launching examining the feelings of sprawling joint family versus the backdrop of a funeral with the similarity Surpriya Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Vinay Pathak, Ninad Kamat, Vikrant Massey, Sadiya Siddiqui, Deepika Amin, Brijendra Kala and Naseeruddin Shah slipping believably into the roles of the bittersweet loved ones. Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap’s two-part gangster epic spanning generations of a
mafia family looking for revenge while life goes by in all
its weapons and magnificence wouldn’t be the exact same in the lack of its lively, flexible cast of outstanding entertainers like Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chaddha, Huma Qureshi, Pankaj Tripathi, Rajkummar Rao, Reema Sen, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jaideep Ahlawat and many, a lot more. Sonchiriya Mediative and melancholic, Abhishek Chaubey’s dacoit drama takes a look at the life and ideologies of a rebel group in a way so haunting, it
remains etched in our memory
as so do the rock solid performances of its rock strong cast led by Sushant Singh Rajput, Ranvir Shorey, Ashutosh Rana, Bhumi Pednekar and Manoj Bajpayee. Andhadhun Things get pleasantly dark and out of control in Sriram Raghavan’s ominous worldview when a blind pianist’s existence at the website of murder including a faded movie star, his trophy
better half and
her lover lead to a black comedy
of mayhem starring Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu, Anil Dhawan, Manav Vij, Radhika Apte, Zakir Hussian and Ashwini Kalsekar. Kapoor & Sons Shakun Batra deep dives into a dysfunctional household’s unpleasant state of affairs and long harboured secrets yet discovers adequate humanity to make it personable throughout their lots of highs and lows, which come alive in Rishi Kapoor’s racy grandfather, Rajat Kapoor
‘s anxious father, Ratna Pathak Shah
‘s exasperated mum, Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan’s estranged brother or sisters and Alia Bhatt’s charming driver. A Death in the Gunj Absolutely nothing is quite as it appears in ensemble expert Konkona’s directorial debut based upon her journalist dad Mukul Sharma’s story as she looks at an uneven equations of a household during a disquieting vacation with the assistance of a wonderful bunch of stars, including Tanuja, Kalki Koechlin, Gulshan Devaiah, Ranvir
Shorey
, Jim Sarbh, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri
, Vikrant Massey and herself. Finding Fanny Homi Adajania creates rather an odd bunch for his eccentric Goa comedy about lost loves and breaking complimentary throughout a whimsical journey inspiring its title. Fortunately for him, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapur, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh in a cameo end up being quite a group. Rang De Basanti No-good college mates and crones come of
age while assisting an immigrant in
her documentary about a chapter in India’s self-reliance as well the loss of their dear friend, finding out the effects of lethargy in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s changing drama, high on the intensity of perfectly cast actors like Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten,
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Madhavan, Anupam
Kher, Soha Ali Khan and Waheeda Rehman. Maqbool Vishal Bhardwaj is the god of ensemble casting, and Maqbool’s opening credits verify this present to memorable lead to the director’s adjustment of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the context of Mumbai underworld. As anticipated Irrfan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal and Ankur Vikal explode in their particular functions and offer the audiences much to cheer about.