Best Hindi movies 2015

2015 has been the year where India's biggest motion picture "Baahubali" is a Telugu language film, a Regional film like the industry people call. It has been the highest grossing movie as well. This film has proved how huge the market can be when you make a film focusing on entire Indian market rather than focusing on few regions. Of course, given the diversity of India, it's not easy to find an idea which is common across India.

Along with Bahubali, there have been truly remarkable films both big budget movies and small movies which rely more on scripts and actors. Nawazuddin Siddique has upped his game significantly in 2015. All the three films he acted have been the best films.

Directed by: Shonali Bose

Cast: Kalki Koechli, Revathi, Sayani Gupta

Budget: ₹6 crore

Box Office: ₹7.33 crore

Notable Awards:

2014 Toronto International Film Festival

National Award -Special Jury Award - Kalki Koechlin

Genre: Drama

Storyline:

A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

Directed by: Manish Gupta

Cast: Tisca Chopra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kay Kay Menon

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Storyline:

Only child of a doctor couple is murdered in her sleep inside their large duplex apartment.

Directed by: Imtiaz Ali

Cast: Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor

Budget: ₹60 crore

Box Office: ₹136 crore

Notable Awards:

Filmfare awards - Best Lyrics - Irshad Kamil

Genre: Drama / Romance

Storyline:

Tamasha is about the journey of someone who has lost his edge in trying to follow socially acceptable conventions of society

Directed by: Chaitanya Tamhane

Cast: Vira Satidhar, Vivek Gombher, Geetanjali Kulkarni

Notable Awards:

National Awards - Best Feature Film

Venice International Film Festival - Best Film

Mumbai Film Festival - Best Film

Mumbai Film Festival - Best Director

India's official entry for the Academy Awards

Genre: Drama

Storyline:

A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide.

Directed by: Ketan Mehta

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte

Genre: Biography / Drama / History

Storyline:

Using only a hammer and a chisel, a man spends twenty-two years carving a road through a treacherous mountain.

Directed by: Neeraj Ghaywan

Cast: Richa Chadha, Vicky Kaushal, Sanjay Mishra, Shweta Tripathi

Notable Awards:

National Awards - Best Debut Film of A Director- Neeraj Ghaywan

Genre: Drama / Romance

Storyline:

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter, a hapless father with fading morality and a spirited child yearning for a family

Directed by: Sharat Katariya

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pedneka

Budget: ₹9 crore

Box Office: ₹30.2 crore

Notable Awards:

National Awards - Best Feature Film in Hindi

National Awards - Best Lyrics

National Awards - Best Female Playback Singer

Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Storyline:

Prem and his oversized wife Sandhya are supposed to spend a lifetime together. Will a regular arranged marriage turn out to be a perfect mismatch

Directed by: Sriram Raghavan

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta

Budget: ₹25 crore

Box Office: ₹77 crore

Notable Awards:

BIG Star Entertainments Award - Most Entertaining Thriller Film

Zee Cine Award - Best actor in negative role

Genre: Action / Drama

Storyline:

After his family is killed during a bank robbery, a man tries to avenge their death.

Directed by: Navdeep Singh

Cast: Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumar

Budget: ₹13 crore

Box Office: ₹33 crore

Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Storyline:

On their way to a weekend retreat, a married couple find their dream vacation turn into a nightmare when they cross paths with a dangerous gang.

Directed by: Anand L. Rai

Cast: R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut

Budget: ₹39 crore

Box Office: ₹243 crore

Notable Awards:

BIG Star Entertainments Award - Most Entertaining Comedy Film

BIG Star Entertainments Award - Most Entertaining Actor in a Comedy Role – Male

Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Storyline:

Tanu and Manu's marriage collapses. What happens when Manu meets Tanu's lookalike Kusum - and when Tanu returns?

Directed by: Shoojit Sircar

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta

Budget: ₹38 crore

Box Office: ₹141 crore

Notable Awards:

National Film Awards - Best Actor - Amitabh Bachchan

National Awards - Best Original Screenplay & Dialogues - Juhi Chaturvedi

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Storyline:

A quirky comedy about the relationship between a daughter and her ageing father, whose eccentricities drive everyone crazy.

Directed by: Neeraj Pandey

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Rana Daggubati, Anupam Kher, Kay Kay Menon, Danny Denzongpa

Budget: ₹58.97 crore

Box Office: ₹142.99 crore

Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller

Storyline:

Ajay, a member of an elite counter terrorism unit, discovers a major threat and leads the team in a series of raids to stop an attack.

Directed by: Nishikant Kamat

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tabu, Shriya Saran, Rajat Kapoor

Budget: ₹62 crore

Box Office: ₹195.67 crore

Notable Awards:

BIG Star Entertainment Awards - Most Entertaining Actor in a Thriller Film(Actress) Tabu

Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery

Storyline:

Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.

Directed by: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra

Budget: ₹145 crore

Box Office: ₹358.2 crore

Notable Awards:

National Film Awards

- Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

- Best Supporting Actress - Tanvi Azmi

- Best Cinematography - Sudeep Chatterjee

- Best Audiography - Biswadeep Chatterjee & Justin Jose

Genre: Action / Drama / History

Storyline:

An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.

Directed by: Meghna Gulzar

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Tabu

Budget: ₹17 crore

Box Office: ₹47 crore

Notable Awards:

National Film Awards

- Best Adapted Screenplay - Vishal Bhardwaj

- Best Audiography - Sanjay Kurian

Genre: Biography / Crime / Drama

Storyline:

An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.

Directed by: Kabir Khan

Cast: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Harshaali Malhotra

Budget: ₹90 crore

Box Office: ₹604 crore

Notable Awards:

National Film Awards - Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment

Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Storyline:

A man with a magnanimous heart takes a young mute Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family.

Directed by: S. S. Rajamouli

Cast: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia

Budget: ₹180 crore

Box Office: ₹650 crore

Notable Awards:

National Film Awards

- Best Feature Film

- Best Special Effects - V. Srinivas Mohan

Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama

Storyline:

In ancient India, an adventurous and daring man becomes involved in a decades old feud between two warring people.