Was 2018 the year oh Ayushmann Khurrana or Vicky Kaushal or Radhika Apte? Or was it simply the year of good cinema? While the three Khans playing ambiguously aged characters in their 50s produced duds at the box office, a Khan that made his mark was on Netflix, Saif Ali Khan for Sacred Games.
The lines between box office success and good content was blurred in Hindi cinema this year. And we take a lot of heart in that. We hope for such good times to continue in 2019.
Here’s my list of the best Hindi films and performances, in alphabetical order, that released in 2018.
BEST FILM
Andhadhun dir. Sriram Raghavan
Badhaai Ho dir. Amit Sharma
Lust Stories dir. Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar
October dir. Shoojit Sircar
Raazi dir. Meghna Gulzar
BEST ACTOR
Ayushmann Khurrana – Andhadhun
Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju
Varun Dhawan – October
Vicky Kaushal – Manmarziyaan
Vineet Kumar Singh – Mukkabaaz
BEST ACTRESS
Alia Bhatt – Raazi
Anushka Sharma – Pari
Radhika Madan – Pataakha
Sanya Malhotra – Pataakha
Tabu – Andhadhun
Taapsee Pannu – Manmarziyaan
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Abhishek Banerjee – Stree
Gajraj Rao – Badhaai Ho
Jaideep Ahlawat – Raazi
Pankaj Tripathi – Stree
Vijay Raaz – Pataakha
Sanjay Kapoor – Lust Stories
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Bhumi Pednekar – Lust Stories
Gitanjali Rao – October
Mithila Palkar – Karwaan
Manisha Koirala – Lust Stories
Neena Gupta – Badhaai Ho
BEST WORLD CINEMA FILM
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
Roma
Shoplifters
The Guilty
SPECIAL MENTION – FILMS
102 Not Out
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
Karwaan
Manmarziyaan
Mukkabaaz
Mukkabaaz
Mulk
Pataakha
Stree
Tumbbad
Tumbbad