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Streaming Guide: Bollywood films of 2020

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In our sequence Streaming Guide, we record the works of a filmmaker or actor obtainable on streaming platforms like ZEE5, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus Hotstar, SonyLIV, Voot, Eros Now and YouTube amongst others.
This version options Bollywood films which launched in 2020.
Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Ajay Devgn in a nonetheless from Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior.
Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan and Kajol-starrer Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior revolves round unsung Maratha hero, Tanhaji Malusare. Watch the magnum opus for the magnificent units, well-choreographed warfare scenes and first rate performances.
Baaghi 3
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Tiger Shroff in Baaghi 3.
Are you a fan of Tiger Shroff? If sure, Baaghi 3 is a movie for you. If not, then there may be nothing on this Ahmed Khan directorial that’s price your time.
Street Dancer 3D
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
A poster of Street Dancer 3D.
This Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer is for die-hard followers of dancing. Remo D’Souza’s third dance movie, after ABCD and ABCD 2, additionally stars Nora Fatehi, Prabhudheva, Punit Pathak, Dharmesh Yelande, Sushant Pujari, Salman Yusuff Khan and Raghav Juyal amongst others.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
The Hitesh Kewalya directorial options Ayushmann Khurrana and Jitendra Kumar as a gay couple, struggling to make their household settle for their relationship. The movie, additionally starring Gajraj Rao, Neena Gupta, Maanvi Gagroo, Manu Rishi and Sunita Rajwar, gives a unusual tackle same-sex relationships with out being preachy.
Malang
Streaming on: Netflix
A poster of Malang.
Directed by Mohit Suri, the action-packed masala entertainer stars Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani, Anil Kapoor and Kunal Kemmu. Though the movie doesn’t supply something new by way of plot, it retains you hooked with twists and turns at common intervals.
Chhapaak
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Deepika Padukone in a nonetheless from Chhapaak.
Based on the lifetime of acid assault survivor Laxmi Aggarwal, the Meghna Gulzar-helmed Chhapaak is an impactful drama. Deepika Padukone does justice to her function of acid assault survivor Malti, and Vikrant Massey supplies ready assist as Malti’s boss-turned-boyfriend Anmol. The smartest thing concerning the film is that it doesn’t over dramatise the lifetime of Malti. If you haven’t watched it but, Chhapaak undoubtedly deserves your consideration.
Love Aaj Kal
Streaming on: YouTube, Netflix
A nonetheless from Love Aaj Kal.
Kartik Aaryan, Sara Ali Khan, Randeep Hooda and Aarushi Sharma play the lead roles on this Imtiaz Ali movie on fashionable love. This complicated story of affection turns into tedious too quickly, and Sara and Kartik fail to impress. The solely benefit of the disappointing movie is seasoned actor Randeep Hooda.
Jawaani Jaaneman
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
A poster of Jawaani Jaaneman.
Jawaani Jaaneman, starring Saif Ali Khan, Alaya F, Tabu, Kubbra Sait, Farida Jalal, Kumud Mishra and Kiku Sharda, is an ideal decide if you’re searching for an easy-breezy pleased movie.
Thappad
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
A nonetheless from Thappad.
Taapsee Pannu received hearts along with her portrayal of housewife Amrita who refuses to be along with her husband after he slaps her at a celebration. Through the movie, filmmaker Anubhav Sinha gives a commentary on home violence which is usually brushed underneath the carpet. He additionally questions the inherent misogyny in society.
Panga
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Kangana Ranaut in a nonetheless from Panga.
Kangana Ranaut performs kabaddi champion Jaya Nigam who’s eyeing a comeback after leaving the game for marriage and motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s sports activities drama Panga. How she balances the non-public {and professional} life kinds the crux of the movie.
Shikara
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Shikara stars Aadil Khan and Sadia within the lead roles.
Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Shikara stars Aadil Khan and Sadia within the lead function. It is predicated on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland in 1990. The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her evaluate, “In his telling of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland, Vidhu Vinod Chopra uses a tender lens to create a romance between two individuals, which is wholly lovely and believable. You look at Shiv Kumar Dhar and his beloved, Shanti, and you sigh. And then you look around at the beauty depicted on screen, slowly being ground to dust, and you ask why. Why did this happen? Why was a particular community and its people forced into leaving the valley at gun-point? Shikara takes vague jabs at setting the context. We get throwaway remarks about ‘not being able to gather because of Section 144’, ‘elections not being free and fair’, ‘India chale jao’. We see militancy being encouraged and supported from across the border (actual scenes of Benazir Bhutto raising slogans of ‘azaadi’ on black and white TV), but nothing goes deeper. That the Muslim residents are slyly eyeing Pandit homes and property finds repeat mention, but what has caused the rift stays strictly on the surface.”
Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Vicky Kaushal in a poster of Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship.
Unmanned ship. Dark empty corridors. Creaking doorways. Creepy doll. Snapping of fingers. You can discover all these in Vicky Kaushal-starrer Bhoot, the primary a part of a horror franchise. Ashutosh Rana, as an outdated professor who offers with supernatural powers, is a hoot.
Angrezi Medium
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Irrfan Khan in Angrezi Medium.
A heartwarming father-daughter relationship is on the centre of Homi Adajania’s Angrezi Medium, a sequel to Saket Chaudhary’s Hindi Medium. Champak Bansal (Irrfan), a single father, is able to go to any size to make his daughter Tarika (Radhika Madan) dwell her dream of finding out in a overseas college. You can watch it for one more good efficiency by Irrfan.
Ghoomketu
Streaming on: ZEE5
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a nonetheless from Ghoomketu.
In her evaluate of Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Ghoomketu, The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta wrote, “‘Comedy likho, badi demand hai’, Ghoomketu is told. We really could do with some laughs in these grim times, and this film’s premise did hold out promise, but it turns out to be more clutch-your-head-ache, than hold-your-sides-laughter.”
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai
Streaming on: Netflix
Saiyami Kher and Amruta Subhash in Choked.
In Anurag Kashyap’s darkish slice-of-life movie Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai, a middle-class working lady Sarita (Kher) finds rolls of money in her kitchen pipes. The unintentional discovery of cash makes her life higher till demonetisation hits, and all of the money in her possession is rendered ineffective. The spotlight of Choked is its solid. Saiyami Kher, Amruta Subhash, Rajshri Deshpande and Roshan Mathew ship convincing performances in a movie that explores the struggles of a lower-middle-class household.
Gulabo Sitabo
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana and Shoojit Sircar on the set of Gulabo Sitabo.
Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer Gulabo Sitabo, directed by Shoojit Sircar and written by Juhi Chaturvedi, is a unusual dramedy about an aged landlord Mirza Sheikh (Bachchan) who tries to get his tenant Baankey Sodhi (Khurrana) out of his priceless possession: his mansion which is in ruins. But Baankey isn’t any much less. He offers it again to Mirza and continues to dwell in his home with out even paying the lease.
Bulbbul
Streaming on: Netflix
Tripti Dimri in a nonetheless from Bulbbul.
The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta gave Bulbbul a ranking of three and a half stars. In her evaluate, she wrote, “Bulbbul is fashioned as a sharply relevant fable. It is a powerfully feminist, revisionist tale of a woman wronged, and it is told with economy, precision, style and feeling.”
Dil Bechara
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi in Dil Bechara.
Watch the Mukesh Chhabra directorial if you’re a fan of Sushant Singh Rajput.
Shakuntala Devi
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Vidya Balan and Sanya Malhotra in Shakuntala Devi.
The Anu Menon directorial, based mostly on the lifetime of the late mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi, is an out-and-out Vidya Balan present. Apart from showcasing Shakuntala Devi’s relationship with arithmetic, the movie additionally focuses on her relationship with daughter Anu (Sanya Malhotra) who needed to dwell a life totally different from her mom’s.
Lootcase
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
A poster of Lootcase.
Lootcase is an easy movie which tells the story of abnormal folks caught in extraordinary conditions. A middle-class man (Kunal Kemmu) at some point finds a crimson suitcase full of cash exterior a public rest room. Soon he realises a politician, a neighborhood goon and a police inspector are additionally looking for the suitcase. Now, how he manages to cover the suitcase kinds the foremost chunk of the movie. It boasts a tremendous solid together with Vijay Raaz, Ranvir Shorey, Rasika Dugal and Gajraj Rao. The movie is price your time if you’re searching for a lightweight watch.
Raat Akeli Hai
Streaming on: Netflix
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Raat Akeli Hai.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui-led Honey Trehan movie Raat Akeli Hai is likely one of the greatest movies of 2020. It is a basic homicide thriller which retains you hooked from the phrase go. Apart from Siddiqui, it’s Radhika Apte who impresses along with her efficiency.
Pareeksha
Streaming on: ZEE5
Adil Hussain in Pareeksha.
Prakash Jha’s movie Pareeksha that includes Adil Hussain as a rickshaw-puller is a commentary on the prevalent class divide in Indian society. Buchi (Hussain) needs his son Bulbul to check in an English medium college and arranges cash for a similar by not so honest means. But quickly he realises cash is just one of his troubles as his son faces discrimination within the college. Though Jha goals to current a well-intended movie, it drags in direction of the second half. But you probably have the persistence, do give Pareeksha a attempt.
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Streaming on: Netflix
Jahnvi Kapoor in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl.
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is the story of Gunjan Saxena, who’s Indian Air Force’s first feminine pilot to fly in a fight zone through the 1999 Kargil War. Besides Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi received hearts together with his endearing flip as Gunjan’s father Anup Saxena.
Khuda Haafiz
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Vidyut Jammwal and Shivaleeka Oberoi in Khuda Haafiz.
Faruk Kabir’s romantic thriller Khuda Haafiz follows the story of newlyweds Sameer (Vidyut Jammwal) and Nargis (Shivaleeka Oberoi) who plan to go abroad for higher work alternatives. Their life turns the other way up when Nargis goes lacking in a overseas land, and Sameer tries his greatest to seek out her. Also starring Annu Kapoor, Aahana Kumra and Shiv Pandit, Khuda Haafiz has nothing extraordinary about it.
Mee Raqsam
Streaming on: ZEE5
A poster of Mee Raqsam.
The ZEE5 movie is an ode by Baba Azmi to his late father Kaifi Azmi. It narrates a heartwarming story of a Muslim father (Danish Hussain) making an attempt to make his daughter (Aditi Subedi) dwell her dream of studying classical dance regardless of sturdy opposition from his household and society.
Class of ’83
Streaming on: Netflix
Class of 83 marks Bobby Deol’s debut within the digital medium.
Bobby Deol made his digital debut with Netflix’s Class of 83. The official synopsis of Class of 83 reads, “A hero policeman, shunted to a punishment posting as the Dean of the police academy, decides to punish the corrupt bureaucracy and its criminal allies in return by training five lethal assassin policemen. But, like all good plans, it only works for a while until the fire that he has ignited threatens to burn down his own house.” Besides Deol, the movie additionally stars Annup Soni, Joy Sengupta, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Bhupendra Jadawat, Ninad Mahajani, Hitesh Bhojraj, Sameer Paranjape and Prithvik Pratap.
Sadak 2
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Alia Bhatt, Sanjay Dutt and Aditya Roy Kapur in Sadak 2.
This might be the worst Bollywood movie of 2020. I might recommend you watch 1991 hit Sadak as an alternative.
Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
Streaming on: Netflix
Amol Parashar and Konkona Sensharma in Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare.
Writer-director Alankrita Shrivastava’s movie follows the lifetime of Dolly aka Radha Yadav (Konkona Sensharma), a middle-class lady caught between managing her children and arranging cash for her new home, and Kitty aka Kaajal who’s making an attempt laborious to dwell an impartial life in a brand new metropolis. The Indian Express critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her evaluate, “Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare is the kind of film which opens up spaces and dialogue around difficult topics, and raises the feminist bar while doing so: give it many ‘chamakte sitare’ already.”
Cargo
Streaming on: Netflix
Shweta Tripathi and Vikrant Massey in Cargo.
Arati Kadav’s science-fiction film Cargo, that includes actors Vikrant Massey and Shweta Tripathi, revolves round a lonely demon engaged on a spaceship for years for the Post Death Transition providers, the place lifeless individuals are recycled for rebirth.
Khaali Peeli
Streaming on: ZEE5
Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday in Khaali Peeli.
The Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday-starrer is a typical Bollywood masala entertainer filled with dance, romance, motion and comedy. Blackie (Khatter), a Mumbai taxi-driver and Pooja (Panday) are on the run. They are quickly chased by goons and cops, resulting in an entertaining journey. But, don’t anticipate logic and sense from the film. Watch it only for some enjoyable.
Serious Men
Streaming on: Netflix
Serious Men is directed by Sudhir Mishra.
Sudhir Mishra’s Netflix movie, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Nasser, Indira Tiwari, Aakshath Das and Shweta Basu Prasad, is predicated on the novel of the identical identify by Manu Joseph. Siddiqui performs Ayyan Mani, a lower-middle-class man who needs his son Aadi to face among the many ‘serious men’ who sit in large workplaces and rule over the likes of him. To guarantee a shiny future for his son, Ayyan presents him as a toddler genius. But for the way lengthy will his lies and deception assist him? Will Aadi pay for his father’s lies?
Bahut Hua Samman
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Bahut Hua Sammaan, starring Raghav Juyal, Abhishek Chauhan, Sanjay Mishra, Nidhi Singh, Ram Kapoor and Namit Das, revolves across the lives of two younger engineering college students, Bony and Fandu (Juyal and Chauhan), recognized for his or her fast con jobs of their faculty circuit. One day they plan to rob their college financial institution on the suggestion of Baba Bakchod (Mishra). But this theft goes flawed, and from right here the movie evolves right into a criticism of pretend godmen and corrupt politicians.
Ginny Weds Sunny
Streaming on: Netflix
A nonetheless from Ginny Weds Sunny, that includes Vikrant Massey with Yami Gautam.
Ginny Weds Sunny, starring Vikrant Massey and Yami Gautam within the lead roles, is a tacky romantic drama. After watching it, you would possibly marvel why this movie was ever made.
Laxmii
Streaming on: Disney Plus Hotstar
Kiara Advani and Akshay Kumar in a nonetheless from Laxmii.
Watch it at your individual danger!
Ludo
Streaming on: Netflix
Pankaj Tripathi in a nonetheless from Ludo.
If you’re into darkish comedies, Anurag Basu’s Ludo, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra and Pearle Maaney, is an effective decide.
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari
Streaming on: ZEE5
A poster of Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari.
Even Manoj Bajpayee couldn’t save this brainless comedy.
Chhalaang
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Rajkummar Rao performs a PT trainer in Chhalaang.
Starring Rajkummar Rao, Nushrat Bharucha and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Hansal Mehta directorial Chhalaang is your typical love triangle with the aggressive spirit of two PT lecturers thrown into the combination. It isn’t terrible, however it isn’t nice both. A strictly one-time watch.
Durgamati
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Bhumi Pedneka in a poster of Durgamati.
The Bhumi Pednekar-starrer is the Hindi remake of Telugu horror movie Bhaagamathie which had Anushka Shetty within the lead function. In the movie, Bhumi’s character Chanchal Chauhan is made the sufferer of a conspiracy involving bigshots of the nation. She is imprisoned within the haunted Durgamati haveli whereas being interrogated within the case. What occurs to Chanchal within the haveli kinds the plot of the movie. Written and directed by Ashok, the film additionally stars Arshad Warsi, Mahie Gill, Jisshu Sengupta and Karan Kapadia.
Torbaaz
Streaming on: Netflix
Sanjay Dutt in Torbaaz.
Torbaaz, directed by Girish Malik, options Sanjay Dutt within the function of an ex-army physician Nasser Khan who makes use of cricket to deliver some pleasure within the lives of kids dwelling in refugee camps in Afghanistan.
AK vs AK
Streaming on: Netflix
Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap in AK vs AK.
The synopsis of AK vs AK reads, “A visionary director, an old school actor, and a camera rolling for 10 hours. Anurag Kashyap, Indian cinema’s enfant terrible, kidnaps Sonam Kapoor and films her father, the evergreen, Anil Kapoor’s search for his daughter in real-time, as his next blockbuster.”
Coolie No. 1
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video
Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan in Coolie No.1.
This David Dhawan directorial, starring Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan within the lead roles, is BAD.
Yaara
Streaming on: ZEE5
Yaara stars Vidyut Jammwal, Amit Sadh, Vijay Varma, Shruti Haasan, Ankur Vakil, Kenny Basumatary, Mohammed Ali Shah and Sanjay Mishra.
In her evaluate of Yaara, The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta wrote, “The only way to work a testosterone-laden, bullet-riddled sprawling desi Western-cum-crime saga, is to keep it believable. I’m quite happy to watch young men, drunk on the power of can-do-anything youth, swagger about, especially if they aren’t the overused, jaded stars Bollywood works with. But there needs to be more that they, and us, are given to work with. Yaara needed both more clarity and heft, to deliver on the promise it set out with.”
Ram Singh Charlie
Streaming on: SonyLIV
A poster of Ram Singh Charlie.
The Nitin Kakkar directorial might be essentially the most heartwarming Bollywood movie of 2020. Ram Singh (Kumud Mishra) works as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator at a circus in Kolkata. When the circus shuts in a single day, Ram Singh is pushed into the true world the place he realises that life is a much bigger circus. How he will get his life again on observe, overcoming all odds, kinds the remainder of the story.
Kadakh
Streaming on: SonyLIV
Kadakh is directed by Rajat Kapoor.
On the day Sunil (Ranvir Shorey) and Malti (Mansi Multani) are internet hosting a Diwali occasion, Sunil is visited by an uninvited visitor – the husband of the girl he’s having an extramarital affair with. What follows is a sequence of occasions that turns their pageant of lights into an evening of darkish revelations. Kadakh stars Cyrus Sahukar, Shruti Seth, Tara Sharma Saluja, Sagar Deshmukh, Nupur Asthana, Kalki Koechlin, Chandrachoor Rai, Palomi Ghosh, Manoj Pahwa and Yamini Das.
Bhonsle
Streaming on: SonyLIV
Bhonsle is streaming on SonyLIV.
A terminally-ill Maharashtrian cop Ganpath Bhonsle, retired in opposition to his will, finds himself forging an unlikely companionship with a younger lady and her little brother, who’ve migrated from Bihar. As the raging battle destroying the world round them reaches Bhonsle’s doorstep, he preps up for one final battle price combating for, however will we succeed? Directed by Devashish Makhija, the film options Manoj Bajpayee, Santosh Juvekar, Ipshita Chakraborty Singh and Virat Vaibhav. Watch the movie for Bajpayee’s brilliance.