Top 10 critically acclaimed Bollywood movies of 2015

Top 10 critically acclaimed Bollywood movies of 2015 – ‘Masaan’, ‘Piku’ and ‘Margarita With A Straw’ tops the list of critically acclaimed Bollywood movies of 2015.

2015 saw some great movies like Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Baby, Tanu and Weds Returns and Drishyam which were not only liked loved by the audience but were equally loved by the critics as well. If the year 2014 saw some great movies like Haider, Queen, Aankhon Dekhi, this year we were gifted with Talvar, Masaan, and Dum Laga Ke Haisha.

In this report, we will look at the top 10 critically acclaimed Bollywood movies of 2015. These movies may not be the biggest hits at the Box Office, but they have certainly won many hearts for being different and unconventional.

[box title=”10) Shamitabh, Rating : 3 stars”]
Starcast: Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, and Akshara Haasan
Director: R. Balki
Release Date: 06-Feb-2015
Synopsis: A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?
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[box title=”9) Maanjhi and Rahasya, Rating : 3.2 stars”]
Maanjhi
Starcast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte
Director: Ketan Mehta
Release Date: 21-Aug-2015
Synopsis: Using only a hammer and a chisel, a man spends twenty-two years carving a road through a treacherous mountain.
Rahasya
Starcast: Kay Kay Menon, Tisca Chopra,
Director: Manish Gupta
Release Date: 30-Jan-2015
Synopsis: Only child of a doctor couple is murdered in her sleep inside their large duplex apartment.
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[box title=”8) Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, Rating : 3.4 stars”]
Starcast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Swastika Mukherjee
Director: Dibaker Banerjee
Release Date: 03-Apr-2015
Synopsis: The origin story of famous Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay.

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[box title=”7) Baby and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Rating: 3.5 stars”]
Baby
Starcast: Akshay Kumar, Danny, Rana Daggubati
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Release Date: 23-Jan-2015
Synopsis: An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it’s up to them to track the terrorists’ international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Starcast: Salman, Kareena, Nawaz, and Harshaali
Director: Kabir Khan
Release Date: 17-Jul-2015
Synopsis: A man with a magnanimous spirit tries to take a young mute Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family.

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[box title=”6) Drishyam and NH10, Rating : 3.6 stars”]
Drishyam 
Starcast: Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran, and Tabu
Director: Nishikant Kamat
Release Date: 31-July-2015
Synopsis: 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.
NH10
Starcast: Anushka Sharma, Darshan Kumar, Neil Bhoopalam
Director: Navdeep Singh
Release Date: 13-Mar-2015
Synopsis: After her desert date goes wrong, a woman manages to not just stick it out but indeed give it back.

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[box title=”5) Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Rating: 3.7 stars”]
Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Starcast: Kangana Ranaut and R, Madhavan
Director: Aanand L. Rai
Release Date: 22-May-2015
Synopsis: Tanu and Manu’s marriage collapses. What happens when Manu meets Tanu’s lookalike Kusum – and when Tanu returns?
Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Starcast: Ayushmaan Khurrana, Bhumi Pedekar, Sanjay Mishra
Director: Sharat Katariya
Release Date: 27-Feb-2015
Synopsis: A marriage is arranged between a slim guy and an overweight girl.

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[box title=”4) Badlapur, Rating : 3.8 stars”]
Starcast: Varun Dhawan, Nawaz, Huma Qureshi and Yami Gautam
Director: Sriram Raghavan
Release Date: 20-Feb-2015
Synopsis: After his family is killed during a bank robbery, a man tries to avenge their death

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[box title=”3) Margarita with a straw, Rating : 3.9 stars”]
Starcast: Kalki Koechlin, Revathy
Director: Shonali Bose, Nilesh Maniyar
Release Date: 17-Apr-2015
Synopsis: A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.

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[box title=”2) Piku and Talvar  Rating : 4 stars”]
Piku
Starcast: Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan Khan
Director: Shoojit Sircar
Release Date: 08-May-2015
Synopsis: A quirky comedy about the relationship between an ageing father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other’s conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other’s only emotional support.

Talvar
Starcast: Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma
Director: Meghna Gulzar
Release Date: 02-Oct-2015
Synopsis: An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.
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[box title=”1) Masaan, Rating : 4.2 stars”]
Starcast: Richa Chaddha, Sanjay Mishra
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan
Release Date: 24-Jul-2015
Synopsis: Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with the guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
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Which is your favorite Bollywood movie among these? Share your views with us in the comments section.

Also, Read – Top 10 critically acclaimed movies of 2013, Top 10 critically acclaimed movies of 2014, Top 10 Bollywood movies of 2015 based on IMDb rating