From small-budget gems to big Bollywood blockbusters, some of the best films in the recent years hit the theatres in 2016. It was a year that saw a transition of sorts with the cinephiles accepting genuine performances than just make-believe. Despite a few dreadful misfires, viewers found Bollywood films/performances spanning across crucial issues – drug abuse, mental illness, distorted gender expectations, a dysfunctional family, etc - that were worth bringing to the fore.
In the fourth edition of News18 Movies Awards in association with United Colours of Benetton, we select nominees in various popular categories and allow our readers decide the outcome.
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Trust Swara Bhaskar to bring even the simplest of characters to your heart. Swara played the role of a single mother in Ashwini Iyer's light-hearted film Nil Battey Sannata. Touching on the beautiful aspect of mother-daughter relationship and education, Nil Battey Sannata saw Swara as a mother who goes to school with her daughter only to realise how much she herself wanted to study further.
In one of a kind horror-thriller, Phobia, Radhika Apte played a role of a promising artist who’s developed a debilitating fear of stepping out of the house, after a terrible incident returning home in a taxi late one night. Alternately fragile and fierce, Apte, at once embraced her character's contradictions and humanising her complexities. It’s a nicely nuanced performance and Apte made it look urgent and spontaneous.
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