Upstarts (2019)Īn indie drama with mostly unknown actors, ‘Upstarts’ is a film about three college students, Kapil, Yash and Vinay, who create a startup without putting much thought into the project. The film subtly explores life in small-town India, and how economic instability and responsibilities sometimes kill the dreams of many talented individuals. There is another female character in the film, Geeta, with whom Beni gets to share all the troubles of his heart. She is a well-known musician, and her success constantly reminds our leading character of his failure. This unhappiness within him is triggered further when his former student Jyotsna, with whom he shared a romantic affiliation as well, comes back to town. Now he suffers from despair and a feeling of hopelessness. The protagonist of the story is a small-town music teacher, Beni, who once had aspirations to be a famous musician, but his dreams never managed to see the light of the day. Music Teacher (2019)Ĭo-written and directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, ‘Music Teacher’ has slight influences of films like ‘ A Star Is Born‘. Read More: Best French Movies on Netflix 28. the failure of Jabya’s innocent attempts to woo Shalu, while being oppressed and humiliated by the society (who call him ‘Fandry’ or a pig), make him reach a boiling point of exasperation post which he hurls a stone at one of the perpetrators, but the stone is shown hurling towards the audience as credits roll, as we are the true perpetrators of the caste system still lurking in our lives. But their financial gap isn’t the only problem Jabya is a Dalit whereas Shalu belongs to an upper caste. He falls head-over-heels for Shalu, whose parents are saving money to get her married. That simply is the nucleus of this 2013 film directed by Nagraj Manjule who later rose to fame with the enormously successful ‘Sairat’ (the absence of which from this list is sure to get me death threats!) Jabya lives on the fringes of the village with parents who do menial jobs. Without a thought of colour, caste, creed or society. You can watch several of these Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime or Hulu. Here’s a list of what we think are the best Hindi films on Netflix that are available to stream right now.
Although the collection on Netflix cannot be called as “exhaustive” right now, it still is pretty comprehensive in terms of its spread. Off late, Netflix has been silently adding good quality Bollywood movies – movies that will make you cry, swoon or laugh out loud, thanks to the catchy dialogues, defining music or rib-tickling humour. Bollywood may still have a long way to go before it is compared with the likes of Hollywood films. Though Bollywood has more than 30 regional film industries, all producing movies in different languages, yet, India isn’t as prominent on the world cinema stage as it should be – at least in terms of recognition. India is the largest producer of movies in the world, but still generates far less revenue from movies alone, thanks to the dearth of outreach and the compromise in quality of content.
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