7 movies that showed the one word obsession of Bollywood in 2017

Avichal Sharma

Friday, 31 March 2017 (13:38 IST)
Mumbai: Remember we used to play “Bollywood” on the last paper of our copy by making the other player guess the 4-5 words long name of movie. “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”, “Hum Aapke Hai Kaun”, and other countless Bollywood flicks had long titles.

However, in the present, the Bollywood has produced many one word movies and displayed its one word obsession. Let's find out

Raees
 

The Sharukh Khan starrer Raees was the first 100 crore movie of this year. Based on the life of Kingpin Abdul Lateef, it also had Pakistani star Maheera Khan and Nawazzuddin Siddiqui..

Kaabil
 

The movie, which will be remembered for the steller act of Hrithik Roshan as a blind man who avenged the death of her better half. Yami Gautam was paired opposite Hrithik.

Rangoon
 

Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, this movie was a love triangle set during the second world war era. The movie proved out to be a disaster at the box office, but Kangana’s acting was appreciated.
 

Haramkhor
 

A piece of an art cinema, “Haramkhor” deals with the rural education and love affair of a student and a teacher. Nawazuddin Siddiqui did well in lead role.

Phillauri
 

The second production venture of Anushka Sharma, Phillauri is a comic romantic movie in which she plays a ghost.

Trapped
 

A brilliant cinematic experiment by Anurag Basu in which Rajkumar Rao is locked in a house and the movie displays his survival.

Machine
 

The Abbas Mastan directed movie created an unwanted record of being the biggest flop of Bollywood. The movie had Mustafa and Kiara Advani in lead roles.

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