Airlift is a film that every Indian, and every Bollywood buff despairing for genuinely high quality storytelling, must watch.

Watch Chauranga because it is honest, provocative and piercing. It announces the advent of a promising new voice in Mumbai’s independent cinema.

Bajirao Mastani is for those that think history is boring. There isn’t a dull moment in this colourful and dramatic film that embraces excess with unabashed abandon.

Kajarya is a powerful and important film that finds vestiges of genuine humanity in an area of impenetrable darkness. But it offers no false hopes. This film is for discerning audiences who have a stomach for the bitter truth.

Angry Indian Goddesses is a must-see and not only because it is unlike anything Hindi cinema has produced before.

It strikes a fine and rare balance between thematic gravitas and breezy entertainment.

X: Past Is Present has its share of dull, grey patches, heightened by the hollow philosophy on life and art that K spouts in his weaker moments. But these are few and far between.

From the heady to the humdrum, the film drifts much like the protagonist himself, but, like him again, makes it to a reasonably meaningful destination.

He Named Me Malala is a must-see for anybody who cares about the world and the cause the protagonist stands for.

Bollywood biopics usually tend to be horrendously bloated and overwrought. Main Aur Charles is anything but.

If that isn’t enough of an incentive, watch it for Randeep Hooda’s alluring French drawl and Adil Hussain’s sturdy presence.

In a film in which nobody smiles, Raghuvanshi’s character embodies the sole ray of hope and the debutante makes no false moves.

The same is true of the film as a whole. Titli is an unflinching, insightful chronicle of our times. Do not miss it.

While it does not live up to its title as a package, it fulfils much of the expectations that the audience might have from a film produced jointly by Karan Johar on the one hand and Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap on the other.

It brings together two different worlds and succeeds in striking a balance between the two. For that, and for much else, Shaandaar deserves hearty ovation.