BEST MOVIES OF 2020
2020 IS A VERY DEFFERENT FROM EVERY YEAR NOONE EXPECTED THIS THAT HE/SHE CAN GET A LIFE LIKE THIS NO SCHOOL NO COLLEAGES NO JOB NO WORK. THIS IS A GOOD TIME FOR LEARNERS AND MOVIE LOVERS. SO TODAY I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHICH ARE BEST MOVIES OF 2020.SO LETS START
In this blog I am going to tell movies rating , director , rating , age limit , stars ,release date, story line so make sure to read whole blog.
so the movie which take first position is hamilton.
#1:HAMILTON
RATING:8.6
METASCORE:90
DIRECTOR:THOMAS KAIL
RELEASE YEAR:2020
STARS:LIN MANUEL MARANDA,PHILLIPA SOO,LESLIE ODOM JR.
AGE LIMIT:10+
GENRE:BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, MUSICAL, HISTORY
STORY LINE: Low-Spoiler Version: Hamilton is the story of how Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, rose to the highest levels of power, only to lose almost everything, die in a duel, and have his legacy defined by his enemies.
Medium-Spoiler Version: Alexander Hamilton is a brilliant, ambitious man who starts with nothing. He emigrates to New York on a scholarship and, using nothing but his own talents, rises to the highest levels of the Continental Army, marries into wealth, becomes a respected lawyer, helps get the U.S. Constitution passed, becomes America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, lays the foundation for its economic dominance, and leads its first political party. But he is also the author of his own demise—his family, career, and legacy are ruined by his own mistakes, and he ultimately dies in a duel with Aaron Burr, a man whose life ran curiously parallel to Hamilton’s.
Content Warnings: Hamilton depicts a violent war fought with rifles and bayonets, albeit with singing and dancing. It includes adultery, the death of an adult child, and the death of its protagonist. It discusses American slavery and depicts characters who support it. Its lyrics include a fair bit of adult language.
High-Spoiler Version: I’m not kidding—if I leave it out, it’s because I’m trying to keep it short. Don’t read further if you don’t want to know.
After a turbulent, impoverished childhood, orphan Alexander Hamilton wins a scholarship and travels to New York. He finds himself in the revolutionary milieu and meets several patriots—most notably Aaron Burr, a fellow orphan from a privileged background. Recognizing Hamilton’s ambition, Burr advises him to “talk less, smile more” to succeed, but Hamilton rejects his advice.
Hamilton forms an artillery company, hoping to become a war hero and rise above his station, but General George Washington convinces him to take an unprestigious but vital job helping to administer the Continental Army—a job that Burr had hoped to get. He meets Angelica and Eliza Schuyler, daughters of a wealthy politician, and although Angelica falls for him, she cannot marry him and sets him up with her sister instead. Burr, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a woman, but cannot marry her until the British officer she’s married to dies or leaves her behind.
The war goes poorly for a while; Hamilton and Washington have a falling-out over his insolent behavior and constant lobbying for a command, and Washington sends him home. Hamilton learns that his wife is pregnant and she tries to convince him to be content with family life. However, as the Continental Army prepares to attack Yorktown, Washington invites Hamilton to return to the fight. He gives Hamilton command of a battalion attacking a vital enemy stronghold; Hamilton completes his objective and the British Army surrenders.
Hamilton and Burr both return home to their wives and newborn children, and they both become well-known lawyers in New York City. However, Hamilton’s aggressive ambition and hard work are rewarded by a meteoric rise: He is sent to the Constitutional Convention, writes the influential Federalist Papers advocating the constitution’s ratification, and is tapped by Washington to become the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton tries to push a controversial banking bill through Congress, but is stymied by an opposition bloc led by Thomas Jefferson; he skips a much-needed vacation with Eliza and Angelica and instead starts an affair with a married woman, which quickly sours when her husband demands hush money. However, he finally has a breakthrough and makes a backroom deal with the opposition, allowing them to choose the site of Washington, DC in exchange for passing his banking bill.
Burr, jealous of Hamilton’s access to power, resolves to mimic Hamilton and aggressively seek power; he allies with Jefferson’s clique and wins the Senate seat previously occupied by Hamilton’s father-in-law. Meanwhile, tensions are rising within the government; political parties form, Jefferson resigns in protest of Hamiltonian “big government” policies, and Washington retires to set a precedent that presidents should not cling to power for too long. Hamilton has a falling-out with the next administration; hoping to finish him off as a political force, Jefferson and Burr approach Hamilton with payments they believe prove that he has embezzled money from the Treasury, but which actually prove he paid off his mistress’s husband. Hoping to save his professional reputation, Hamilton goes public with the affair, but America’s first political sex scandal ruins both his career and his relationships with Eliza and Angelica.
Things get even worse when Hamilton’s son is killed in a duel by one of his critics; although he and Eliza reconnect in their shared grief, he is completely out of the political game by the 1800 election. Jefferson was expecting to cruise to an easy victory, but his running mate Aaron Burr stabs him in the back, openly campaigning for the presidency himself. The election ends in a tie that will be broken by Hamilton’s allies, and they finally convince him to give his opinion: “Jefferson has beliefs—Burr has none.” Jefferson wins the tiebreaker vote and, to punish Burr, freezes him out of any real power.
Burr, furious with Hamilton’s endorsement of Jefferson, challenges him to a duel. Hamilton accepts, but decides to shoot into the air rather than putting up a fight. Burr kills Hamilton, but it is an empty victory—history will remember him only as a villain who killed an American hero. Eliza, meanwhile, outlives her husband by fifty years, dedicating her life to preserving her husband’s legacy and completing his work. They are reunited after death, and she gasps at the sight of a theater full of people watching a musical about Alexander Hamilton
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#2:THE INVISIBLE MAN
RATING:7.1
METASCORE:72
DIRECTOR:LIEGH WHANNELL
RELEASE YEAR:2020
STARS:ELISABETH MOSS, OLIVAR JACKSON COHAN, HARRIET DYER
AGE LIMIT:12+
GENRE:DRAMA, HORROR , SCI FI, THRILLER, MYSTERY
STORY LINE: After escaping off from her (Cecilia) abusive boyfriend, she finds herself being stalked by her boyfriend, but in an invisible form which couldn't be seen by any. For a second I thought I'm not going to like this film, but I didn't see that coming, this movie was great. One of the better thing I liked about The Invisible Man is, you expect this movie will go in this way which you already thought, but I doesn't. It have his own turns which is risky but I takes those risks or choices which you don't see coming, at least that's how I felt. Also this is a type of horror which made purely for fun, to sit back, chill not worry about anything, watch purely for fun.
The look of the film, the cinematography looks so beautiful. There is one night scene outside the hospital which looks so astonishing, and authentic to look at. Also usage of long tracking shots where a character is either walking or running looks very excellent and staged well. There is one scene in this movie which I'll never, ever forget, a scene inside a restaurant where to people just ignoring the waiter and talking, that scene though, I'll never forget at all. Holy! There are scenes too which I never saw coming at all. I never saw those scenes coming, and it was goddamn entertaining.
At the base it's a stalker film, but the filmmaker, Whannel found a way to make this movie entertaining to watch and get entertained which all I needed. Another best part of the film is Elisabeth Moss she's very excellent in this film. As I said, certain scenes I never saw them coming and I never thought I would Moss's character much, but the script chose to show her more vulnerable, like she actually can't be normal like other humans at one point in the film, she all pulled off it very well.
This is a decent, entertaining horror film which I loved. I adore this movie. I think it's just realised where it is. Sometimes the movie drags, it might due to the movie lenght which is the major draw back. They should've atleast cut this movie to 100 minutes. Then I would be even more crispier to taste.
HINDI- ENGLISH#3:TANHAJI THE UNSUNG WARRIOR
RATING:7.1
METASCORE:72
DIRECTOR:ON RAUT
RELEASE YEAR:2020
STARS:AJAY DEVGAN, SAIF ALI KHAN, SHARAD KELKAR, KAJOL
AGE LIMIT:12+
GENRE:ACTION, BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA, HISTORY
STORY LINE: Well, I wasn’t intending to put a review of the trailer originally. But after seeing that trailer twice or thrice, I felt to air out some of my observations here
I am quite impressed that Bollywood is making a lot of historical movies these days. Atleast its better than awful Housefull and Karan Johar kind of unrealistic cheesy NRI romcoms….
As a history lover, I always make it a point to watch historical movies in most of the languages. My most favourite Hindi movie of all times is definitely Mughal-e-Azam. Ohh, I can’t imagine the level of hard work and efforts they put to make such a movie in that era
I love a lot of historical movies like Mangal Pandey, Lagaan, The legend of Bhagat Singh etc. The most favourite of recent times- Jodha Akbar and Baji Rao Mastani…
Watched this trailer. Quite standard historical trailer. The photography is good, so as the sets and scale. The best thing, you have Saif Ali Khan here. These days Saif is indeed killing to the core. He is in perfect form these days and quite happy to see him. Ajay Devgan as usual, not extraordinary. Overall, the movie trailer is nice and quite standard as seen in most of the historical movies these days.
My most serious concern
But off recently I have been noticing a new trend in Historical movies. A trend of extreme demonizing Muslim rulers and over glorifying Hindu rulers. Well, its indeed part of ongoing political Hindutva narrative since 2014. But many are indeed irritating.
The interesting was Padmavaat, where you had such a worst portrayal of Alauddin Khilji, but superbly acted by Ranveer that the so-called great Hindu hero completely got overshadowed and the villain got the entire screen space.
But that trend continues even today and so evident in the last two trailers released- the Panipat and now Tanhaji.
Ofcourse Panipat trailer is a joke with poor casting… No need to mention, but that bias is so evident.
But I felt Tanhaji trailer is more interesting as far as bias is concerned. I am well aware of the polarized environment of North/Central India and much of Maratha Empire rose due to that polarized environment where its king highlighted himself as Hindu Swarajaya or establishing the Hindu Kingdom for his political aspirations. So the narrative of foreign rulers of Delhi and native rulers of Pune is very much strong in the local cultural psyche of Maratha nationalism for centuries, but it was subtle for ages. Perhaps due to changed political narrative/context today, it has got an over highlight today.
Why I feel Tanhaji trailer interesting in this perspective;
- Tanhaji’s opponent in this movie isn’t a Muslim, rather a Hindu Rajput- Udayabhan Rathod. He was the head of that garrison. He was a commander under Mughal General- Jai Singh, the King of Amer (Jaipur). Interestingly, both Jai Singh representing the Mughal Empire and Shivaji representing the Maratha Kingdom joined hands together in their fight against Bijapur Sultan and thus were allies at one point of time thro’ Treaty of Purandar and later broke down. So here religion is not the key matter, rather politics matters a lot. Shivaji was keen to expand his Maratha Kingdom, so as various Mughal governors for the benefit of their emperor- Aurangazeb. But the trailer itself over highlights that Hindutva narrative tones well. Infact the year when this attack happened, Shivaji was still a Mughal official and Aurangazeb has personally granted the title of Raja to him. His son Sambhaji too was under Mughal services in Deccan. It was that year, the second round of hostilities erupted and Shivaji wanted to re-capture the Khondala fort of Mughals for his own safety.
- The influence of this narrative is so well seen when you see Udaya Bhan is very much Muslim attire and nothing to suggest his Rajput origins. Rajputs in Mughal services always had their attire.
- You see Udyabhan saying, you are fighting for your land and since I have wisdom over this land, I can kill as much as I can, while you sacrifice yourself… That's indeed an example of creating THEY vs US narrative. When making a movie on Rajput history, we see Rajputs as some sort of extreme saviours of this land who always sacrifices their lives for the nation, but the same Rajputs in another historical movie has no emotional connection to the land and no sacrifice to be made. Don’t you see the irony?
- The narrative of creating they vs us is so well used that they used a Indo-British actor- Luke Kenny to play the role of Aurangazeb. It's so unique. Normally we have seen these foreign actors playing the role of British characters. Infact Luke himself has acted as a British Indian army officer in a popular serial - 21 Sarfarosh - Saragarhi 1897. How can a white man be cast as a Mughal Emperor who was born and brought up in India and had nearly 3 generations of living in India? Mughals always marry Indian princess and noble ladies… Shahjahan’s mother herself was a Rajput princess,… Then how can a white look like an Indian? So it's evident, it's purposefully made to make feel Aurganzeb or any Mughal emperor as a Foreigner or rather a colonist.
- Another case of typical Hindutva narrative is the dialogue of where Kajol says- the sword of Shivaji means protection of ghunghat of the woman and sacred thread of brahmins. That's very typical pro-Hindutva statement. AFAIK, Maratha ladies never use Ghunghat unlike Rajputs and other north Indian community. Infact Maratha ladies always show their hair like the South Indian community. Ghunghat is never a cultural option for Marathas and hence never seen as a social necessity, unlike Rajputs. So as Marathas themselves weren’t Brahmins and the classic fight between Marathas and Brahmins started from the days of Shivaji when local Brahmins refused to coronate Shivaji as their king due to his lower caste status. And that fight still continues in Maharashtra, Hindutva narratives over the ages made Shivaji as an icon of Hindu nationalism, which is essentially a Brahminical casteist narrative, so you see the extra focus on brahminical caste preservation and glorification.
- Showcasing madness/eccentricism for Muslims and normalcy for Hindus is typical of the same Padmavat narrative. In this case, that eccentricism is with a Hindu general- Udaybhanu just because the latter was an official of Mughal empire. So anyone with Mughals was eccentric as per new India narrative.
- The last scene of showing Maratha flag with OM in it is a clear portrayal of converting Maratha Kingdom/empire-building of past into Hindutva Nationalism of today. AFAIK, Marathas always used Bhagwa Dhende or Saffron flag for their political identity, never with any Om or other religious symbols. So superimposing the religious identity within a political flag is clear act of justifying Maratha bravery as some sort of Hindu bravery against invaders. The typical polarization attempt.
The typical bollywoodish flavour of making the kings and queens dance in groups can be well seen. Just need to see whether Chhatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj will too shake his legs or not in the dance party. If so, we can expect Shivsena to break the legs of its director soon….
What I hate most of the modern-day Bollywood narratives is creating extremes. It's so much seen these days. Villians means extreme evil, satan reloaded, while heroes mean all virtues combined together and shaped into a human being. There is no middle ground anywhere. And now, over the top- extreme communal flavours. Are they studying in Shah school of Political Management?
Bit sad to see this sort of political narratives making into movie sector too….
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