Bollywood consistently produces some of the best in international cinema. (Heck, it gave the world Priyanka Chopra, so you know it has to be good.) Here are 8 must-see movies that came out of the Indian film industry in 2018, from laugh-out-loud comedies to cinematically beautiful epic dramas and even a flick about menstrual equity! Cue one of these up and prepare to be very entertained.

Mulk

Mulk, a film by Anubhav Sinha is a classic courtroom drama and stars Rishi Kapoor, Taapsee Pannu, Neena Gupta, Prateik Babbar. The film is set in Benaras and is about Murad Ali Mohammad (Rishi Kapoor) younger brother’s (Rajat Kapoor) son Shahid Mohammad becomes a suspected terrorist, post a Bomb Blast. The movie revolves around the Patriarch of the Muhammad family (Rishi Kapoor) proving to be innocent.

This movie is the need of an hour, which talks about how the country has been polarised and the cracks caused by the religious divide is getting deeper. There are stellar performances by Rishi Kapoor and Taapsee Pannu where the supporting cast Neena Gupta, Manoj Pahwa, and Ashutosh Rana doesn’t fail you.

Padman

Padman a film directed and written by R. Balki, starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor is a Comedy-Drama and is inspired from the true story of Arunachalam Muruganantham. The plot of the film revolves around Laxmikant Chauhan (Akshay Kumar), who is sensitive towards his wife Gayatri (Radhika Apte) not using Sanitary Pads. Laxmi Starts making them but as the Periods are a taboo, he couldn’t get his family women to use it. Further, he sets up a whole factory of these sanitary pads and ends up promoting his idea through a speech in UNICEF. The movie is sensitive and inspirational.

Veere Di Wedding

Veere Di Wedding is a film directed by Shashank Ghosh, is a female-centric comedy-drama starring Kareena Kapoor, Shikha Talsania, Sonam Kapoor and Swara Bhaskar. The film revolves around four friends who are like family facing various troubles in their personal life and thus affecting their social life, where Kalindi (Kareena Kapoor) is to be married in a Big Fat Indian Wedding to Rishabh (Sumeet Vyas), Avni (Sonam Kapoor) is finding a man to get married to because her mother is asking her to, Sakshi (Swara Bhaskar) is getting divorced and Meera (Shikha) hasn’t had sex with her husband , John since her son, Kabir was born. This movie takes a look out on the world through the women lens and has a lot to speak.

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Raid

Raid, directed by Raj Kumar Gupta and written by Ritesh Shah, is a film which is inspired by true events carried out by the Income Tax Department in the 1980s. Raid Stars Ajay Devgan, Ileana D’cruz, and Saurabh Shukla. The movie revolves around a transferred IRS officer Amay Patnaik (Ajay Devgan) to Lucknow who is happily married to Malini (Ileana D’cruz). Amay receives a tip about the black money hoarded by Rameshwar Singh (Saurabh Shukla), the Member of Parliament and also the Don od Sitagarh. The movie reveals the truths of society and is a suspense thriller. Ajay Devgan and Saurabh Shukla have delivered stellar performances.

Hichki

Hichki is a film directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra stars Rani Mukherji. It is an Indian adaptation of the autobiography of Brad Cohen’s Front to the Class: How Tourette Syndrome made me the Teacher I never had. This Film is about Naina Mathur (Rani Mukherji), an aspiring Teacher who is suffering from the Tourettes Syndrome. She has been failing at her job for the last 5 years because of the various sounds and different movements she does because of Tourettes. She then is assigned a class of children coming from the slums. Further, she excels with these students by taking up various extracurricular methods of teaching, ending up being the principal of the school.

Parmanu

Parmanu is a film directed by Abhishek Sharma, Jointly Written by Saiwyn Quadras, Sanyuktha Chawla Sheikh and Abhishek Sharma, is an Indian historical action drama, based on the truth even of nuclear bomb tests by the Indian Army at Pokhran in 1998 under the guidance of the former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, an Dr. R. Chidambaram. The film stars John Abraham (Ashwath Raina) who is set up to lead the team who is going to carry out this project. This film is an absolute treat to watch!

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Raazi

Raazi is a film directed by Meghna Gulzar and is a spy thriller. Raazi is the film is an adaptation of Harinder Sikka’s 2008 novel Calling Sehmat, a true account of an Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent who, upon her father’s request, is married into a Pakistani family of military officials to relay information to India, prior to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The Film stars Alia Bhatt (Sehmat ) and features Vicky Kaushal, Jaideep Ahlawat, Ranjit Kapur and Shishir Sharma. The story goes around Sehmat who is Married off to Iqbal Syed in Pakistan who spies and sends data back to RAW which further stops the attack on the INS Vikrant deployed in the Bay of Bengal.

Karwaan

Karwaan is a film directed by debutant Akarsh Khurana. The film stars Dulquer Salmaan, Irrfan Khan and Mithila Palkar. The film is a Road trip film where Avinash’s (Dulquer) father’s dead body is exchanged with Tanya’s (Mithila) grandmother’s dead body. And thus, to again exchange the bodies rightly, Shaukat (Irrfan) along with Tanya and Avinash takes a road trip from Bengaluru to Kochi.