Top 100 Best Indian movies of 2017
by seccess | created - 02 Mar 2018 | updated - 13 May 2019 | PublicTHE Best Indian movies of 2016 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062692345/
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1. Aruvi (2016)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
A gentle girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment finds it difficult to fit in the society. She decides to take it hard on the people. What she does is the rest of the story.
Director: Arun Prabhu Purushothaman | Stars: Aditi Balan, Padmashri Mohammad Ali, Pradeep Anthony, Arnold
Votes: 14,299
2. Saanjh (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Family
When Saanjh's father sends her away to live with her grandmother in a remote village, she feels dejected and tries to escape. However with time as her bond with her grandmother becomes stronger, her understanding of home changes.
Director: Ajay K Saklanni | Stars: Asif Basra, Tanu Bhardwaj, Aditi Charak, Hoshiyar Singh Gautam
Votes: 199
3. Kadvi Hawa (2017)
95 min | Drama
Story of a farmer and a bank recovery agent, whose lives are impacted by climate change. Both are willing to go to any length for the sake of their family. What does fate have in store for them?
Director: Nila Madhab Panda | Stars: Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome, Bhupesh Singh
Votes: 1,609
4. Vikram Vedha (2017)
Not Rated | 147 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Vikram, a no-nonsense police officer, accompanied by Simon, his partner, is on the hunt to capture Vedha, a smuggler and a murderer. Vedha tries to change Vikram's life, which leads to a conflict.
Directors: Gayatri, Pushkar, Gowtham Selvaraj | Stars: Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi, Shraddha Srinath, Kathir
Votes: 50,403
5. Arjun Reddy (2017)
Not Rated | 182 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Arjun Reddy, a short-tempered house surgeon, gets used to drugs and drinks when his girlfriend is forced to marry another person.
Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga | Stars: Vijay Deverakonda, Shalini Pandey, Jia Sharma, Kanchana
Votes: 27,642
6. Ribbon (2017)
106 min | Drama, Family
A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl and find that parenthood comes with its own challenges.
Director: Rakhee Sandilya | Stars: Kalki Koechlin, Sumeet Vyas, Pathy Aiyar, Hempushpak Arora
Votes: 688
7. Hotel Salvation (2016)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani | Stars: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh
Votes: 2,387
8. Theeran Adhigaram Ondru (2017)
Not Rated | 157 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Theeran, a police officer, is entrusted with the task to solve the mystery behind a series of murders. The only clue left behind is that all the murders are committed in the same pattern.
Director: H. Vinoth | Stars: Karthi, Rakul Preet Singh, Abhimanyu Singh, Bose Venkat
Votes: 16,929
9. Take Off (2017)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In 2014, a group of Malayali nurses was captured when terrorists took over the city of Tikrit in Iraq. This movie recounts the ordeal suffered by the nurses following their capture.
Director: Mahesh Narayanan | Stars: Parvathy Thiruvothu, Fahadh Faasil, Kunchacko Boban, Prakash Belawadi
Votes: 7,270
10. G Kutta Se (2017)
104 min | Drama
Set in the badlands of Haryana, known for high rates of female foeticide, G Kutta Se explores the murky world of sexual transgression and honour killings in India.
Director: Rahul Dahiya | Stars: Rajveer Ankur Singh, Neha Chauhan, Vibha Tyagi, Nitin Pandit
Votes: 54
11. Kaadu Pookkunna Neram (2016)
105 min | Drama
A police group is deployed by the government to do away with Maoist menace (A banned Left organization) in a tribal village near forest. The police forcibly occupy a tribal primary school ... See full summary »
Director: Bijukumar Damodaran | Stars: Krishnan Balakrishnan, Prakash Bare, Indrans, Irshad
Votes: 55
12. Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
In order to be independent and break free from the conservative society, four women sets on a journey to discover freedom and happiness.
Director: Alankrita Shrivastava | Stars: Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma, Plabita Borthakur
Votes: 7,243
13. Aaba (2017)
22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Aaba(grandfather) is set in a remote village of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. An orphan girl staying with her grandparents comes across the news of her grandfather being in the ... See full summary »
Director: Amar Kaushik | Stars: Dani Chunya, Johram Khopey, Dani Randa, Dani Sunku
Votes: 36
14. Maanagaram (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Thriller
Four youngsters arrive in a big city and their lives become interlinked.
Director: Lokesh Kanagaraj | Stars: Sundeep Kishan, Sri, Regina Cassandra, Charlie
Votes: 7,895
15. The Ghazi Attack (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Thriller, War
A Pakistani submarine, Ghazi plans to secretly attack Vizag port. For doing so, it has to get past Indian submarine S21.
Director: Sankalp Reddy | Stars: Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri
Votes: 14,543
16. Lapachhapi (2017)
120 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A new-born Indian baby... An age-old horror practice and the fact how evil are certain human practices
Director: Vishal Furia | Stars: Pooja Sawant, Usha Naik, Vikram Gaikwad, Anil Gawas
Votes: 776
17. Sexy Durga (2017)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Durga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. The hapless Durga encounters a cross section of the society through the rest of the night.
Director: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | Stars: Rajshri Deshpande, Sujith Koyickal, Bilas Chandrahasan Nair, Kannan Nayar
Votes: 576
18. Angamaly Diaries (2017)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Vincent Pepe who wanted to be a powerful leader of a righteous gang that ruled the city, like his seniors. And then there's the rival clan with the malicious gangsters of Angamaly a locale on which the film is based.
Director: Lijo Jose Pellissery | Stars: Antony Varghese, Reshma Rajan, Binny Rinky Benjamin, Amrutha Anna Reji
Votes: 6,679
19. Allama (2017)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, History, Musical
Story of the rebellious thinker Allama, also known as Allama Prabhu.
Director: T.S. Nagabharana | Stars: Dhananjaya, Meghana Raj, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Sanchari Vijay
Votes: 33
20. Newton (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A government clerk on election duty in the conflict ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Director: Amit Masurkar | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 21,162
21. Biswa Kalyan Rath: Biswa Mast Aadmi (2017 TV Special)
TV-MA | 75 min | Comedy
Biswa Mast Aadmi is a stand up comedy show by Biswa Kalyan Rath, where he cracks jokes on topics. It's funny to the audience and they laugh, thus creating sound. This in turn encourages Biswa to crack more jokes, so he cracks more jokes on topics.
Director: Siddharth Vasani | Star: Biswa Kalyan Rath
Votes: 2,405
22. The Brawler (2017)
Not Rated | 154 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A boxer struggles to make his mark in the boxing world.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Vineet Kumar Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Zoya Hussain, Ravi Kishan
Votes: 8,636 | Gross: $0.08M
23. An Insignificant Man (2016)
96 min | Documentary, Thriller
A non-fiction drama chronicling the most outrageous political debut in the largest democracy in the world, "An Insignificant Man" follows Arvind Kejriwal and his insurgent party as they look to shake up Indian politics while struggling to keep their own idealism alive.
Directors: Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla | Stars: Arvind Kejriwal, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Prashant Bhushan, Shiela Dikshit
Votes: 2,257
24. Thondi Muthalum Driksakshiyum (2017)
Not Rated | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Prasad and Sreeja enter wedlock and move to a new place to continue the rest of their lives. Unfortunate events begin to take place after Prasad, a small-time thief, robs Sreeja's gold chain during a bus journey.
Director: Dileesh Pothan | Stars: Fahadh Faasil, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Nimisha Sajayan, Alencier Ley Lopez
Votes: 8,008
25. Radiopetti (2017)
82 min | Drama
Radiopetti, the story of a man lost in another world, a world of the past, brought alive to his ears by a radioset. How his life journeys with his love for this inanimate thing alongside ... See full summary »
Director: Hari Viswanath | Stars: Nivas Adithan, Lakshmanan Koratur, Shobana Mohan, Ramanujam Tvv
Votes: 200
26. Raag Desh (2017)
135 min | Action, Drama, History
A period film based on the historic 1945 Indian National Army Red Fort Trials.
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia | Stars: Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Mohit Marwah, Kenneth Desai
Votes: 416
27. Parava (2017)
147 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The story of Parava revolves around pigeon race, a game, which is prominent in Mattancherry, Kochi, Kerala.
Director: Soubin Shahir | Stars: Amal Shah, Govind V. Pai, Dulquer Salmaan, Shane Nigam
Votes: 4,533
28. Hindi Medium (2017)
Not Rated | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.
Director: Saket Chaudhary | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Dishita Sehgal, Deepak Dobriyal
Votes: 31,922
29. To Let (2019)
Not Rated | 99 min | Family
The struggle of a family of three as they search for a house to rent after being given an ultimatum to vacate their house by their land lady.
Director: Chezhian Ra | Stars: Dharun Bala, T. Arul Ezhilan, Mk Mani, Marudhu Mohan
Votes: 852
30. Ajji (2017)
104 min | Crime, Drama
Little Manda is found raped and dumped in a trash heap near her slum. Her parents are more concerned with survival than dignity. The cops are powerless to help as the rapist is a local ... See full summary »
Director: Devashish Makhija | Stars: Sushama Deshpande, Smita Tambe, Sharvani Suryavanshi, Abhishek Banerjee
Votes: 1,641
31. Dhananjay (2017)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Dhananjoy's story is based on the conviction of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, accused for the gruesome murder of Hetal Parekh, which took place in the year 1990. On the basis of circumstantial ... See full summary »
Director: Arindam Sil | Stars: Masood Akhtar, Mir Afsar Ali, Paran Banerjee, Anirban Bhattacharya
Votes: 1,044
32. Gurgaon (2017)
107 min | Crime, Thriller
Based on true event this story revolves around kidnapping of Preeto which family has come to know from midnight call. The tales revolves as to how they family will be able to track Preeto..
Director: Shanker Raman | Stars: Akshay Oberoi, Pankaj Tripathi, Aamir Bashir, Ragini Khanna
Votes: 2,481
33. Kaccha Limbu (2017)
110 min | Drama
A couple struggles when their 15 year old son , who is mentally challenged starts to get sexual desires.
Director: Prasad Oak | Stars: Ravi Jadhav, Sachin Khedekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Anant Mahadevan
Votes: 299
34. Turup (Checkmate) (2017)
PG | 72 min | Drama
In the neighbourhood, chess is a popular pass time with men being the most visible players. In this backdrop a domestic worker, a young woman in love and a former journalist make their moves with care.
Director: Ektara Collective | Stars: Moulina Midde, Sheela Rawat, Madhu Bhagat, Syed Saim Ali
Votes: 61
35. Chowka (2017)
178 min | Drama, Romance
Four ambitious and aspiring individuals who end up in jail, are led by a school teacher who shows them hope but also stirs up their passion towards reform.
Director: Tarun Sudhir | Stars: Prajwal Devaraj, Diganth, Prem Kumar, Vijay Raghavendra
Votes: 835
36. You Are My Sunday (2016)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
When their Sunday soccer game on the beach is canceled, five friends set out to find another place to play in the noisy, crowded city of Mumbai.
Director: Milind Dhaimade | Stars: Barun Sobti, Shahana Goswami, Avinash Tiwary, Nakul Bhalla
Votes: 1,886
37. Baghtos Kay Mujra Kar (2017)
Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama
This film critiques contemporary attitudes to cultural heritage.
Director: Hemant Dhome | Stars: Jitendra Joshi, Aniket Vishwasrao, Akshay Tanksale, Hemant Dhome
Votes: 189
38. Story of an Egg (2017)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Janardhan a 28 year old Kannada Lecturer from Mangalore who is quite an introvert comes to know from an astrologer that he would attain sanyasa (embrace asceticism) if he doesn't get ... See full summary »
Director: Raj B. Shetty | Stars: Raj B. Shetty, Prakash Thuminad, Usha Bhandary, Deepak Rai Panaje
Votes: 1,607
39. Hrudayantar (2017)
135 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Hrudayantar is an emotional drama that explores the marital crisis of a couple through turbulent times.
Director: Vikram Phadnis | Stars: Mukta Barve, Subodh Bhave, Hrithik Roshan, Trushnika Shinde
Votes: 104
40. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)
Not Rated | 167 min | Action, Drama
Amarendra Baahubali, the heir apparent to the throne of Mahishmati, finds his life and relationships endangered as his adoptive brother Bhallaladeva conspires to claim the throne.
Director: S.S. Rajamouli | Stars: Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia
Votes: 114,042 | Gross: $20.19M
41. Poorna (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history to climb Mount Everest.
Directors: Rahul Bose, Prashant Pandey | Stars: Aditi Inamdar, Rahul Bose, Heeba Shah, Arif Zakaria
Votes: 1,517
42. Trapped (XVII) (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Shiladitya Sen, Rahul Patel
Votes: 13,648
43. A Death in the Gunj (2016)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Director: Konkona Sen Sharma | Stars: Kalki Koechlin, Vikrant Massey, Gulshan Devaiah, Ranvir Shorey
Votes: 6,138
44. Best of Luck Laalu (2017)
131 min | Comedy