Underrated Cult Movies of Bollywood

Bollywood has always been a magic box for us that unveils a new surprising element every time we put our hands inside. Not necessarily all those surprising element were pleasing enough but few of them really won our hearts. They entertained us, they made us dance around the trees, they made us laugh like a retard, they made us weep like a kid and some of them also made us bang our heads in wall out of frustration. Indeed, some of them were crap (no offense to Himmatwala and RGV ki AAG), but many of them taught us the art of cinema.
I am a movie-buff kinda guy and I don't watch movies just for the sake of my entertainment but also as an art-curator. I understand that every film needs a different perception and a different set of intestines to digest, which is very hard to find in Indian audience, who believes that only a film with big star cast, foreign location sets, illogical action sequence and actress wearing bikinis for 7 seconds, can be a good 'watchable' movie. We still lack the audience who bothers to pay to watch a movie as a cinema and not only as a film.

There are some films, which were highly underrated (or we can say Ignored) at the time of their release, but these are actually one of the best movies Bollywood ever had. No one from India should ever give a miss to any of these.

1) Gangs of Wasseypur 
Hindi slangs, Bihari accent, guns n bullets (desi katta), vengeance and Gamchha.. all the elements of that inglorious world, which you will never wanted to be a part of, will suddenly appear to be cool and awesome once you watch GOW 1 and 2 back to back. The movie is all about character depiction, story telling and creative direction. Once you watch GOW, you will be a Anurag Kashyap's fan for lifetime, because this movie will tell you that the real cinema is not dependent on high budget and over-flooded movie promotions.. its beyond the Ferrari cars, set in Switzerland and beyond the actors having 6 pack abs (Sorry, Nawazuddin Siddiqui).

2) Andaz Apna Apna
Amar, Prem, Karishma, Raveena, Mr. Bajaj, Teja, Robert and Gogo. The troop of these 8 people can take you on the laughter ride where you will laugh your socks off. Their stupidity, their over smartness, their goodfy-ness and their fight sequences... nothing else in the world can be as funny as them. Once you watch this flick it wont get out of your head ever.

3) Jane bhi do yaaro

JBDY is from those few movies which you can remember scene by scene even if you have watched just once. A dark satire on corrupt political system. Most importantly I will remember this movie for the life time just because of On-stage Draupadi's Cheeraharan. The situational comedy at its best with an aid of Satish shah, Naseerudhhin Shah, Om puri, Satish Kaushik and Pankaj Kapoor's impeccable acting skills.

4) Chupke Chupke

You may not experience a high pitch laugh while watching Hrishikesh Mujherjee's Chupke chupke but a permanent smile though out the movie is a sure promise. The story revolves around a prank but the art of story telling and the charismatic presentation of Hrishikesh Da will surely win your heart.

This film was not so underrated as compared to the rest in the list, but the new-generation who ignores Bollywood classics need to understand what they are missing.

5) A Wednesday

The most under-rated movie Bollywood ever had. The movies failed to pull the crowd inside theaters, because of the unfortunate reason that Indians still fall for big stars, foreign locations and actress wearing bikini for 7 seconds. But people watched it, liked it and praised it after watching it on televisions and reading the critical acclaim. In my opinion, everybody living in India should at least watch the climax speech by Naseeruddhin Shah.

6) Khosla Ka Ghosla
No one can believe that a small budget, comedy drama starring Anupam Kher and Boman Irani can live up to the comic levels of Hrishikesh Da's Golmaal. A simple story, an ordinary cinematography but a super tight screenplay and humour as light as a popcorn can keep you smiling and anticipated through out the movie.

7) Pyaar Ka Punchnama

The frank and blunt story of 3 young bachelors which received a cocktail of reviews from critics. The movie entertains, has some very witty dialogues and shows a story which everyone and anyone can relate  somewhere. The crispy movie and goofy ride full of hindi slags. This 5 minutes 30 seconds speech from the movie will make you laugh and clap at same time:

Unfortunately, the majority of Indian audience consists of the people who looks at the movie posters and seek for the number of crores the movie has earned before going to cinema-halls. We still miss out the people who respect the word 'cinema', these movies really entertained me more than Salman khan playing pocket TT or Aamir khan escaping away on a boat-cum-bike-cum-transformer kind of machine.

The above 7 movies are the movies I can think about as most underrated yet entertaining movies bollywood ever had. Do let me know in the comments below,  how you liked the blog and also tell me if I missed any other movie that should be listed here too.