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Kareena Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao, Shabana Azmi reveal their favourite 2024 Indian movies

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Kareena Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao, Shabana Azmi reveal their favourite 2024 Indian movies

Vijay Sethupathi’s Tamil action thriller Maharaja and Kunal Kemmu’s Bollywood buddy comedy Madgaon Express seem to be 2024’s favourites. It’s almost the end of the year, and your favourite Indian actors have picked the films from 2024.

that inspired or moved them. In an interview to The Hollywood Reporter India, Kareena Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao, Shabana Azmi, Kani Kusruti, Anna Ben, and Pratik Gandhi recommend their favourite Indian movies of this year. (Also Read: Kareena Kapoor fans call out Pakistani actor Khaqan Shahnawaz for ‘age shaming’ after he jokes he can ‘play her son’)

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Kareena Kapoor

From the three films Kareena picked, the first one was her Laal Singh Chaddha co-producer Kiran Rao’s “beautifully directed” Laapataa Ladies, which was selected as India’s official entry for the Oscars. However, it didn’t make it to the shortlist. Backed by Aamir Khan Productions, it stars newcomers Pratibha Ranta, Nitanshi Goyal, and Sparsh Srivastava, along with Ravi Kishan.

Kareena also picked her brother-in-law Kunal Kemmu’s “supremely funny” directorial debut, blockbuster buddy comedy Madgaon Express, starring Pratik Gandhi, Avinash Tiwary, and Divyenndu. Her third pick was her own film, Hansal Mehta’s crime thriller The Buckingham Murders. Kareena said “she’s biased, but actually not biased because I think it was brave to make the film 70% in English and 30% in Hindi.”

Vicky Kaushal

Vicky picked Amar Kaushik’s horror comedy Stree 2, which became the only Hindi film to cross ₹600 crore at the Indian box office. It stars Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor among others. His favourites also included two South movies – Nithilan Saminathan’s Tamil action thriller Maharaja, starring Vijay Sethupathi–and Chidambaram S. Poduval’s Malayalam survival thriller Manjummel Boys. Vicky claimed that these are the only three films he’s seen this year.

Rajkummar Rao

The Stree 2 actor also picked Madgaon Express, along with C Prem Kumar’s Tamil dramedy Meiyazhagan, starring Karthi and Aravind Swamy, and Blessy’s Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life, adding that Prithviraj Sukumaran’s performance in the Malayalam survival drama was “mindblowing.”

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Pratik Gandhi

The Madgaon Express actor’s list incluced Payal Kapadia’s Golden Globe-nominated bilingual film All We Imagine As Light, his Scam 1992 and Gandhi director Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders, and Maharaja.

Shabana Azmi

The veteran actor said she “absolutely loved” Shuchi Talati’s coming-of-age film Girls Will Be Girls, streaming on Prime Video India. It marks the production debut of Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal’s banner Pushing Buttons Films. “The awakening of this girl’s sexuality is done without the slightest exploitation or vicariousness.”

Kani Kusruti

The All We Imagine As Light and Girls Will Be Girls actor listed Christo Tomy’s Malayalam film Ullozhukku, starring Parvathy and Urvsashi, Anand Ekarshi’s Malayalam film Aattam, and the yet-unreleased Sister Midnight, Karan Kandhari’s genre-bending comedy starring Radhika Apte.

It’s almost the end of the year, and your favourite Indian actors have picked the films from 2024 that inspired or moved them. In an interview to The Hollywood Reporter India, Kareena Kapoor, this year. (Also Read: Kareena Kapoor fans call out Pakistani actor Khaqan Shahnawaz for ‘age shaming’ after he jokes he can ‘play her son’)

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Vicky picked Amar Kaushik’s horror comedy Stree 2, which became the only Hindi film to cross ₹600 crore at the Indian box office. It stars Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor among others. His favourites also included two South movies – Nithilan Saminathan’s Tamil action thriller Maharaja, starring Vijay Sethupathi–and Chidambaram S. Poduval’s Malayalam survival thriller Manjummel Boys. Vicky claimed that these are the only three films he’s seen this year.

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At seven o’clock, Raj Babbar’s daughter learnt of his liaison with Smita Patil. “I shouldn’t tell my mother about this.”

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At seven o’clock, Raj Babbar’s daughter learnt of his liaison with Smita Patil. “I shouldn’t tell my mother about this.”

Raj Babbar left his wife, Nadira, to marry Smita Patil in 1983. His daughter Juhi Babbar has recalled the time in a new interview.
Actor Raj Babbar was already married and had two children when he began his relationship with fellow actor, Smita Patil. The affair and the ensuing marriage saw a lot of controversy, given how it began. Raj Babbar’s daughter, former actor Juhi Babbar, has now opened up on the time and how she came to know about the relationship when she was just 7 years old.

Juhi Babbar on Raj Babbar and Smita Patil

In an interview with Lehren Retro, Juhi recalled how Smita Patil made a conscious effort to connect with Raj’s two children – Juhi and her brother, Arya. “My father talked and explained his marriage with Smita Patil to me when I was barely seven years old, and that’s why my memories of Smita ji are very different. She went out of her way to do things for me. I think she also had this thing that we are the kids of the person who is most special to her, and so we are special to her as well. She would show us a lot of love, always bringing us gifts when she travelled, and she would ensure that at home, we were served the food that we liked. These small memories are nice, but unfortunately, there aren’t many memories,” she said.

Juhi said she was conflicted about her impression of Smita at the time because the actor was always nice to us, but she could see that the marriage had shaken up her own family, particularly her mother, Nadira. “As a child, I knew this is the lady my father wants to be with, and he wants to make her his wife. I could see Smita making an effort towards me and my little brother, but I also knew that this was disturbing the unit that used to be, and that my mother was unhappy about it. I had that understanding—that aunty (Smita) was being so good to me, but when I go home, I shouldn’t share this with my mother.”

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Raj Babbar and Smita Patil’s marriage

Smita Patil and Raj Babbar met on the sets of their 1982 film Bheegi Palkein. Raj left Nadira to marry Smita the following year. Their son, actor Prateik Babbar, was born in November 1986. However, Smita Patil died soon after from childbirth complications at the age of 31. Raj Babbar got back together with Nadira a few years later.

Juhi Babbar made her film debut with Kash Aap Hamare Hote opposite Sonu Nigam in 2003. She worked in a handful of films over the next few years before taking a hiatus to do TV. In 2023, she returned to films with supporting roles in films like Faraaz and Farrey. She is married to actor Anup Soni.

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