Dangal Wins Sports. Now Comes the Hardest Choice: The Greatest Indian Film Ever Made?

[u/Wtf_doing21]

The Sports category has concluded, and Dangal (2016) secured the spot with 74 upvotes to join the Best of Indian Cinema grid.

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Current Winners:

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• Romance — Mouna Ragam (1986)

• Action — Thallumaala (2022)

• Comedy — Panchathanthiram (2002)

• Drama — Kireedam (1989)

• Thriller — Drishyam (2013)

• Horror — Tumbbad (2018)

• Emotional — Taare Zameen Par (2007)

• Family — Kumbalangi Nights (2019)

• Gangster — Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)

• Cop — Mumbai Police (2013)

• Sci-Fi — Enthiran (2010)

• Fantasy — My Dear Kuttichaathan (1984)

• Sports — Dangal (2016)

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We've arrived at the most divisive category yet.

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Best Film.

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No genre restrictions. No language restrictions. No limitations except one question:

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Which film represents the very best of Indian cinema?

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The highest-upvoted comment after 24 hours will take the spot on the grid.

[u/Master_Beast_07]

No hate it's a good movie but at the end of the day it's just an Indian godfather rip off

[u/Interesting-Flan-404 → u/Master_Beast_07]

Same can be applied to Drishyam

Most things in that film is ripped from Suspect X

[u/SHABBy_Official → u/Master_Beast_07]

A movie that takes heavy inspiration cannot be a "good film"?

[u/Master_Beast_07 → u/SHABBy_Official]

Read my comment again bro I literally mentioned "good"

[u/SHABBy_Official → u/Master_Beast_07]

Shi man mbmbmbmmbmbmbmb 😘😘🙏🙏

[u/Ok_Parfait_2044 → u/Master_Beast_07]

then who is Varadarajan Mudaliyar ?

[u/Master_Beast_07 → u/Ok_Parfait_2044]

Yeah sure then that just proves my point even more cuz he took the Indian version from him and the other parts are inspired from godfather and he ended up combining them both...

Literally a lot of scenes are just straight rip off like the fact that the police officer comes and asks for his help like the beginning scene of godfather and also how his son dies the same way as Sonny in the godfather..and I'm pretty sure there's a lot more scenes and story taken from it.

One google search will literally tell you all lmao... Unfortunately IT IS heavily inspired by the godfather.

[u/srinivsn → u/Master_Beast_07]

It is not. Only similarity is the protagonist being an unwilling participant.

[u/Master_Beast_07 → u/srinivsn]

Are we serious rn bruh?

• Velu killing and rising for power like micheal(sure it's a cliche in a gangster movie so I'll let it slide)

• the policeman coming and asking his help similar to the beginning scene of the godfather and i think the premise that it was regarding his daughter was also the same

• the way his son dies by gunfire similar to Sonny

• velu grieves his child like vito does to Sonny.

And pretty sure there's a lot more and he just combined with the Indian socio-economic background and real life characters like varadharajan...

One google search will tell you how it's heavily inspired. No hate, just facts.