Small films that made an impact in 2013

 

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align="right"/> "Chotey cheez bade-bade kaam karti hai," says Shahid Kapoor suggestively Small films that made an impact in 2013

 

in R... Rajkumar. Right you are, Shahid.

 

Stars guarantee box-office returns. The bigger the stars, the better the box-office

 

returns...right? Not necessarily so. The smaller (read: star-less) films are largely known to

 

flounder for the want of flourishing footfalls. But surprises did come in small packets. Here's

 

saluting the small starless wonders of 2013.

 

1. The Lunchbox: Well okay, Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui are not quite the

 

unknown entities. But they are not box-office champs either. And their leading lady Nimrat Kaur

 

was unknown, until came this small Indie film with a big heart. 3 months after its release,

 

director Ritesh Batra is still going around the world collecting rave reviews. What worked for

 

the film was the transparency in telling the tale of two lonely middle aged people who connect

 

over food and food for thought.

 

2. Kai Po Che: When Rock On director Abhishek Kapoor decided to do a celluloid

 

take on Chetan Bhagat's bestseller, he was sure he wanted newcomers...well, he ended up with

 

three of the oldest newcomers in the entertainment industry. Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh and

 

Raj Kumar Yadav have been acting on television and in films for some years now. The film made a

 

huge difference to their careers, especially Sushant. Moral: make stars, don't let them break

 

you.

 

3. Shahid: Hansal Mehta's film has only one star. The true-life personality of

 

activist-lawyer Shahid Azmi. The actors were subservient to the story. That's what made this

 

little-big film so special.

 

4. Fukrey: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba, who earlier made the absolutely unfunny Teen

 

Thay Bhai with veteran actor Om Puri, Deepak Dobriyal and Shreyas Talpade, cast newcomers in

 

his second film. Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma and Manjot Singh sparkled in this sly saga of

 

wicked wastrels who hope to make it big. Like many recent comedies, this one too was set in

 

Delhi. We liked.

 

5. B.A. Pass: Big surprises sometimes creep up on us while we aren't watching.

 

This one about male prostitution in Delhi was a dark somber stunning study of decadence. Hard to

 

believe Ajay Bahl was a first-time director.

 

6. Aashiqui 2: Both Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor had three thundering

 

flops behind them. A strong emotional story-line ensured stardom for both the Kapoors.

 

7. Sixteen: A coming-of-age teen flick directed by Raj Purohit in which a bunch

 

of newcomers played their roles so effortlessly that you wondered if they were telling their own

 

stories on screen. The film was a shimmering showcase of virgin talent. Fresh original and

 

endearing. Haven't seen it? Get a DVD, fast.

 

8. Maazi: Debutant director Jaideep Chopra's haunting thriller about the violent

 

past catching up with a well-settled peaceful family man was the surprise of the year. Most of

 

those meager members of the audience who saw the film opined it would have worked wonders at the

 

box office if Salman Khan played the haunted man instead of the unknown Sumeet Nijhawan. Here we

 

go again.

 

9. Mickey Virus: Manish Paul couldn't quite become the instant star that

 

Ayushmann Khurrana did after Vicky Donor. Never mind. This vivacious flick on the virtual world

 

as seen through the eyes of hacker was interesting. Saurabh Verma knows computers as well as his

 

cinema.

 

10. Commando: Vidyut Jamwal scored a slammer with his sinewy stunts in

 

first-time director Dilip Ghosh's Commando. Deadly impact

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