1. Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

Director: Abbas Tyrewalla

Cast: Imran Khan, Genelia D’Souza, Prateik Babbar, Manjari Phadnis

What: Bollywood attempted a coming-of-age tale seven years after Dil Chahta Hai with this Aamir Khan production about two best friends who chart different paths and partners, but eventually discover their love for each other.

t2 review: Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na is the film of the year.... Because it speaks our lingo. Because it’s like a Dil Chahta Hai with real college kids.... Because it’s breezy, it’s fun and it feels real good.

2. Race

Director: Abbas Mustan

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy

What: Two brothers, a bevy of babes, sex, lies and videotapes! Race was vintage Abbas Mustan stuff, but with a twist every five minutes and a murder every ten.

t2 review: There are so many kahaani mein twists, you never know what’s really going on. Race tries to pick so many brains so many times that it turns out to be a complete no-brainer… If you can’t trust anything you see, there’s a sense of being cheated rather than gratified.

3. Dostana

Director: Tarun Mansukhani

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra

What: Two men pretend to be gay so that they can rent a swanky apartment together. It’s all fun and games in this Karan Johar production till the time the two fall in love with the bhanji of the house.

t2 review: Dostana is definitely recommended... It’s not bad that there is so much of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kal Ho Naa Ho in the movie. Not just because they are all from the same house, but because like its predecessors this one too can make you laugh out loud and also strike an emotional chord.

4. Jodhaa Akbar

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

What: The famous but little-documented love story of Mughal emperor Akbar and his Rajput wife Jodhaa Bai set against the backdrop of the king’s pan-Indian conquests.

t2 review: Jodhaa Akbar is a beautiful (though never-ending) love story. Of two very beautiful people. But it is Gowariker’s attempt to explain the historical significance of the alliance-turned-amour that almost undoes the good work. Above everything, what works for the film and what makes Jodhaa Akbar a must watch is the Hrithik-Ash romance....

5. Rock On!!

Director: Abhishek Kapoor

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny, Prachi Desai, Shahana Goswami

What: A resurrected friendship results in four musicians battling their personal demons to rock the stage together one last time and become the best of friends all over again.

t2 review: Rock On!! dares to dream... There are moments so beautifully crafted that they look straight out of life… The film is not just about slo-mo hugs between old friends… it’s about taking the bow, yourself.

6. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Director: Aditya Chopra

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak

What: Common man becomes cool dude to score Brownie points with his wife and save a loveless marriage. But the wife sees her rab in her common man.

t2 review: In his bid to bring in that extraordinary touch, Aditya Chopra loses the plot. Every time the quaint little fairytale tries to become a grandiose epic, Rab Ne struggles... If you don’t have DDLJ on your mind, you won’t mind Rab Ne. But the fact remains, it’s little more than an ordinary film with extraordinary intentions.

7. Bachna Ae Haseeno

Director: Siddharth Anand

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone, Minissha Lamba

What: Alfie, The Bachelor and Broken Flowers got together to tell the story of a casanova who retraces his path seeking redemption from the women he had wronged in the past.

t2 review: Watch Bachna for the man who will rule your heart in years to come. Not because he has the best body or the best dancing feet — he of course can lay claim to neither. But because he is so believable and likeable as the charming young man. Bachna ae heroes, lo Ranbir aa gaya…

8. Singh is Kinng

Director: Anees Bazmee

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Kirron Kher, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia, Ranvir Shorey

What: A comedy of errors where a village bumpkin suddenly finds himself as an underworld don. With hilarious results.

t2 review: The film is nothing more than a mindless comedy reeking of the unbearable stench of those bad Bollywood potboilers of the 1980s... By the time people have realised what a complete waste of time and money they’ve just sat through, the cash registers would have rung loud and clear and Akshay Kumar would have had yet another hit.

9. Fashion

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse What: Fashion looks at the murky underbelly of the fashion world through the rise and fall of a small-town model, thrown into the big, bad world of the ramp.

t2 review: Bhandarkar cleverly punctuates hackneyed hooks with carefully plucked ramp headlines... Fashion is a very uneven ride but if you manage to sit through them, the bumps are sure to leave you shaken and stirred.

10. Kidnap

Director: Sanjay Gadhvi

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba

What: A revenge saga with a twist. Imran Khan plays a young man who gets back at a business tycoon who had put him behind bars when he was a boy.

t2 review: Regardless of the timing of its making, Kidnap would have always been a lousy movie! Lousy because the reason of the kidnap is lame. Lousy because showing cleavage cannot conceal script loopholes.

The ones we liked but the box office did not

Mumbai Meri Jaan: The heart of the film is so much in the right place that you don’t take the dull patches to heart. Watch the film. Care.

Khuda Kay Liye: Watch the film not in the name of god, but because it speaks straight from the heart.

Mithya: It is refreshingly unpredictable. A rare Bollywood thrill-spill tale that works.

Dasvidaniya: A film like this comes by once in a while... that despite its heart-wrenching premise leaves a smile long after the end credits roll.

Welcome to Sajjanpur: Once inside Shyam Benegal’s world you will fall in love with his quaint and charming pather panchali.

The biggest duds of the year

Drona: It’s a cliched cross-cultural hotchpotch crying out to be a comic-book classic but turning out to be a colossal catastrophe

Tashan: The only style it has is packed into the title of the film. The rest of it can best be described as crass, suburban jatra.

Karzzzz: Himesh ka singing aapko soney nahin dega aur uska acting aapko jaagne nahin dega...

Love story 2050: Rather than take a step forward, Love Story 2050 could effectively end Bollywood’s experiments with sci-fi truth for years to come.

Yuvvraaj: After the sparkling Black and White, Yuvvraaj doesn’t quite match up to the standard of a Subhash Ghai film.