'Newton' got 1st Rank in IFI list out of 10 best films of 2017
According to a survey organized by the Indian Film Institute, New Delhi, ‘NEWTON’, DIRECTED BY AMIT V MASURKAR HAS BEEN ADJUDGED THE BEST FEATURE FILM of the Year 2017 while on the other side,Rajkumar Rao, the film’s lead protagonist has achieved the Best Performance (Male).
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As a directorial debut of actor KonkonaSen Sharma’s finds the second spot in the ratings in ‘A Death in the Gunj’ while Masurkar’s ‘Newton’ emerged a clear winner by more than 50 percent margin. The survey having 14 top Film Critics of the country has rated top ten feature films of 2017 with three best performances each by Male and Female actors.
The feature films list is:
1. Newton (Hindi): Directed by Amit V Masurkar
2. A Death in the Gunj (English-Hindi): Directed by KonkonaSen Sharma
3. Mukti Bhavan (Hindi): Directed by Shubhashish Bhutiani
4. Lipstick Under My Burkha (Hindi): Directed by Alankrita Srivastava
5. Anaarkali of Aarah (Hindi): Directed by Avinash Das
6. Trapped (Hindi): Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
7. Ajji (Hindi): Directed by Devashish Makhija
8. Take Off (Malayalam-English): Directed by Mahesh Narayan
9. Secret Superstar(Hindi) Directed by Advait Chandan & Jagga Jasoos(Hindi): Directed by Anurag Basu
10. Hirakata Prasanga (Kannada): Directed by Ananya Kasarvalli and Atanu Ghosh’s Mayurakshi.
THE BEST ACTOR OF 2017 for his performances in the movies is RAJKUMMAR RAO. The movies which made RAJKUMMAR RAO the best actor of 2017 are ‘Newton’ directed by Amit V Masurkar, ‘Trapped’ by Vikramaditya Motwane and ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari.
Irrfanat, a young actor from Gurgaon emerged the clear winner with the 2nd position for his work in various films like ‘Hindi Medium’, ‘Doob: No Bed of Roses’ (a Bangladesh India co-production)and ‘QaribQaribSinglle’.
Pankaj Tripathy is the third top performer on the IFI list. He has been seen in ‘Gurgaon’, ‘Newton’, ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ and ‘Anaarkali of Aarah’ in 2017.
Best Actor 2017 (Male) Film
Rajkummar Rao Newton / Trapped / Bareilly ki Barfi
Irrfan Hindi Medium / Doob: No Bed of Roses / QaribQaribSinglle
Pankaj Tripathy Gurgaon / Newton /Bareilly ki Barfi / Anaarkali of Aarah
The Indian Film Institute an NGO and a Not for Profit body invited top 14 Film Critics of the country by a rating mechanism where a film rated by the Critic at No. 1 spot got 10 marks while the one placed at No. 10 got 01 marks and so on.
By cutting across languages and regions and to pick a fair representation of films, Critics were chosen from all corners of India. The Critics who participated in the Survey include Ajay Brahmatmaj, Swapan Mullick, Gautaman Bhaskaran, Saibal Chatterjee, K N T Sastry, Ratnottama Sengupta, Namrata Joshi, Dalton L, AlakaSahani, Sachin Chate, M K Raghavendra, Siraj Syed, Chandi Mukherjee and Arnab Banerjee.
According to Manjulaa Shirodkar, Director, Indian Film Institute on survey, “The pan India exercise is the first-of-its-kind done in the country to reach a consensus among critics to assess the best of Indian cinema. They were asked to share their preferences and not provided a shortlist. The movies which have the backing of mainstream production houses like Disney India; Junglee Pictures, T Series and Prakash Jha Productions made it to the top.
Each of the Top 10 films has successfully experimented with content and genre. The movies with content and script are clear winners in the IFI list like Jagga Jasoos, A Death in the Gunj, Mukti Bhavan, Trapped, Ajji, Take Off and even Harikatha Prasanga.
The Indian Film Institute is a Not for Profit NGO is founded by Filmmaker, Film Festival Director Manoj Srivastava and Film Critic and Film Historian Saibal Chatterjee. The NGO gives free advice and resources to the filmmakers. The IFI works for the promotion of the cinematic art through Film Screenings, Film Festivals, Workshops, Master Classes, Film Appreciation courses and also funds researches on Indian Cinema.
For more information, log onto www.indianfilminstitute.org
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