The Top 5 Indian Films Of 2022, Ranked

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Puzhu

The film is a deeply disturbing character study of a monstrous, casteist bigot, played with incredible nuance and depth by Mammootty.

Pada

Writer-director Kamal K. M creates a suspenseful but matter-of-fact thriller about four brave men, played by some of Malayalam cinema’s finest actors – Kunchacko Boban, Dileesh Pothan, Vinayakan and Joju George.

Bhoothakaalam

Bhoothakalam is an unusually layered and complex horror film.

Gangubai Kathiawadi

Gangubai Kathiawadi is a rousing, purposefully melodramatic ode to a firebrand Mumbai sex worker in the 1950s.

RRR

The scenarios that writer–director SS Rajamouli and Vijayendra Prasad, who is credited with the story, concoct in this historical fiction are deliriously over-the-top but each one lands because it is powered by the conviction of the story-telling.

Hridayam

Hridayam is the story of Arun, a young man who goes from Kerala to Chennai to study.