At Film Companion, we’re kicking off 2021 with a new initiative – FC Gold. This is an attempt to recognise excellent content across languages and mediums. The Film Companion editorial team – comprising critics, film writers and reporters – collectively voted for shows and movies that they thought were the best of the best. Here are the shows and movies of 2020 that got our unanimous vote of approval.
Introducing our exciting new initiative – #FCGold. FC Gold is a stamp of excellence in entertainment. Here’s the list for 2020. @anupamachopra pic.twitter.com/EN8HUIpMWY
— Film Companion (@FilmCompanion) January 18, 2021
Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (Telugu)
Director, Screenwriter: Venkatesh Maha
Cast: Satyadev Kancharana, Hari Chandana, Naresh, Roopa Koduvayur
The Booth (Hindi)
Director, Writer: Rohin Raveendran Nair
Cast: Amruta Subhash, Parna Pethe
Cargo (Hindi)
Director, Writer: Arati Kadav
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (Hindi)
Director: Hansal Mehta, Jai Mehta
Writer: Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey, Karan Vyas
Cast: Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satish Kaushik, Ananth Narayanan Mahadevan, Rajat Kapoor, Anjali Barot
Gamak Ghar
Director, Writer: Achal Mishra
Cast: Abhinav Jha, Mira Jha, Satyendra Jha, Soniya Jha
Eeb Allay Ooo!
Director: Prateek Vats
Cast: Naina Sareen, Shashi Bhushan, Shardul Bharadwaj, Nutan Sinha
Aarya
Directors: Ram Madhvani, Sandeep Modi, Vinod Rawat
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Vikas Kumar, Namit Das, Sikandar Kher, Maya Sarao, Chandrachur Singh, Alexx O’Nell
Paatal Lok
Writers: Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta, Gunjit Chopra
Directors: Avinash Arun, Prosit Roy
Cast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi, Abhishek Banerjee, Niharika Lyra Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee
Pushpavalli 2
Creator: Sumukhi Suresh
Director: Debbie Rao
Cast: Sumukhi Suresh, Naveen Richard, Manish Anand, Preetika Chawla
Panchayat
Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra
Writer: Chandan Kumar
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Faisal Malik
Churails
Director: Asim Abbasi
Cast: Sarwat Gilani, Yasra Rizvi, Nimra Bucha, Meher Bano, Omair Rana
C U Soon
Director, Writer: Mahesh Narayanan
Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran
Varane Avashyamund
Director, Writer: Anoop Sathyan
