Bollywood did not have a great couple of years, namely 2020 and 2021. Numerous movies had their releases postponed or switched to Direct-to-OTT because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Nevertheless, 2022 got off to a good start with laws in place and production companies resuming theatrical releases in full force.
The first hit movie of the year, Gangubai Kathiawadi, a blockbuster release in February 2022, showed Alia Bhatt in a hitherto unseen role and offered producers faith that viewers value quality content. The film made nearly Rs. 100 crores in just a few weeks, with praise for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s presentation. Following this came The Kashmir Files, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, Brahmastra: Part One Shiva, and a plethora of additional shows. Besides these many other movies were released in this year 2022.
Best Hindi Movies Released in 2022
10. Kashmir files
Vivek Agnihotri is the author and director of the 2022 Hindi drama film The Kashmir Files. The movie tells a made-up narrative was centered on the flight of Hindu Kashmiris from Indian-administered Kashmir in the 1990s. Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, and Pallavi Joshi are the cast members of The Kashmir Files.
The story centers on a Kashmiri Hindu university student who was reared by his living-in-exile grandparents and kept in the dark about his parents’ cause of death. The college student, who had grown to think that the departure was harmless, gets motivated to learn the truth about his family’s deaths after the passing of his grandfather. The plot switches back and forth between the student’s search in the year 2020 and his family’s struggles in the previous 30 years.
9. Ek villain returns
As a stand-alone continuation of his 2014 film Ek Villain, Mohit Suri wrote and directed the 2022 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological action thriller movie Ek Villain Returns. Tara Sutaria, Disha Patani, Arjun Kapoor, and John Abraham are the film’s leading actors.
There has been the birth of a new serial murderer eight years after Rakesh Mahadkar terrorized Mumbai. However, it still employs the Smiley Mask as a cover, making it more violent and lethal. Two men in a one-sided love are the central characters of Ek Villain Returns. Who the hero and villain are depended on the routes they take to complete their love stories.
8. Bhool Bhulaiya 2
Anees Bazmee, Aakash Kaushik, and Farhad Samji collaborated on the script for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, an Indian comedy-horror movie that was released in 2022. Bhushan and Krishan Kumar are responsible for the film’s production. It follows Bhool Bhulaiyaa independently (2007). Tabu, Kartik Aaryan, and Kiara Advani are the movie’s main actors. The story centers on Ruhaan Randhawa, who is forced to pose as a fake psychic to cope with Manjulika’s reappearance—a malicious ghost hell-bent on exacting revenge against the Thakur family.
Ruhan agrees to go with Reet home after an incident. He ends up involved in her family’s fight, nevertheless, as a result of a string of unfortunate events.
7. Badhai Ho
A lavender marriage is shown in the 2022 Indian Hindi drama series film Badhaai Do. Suman Adhikary and Akshat Ghildial wrote the script, and Harshavardhan Kulkarni directed the film, which features Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar. Produced by Junglee Pictures, Badhaai Ho: The Spiritual Sequel sequel to the 2018 movie.
Sumi is a physical education (PE) teacher at a high school.
Her family is pressuring her to get married, but she is a lesbian. She joins a dating app, where she “meets” a beautiful woman, and they have a conversation for a while. She discovers that the “she” she met was a man using a phony account. He attempts to extort money from Sumi by threatening to reveal her to her family if she refuses to have sex with him. She files a complaint with the police. Shardul is the one who notes down her information. He suggests a strategy after speculating that Sumi is a lesbian: they will get married to appease their family. However, issues occur when their family persists in interfering with their life and pressuring them to have children.
6. Doctor G
Anubhuti Kashyap is the director and Junglee Pictures is the producer of Doctor G, an Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama set on a medical campus. Starring in it are Shefali Shah, Rakul Preet Singh, and Ayushmann Khurrana. The story revolves around a medical professional who wants to practice orthopedics but ends up becoming a gynecologist, which causes mayhem.
In the gynecology department, Uday Gupta is the only male student, and his hesitation causes confusion, laughter, and ultimately, a strong sense of solidarity among his female classmates.
5. Ram Setu
The bridge of Rama is the title of the action-adventure movie Ram Setu, which Abhishek Sharma will be directing in 2022 in Hindi. In the movie, which also stars Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushratt Bharucha, and Satya Dev, an archaeologist is following as she looks into the origins of Ram Setu, popularly known as Adam’s Bridge.
Before bad forces destroy the foundational piece of India’s history, an agnostic archaeologist who has sincerity rushes against the clock to demonstrate the veracity of the fabled Ram Setu.
4. Laal Singh Chaddha
Advait Chandan, working from a script by Eric Roth and Atul Kulkarni, is the director of the 2022 Indian Hindi comedy-drama Laal Singh Chaddha. It is a remake of the 1994 American movie Forrest Gump, which was adapted from the Winston Groom novel of the same name. It was made by Aamir Khan Productions and Viacom18 Studios. Kareena Kapoor, Naga Chaitanya (making his Hindi film debut), and Mona Singh also appear in the movie. Aamir Khan plays the title role.
An everyday journey is started by a simple man with such an impairment who makes many new friends along the route.
3. Gangubai Kathiawadi
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is the director and producer of the 2022 Hindi biographical crime series movie Gangubai Kathiawadi. Ajay Devgn, Shantanu Maheshwari, Vijay Raaz, Indira Tiwari, Seema Pahwa, and Varun Kapoor also play significant roles in the movie, which also stars Alia Bhatt as the title character.
The movie is partially inspired by the biography of Ganga Jagjivandas Kathiawadi, also known as Gangubai Kothewali, whose narrative was chronicled in S. Hussain Zaidi’s book Mafia Queens of Mumbai. A modest girl from Kathiawad who was given no choice but to comply with destiny’s ways and make it work in her favor is portrayed as rising to prominence in the movie.
A young woman who was deceived and sold to a brothel takes control of the world she once was part of once a part in by using her connections in the underworld to rule it.
2. Vikram Vedha
In addition to drawing inspiration from the Indian folktale Baital Pachisi, Pushkar-2022 Gayathri’s Hindi-language Neo-Noir Action-Thriller Vikram Vedha is based on their 2017 Tamil film of the same name. T-Series Films, Friday Filmworks, Jio Studios, YNOT Studios, Reliance Entertainment, and Theme Studios all contributed to the film’s production. Alongside Radhika Apte, Rohit Saraf, and Yogita Bihani in supporting parts, Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik Roshan play the film’s two lead characters. It chronicles the actions of a loyal policeman who decides to find and assassinate a feared mobster.
A fierce policeman goes on a mission to capture and kill a mobster who has a reputation that is equal to his own.
1. Brahmastra: Part One- Shiva
It is a 2022 Hindi fantasy action-adventure movie that Ayan Mukerji wrote and directed. Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Namit Malhotra, and Mukerji are the producers. The movie is the first in a trilogy that will be the first entry in a larger film universe known as the Astraverse. Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Shah Rukh Khan, Dimple Kapadia, and Mouni Roy are among the actors who appear in it. The movie, which takes its cues from Hindu mythology, follows Shiva, an orphan with pyrokinetic abilities who learns that he is an Astra, a weapon of tremendous energy. He makes an effort to stop the Brahmstra, the strongest of the astras, from slipping into the hands of evil powers with whom he has a shared past.
