My Favourite Actors

1. Hillary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
2. Daniel Day Lewis - My Left Foot, Last of Mohicans, Gangs of New York, In the name of the father
3. Morgan Freeman - Hard Rain, The Shawshank Redemption
4. Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer, Rainman
5. Geoffery Rush - Shine, Quills
6. Wiona Ryder - Little Women, Sense and Sensibility
7. Robert De Niro
8. Al Pachino - Scent of a Woman
9. Jack Nicholson - No count (About Smidt, One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, The Shining)
10. Kate Winslet - Little Children, Revolutionary Road, The Reader
11. Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth
12. Denzel Washhington - Malcom X, Training Day
13. Sean Penn - Mystic River, Dead Man Walking
14. Susan Sarandon - Thelma and Louise, Dead Man Walking
15. Anthony Hopkins - The remains of the day, Lion in Winter
16. Natalie Portman - Beautiful Girls, Leon, Black Swan
17. Jeff Bridges : True Grit, Crazy Heart

Good Movies

Good Movies - definitely worth a watch

1. Fargo/Blood Simple
2. The Painted Veil
3. Notes on a Scandal/The English teacher
4. A Few Good Men/ Men of Honour /Top Gun
5. A Fish Called Wanda/Lock Stock and two smoking barrels/Wag the Dog/My cousin Vinny/Jackie Brown/Layer Cake/Midnight Run/Matchstick Men/American hustle
6. The Fugitive
7. Gladiator/Braveheart/Ben Hur
8. The Godfather /Heat
9. Jurassic Park Series
10. The Matrix - Part 1
11. The Terminator - Part 2 (1 and 3 are ok)/The Predator - Part 1/Die Hard
12. Where Eagles Dare
13. Mystic River
14. All the King's Men
15. Cape Fear
16. Erin Brokovich
17. Training Day
18. Malcom X/Whats love got to do with it/Walk the line
19. Four Feathers
20. My Left Foot/I am Sam
21. Shine
22. Thirteen Days
23. Silence of the Lambs
24. Stand by me
25. Sliver/Basic Instinct/Striptease
26. Wild Things/I know what you did last summer
27. Unforgiven/True Grit
28. Indiana Jones - Part 1
29. The Quiz Show
30. Speed/Proof of Life
31. Breakfast at Tiffany's
32. The Accused
33. Seabiscuit/Dreamer
34. Saving Private Ryan/Courage under fire
35. The Cider House Rules
36. Air Force I/Con Air
37. American Grafitti
38. The Sting
39. Fiddler on the roof/Moulin Rouge/Chicago
40. To Kill a Mockingbird
41. Blackhawk Down
42. Titanic
43. Cliffhanger/Vertical Limit
44. Commando/Rambo (all 3 are decent)
45. Eight Below
46. Dangerous Liasons
47. Kill Bill - both I and II
48. The Deer Hunter
49. Silence of the Lambs
50. Elizabeth
51. Memento/Following
52. Jaws
53. Dog Day Afternoon
54. Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves
55. Run Lola Run/Bonnie and Clyde/Natural Born Killers
56. The Mask
57. The Hollow Man
58. Clueless
59. Reds
60. Alien/Aliens
61. Three Colours : Red/White
62. Lords of Dogtown
63. In the heat of the night
64. Midnight Cowboy
65. Donnie Darko
66. Smoke/Insomnia/The Pledge
67. The Weatherman
68. Acaplypto/300
69. Field of Dreams
70. Cleopatra
71. There will be blood
72. Mulholland Dr
73. Milk
74. Juno
75. The curious case of Benjamin Button
76. Gran Torino
77. American Gangster
78. Horton hears a who/Over the hedge/
79. Final Fantasy : The spirits within
80. The Witness
81. The Reader
82. In the name of the father/Midnight Express
83. The mirror has two faces
84. Hannah and her sisters
85. Australia
86. The hand that rocks the cradle
87. Changeling
88. Escape from Alcatraz
89. Poseidon Adventure
90. The River Wild
91. The History Boys
92. The Alamo
93. It runs in the family/Margot at the wedding/The kids are all right
94. The assassination of Jessee James
95. The Hurt Locker
96. Sunshine
97. The Time Traveler's wife
98. The Life of David Gale
99. White Nights
100. The Wrestler/The Fighter
101. Zulu
102. Educating Rita /An Education
103. Lock-up
104. The mission
105. Gone baby gone
106. The manchurian candidate
107. Patton/JFK/Nixon
108. Prespolis
109. A Serious Man
110. Kinky Boots
111. Kingdom of Heaven
112. The Ides of March
113. Doubt
114. Pan's Labyrinth
115. Black Swan
116. 500 days of Summer/Garden state
117. Burn after Reading/Before the devil knows you are dead
118. The Lincoln Lawyer
119. A Single Man
120. Eastern Promises
121. Savages
122. The assassination of Richard Nixon
123. Silver Linings Playbook
124. Argo
125. Children of Men
126. Winter's bone
127. The station agent
128. Oldboy
129. How to train your dragon/Wreak it ralph/Brave
130. The Step-Up series
131. Margin Call
132. The perks of being a wallflower
133. Cloud Atlas
134. Downtown Abbey
135. Flight
136. Blue Jasmine
137. To kill a King
138. Jurassic world
139. Big Hero 6
140. Mary and Max
141. Selma
142. Kiki's Delivery Service/ The cat returns
143. Princess Mononoke/Nausicaa
144. Bridge of spies
145. San Andreas
146. Whiplash
147. Room
148. The big short
149. Mud
150. Begin Again
151. The magic of Belle Isle
152. The wolf of wall street
153. August : Osange county
154. The place beyond the pines
155. Southpaw
156. The Paperboy 
157. The call
158. Mean girls
159. Watchmen
160. Moonlight
161. Labour day
162. Five cm per second
163. The garden of words
164. Saving Mr Banks
165. Dunkirk
166. 50-50
167. Sicario
168. Foxcatcher
169. La la Land
170. Coco
171. Hell or high water
172. Nightcrawler
173. 3.10 to Yuma/The proposition
174. 45 years
175. The secret life of Walter Mitty
176. The Post
177. Sully
178. Crazy stupid love
179. The Raid
180. The last three days
181. Young Adult
182. Steel magnolias
183. Tokyo story
184. The shape of water
185. Deepwater horizon

Great Movies

English Movies

1. Kramer vs Kramer
2. Philadelphia
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. American Beauty
6. Finding Nemo/The Incredibles/Cars/Kung-Fu Panda/Horton/Ratatouille/Wreck-it Ralph/Brother Bear/Monsters Inc/Ice Age/Shrek/Toy Story
7. Star Wars (almost all 6)
8. The Rainman
9. Pulp fiction/Reservoir Dogs
10. The Return of the King
11. Chariots of Fire
12. My Fair Lady/The Sound of Music/The Wizard of Oz
13. Shakespeare in Love
14. Gangs of New York
15. Scent of a Woman
16. Dead Man Walking
17. Sex Lies and Videotape
18. The Pianist/The Piano
19. A Perfect World
20. Mrs. Doubtfire
21. Dead Poet's society/Mr. Holland's Opus/The Freedom Writers/To Sir with Love/Coach Carter/Miracle/Glory Road/McFarland USA
22. Leaving Las Vegas
23. Taxi Driver/Raging Bull
24. Amistad
25. The Truman Show
26. Phone Booth
27. Being John Malkovich
28. Network/Good Night and Good Luck
29. A Man for all Seasons/The Lion in Winter
30. Amadeus
31. Out of Africa
32. The English Patient
33. Dances with Wolves
34. 12 Angry Men/The Breakfast Club
35. Unfaithful/Little Children/Eyes Wide shut
36. Glenngarry Glenross
37. Cat on a Hot Tin RoofAmmores Perros/21 G/Babel/Cidade de Deus
38. The Motorcycle Diaries
39. Little Miss sunshine/The Descendants
40. Appolo 13
41. Ray
42. About Schmidt/As Good as it Gets
43. Sideways
44. Sling Blade
45. Forrest Gump
46. Ordinary People/In the Bedroom/Rabbit Hole
47. Hotel Rwanda
48. Castaway/Kon Tiki
49. The Big Chill
50. Easy Rider/Reality Bites
51. Guess who's coming home for dinner
52. All that Jazz
53. The Queen/The Young Victoria
54. American History X
55. North Country
56. City Slickers
57. On Golden Pond
58. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe
59. Quills/Caligula/The People Vs. Larry Flynt/Kinsey/A dangerous method
60. One flew over the Cuckoo's nest
61. Lawrence of Arabia
62. Brokeback Mountain
63. Little Women/Pride and Prejudice (new version)/Sense and Sensibility/Jane Austen's Book Club /The Women/Beautiful Girls/The Traveling sisterhood of pants
64. Mississipi burning
65. My best friend's wedding/When Harry met Sally/Indecent Proposal/Pretty Woman/You've Got Mail/Chocolat/Ghost/Falling in Love/9 months/Moonlight and Valentino
66. Blood Diamond
67. The Perfect Storm/Twister/Dante's Peak
68. Lorenzo's oil
69. Waterworld
70. The Panic Room
71. Enemy at the gates
72. Crimson Tide/U 471/Hunt for Red October
73. Coyote Ugly
74. Trainspotting/Requiem for a dream
75. Groundhog Day
76. Monster's Ball/Monster
77. The Good, Bad and the Ugly
78. Dr. Strangelove
79. Thelma and Louise
80. Escape from Sobibor
81. Billy Elliot
82. The Full Monty
83. Fight Club
84. Frida
85. Gone in 60 seconds/The Fast and the Furious
86. Husbands and Wives
87. The Prestige
88. Frost : Nixon
89. Revolutionary Road
90. The Verdict/The Chamber
91. Jugement at Nuremberg
92. Avatar
93. The remains of the day
94. Snatch
95. Inglorious Basterds
96. Up in the Air/The company Men
97. The Constant Gardener/A Mighty Heart
98. Master and Commander - The far side of the world
99. Sin City
100. Death at a funeral
101. Intermission
102. The Guardian
103. The Damned United
104. 25th Hour
105. Children of Heaven
106. The Help
107. The Descendents
108. The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight rises
109. Election
110. Crazy Heart
111. District 9
112. Lincoln
113. A Separation (Iranian)
114. The King's Speech
115. Downfall (German)
116. Goodbye Lenin
117. October Sky
118. Das Boot
119. Starting out in the evening
120. The Warrior
121. Spirited away
122. The Lives of others
123. The Great Debaters
124. Gravity
125. Rush
126. Captain Philips
127. Her/Ex Machina
128. Birdman
129. Mad Max Fury Road 
130. Inside out
131. Ponyo/My neighbor tomorrow
132. Interstellar
133. Zootopia
134. The Martian
135. Spotlight
136. The Revenant
137. Inception
138. Dallas Buyers Club
139. Nebraska
140. Django Unchained
141. Moana
142. Manchester by the sea
143. Boyhood
144. The hateful eight
145. Captain Fantastic
146. The best of men
147. Primal Fear
148. The darkest hour
149. Three billboards outside ebbing missouri
150. Hacksaw Ridge
151. Snowpiercer
152. Stuck in Love
153. Hidden Figured

Hindi/Bengali Movies

1. Chupke Chupke/Golmaal/Jaane bhi do yaron/Angoor/Baawarchi
2. Masoom
3. Mirch Masala
4. Sholay
5. Bandit Queen
6. Anand
7. Chalti ka naam Gaadi
8. Pinjar
9. Khosla ka Ghosla
10. Dor
11. Ek Chalis ki last local
12. Rang De Basanti
13. Paromitar Ek Din
14. Ganashatru
15. Agantuk
16. Shakha Proshakha
17. Shatranj ke Khiladi
18. Doshar - Rituparna Sen
19. Peepli - Live
20. Shubho Muhurto - Rituparna Sen
21. Trikaal - Shyam Benegal
22. Mirch Masala
23. Masaan
24. Titli
25. Aligarh
26. Queen
27. Pink
28. Dangal
29. Newton
30. Unishe April
31. Baishe shrabon
32. Iti Mrinalini
33. Meghnad bodho kabbo
34. Guptodhoner rahosho
35. Hemlock society
36. 
    

Lists of influential books

Non Fiction

1. An Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
2. The Mind of God - Paul Davies
3. How the Mind works -Stephen Pinker
4. A Brief History of Time - Bill Bryson
5. The Corporation that Ruled the World
6. Ideas : A History
7. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
8. Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade
9. White Mughals/From the Holy Mountain/The Age of Kali /Nine Lives- Willam Darlymple
10. Curry (history of) - Lizzy Colinwood
11. A War of the World - Niall Fergusson
12. Critical Mass - Philip Ball
13. The Keys of Egypt (story of the Rosetta stone)
14. In Cold Blood -Truman Capote
15. Wild Swans
16. Myth=Mithya
17. The Man eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
18. Roots - Alex Haley
19. The rise and fall of the third reich - Willam S Shirer
20. Man's quest for meaning - Victor Frankl
21. Confessions of a Thug - Philip Meadows Taylor
22. The Knife Man - Wendy Moore
23. The Discovery of India/Glimpses of World History - J L Nehru
24. Indian Mutiny, French Revolution - Christopher Hibbert
25. The first three minutes - Steven Wienburg
26. Freakonomics, The Tipping Point
27. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
28. The Origin of Wealth
29. The Code Book/Fermant's last theorem - Simon Singh
30. The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Allison Wier
31. Elizabeth - Allison Wier
32. Portrait of a People - Sudhir Kakar
33. Yakuza - David Kaplan
34. A Brief History of Medicine - Paul Stathern, A History of Money - Niall Fergusson
35. The Black Swan - Nissim Tayeb
36. The Human Instinct - Roger Winston
37. India after Gandhi - Ramchandra Guha
38. Peoplewatching - Desmond Morris
39. Liar's Poker/Flashboys - Michael Lewis
40. Phantoms in the Brain - VS Ramachandran
41. Bringing down the house - Ben Meriz
42. Lost world of Hindustani Music - Kumar Prasad Mukherjee
43. Genome - Matt Ridley
44. Mahabharata - Kamala Subramanian
45. The Looming Towers - The road to 9/11
46. A natural history of Innovation - Steve Johnson
47. The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk
48. Kipling Sahib - Charles Allen
49. Justice - By Michael Sandel
50. The Crusades - A concise History (Thomas Madden)
51. Following Fish - Sumanth Subramanian
52. Aurangzeb - A short history (Jadunath Sarkar)
53. Endurance - Shakleton's Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing)
54. On the Trail of the lost river (Michael Danino)
55. On the corner of a foreign field (Ramachandra Guha)
56. Genghis Khan - And the making of the modern world
57. The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
58. The Righteous Mind -- Jonathan Haidt
59. India - A sacred geography - Diana Eck
60. Beautiful Thing - Sonia Falerio
61. Them - Ron Jonson
62. The Opium War - Julia Lovell
63. Philosophy for Life - Jules Evans
64. Hiding the Elephant - Jim Steinmeyer
65. Cows, Pigs and Witches - Marvin Harris
66. The philosopher at the end of the Universe - Mark Rowland
67. Thinking fast and slow - David Kanheman
68. Into thin air - Jon Kaukauer
69. Curfewed Night/A Free Man
70. Battle Cry of Freedom  - US Civil War - James McPherson
71. The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
72. Jack the Ripper - Philip Sugden
73. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollack
74. The Antidote - Oliver Burkeman
75. Devil in the white city
76. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
77. Partisans and Patriots - Ramachandra Guha
78. Asoka - Charles Allen
79. After the Prophet - Lesley Hazelton
80. The Age of Wrath - Abraham Early
81. The Skeptical Patriot - Sidin V 
82. Empires of the Indus - Alice Albion
83. The world without us
84. Rubicon - Tom Holland
85. Persian Fire - Tom Holland
86. Brahmins and Bungalows - Kavita Watsa
87. River Dog - Mark Shand
88. Bol Bam - Shradha
89. Jaya - A retelling of the Mahabharat
90. Emperors of the Peacock Throne - Abraham Eraly
91. The Unspeakable -the killing of JFK
92. Unbroken - Laura H
93. Ancient Rome - Simon Baker 
94. The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
95. India Discovered - John Keay
96. Serial Killers - Peter Vronsky
97. The art of thinking clearly  - Rolf Dobelli
98. The Last King of India - Rosie Llewlyn 
99. God's Terrorists -Charless Allen 
100. The birth of the pill
101. The story of earth -the first 4.5 billion years - Robert Hazen
102. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
103. The Fall of the Ottoman Empire - Eugene Rogan
104. Ka - Robert Calasso
105. Nurture shock - Po Bronson
106. Midnight in the garden of good and evil - John Brenda
107. The tiger - John Valliant 
108. Tuesdays with moorie- mitch ablom
109. The lost city of Z
110. Into Africa 
111. Being Mortal Atul Gawande

Fiction

1. Kafka on the Shore/Norwegian wood - Haruki Murakami
2. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
3. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
4. 1984/Animal Farm - George Orwell
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. 100 Years of Solitude / Chronicle of a murder - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison
8. English August - Upamanyu Chatterjee
9. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
10. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
12. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
13. Run Rabbit Run - John Updike
14. Filth - Irvin Welsh
15. The remians of the day/When we were orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
16. It was 5 past midnight in Bhopal, Freedom at Midnight, City of Joy - All books of Dominique Lappiere/Larry Collins
17. Mila 18, Exodus, Trinity, The Haj - Leon Uris
18. All books of Arthur Hailey, Robin Cook, Michael Chrichton, Jeffery Archer, Issac Asimov, Dan Brown
19. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
20. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
21. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Thorn Birds, Gone with the Wind - Romance
22. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
23. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
24. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
25. Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
26. A House for Mr. Biswas - VS Naipaul
27. Ratime - E L Doctrow
28. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
29. The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
30. The world according to Garp -John Irving
31. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
32. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
33. Posession - A S Byatt
34. All Quiet on the Western front - Eric Remaraque
35. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
36. The God of small things - Arundhuti Roy
37. Short stories : O Henry, Somerset Maughm, Anton Chekhov, Guy De Mupassant, Saki, Ruskin Bond, Roald Dahl
38. Tom Sharpe, Ben Elton - Hilarious comedy
39. Shogun - James Clavell
40. Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
41. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
42. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
43. The Calcutta Chromosome/The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
44. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
45. Even Cowgirls get the Blues - Tom Robbins
46. Dr. Zhivago - Boris Patersnak
47. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
48. The Outsider/The Plague - Albert Camus
49. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
50. Jeeves Series - P G Woodehouse
51. Ramayana series of Ashok Banker
52. Sherlock Holmes - Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle
53. Feluda series - Satyajit Ray
54. Harry Potter Series
55. The Ramayana Series - By Ashok Banker
56. Hindi books - Gunahon ka devta, Raag Darbari, Munshi Premchand short stories, Bhishma Sahni, Amrita Preetam
57. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
58. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
59. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
60. The Millennium Series : Stieg Larsson (3 books)
61. The Ring / The Spiral : Koji Suzuki
62. The Shadow of the Wind
63. Sidetracked - Henning Mankel
64. The Wandering Falcon - Jamil Ahmad
65. Picture Imperfect - Byomkesh Bakshi
66. Ender's Game
67. The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
68. The Grasshopper's Run (Siddharth Sarma) /No Guns at my Son's funeral (Paro Anand)
69. Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
70. The Fault in our stars
71. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
72. Sabriel
73. The Wildings - Nilanjana Roy - Good one
74. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashimo
75. The Black Echo/The Poet - Michael Connelly
76. Killing Floor - Lee Child
77. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - good one
78. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey - very good
79. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

Hindi Books to Read

• Kitne Paakistaan – Kamaleshwar
• Dharamputra – Acharya Chatursen
• Chitarlekhaa – Bhagawati Charan Verma
• Giddh, Surya – Vijay Tendulkar

Books that I would want to re-read

Unfortunately though I love history, none of it I guess is somethig I want to re-read.

Thinking fast and slow - David Kanheman

The Ancestor's tale - Richard Dawkins

The Happiness Hypothesis - Johnathan Haidt 

Justice - Michel Sandel

A Brief History of Time - Bill Bryson

Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade

The first three minutes - Steven Wienburg

The Code Book - Simon Singh

Portrait of a People - Sudhir Kakar

The Black Swan - Nissim Tayeb

Philosophy for Life - Jules Evans/ Antidote - Oliver Burkman

The story of earth -the first 4.5 billion years - Robert Hazen

Being Mortal - Atul Gawande 

Great Authors of a given genre

• Tom Holland - Ancient Rome
• Charles Allen - The Raj
• Eugene Rogan - The Arabs
• Peter Hopkrik - The great game
• Toni Morrison - Black America
• Allison Wier - The Tudors
• James Clavell - Japan and China