My Favourite Actors and Heroes

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
18. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
19. Ryan Gosling - Hail Mary, Fall Guy, Barbie
20. Margot Robbie - Barbie, Bombshell
21. Tom Hanks - Top gun, Mission Impossible
22. Helen Mirren
23. Benedict Cumberbatch - 
24. Olivia Coleman
25. Meryl Streep
26. Robbin Williams
27. Jack Nicholson

My Intellectual Heros

The Liver Doc

Ramchandra Guha

Kris Ashok

Mukul Kesavan

Jonathan Haidt

Steven Pinker

Vacalav Smit

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