What's the point of having as many year-ender movie lists/listicles around as there are movies in a year? A whole lot, actually. For one, in keeping with democracy, the idea that the Internet primarily embodies, it's only fair that a whole lot of avid viewers, reviewers, get to put together an awards' roster of their own. In that sense, given that a film is essentially a director's medium, if I were to loftily hand out the top gong for the year, it would, hands down, go to SS Rajamouli for Baahubali: The Conclusion, even for a sequel, a visual feat in its own right, and a task so gargantuan that unsurprisingly Indian filmmakers (Bollywood, included) had attempted nothing like this before. But then again, am I telling you anything new?

The other purpose lists of this nature serve is for the viewer/reviewer to express fondness for a film over and above others' - suggesting thereby that as an audience, he or she could spot stuff in a movie that a casual eye might gloss over, or may not appreciate as much. A lot of people on the web, you might notice, gave definitive double thumbs up to Ranbir Kapoor starrer Jagga Jasoos, which is just as well, since Anurag Basu's far-out adventure series works sufficiently as a kids' film, a genre that mainstream filmmakers rarely pay enough attention to. It's also a great space to laud even more the finest indies, and Newton topping several charts is totally called for. And this is just as true for the rare comedy on death, Mukti Bhawan, or the boldest piece on feminism, Lipstick Under My Burkha. Or, the incredible Rajkummar Rao starrer Trapped.