The year that went by...2011

Best Incident: Anti-corruption uproar led by Anna Hazare
Worst Incident: The mishap at AMRI, Kolkata which took so many lives.

Best Politicians: Mamata Banerjee, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Worst Politicians: Mayawati, A.Raja, Kapil Sibbal, Sarad Pawar

Best Films: No One Killed Jessica, The Dirty Picture and Dhobi Ghat (Leaving aside the regional films)
Most overrated films: Bodyguard, Ra.One, Ready

Best on Television: Kaun Banega Crorepati, Parvarrish, Masterchef India 2, Loudless, India's Got Talent 3, Coke studio, C.I.D, Crime Patrol
Worst on Television : Bigg Boss 5, Roadies 8, Chat House, Emotional Attyachar 3, all melo-dramas

Best actors(female): Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan, Mahie Gill
Worst actors(female): Katrina Kaif, Kangna Ranaut
Best actors(male): Farhan Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan
Worst actors(male): Salman Khan, Imran Khan

Best cricketers: Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S Laxman
Worst cricketers: Yusuf Pathan, M.S Dhoni, Ishant Sharma

Best Book: River of Smoke, The Emperor of all Maladies

Newsmakers of the year: Anna Hazare, Sarad Pawar, A.Raja, Kanimozhi, Vidya Balan, No One Killed Jessica, AMRI mishap

Best song: Ishq Sufiyana (The Dirty Picture), Dua (No One Killed Jessica), Nadaan Parindey (Rockstar)
Most Overrated songs: Kolaveri Di (3), Character Dheela (Ready), Chhammak Chhallo (Ra.One)

Best advertisements on television: CEAT tyres, Vodafone, Stayfree
Worst advertisements on television: Fair and Lovely, Vivel active fair, Lux soap

Best cellphone facility: Mobile number portability
Worst cellphone facility: 10 paise per SMS even after recharging with SMS card in Airtel and Vodafone

We moarn the loss of: Shammi Kapoor, Bhupen Hazarika, Dev Anand, Jagjit Singh, Sai Baba

What bored us the most: Twitter
What kept us busy: Facebook and Blog

Some of my choice may not suit you so you are absolutely free to comment and let me know about your choice, please do!

There may have been many other topics which i did not cover but all these were the first that came to my mind.
So with all these we have come to the end of yet another year and a new year awaits us. So, make the use of 2012 to its fullest. Remember it can be our last year too! :)



Comments

  1. Tanujit15 December 2011 at 14:56

    hmmmm......good post but your best films and actresses arent the best...think before you write!

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  2. Anonymous15 December 2011 at 15:18

    gd effort....ofcrs ur choice of da actrs, books, songs, ads etc dnt mtch wd mine.... i thnk u shd try wrtn abt smthn more signfcnt whch hppnd durin dis yr....dis post lacks persnal tch....all da best fr da nxt ones (:

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  3. Saptarshi15 December 2011 at 21:21

    Ofcourse they will not match! And i want you all to say about what you think! And Shrestha, you read my previous posts, they are full of significant topics, this is a much lighter one! Tanujit you cannot say they were not the best, but you can say that you have a different choice. Tell me about your choices!

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