Introducing, FC Gold: The Best in Entertainment

At Film Companion, we're kicking off 2021 with a new initiative – FC Gold. This is an attempt to recognise excellent content across languages and mediums. The Film Companion editorial team – comprising critics, film writers and reporters – collectively voted for shows and movies that they thought were the best of the best. Here are the shows and movies of 2020 that got our unanimous vote of approval. 

Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (Telugu)

Director, Screenwriter: Venkatesh Maha

Cast: Satyadev Kancharana, Hari Chandana, Naresh, Roopa Koduvayur

The Booth (Hindi)

Director, Writer: Rohin Raveendran Nair

Cast: Amruta Subhash, Parna Pethe

Cargo (Hindi)

Director, Writer: Arati Kadav

Cast: Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (Hindi)

Director: Hansal Mehta, Jai Mehta

Writer: Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey, Karan Vyas

Cast: Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satish Kaushik, Ananth Narayanan Mahadevan, Rajat Kapoor, Anjali Barot

Gamak Ghar 

Director, Writer: Achal Mishra

Cast: Abhinav Jha, Mira Jha, Satyendra Jha, Soniya Jha

Eeb Allay Ooo!

Director: Prateek Vats

Cast: Naina Sareen, Shashi Bhushan, Shardul Bharadwaj, Nutan Sinha

Aarya 

Directors: Ram Madhvani, Sandeep Modi, Vinod Rawat

Cast: Sushmita Sen, Vikas Kumar, Namit Das, Sikandar Kher, Maya Sarao, Chandrachur Singh, Alexx O'Nell

Paatal Lok

Writers: Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta, Gunjit Chopra

Directors: Avinash Arun, Prosit Roy

Cast: Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi, Abhishek Banerjee, Niharika Lyra Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee

Pushpavalli 2

Creator: Sumukhi Suresh

Director: Debbie Rao

Cast: Sumukhi Suresh, Naveen Richard, Manish Anand, Preetika Chawla

Panchayat 

Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra

Writer: Chandan Kumar

Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Faisal Malik

Churails 

Director: Asim Abbasi

Cast: Sarwat Gilani, Yasra Rizvi, Nimra Bucha, Meher Bano, Omair Rana

C U Soon

Director, Writer: Mahesh Narayanan

Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran

Varane Avashyamund

Director, Writer: Anoop Sathyan