worst Bollywood movies of the year so far

More than a half of 2010 has
already passed but Bollywood is
yet to witness a blockbuster in
the league of say a 3 Idiots.
What's worse most of its keenly-
anticipated offerings bit dust
leaving a terrible taste of
disappointment in the viewer's
mouth.
Here's a look at ten of the worst
Bollywood movies of the year so
far:

1.Kites

For all its photogenic splendour
and hyped chemistry between
Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori,
Anurag Basu's ambitiously-scaled
romance is completely devoid of
a valid storyline or gripping
interaction.
And that's lame on account of
Basu's much-celebrated narrative
proficiency. Even Duggu's singing
and dancing skills or Rakesh
Roshan's lucky 'K' could not have
salvaged this one.


2.Veer

Going by Salman Khan's tweets,
writing isn't exactly Salman
Khan's best gifts. That explains
the story behind Anil Sharma's
Veer.
While Wanted, despite its far-
fetched temperament, works
purely on the merit of its brawny
star's charisma to pull off a
pedestrian superhero, Veer goes
overboard on an epic scale (quite
literally so) with its jarring
concepts, costumes and
catastrophes. Add to this some
seriously bad acting thrown in
good measure.


3.Sadiyan

Just when you thought
Bollywood's Punjabi stereotypes
are done and over with comes
the alarmingly dated Sadiyaan. In
this soppy Indo-Pak melodrama
which packs in as many sub-
plots as it possibly can, there's
not a single moment of above
average.
In fact, the only real purpose this
Raj Kanwar-helmed exercise in
boredom serves is to launch
Shatrughan Sinha's surprisingly
wooden son, Luv into movies.


4.Pankh

There's experimental and there's
erratic. With Pankh, Sudipto
Chattopadhyaya steps into a
dark, unexplored territory of a
disturbed individual's sexuality
but seems too preoccupied in
highlighting his quirky, visual
fantasies to convey anything else.
A complex subject like this
deserved to be handled with a lot
more depth and sensitivity
instead of pointlessly hovering
around its startling attributes.


5.Rann

For its diatribe against the media
and sensationalist journalism,
Ram Gopal Varma's Rann suffers
from the very issues it points
fingers at.
Half-baked ideas, lack of
research, blasphemous waste of
Big B's talents and dreadful
performances from everyone else
mar this otherwise relevant
subject from being the all
important wake-up call to the
'fellowship of breaking news.'


6.Bum Bum Bole

Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi is
one of the most respected names
in cinema. And Children of
Heaven is one of his much-loved
modern-day classics.
But when filmmaker
Priyadarshan decided to rope in
child prodigy Darsheel Safary for
its official remake, one expected
nothing short of awe-inspiring.
The end result, however, is
shockingly tacky. While Darsheel
is as effective as this sloppily-
written and excessively
sentimental adaptation allows
him to be, his co-stars are clearly
in uninspired mode.


7.Shaapit

The Ramsay brand of horror
returns sans the B-movie tag in
the form of Vikram Bhatt's
Shaapit. And so you have the
Ghulam director reliving his Raaz
days, sans the chartbusting
soundtrack, provided by riotous
tantriks and other such rip-
roaring antics to convey a state
of obligatory chills and thrills.
Surely Udit Narayan's sprightly
young boy Aditya deserved
better than that.


8.Teen Patti

It's not every day some
filmmaker gets a chance to get
Amitabh Bachchan and Sir Ben
Kingsley to share a frame. Too
bad director Leena Yadav wastes
this perfect opportunity with her
watered-down take on
Hollywood's 21.
What could have been a thrilling
episode of greed and genius
against the backdrop of
gambling turns out to be a
tedious yarn of hare-brained
logic dressed in the garb of
showy intellect.


9.Housefull

It may have made big bucks at
the box-office but Sajid Khan's
awfully obnoxious comedy is
anything but fun.
Pray, what's amusing about
pretty girls with no acting skills
in skimpy clothes or the usually
reliable comics stumbling all over
the place in the name of gags?
Chaos is only an element of
humour.
It's high time Mr Khan stopped
passing it off as the real deal.


10.Milenge Milenge

Who cares about a movie that's
as fresh as a five-year old can of
baked beans lying in the fridge?
Apparently, not even the cast. In
an age where stars do
everything from giving free
haircuts to mall-hopping in every
second city, neither Shahid
Kapoor nor Kareena Kapoor
came forth to do basic
promotions for Boney Kapoor's
long-delayed Milenge Milenge.
Turns out the audience too
didn't care to sit through a
nauseatingly dull and dated rip-
off of Hollywood's Serendipity.