2013 was a year of lots of disappointments when it comes to big or awaited films. There were films like Inkaar, Ghanchakkar, Ek Thi Daayan, Bullet Raja and Besharam that had in them to be really good, but somewhere the film faltered and ended average or even bad.
And then there were the films that were hard to tolerate, many may have left theatre in middle, but people like me who sit till the end no matter how bad the film is, had to face headaches that particular night. Though there were many bad movies, I am only listing my top5 films or nightmares of the year, and two of them were above 100 cr club mark which speaks a lot about the taste our audience or biased fan clubs possesses.
Top5 Worst Movies of 2013 (in order) :
1. Grand Masti
Writing double meaning dialogues, and directing in the vulgar most way made sure that this film was at no.1 in worst movie of the year. Unfortunate thing is that when such films do well at box-office and people love it, it tells two things, one that people are actually that cheap that they got entertained by the film, and other that the makers would make maybe even more cheaper film in the 3rd installment. Also, How desperate the 3 leading ladies must be for fame, that they signed this film. The moment they would had read that climax scene they should had rejected the film, to be frank many scenes before that were bad enough to give no to the film, respect goes away for such actresses for me. Makers like these make joke of 'Adult Comedy', who knows nothing about it and still get lucky with all the aam janta love, and all the success only makes them arrogant that they find ways of justifying the film instead of accepting how bad it was.
2. Zanjeer
Mr. Ram Charan acts through one expression throughout the movie, I didn't knew that to play angry man role you need to do that. If you only watch him enacting the evergreen scene of Amitabh starring Zanjeer, then you would leave the theatre right then or switch channel on T.V. Prakash Raj is villain, so he gets double meaning dialogues, seriously the writer/director have no respect for a cult film that they allowed it to happen. I would have liked them to keep different title of film at least if they were adamant on making the movie like this. Priyanka Chopra was only decent character in entire movie, who at places gets on your nerves too. Sanjay Dutt may have got the look right in Pran's role, but his portrayal was over the top, and same can be said for the action sequences of the movie. I would bow down to you, if you manage to watch the film at a stretch without feeling headache (not to the biased fanatics).
3. Chennai Express
Had this movie not crossed above 70 cr (forget 200), I would had not included it in the list. But the anger for film increased when it kept collecting way more than it deserved, otherwise I had rated it as a Below Average movie only. Only Rohit Shetty movie I have loved is Singham, and Golmaal I am sure I will love whenever I watch it. Problem with a movie where you do spoofs is, that you tend to go over the top, and there comes lot of over-acting in it. Most of the time, the dialogues are trying desperately to make you laugh and your face tries to bring smile, but it just doesn't come as the writing is terrible. Shahrukh totally hams his part in the movie right from 'Goa is On' scene onwards. Deepika looks misfit into the movie with the only good performance of the film. Songs do give some respite from the story that never engages me. A true shahrukh lover won't love this movie, and I felt happy that I didn't. Don't think I will follow him on twitter sooner, with his next Happy New Year movie looking on same lines from the poster. Might have to wait till release of 'Fan' if Maneesh doesn't compromise with his creativity while working with Shahrukh.
4. Zila Ghaziabad
Some weird dialogues like 'bacche peetal ke honge' and mega slow motion fight sequences where every actor, be it Arshad Warsi or Vivek Oberoi or Sanjay Dutt, gets to enact the superhero hidden inside them. Usually films have one item song, here there were two, director was in mood of overdose in every department afterall. Sunil Grover (comedy nights with kapil fame) was the only good thing in the movie, who actually played negative character. Heavy dialoguebaazi doesn't work always, this film is prime example of that.
5. Ramaiya Vastavaiya
Girish Taurani hams to the core in his debut film, while Shruti Hassan can't act in full fledged role.. maybe she is better off in small roles like D-Day. But, she looks very beautiful in Indian outfits throughout the film. Prabhu Deva made this film in awe of Salman Khan, as the story resembles Maine Pyar Kiya as well as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya, unfortunately Ramaiya Vastavaiya isn't even 5% of those two films. Songs are placed anywhere out of own luxury, even the popular Jeena Laga Hoon which to be frank isn't that great either. Only Vinod Khanna and Sonu Sood were tolerable in this movie.
And then there were the films that were hard to tolerate, many may have left theatre in middle, but people like me who sit till the end no matter how bad the film is, had to face headaches that particular night. Though there were many bad movies, I am only listing my top5 films or nightmares of the year, and two of them were above 100 cr club mark which speaks a lot about the taste our audience or biased fan clubs possesses.
Top5 Worst Movies of 2013 (in order) :
1. Grand Masti
Writing double meaning dialogues, and directing in the vulgar most way made sure that this film was at no.1 in worst movie of the year. Unfortunate thing is that when such films do well at box-office and people love it, it tells two things, one that people are actually that cheap that they got entertained by the film, and other that the makers would make maybe even more cheaper film in the 3rd installment. Also, How desperate the 3 leading ladies must be for fame, that they signed this film. The moment they would had read that climax scene they should had rejected the film, to be frank many scenes before that were bad enough to give no to the film, respect goes away for such actresses for me. Makers like these make joke of 'Adult Comedy', who knows nothing about it and still get lucky with all the aam janta love, and all the success only makes them arrogant that they find ways of justifying the film instead of accepting how bad it was.
2. Zanjeer
Mr. Ram Charan acts through one expression throughout the movie, I didn't knew that to play angry man role you need to do that. If you only watch him enacting the evergreen scene of Amitabh starring Zanjeer, then you would leave the theatre right then or switch channel on T.V. Prakash Raj is villain, so he gets double meaning dialogues, seriously the writer/director have no respect for a cult film that they allowed it to happen. I would have liked them to keep different title of film at least if they were adamant on making the movie like this. Priyanka Chopra was only decent character in entire movie, who at places gets on your nerves too. Sanjay Dutt may have got the look right in Pran's role, but his portrayal was over the top, and same can be said for the action sequences of the movie. I would bow down to you, if you manage to watch the film at a stretch without feeling headache (not to the biased fanatics).
3. Chennai Express
Had this movie not crossed above 70 cr (forget 200), I would had not included it in the list. But the anger for film increased when it kept collecting way more than it deserved, otherwise I had rated it as a Below Average movie only. Only Rohit Shetty movie I have loved is Singham, and Golmaal I am sure I will love whenever I watch it. Problem with a movie where you do spoofs is, that you tend to go over the top, and there comes lot of over-acting in it. Most of the time, the dialogues are trying desperately to make you laugh and your face tries to bring smile, but it just doesn't come as the writing is terrible. Shahrukh totally hams his part in the movie right from 'Goa is On' scene onwards. Deepika looks misfit into the movie with the only good performance of the film. Songs do give some respite from the story that never engages me. A true shahrukh lover won't love this movie, and I felt happy that I didn't. Don't think I will follow him on twitter sooner, with his next Happy New Year movie looking on same lines from the poster. Might have to wait till release of 'Fan' if Maneesh doesn't compromise with his creativity while working with Shahrukh.
4. Zila Ghaziabad
Some weird dialogues like 'bacche peetal ke honge' and mega slow motion fight sequences where every actor, be it Arshad Warsi or Vivek Oberoi or Sanjay Dutt, gets to enact the superhero hidden inside them. Usually films have one item song, here there were two, director was in mood of overdose in every department afterall. Sunil Grover (comedy nights with kapil fame) was the only good thing in the movie, who actually played negative character. Heavy dialoguebaazi doesn't work always, this film is prime example of that.
5. Ramaiya Vastavaiya
Girish Taurani hams to the core in his debut film, while Shruti Hassan can't act in full fledged role.. maybe she is better off in small roles like D-Day. But, she looks very beautiful in Indian outfits throughout the film. Prabhu Deva made this film in awe of Salman Khan, as the story resembles Maine Pyar Kiya as well as Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya, unfortunately Ramaiya Vastavaiya isn't even 5% of those two films. Songs are placed anywhere out of own luxury, even the popular Jeena Laga Hoon which to be frank isn't that great either. Only Vinod Khanna and Sonu Sood were tolerable in this movie.
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