Here is a list of movies that released this year (2012) which falls in the category of worst movie simply because it suffers from lack of script, direction, acting or has several loopholes in paper. Some of these flicks went onto rule the Box-Office and set cash-register ringing but to say these as 'Perfect Entertainers' is nothing but to turn a blind eye on good cinema...
10) Teri Meri Kahani
A love story which comprises of 3 different periods with same leads talks about the uniqueness of soul mates finding each other in a dreary mode. The movie has loads of cuteness and not so charming dialogues making this romantic journey punctured from the very start.
Plusses : Costumes
Minuses :Story, Dialogues, Direction, Screenplay and Music
Genre :Romance, Drama
Director :Kunal Kohli
Cast :Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Neha Sharma, Prachi Desai
Writer : Kunal Kohli
Music Director :Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali
Producer:Sunil Lulla, Kunal Kohli
Banner :Kunal Kohli Productions, Eros International
Release Date :June 22nd 2012
Run time : 122 minutes
Box-Office :Flop
Remake : Three Times (Taiwanese )
9) Agneepath
Vendetta stories were narrated several times in Hindi cinema but this one was hyped from the day of its announcement as being a remake and for its star-cast. A school teacher is killed by a bald villain and the formers son vows to take revenge by trading his good life to work as a pimp and drug lord’s right hand man and kill the guilty.
Plusses : Sanjay Dutt & Rishi Kapoor and Music
Minuses :Hrithik Roshan, Running time and loads of violence
Genre:Action, Drama
Director :Karan Malhotra
Cast:Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Zarina Wahab, Chetan Pandit, Sachin Khedekar, Rajesh Tandon, Deven Bhojani, Rajesh Vivek, Banwarilal Taneja, Pankaj Tripathi, Brijendra Kala, Ravi Jhankal, Suhita Thatte, Neeraj Sood, Ali Asghar, Arish Bhiwandiwala, Kanika Tiwari, Agasthya Dhanorkar
Writers: Ila Dutta Bedi, Karan Malhotra
MusicDirector :Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale
Producer:Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar
Banner:Dharma Productions
ReleaseDate :January 26th 2012
Run time :174 minutes
Box-Office :Super-Hit
Remake: Agneepath (1990 film Hindi)
8) Tezz
A running train with
passengers has a ticking bomb to it planted by Ajay Devgn an engineer. The
movie is all about thrills and kicks but this one is a lazily executed play
which will leave you with a glower.
Plusses : Cinematography saves the day to some extent
Minuses :Story, Dialogues,
Direction, Chemistry between lead actors and Music
Genre :Action
Director :Priyadarshan
Cast :Ajay
Devgn, Kangana Ranaut, Anil
Kapoor, Sameera Reddy, Zayed Khan, Mohanlal, Boman Irani, Mallika Sherawat
Writer :Robin Bhatt
Music Director :Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali
Producer :Ratan Jain
Banner :United 7 Entertainment Ltd
Release Date :April 27th 2012
Run time : 120 minutes
Box-Office :Disaster
Remake :The Bullet Train (Japanese)
7) Student Of The Year
An elegant estate where
the rich kids and scholarship students from decent families thrive is shattered
by a competition which bears the movies name. A spotless campus, school with
boys having six-packs and Ferrari's and characters wearing top brand clothing &
accessories one wonders does such a place exist?
Plusses : Karan Johar, Rishi Kapoor & Varun Dhawan
and Songs
Minuses :Plot, Running time(for a
holiday movie), Alia Bhatt and Ishq Wala Love
(lyrics)
Genre :Romantic, Comedy
Director :Karan Johar
Cast :Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Rishi Kapoor, Kayoze Irani, Sana Saeed, Farida Jalal, Sushma Seth, Akshay Anand, Prachi Shah, Manjot Singh, Gautami
Kapoor, Manini De, Siddharth
Sharma, Kajol, Boman Irani, Farah Khan,Vaibhavi
Merchant
Writer : Rensil D'Silva
Music Director :Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
Producer :Hiroo Johar, Gauri Khan
Banner :Dharma Productions, Red
Chillies Entertainment
Release Date :October 19th 2012
Run time : 146 minutes
Box-Office :Semi-Hit
6) Housefull 2
The story about 4 bride and bridegrooms with a not so JOLLY script and humor made this slapstick movie sink. The confusion between cast and their miserable characterization leads us to have a frown face in this so called laugh riot.
Plusses : Ensemble cast and nothing more
Minuses : clichés, Story, Dialogues, Direction, Chemistry between lead actors ,Running time and Music
Genre :Comedy
Director :Sajid Khan
Cast :Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandes, Zarine Khan,Shazahn Padamsee, Ritesh Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade, Boman Irani, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Malaika Arora Khan, Chunky Pandey, Johnny Lever, Vindu Dara Singh
Writer :Sajid Nadiadwala
Music Director :Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali
Producer:Sajid Nadiadwala
Banner :Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Eros International, Sajid Nadiadwala Productions
Release Date :April 6th 2012
Run time : 159 minutes
Box-Office :Super-Hit
Remakes :Mattupetti Machan (Malayalam) and Banda Paramasivam (Tamil)
5)
A love story between 2
spies from the most unfriendly of countries India and Pakistan seems nice on paper but the screen portrayal
was monotonous. But this one had some sense from other potboilers seen this
year.
Plusses : Salman Khan and Action
Minuses :Many loopholes in Plot, Dialogues,
Chemistry between lead actors and Music
Genre :Action,Romance
Director :Kabir Khan
Cast :Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ranvir Shorey, Girish Karnad, Roshan Seth
Writer :Aditya Chopra
Music Director :Sohail Sen, Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali
Producer :Aditya Chopra
Banner :Yash Raj Films
Release Date :August 15th 2012
Runtime :130 minutes
Box-Office : Blockbuster
4)
A NASA scientist returns
to his village only to find that his native is not there in India’s map and
thus is void of basic amenities. He makes crop circles and thus tries to grab
attention from media; all these seem right on paper but the execution was of
poor merit with irate characters and low level performances.
Plusses : Running time and nothing more
Minuses : Dialogues, Direction, Humor,
Chemistry between lead actors and Music
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy
Director :Shirish Kunder
Cast:Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Minissha Lamba, Javed Jaffrey, Shreyas Talpade,Vindu Dara Singh, Asrani, Sanjay Mishra, Chitrangada Singh
Writer :Shirish Kunder
Music Director :G V Prakash
Kumar, Vishal
Dadlani, Shekhar
Ravjiani, Gaurav Dagaonkar
Producer :Farah Khan, Shirish Kunder, Akshay Kumar
Banner :Three's Company Production Pvt
Ltd, Hari Om Entertainment Co, UTV Motion Pictures
Release Date :August 31st 2012
Runtime :100 minutes
Box-Office : Disaster
3) Jab Tak Hai Jaan
A prince and pauper love story told in today’s setting with relationships broken because of promise made to God. An army man, a NRI woman and a 21 year old documentary director are the main characters in this love saga.
Plusses :Shahrukh Khan and cinematography
Minuses : Clichés, Many loopholes in Plot, Running time and Music
Genre :Romance, Drama
Director :Yash Chopra
Cast :Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh,Anupam Kher
Writer :Aditya Chopra
Music Director :A R Rahman
Producer:Aditya Chopra
Banner :Yash Raj Films
Release Date :November 13th 2012
Runtime :175 minutes
Box-Office :Hit
2) Son of Sardaar
A Londoner visits his native Punjab to inherit his ancestral property but is caught in a family feud and is safe as long as he is in his enemy’s house. This movie is typecast to the core and has characters performing logic and gravity defying stunts.
Plusses : Juhi Chawla and one-liners
Minuses : Clichés, Story, Dialogues, Direction, Chemistry between lead actors and Music
Genre :Action, Comedy
Director :Ashwani Dhir
Cast :Ajay Devgan, Sonakshi Sinha, Sanjay Dutt, Juhi Chawla, Arjan Bajwa, Vindu Dara Singh, Mukul Dev, Salman Khan, Tanuja, Jeetu Verma, Rajesh Vivek,Puneet Issar, Mukesh Tiwari
Writer : Ashwani Dhir, Robin Bhatt
Music Director :Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali, Himesh Reshammiya
Producer :Ajay Devgn, N R Pachisia, Pravin Talreja
Banner :Ajay Devgan Films, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Yrv Infra & Media Pvt Ltd
Release Date :November 13th 2012
Runtime :139 minutes
Box-Office :Super-Hit
Remake : Our Hospitality (American) and Vikramarkudu (Telugu)
1) Rowdy Rathore
A con becomes cop to save
a village from an evil kingpin of sort and in this mission he is accompanied by
a handful of honest police officers and his slow motion action. The action
sequences in this movie will make you barf for sure and story could be written
by a 5-year old.
Plusses : Akshay as con is a delight
Minuses : Story, Dialogues,
Direction, Action scenes and Music
Genre :Action
Director :Prabhu Deva
Cast :Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Maryam Zakaria, Paresh Ganatra, Mumait Khan,Shakti Mohan, Nasser, Kareena Kapoor, Vijay, Prabhu Deva, Jayant Gadekar,Kaajal
Vashisht, Mushtaq Khan, Yashpal Sharma, Anant Jog, Darshan Jariwala, Gurdeep
Kohli, Supreeth Reddy, Ashok Samarth, Shruti Bapna
Writer :Shiraz Ahmed
Music Director :Sajid Ali, Wajid Ali
Producer :Sanjay Leela
Bhansali, Ronnie
Screwvala
Banner :UTV Motion Pictures, Hari Om
Entertainment Co, SLB Films Pvt Ltd
Release Date :June 1st 2012
Run time : 143 minutes
Box-Office : Blockbuster
Remake : Vikramarkudu
(Telugu)
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