You don’t need to be a genius to make a bad movie. Literally anyone can do it. But it’s a challenge to make a movie so bad that it transcends into greatness. Making a good “bad” movie is nothing less than an art form. We don’t know if the makers of these movies actually intended to make them this way or it was completely unintentional. Nonetheless, we found these movies so bad that they actually end up being a fun watch. So, we list down Bollywood films so bad that they will have you in splits. Read on…
1.Mission Istaanbul : Darr Ke Aage Jeet Hai
Mission Istaanbul had a star cast of Vivek Oberoi, Sunil Shetty, Zayed Khan, and Shriya Saran. In the film, we see Sagar (Zayed Khan), a journalist who out of nowhere gets an offer to head a controversial news station by its owner Owais Husain (Sanjay Dutt). The news channel named “Al-Johra” is actually a mask for many terrorist activities and believe it or not you will see terrorists walking in and out of the news channel’s building like nobody’s business. Sagar accepts the offer initially because of the many perks that came with the job. But, when he decides to quit it is brought to his attention by a Turkish commando Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), that others who have quit had been killed for knowing too much. This movie was filled with products placement and mostly we see the two heroes chugging cans of mountain dew which also explains the unique choice for the title.
2.Tarzan: The Wonder Car
In this film, we see Deven Chaudhary (Ajay Devgn), who is a talented car designer. Once he approaches a firm with his designs and even though the partners of the company like his designs, they reject him at the time only to kill him by drowning him in his own car and stealing his designs later. But, guess what? The story doesn’t end here. Many years down the line, Deven’s son, Raj (Vatsal Seth) ends up finding the car in which his father was drowned in. Raj gives the car a complete makeover. Once the car is made again, Deven’s soul somehow makes its way into it. And then it was pay back time! So, whenever Raj was sleeping or occupied with something else, the car (who actually was Deven) would just sneak out under his nose and would go on kill one of the partners who killed his father. We think the best performer in the film deservedly had to be the car... Which says a lot about the acting in the film.
3. Awwal Number
In Awwal Number, we see Ronny (Aditya Pancholi), a star cricketer who lets his ego takeover him which also effects his performance in the game. In comes Sunny (Aamir Khan), a talented young cricketer who instantly takes Ronny’s spot in the team. So, just like how cricketers behave when they are dropped, Ronny (with the help of a terrorist organisation) goes ahead and plants a bomb in the stadium with 50,000 people watching the game. The saviour DIG Vikram Singh (Dev Anand) comes to everyone’s rescue. Vikram Singh who is also Ronny’s elder brother uses everything from truth serums to torture to his masterful skills of seduction to get to the bottom of the case. It seems that India needing some 30 odd runs in the last few overs wasn’t exciting enough of a cliffhanger for the makers so they went ahead and threw in a helicopter chasing sequence as well. This film also has a scene where they show a picture of Cindy Crawford with a garland over it. The reason being that the makers needed a picture of someone since they wanted to show that Dev Anand and Aditya Pancholi’s stepmom who passed away.
4. Gunda
The essence of Gunda lies in its unique characters. First we have a gangster named Bulla (Mukesh Rishi), who goes around saying his signature line which is, “Mera Naam Hai Bulla… Main Rakhta Hoon Khulla.” Next, we have Chutiya (Shakti Kapoor), Bulla’s impotent brother who is kept alive through a steady supply of “London ki sex ki goliyan” or also known as “Vitamin Sex”. In the film, Bulla vows to take revenge from Shankar (Mithun), since he was the reason behind Bulla’s right hand man Pote’s arrest (Mohan Joshi), who also has a signature line of his own which says “Mera Naam Hai Pote… Jo Apne Baap Ke Bhi Naheen Hote.” Bulla manages to murder Shankar’s sister and his father after which Shankar ends up killing Bulla. You must have figured the plot of the film is wafer thin but dialogues like “Chatri Hoti Hai Kholne Keliye Aur Ladki Hoti Hai Chedne Ke Liye” do manage to keep it alive.
5.Karzzzz
Firstly, we just wanted to inform everyone that the four z’s in the title isn’t a typo but the makers have actually done it for a reason. Why you ask? Well, only they know the answer to that. So, this film was actually a remake of Rishi Kapoor’s iconic film Karz (1980). The story of the film too is mostly the same as the original but with a ton of overacting. And if you felt that the film lacked any substance in the acting department you are mistaken. The songs in the film (something for which the original film is still remembered for) are equally bad if not worse. Song’s with the titles like Tandoori Nights and Dhoom Tere Ishq Ki can give you an idea for what you can expect expect from this film.
6. Prem Aggan
What do you expect when a relatively poor man's son falls in love with a rich man's daughter in a Bollywood film. Clashes, complex dialogues on the iniquity of society and traditions. Prem Again lives up to all that and much more! Prem Aggan was possibly one of the worst debuts that anyone could have in Bollywood. And the thing is that Fardeen Khan isn’t the biggest reason for which the film turned out to be so bad… it all comes down to lazy writing. So, in the film we see Sapna (Meghna Kothari) a daughter of a wealthy businessman. She falls in love with Suraj (Fardeen Khan), who is the son of an Army captain and plays in an orchestra to earn his living. When Sapna introduces Suraj to her father, he doesn’t take it to well since he has already made plans about her marriage with someone else and obviously because Suraj isn’t rich. So, the father forms a plan along with Sapna’s brother and they end up beating Suraj and take Sapna along with her abroad hoping that she will forget about him eventually. But our hero still doesn’t loose hope. He will do anything to get back to Sapna! Even if it means selling his most prized possession… his motorcycle. Sapna on the other hand has turned into (almost) an alcoholic since she is away from her beloved. The rest of the film is just filled with Bollywood cliches, we see Suraj reaching to Sapna and making her free from her evil fiancé and winning the heart of her father in the process.
The highlight of the film has to be when Sapna and Suraj are shown together and Sapna tells Suraj, “Suraj, Mujhe Yeh Haseen Dard De Do.” No points for guessing which “Haseen Dard” she is talking about!
7. Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani
Jaani Dushman : Ek Anokhi Kahani (more like torture) was a film that actually had a lot of expectations riding on it before its release. Mainly due to a star studded cast which comprised of actors like Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Manisha Koirala, Aditya Pancholi, Arshad Warsi, Sharad Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani and for some unknown reason Sonu Nigam. At the start of the film, we see Manisha Koirala taking a shower along with her friend with make up on (No, we’re not kidding). Later, when she is alone in the room, two of her “friends” break inside with the intention of raping her. And here we see the entry of Sunny Deol, who comes in and saves the day. Interestingly, when the principal finds out about what is happening in his college, instead of rusticating the culprits he tells them to go apologise to the girl they just raped. When they show up to ask for forgiveness, Divya (Manisha Koirala) is encouraged by her friends that she should forgive them as well. It’s like nobody in the film understands that even an attempt at rape is a SERIOUS crime! Another thing you notice in the film is the bombardment of product placements. Literally every other scene has a brand name being mentioned for no apparent reason. Jaani Dushman manages to take product placement even further, as in one scene, Akshay Kumar is shown to be watching a show on television with the camera fixed on the frame of the TV. So, in the show, the host announces that they will be taking a commercial break and during the entire commercial the camera is still fixed in front of the TV. Talk about being subtle. And let's not even go to the bad VFX.
8. Prince
We have seen plenty of spy films that have ended up being successful franchises in the past years, The Mission Impossible series, The Bourne series to name a few. Prince makes a failed attempt at trying to recreate the magic of these spy thrillers. Prince (Vivek Oberoi) is a spy who has no memory about his past. In his quest to find answers, he discovers his name is Prince, he used to work for a man named Sarang (Isaiah) and his girlfriend's name is Maya (Aruna Shields). Prince is being chased by the biggest criminal agencies in the world since only he knows the whereabouts of a heist that just took place. As the story moves forward, Prince finds out that there is some chip in his brain that makes him forget everything whenever it is activated. And the one behind this whole mess was his boss Sarang. Prince is able to tack down Sarang and gets hold of the coin to deactivate the chip along with killing him in the process. To sum it up, there is no story to begin with and with times it is clearly evident that the actions are as well mindless and in most places unneeded.
There are a million plot holes but no need to pick those as after about 20 minutes in the film you will understand that the producers have only paid for the action sequences and the worst part is the action sequences are not even original. Almost every action scene in the movie is picked out from a popular Hollywood film and it is painfully obvious the way they have executed it. One thing that the film does get right is the casting especially of Vivek Oberoi. Vivek Oberoi doesn’t have much acting in the film besides looking lost and confused which he manages to do extremely well!
9.Players
Players was “inspired” by Italian Job (2003) which wasn’t a masterpiece on its own but somehow they managed to make it a 100 times worse. The reason being that Abbas Mustan trying too hard in making this movie their own. Since this is Bollywood, a thief cannot be a thief just for the thrill of it or his greed for money. There has to be a noble cause for which he is doing it. And in Players we have the aim of making the largest orphanage in the world. While the original version of the film had crisp dialogues and likeable characters, the Indian version had an overdose of emotions and characters like Spyder (Neil Nitin Mukesh) who is constantly flitting with his Artificial Home Intelligence system named “Baby”. The entire cast of the film was a big let down and failed to impress in their roles. Bobby Deol is the guy you relate too. He wears a pained expression throughout. It's the same look you have at the end of this film.
10. Aag
Ram Gopal Varma’s Aag was (apparently) an adaptation of the 1975 classic Sholay. But it had no resemblance with the film whatsoever. In Aag, the character of Jai, who's called Heerendra is played by Ajay Devgan and Veeru who is called Raj is played by Prashant Raj Sachdev. The heroes in this film had an insane ability to dodge bullets. In a scene, they are seen taking on a group of men who are firing at them with AK-47 assault riffles but they conveniently defeat them without getting a single bullet hitting them. This scene alone literally made movies like Rambo look mundane.
Amitabh Bachchan plays the role of a psycho villain, Babban to the best (Probably the only 40 mins of the reel that shouldn't be burnt). If you somehow could remove the rest of the movie and just watch Amitabh play around with his character, it would still be worth a watch
11.Drona
Drona was another failed attempt at the superhero genre by Bollywood. Every aspect of the film was extremely disappointing. The excessive use of slow motion in the film didn’t do it any favours either. It became so frequent it was predictable. Every time the hero appears, cue slow motion and take several shots from every angle of the hero with his sword as he is killing the bad boys. Even the script of the film didn’t feel like a finished product since it was continuously shifting to different time spans with sudden jumps ignoring any continuity.
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