With a new year underway, let’s take one last look at the biggest Hindi cinema duds of last year. Here are my picks for the worst Bollywood movies of 2016. (Click on the title of each movie to read my original review.)
I’m a little loath to include Baaghi on this list because the film is so unintentionally funny, but it’s also really, really bad, so I guess I have to.
Confusing narratives land Banjo and Ghayal Once Again on the list, though Naam Hai Akira ran away with the 2016 award for Worst Overall Story Construction.
Madaari tries to paint a guy who kidnaps and threatens to kill a little kid as a hero, thus earning it a spot on the list.
All the rest of the worst films of 2016 are problematic in the way they relate to women. Shivaay is weirdly hostile, while Sanam Re is tacky and outdated.
Ki and Ka‘s comedic approach to gender norms falls flat when its male character becomes a national role model just by doing chores. Still, Ki and Ka is positively progressive compared to Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3, a movie built around the stereotype that white women are sluts.
The worst film of the year is written and directed by the same man who wrote the dialogue for Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3: Milap Zaveri. Mastizaade is hatred masquerading as comedy, a mean-spirited attack on everyone who isn’t a straight, Indian man. Zaveri’s targets include women, addicts, and non-Indians, but he’s particularly fond of picking on people with disabilities. His characters literally point and laugh at a man in a wheelchair. This is about as loathsome as a film can be. Mastizaade‘s title as my Worst Bollywood Movie of 2016 is well deserved.
Kathy’s Ten Worst Bollywood Movies of 2016
- Mastizaade
- Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 — Buy at Amazon
- Naam Hai Akira — Buy at Amazon
- Ki and Ka — Buy at Amazon
- Ghayal Once Again — Buy at Amazon
- Madaari — Buy at Amazon
- Banjo — Buy at Amazon
- Sanam Re — Buy at Amazon
- Shivaay
- Baaghi — Buy at Amazon
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Hi Kathy!! Can u tell me ur most fav top 5 Hindi movies of all time??
Hi, Azhar! I don’t know if these are my favorite films exactly, but the ones I think about most often (at least right now) are Kahaani, Road Movie, D-Day, DDLJ, and A Flying Jatt.
whats wrong about shivaay?
‘movie built around the stereotype that white women are sluts’ its not a stereotype. Its a growing phnomenon. a/c to a survey, canadians(23) and americans(22 partners) have most sexual partners. movie is raunchy as hell though.
This comment was too dumb for me not to post. Update: Homeboy is sending me supplementary material to explain how white Western women like me earned our slutty reputations. I’d read it if I weren’t always flat on my back.
you go girl
😉
Kathy, what about posting your Top 10 of 2016? Waiting anxiously…
Sorry to make you wait, Amin! Right now, I’m planning to post it on Friday since there’s no new movie.
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