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Worst Bollywood Movies of 2024

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While I normally make a Top 10 (or Bottom 10, I guess) list of the worst movies of the year, I didn’t feel like I saw enough truly terrible Hindi films in 2024 to warrant a lengthy list. I’m instead going to highlight the four most problematic 2024 releases that I watched. Here are the worst of the worst:

Fighter was easily the most disappointing movie of 2024. Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan in an action-packed Top Gun knockoff sounds like a recipe for success. Unfortunately, a jingoistic climax takes what should have been something silly and fun to a dark place.

Dibakar Banerjee tried to recreate the experience of watching a reality show, a Twitch stream, and sitting in a Zoom meeting for his anthology sequel LSD 2: Love Sex aur Dhokha 2. It’s an awkward format that is less enjoyable than doing any of the three things it mimics.

Annu Kapoor in drag could not save the dated, unfunny romantic comedy Luv Ki Arrange Marriage.

My worst movie of 2024 was admittedly one of the most entertaining that I watched all year, albeit for the wrong reasons. Horror director Vikram Bhatt went all-in on CGI for his latest, making a movie filmed almost entirely in front of a green-screen with sets and effects added in later. This isn’t unusual — one can’t exactly shoot a movie in outer space or on an alien planet — but it requires a lot of time and money to make it look convincing. Bhatt didn’t spend enough of either of those, resulting in a movie that looks cheap and weightless. His approach may be high-tech, but it doesn’t yield better results than his earlier films like Raaz or even Creature 3D. But if you want a laugh, watch my Worst Bollywood Movie of 2024: Bloody Ishq!

What was your least favorite movie of 2024? Let me know in the comments!

Kathy’s Worst Bollywood Movies of 2024

  1. Bloody Ishq – stream on Hulu
  2. Luv Ki Arrange Marriage – stream on ZEE5
  3. LSD 2 – stream on Netflix
  4. Fighter – stream on Netflix

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Worst Bollywood Movies of 2019

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While my Best Bollywood Movies of 2019 list is dominated by action flicks, my Worst Bollywood Movies of 2019 list is mostly made up of comedies that aren’t funny.

The first of those is Khandaani Shafakhana, starring Sonakshi Sinha as a sex clinic operator. It has some nice moments but is undone by a sequence in which a character played by Varun Sharma repeatedly uses homophobic slurs in a failed attempt at humor.

Diljit Dosanjh’s cop spoof Arjun Patiala also has potential until it takes a dark turn — only none of the characters seem to realize it and keep acting as if it’s still a lighthearted romp. Kriti Sanon plays a reporter reluctant to investigate a string of murders she suspects were orchestrated by her police officer boyfriend (Dosanjh). It’s hard to make such a premise funny.

Sanon plays a reporter again in the romantic comedy Luka Chuppi, in which she and a colleague played by Kartik Aaryan clumsily try to hide their live-in relationship. The subject matter gives it a veneer of progressiveness, but it’s cut from the same conservative, chauvinistic cloth as umpteen other Bollywood romcoms.

The biggest disappointment among the unfunny comedies is the road trip heist flick Total Dhamaal. With an ensemble cast that includes Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani, Ajay Devgn, and Sanjay Mishra, you’d expect laughs from start to finish. But writer-director Indra Kumar’s disorganized reboot of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is boring, with repetitive, stale gags.

The top spot on this year’s Worst Bollywood Movies list is not a comedy but a very problematic drama. Kabir Singh — a remake of the Telugu film Arjun Reddy — is either remarkably oblivious to its main character’s sociopathic tendencies, or it thinks his actions are okay. The hero assaults and threatens women with violence repeatedly throughout the movie, including an attempt to rape a woman at knife-point in the first ten minutes. You can’t make a hero like that sympathetic, especially when he doesn’t feel remorse for what he’s done.

One of the troubling sentiments I’ve seen online is the belief that the Kabir Singh‘s box office success validates the film’s moral viewpoint. There are plenty of movies throughout history that were hits when they released that contemporary audiences would find abhorrent. Kabir Singh will be one of those movies someday — hopefully sooner rather than later.

Kathy’s Worst Bollywood Movies of 2019

  1. Kabir Singh — Stream on Netflix
  2. Total Dhamaal — Buy at Amazon/stream on Hotstar
  3. Luka Chuppi — Buy at Amazon/stream on Netflix
  4. Arjun Patiala — Stream on Prime
  5. Khandaani Shafakhana — Stream on Prime

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