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BRIDE & PREJUDICE, BAD
How wrong could you go with Pride and Prejudice? Well, you just had to watch less than five minutes of Aishwarya Rai’s big, fat Hollywood debut to know how wrong. The whimpering-simpering Ash was a misfit in the role of Lalita Bakshi, a character based on the firebrand Elizabeth Bennet. Add to that a forced accent and a terrible wardrobe and Bride & Prejudice easily goes down as one of Ash’s saddest screen stints. What was sadder? B&P’s desi version Balle Balle! Amritsar to LA. It was balle balle from bad to worse!
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RAAVAN,WORSE
Aishwarya+Abhishek+Mani Ratnam = Guru = magic.
Aishwarya+Abhishek+Mani Ratnam = Raavan = disaster.
If the promos of Raavan raised expectations sky-high, then the film brought us crashing down. With hubby Abhi trying too hard and co-star Vikram managing too little, Ash, to be honest, wasn’t really the worst thing about this Ramayan retelling. And she looked stunning in parts. But even that was not reason enough.
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UMRAO JAAN, WORST
Beautiful and boring. That’s what Aishwarya was in this J.P. Dutta remake of the 1981 classic. Playing a 19th century courtesan shunned by society and family, Ash looked painfully pretty, but that was just about it. Bland and bejaan, she wept copiously throughout the three-hour-plus running time. Even Pa (Amitabh Bachchan, yaar) came out of the closet to praise Rekha’s Umrao Jaan and rubbish daughter-in-law Ash’s.
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MAIN PREM KI DEEWANI HOON,BAD
A nyaka Hrithik Roshan as Prem made Kareena Kapoor’s Sanjana look like an award-worthy act in comparison. But that’s not saying much for a character that was boring at its best and irritating at its worst. Remember the ‘I’m-so-cute-and-I-know-it’ attitude and the unnecessary mooning over Hrithik? Even the non-stop-talking CGI-animated parrot was more bearable.
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KAMBAKKHT ISHQ,WORSE
She looked uber-gorgeous in this uber-gorgeous film. Akshay Kumar was not the only ‘dog’ in heat when the ‘bitch’ went Bebo main Bebo, dil mera le lo. You couldn’t miss the childlike glee as she shared screen space with Holly legend Sylvester Stallone. But what did it all finally boil down to? A sickeningly bad film!
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TASHAN, WORST
The film that gave us size-zero Kareena. The film that gave us Saifeena. The film that made us realise that big stars (Kareena-Saif-Akshay) are capable of bigger mistakes. While she sizzled in a little red dress, Bebo’s acting in this Yash Raj production was far from tashan. What got our goat? That horrendous blonde wig (turn to our main page (pic right)if you haven’t seen it already)!
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WHAT’S YOUR RAASHEE?, BAD
One was bad. Six was badder. 12 was baddest. Sorry, this one made us forget our grammar. Priyanka Chopra did all she could to stop us from turning into zodiac zombies, but by the time we braved Aquarius and Pisces and moved on to Aries and Taurus, we didn’t give a damn. At Cancer and Leo, we were zzzzzzing. When Virgo and Libra arrived, we hated Piggy Chops. The end result? A mind-numbing 211 minutes!
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DRONA, WORSE
She may have played bodyguard to Abhishek Bachchan in this Goldie Behl disaster, but it was the audience that needed protection from Drona. Gravity-defying stunts and even a sizzling item number weren’t enough to make up for Priyanka’s apparent lack of interest. The far-from-sexy costumes simply prolonged the agony. No wonder Drona came and went before one could say PC!
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LOVE STORY 2050, WORST
This fast-forward-to-the-future-flop had a string of scary firsts — an army of precocious robots in the year 2050, a deadpan Hurman Baweja and a talking teddy bear. But the hands-down loser? Priyanka in a blazing red wig and rags masquerading as fashion 2050. Eeeks had a new name.
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HUM AAPKE DIL MEIN REHTE HAIN,BAD
She generally chooses her films with care, but looks like paycheck won over performance for Kajol in this regressive Satish Kaushik film. “It seemed like a great character on paper, but didn’t translate well on screen” said Kajol about her long-suffering adarsh Bharatiya naari in the act. Who suffered most? We the viewer.
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RAJU CHACHA, WORSE
Plush sets, a giant budget and a chance to romance real-life love Ajay Devgn in their home production. However, not all fairy tales have a happy ending. Despite Ajay pumping in all those crores, Kajol looked lost and bored from reel one to 16 and Raju Chacha flopped miserably.
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KUCH KHATTI KUCH MEETHI, WORST
Two Kajols in Dushman were terrific. Two Kajols in Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi were terrible. Kajol’s twin act in this Rahul Rawail film was a howler from start to finish. The good thing is that not many people saw it. For the rest of us who did, K3M was all sour, no sweet.
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TA RA RUM PUM, BAD
Even though she played a Bengali wife to Saif Ali Khan in this Siddharth Anand family drama, it wasn’t the usual performance-perfect Rani Mukerji. The micro-minis were moan. The appalling wig was groan.
SAAWARIYA
Yes it was a Ranbir Kapoor-Sonam Kapoor debut disaster, but even Rani’s not-quite-sexy courtesan Gulabo disappointed big time. Garish clothes, bad make-up and strange acting summed up Rani’s Saawariya act. Give us Mangal Pandey and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (in which Rani played prostitutes) over Saawariya any day. At least she looked sexier!
DIL BOLE HADIPPA
Was she a woman? Was she a man? Despite a post-weight loss red-hot Rani, much of Dil Bole Hadippa made the viewer reach out for Aspirin. As Veer and Veera, Rani gave it all she had, but a much-younger Shahid Kapur drove it home that the once-upon-a-time queen bee of Bollywood was well past her prime.
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YUVVRAAJ, BAD
She made the cello look sexy, but Yuvvraaj put a rude halt to Katrina Kaif’s dream run at the box office. She looked like a vision no doubt, but that couldn’t really make up for the sometimes lacklustre, often lethargic performance. The silver lining in the dark Yuvvraaj cloud for Kat? She was a lot better than most of the others in the film. (Ex) boyfriend Salman Khan included!
BLUE
Wonder what made the usually ‘I-can-smell-a-hit-from-a-distance’ Kat sign up for this underwater film that sank without a trace? Surely not the blink-and-you-miss role or the chance to play Zayed Khan’s hippie lady love! We just hope that she got paid well for this disaster!
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BOOM, WORST
Her big Bolly debut — and easily her worst filmi decision! Playing a supermodel in the middle of a murky mess, Katrina tried everything — from shedding clothes to locking lips — but nothing could save Boom from going, er, bust.
