Bollywood's Big Budget Flops!

The fortunate part of indulgent promotional campaigns for most of the recent big, even average banner movies, is that it depicts a thriving scenario in B-Town - an upward trend as far as riches go.


The unfortunate part however, deals with the magic of most such ventures limiting itself to promotions alone, and the built up anticipation from them. For lets be frank, how many high expectations since the dawn of 2010 have we been let down for, as the audience? Not a number one can ignore.


While innovation and creativity is being employed to its best during the post production publicity stage for movie projects, not half as much can be said about the story telling, characterizations or plot strengths as such. Which really, is such a pity.


Here's looking at some of the big disappointments of 2010, so far ...

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Due to immense promotion, Kites opened to a successful weekend with the hopes of wowing the audience.  Unfortunately the dazzling cinematography and lead chemistry failed to impress when overshadowed by the large reliance on English and Spanish dialogues; hardly the norm for a Bollywood movie. 

 

 

 

 

Despite optimistic projections from test audiences and crew, Paatshala failed to meet expectations as the well-intentions of the movie are overshadowed by a rather convoluted screenplay and loud acting coupled with bad dialogues. 

 

 

 

 

It may have been based on the successful Hollywood flick 21, but Teen Patti's intricate storyline was not laid out into a plot half as distinct, not to mention it's release coinciding with monster hit MNIK. Resultantly, it was quickly overlooked in favour of more commercial releases.

 

Whilst a fresh concept with superb natural acting from the main cast, Atithi tends to drag where other movies would have picked up the scissors.  The clean comedy appeals to the family and is subtly funny but fails to be appreciated in the current climate where only slapstick comedies are given their due.