Comic strip movie critic The Vigil Idiot's 10 worst Bollywood movies of the year: "Ra.One" and "Desi Boyz" included. You can check out Worst Bollywood Movies of 2011 - Part 1 HERE.
'Chitkabrey'
Speaking of my favorite movies this year, "Chitkabrey" ("Shades of Grey") would rank very high on that list.
I mean, there really is no way not to love this warped revenge saga centered on the seven deadly sins ...
"Centered on" being a term used very loosely here, because what this movie is actually centered on is unintentional laughs and some of the most amazingly bizarre sequences ever to be put on celluloid.
'Bodyguard'
"Bodyguard" released this past Eid to the biggest opening of any Bollywood film ever made.
Fittingly, this Salman Khan epic beat the record formerly held by "Dabangg," another Salman Khan epic.
Of course, that isn’t a testament to the quality of his films so much as the stratospheric standards of Indian audiences, who would even flock to the theaters just to see Salman Khan flex his muscles to dhol-based music for two hours.
And let me tell you folks -- that movie would be infinitely more bearable than the interminable dross that was "Bodyguard."
'Mausam'
"Mausam" ("Seasons") starring Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor, was an epic love story spanning a decade and three continents.
It was also a nonsensical script that could’ve prevented the central conflict of the story from ever materializing in the first place, had any one of the main characters been given the tiniest bit of common sense, or an IQ above 25.
'Ra.One'
If you were in India for any amount of time in the last half of the year, chances are you know everything there is to know about "Ra.One" (Pronounced Raavan, after the mythical supervillain).
With a promotional blitz that had Shahrukh Khan endorse everything from reality shows to F1 cars -- you couldn’t miss this movie if you tried.
Of course, this isn’t to say anything in the movie actually justified the amount of money spent on getting people to see it.
By far, the most torturous investment of US$25 million in Bollywood this year.
'Desi Boyz'
There’s suspension of disbelief and then there’s "Desi Boyz."
Akshay Kumar and John Abraham star as people who got into Oxford University and the London School of Economics respectively.
It also had them strut around as the best escorts in all of London, with Sanjay Dutt as their pimp.
Any one of those things would have me scoffing at the screen. But put them all together, and they explain the palm-sized imprint on my face.
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