Most disappointing Bollywood films in the First Half of 2015

Tevar (January 2015): Superman Salman ka fan Arjun Kapoor started off the year for Bollywood with Tevar. It was a remake of a cult South Indian film and the director Amit Ravindernath Sharma tried to put his own stamp into Tevar but unfortunately, the film turned out to be too long and boring for the general audience. It wasn’t too bad a film, but the negativity for the genre, sealed the fate of Tevar in its first weekend itself.

Tevar

Tevar

Shamitabh (February 2015): An R Balki film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush about a mute man who becomes a huge superstar with the help of someone else’s voice. Darn, the premise and concept of Shamitabh held so much promise, but sadly the film fell flat with its jargon of prolonged soliloquies. Again, it wasn’t a bad film but it suffered because of the weight of expectations attached to it.

Roy: Roy cannot be called a disappointing film because we hardly had any expectations from it. Pre-release there were murmurs in the inner circles about the quality of the film. However, it turned out to be even worse than we had expected. It was the worst snoozefest of a film Bollywood has made in a long long time. Nothing worked for Roy, except for Sooraj Dooba Hain, Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan and a stunningly beautiful Jacqueline Fernandez.

Mr. X: Emraan Hashmi’s bad patch continued with this Vikram Bhatt directed Sci-fii film. Mr X tried to evoke memories of the classic Mr. India by giving it a modern twist and the makers seemed subtly confident about the fate of the film. But unfortunately, it turned out to be a mess with some of the shoddiest visual effects work we have seen in the last few years.

Bombay Velvet: The biggest money loser and the biggest disaster of Hindi cinema of all time. Why would anyone in their right senses invest more than Rs 100 crore on a film like Bombay Velvet, directed by Anurag Kashyap, is beyond us. The burgeoning budget talk, and the delays had lowered our expectations but we didn’t think Kashyap could make an illogical, stupid film. Alas, Bombay Velvet turned out to be just that. It was the most non-Kashyapy Anurag Kashyap film when all we needed was the typical Anurag Kashyap flair to spruce things up!

Hamari Adhuri Kahani: Oh, what a disappointment. Mohit Suri who could do no wrong finally went wrong with this overtly melodramatic sappy excuse of a film. We expected a well acted, well rounded and entertaining film but it only turned out to be half-well acted and not at all entertaining unless Vidya Balan’s stream of tears from her eyes is your definition of entertainment. The narration was sloppy and couldn’t do anything to raise the quality of Hamari Adhuri Kahani, even though the basic premise of the film was a truly promising one. Both Emraan and Vidya deserved a better film, considering their acting talent!

As with every year, 2015 has had its share of damp squibs. If you have watched any of these films, tell us which Hindi film from the first half of 2015 disappointed you the most.

When you’re at it, also let us know what was the worst film of the year so far according to you! Do note that there a difference between ‘Disappointing’ (meaning big films that were expected to be good) and ‘Worst’ (Unwatchable). The poll below is about the ‘Worst’ film in the first half of 2015.

Worst film in the first half of 2015

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  • Dissappointing films of 1st half …..

    1. Tevar….
    2. Roy….
    3. Bombay velvet….
    4. Dil dhadakne do….
    5. Abcd2….
    6. Mr x

    hak was gud one for me…..!!…

    And also shamitabh….!!..

    @indicine include the mega budget flop of multistarcast that is DDD….!!…

  • Don’t know about the worst one but the best movie is surely MSG.The songs and costumes were just epic

  • Bombay velvet which has a budget of 120 cr and collects world-wide 31.85cr. Biggest failure, Ranbir kapopr is a talented actor he shows with his blockbuster yjhd collects 188cr he should come bavk with great movies

  • @indicine

    u did not include Dil dhadakne do which was the most pathetic torture of the year????..

    Dil dhadakne do was bad than most of the films mentioned in this list like Tevar, shamitabh, hak.

  • From all the above mentioned movies i have only seen Shamitabh and it was a disappointing movie . R Balki has given 2 good movies Cheeni Kum and Paa but Shamitabh was a boring movie to say the least . Big B with Dhanush and Debut of Akshara Haasan the concept looked interesting but the execution was very bad . I hope R Balki will make a strong comeback with his next movie starring Arjun Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor . Shamitabh was his first flop . CK and Paa both were successful . In fact in 2015 there are only 2 movies which i did not liked Shamitabh and DDD . But definitely DDD was not as bad as Shamitabh . So my vote goes to Shamitabh .

  • Worst films with my ratings:

    1. Ek Paheli Leela, 0.5/5
    2. Mr. X, 1/5
    3. Khamoshiyan, 1/5
    4. Alone, 1.5/5
    5. Tevar, 1.5/5
    6. Gabbar Is Back(BOMBAY VELVET IS WAY BETTER THAN GABBAR): A generous 2/5

  • If A person thinks that BOMBAY VELVET IS WORSE THAN EK PAHELI LEELA AND MR.X , then I feel He MUST be a MORON. Look at this another CRAPPY POLL. Bombay Velvet is leading over all worse films. It’s a SHAME that the article-maker has included a average film like BV in the list.

  • Mr x did better business than bombay velvet..

    @nipun

    bombay velvet is a 3rd class movie.. Ur comment is big joke ..
    Gabbar is way better than bv.

  • You are still doing partiality to king akshay.
    Where is gabbar in the list?
    We want gabbar in the poll and we will show you how king akshay win this poll…

  • Worst which I have seen till noe is Roy and the best is baby
    @Indicine plz conduct a poll on best film too

  • im one of those lucky people who didnt watch any of these….
    as reviews r bad…
    any1there lucky like me??

  • Bombay Velvet will win the Crap poll not due its average content, but due to INSECURITY!

    Failure of Bombay Velvet made those people happy, who were initially Threatened by it.
    Look how these Akkifans are desperately asking indicine about Dil DhadakNe Do. Lol. Should I remind them about masterpieces like Joker, Tees Maar Khan, OUATIMD etc?

  • Lol bv topping the lost when worse films like mr x leela hak msg hv roy hv released this yr . again a pathetic poll result. Srk films topping 100cr poll srk topping best body poll and now this . really indicine poll sucks bcz of the mostly dumb agenda centric users of this website

  • worst films of 2015 so far
    1) Bombay velvet
    2) roy
    3) ddd
    4)msg
    and worst film of last year
    one and only
    bong bong

  • Was expecting Tevar to be a fannyless tevarless hapless movie but only disappointment aspect about the film for me was that it collected three times what it should have….

  • Guys dil dhadakne do and hamari adhuri kahani is released in 2nd half of 2015….
    so don’t include this movie…

  • Most Disappointing Film according to my expectation before release:-

    1- Greedy Gobar
    2- Baby
    3- Mr X
    4- Detective Byomkesh Bakshi
    5- HAK

    PS Tevar isnt included as I expected it to flop miserably n Bombay Velvet I knew was not gonna strike the right chord with the masses n as it turned out even the classes didnt go for it…!

  • @nipun: You called Gabbar better than Jai Ho and gave 2.5 to jaiHo and a “generous” 2 to Gabbar!!!
    This is very Manipulative stuff!!

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