Jackfruit Awards 2015 – Celebrating the worst of Bollywood

The Award season has begun in full swing, what with a new show being telecast almost every weekend on television. Since this is the season of Jackfruits as well, we decided to award some of the worst movies and performances this year.

It takes special effort to waste 3 hours of someone’s life and for that very effort; here are our very special Jackfruit award winners – dedicated to the worst of 2014!

Jackfruit Movie of the year – Action Jackson

Jackfruit Jackson, there was always a connect, but we never expected this movie to make it to the worst of the year. However, the audience were threatened, tortured and almost brutally harassed throughout the 3 hours of the movie.  Before Rajkumar Hirani’s take on god and godmen in PK, Prabhu Deva the director of the film made us realise that there indeed is a ‘Prabhu’ and ‘Deva’, when people managed to come out of the screening alive. To be honest Deva’s last few films like Rowdy Rathore or R Rajkumar were fairly enjoyable, however he got too carried away by cliché south Indian formulas and disgusting one liners. So moved were we by Sonakshi’s ‘male organ’ spotting sequence, that we named the film ‘Action Jerkson’.

Jackfruit Actor of the year (Male) – Saif Ali Khan (Humshakals)

What exactly was Saif thinking when he signed a film like ‘Humshakals’ is something that we haven’t been able to understand; did Saif really go ’Wow’ (like he always does) when he heard Sajid Khan’s ‘vision’ and narration? One of the biggest misfits, he looked out of place throughout the film. Sometimes an actor’s awfully bad performance also works if the script is great, however in this case, the script was worse than Saif’s performance. Saif took Humshakals so seriously that he has now delivered three jackfruits in a row ‘Bullet Raja’ , ‘Humshakals’ and ‘Happy Ending’.

Jackfruit Actor of the year (Female) - Kangana Ranaut (Revolver Rani)

Kangana was so good in Queen, that we couldn’t stop gushing and praising her performance in the film. Then came Revolver Rani, a film we wonder how Kangana signed in the first place. The costumes, music and story were so tacky that you wouldn’t really mind if Rani used the revolver to shoot us instead. Terrible terrible performance and film.

Jackfruit Debut of the Year – Daisy Shah (Jai Ho)

It’s not a regular feature that a background dancer gets to feature as the leading lady of a Salman Khan film (has it ever happened in the history of Indian Cinema?). But noticing her acting, dancing in the movie made us go ‘Daisy’. We don’t blame Salman because we still love him for making Katrina’s career and launching Sonakshi Sinha (second thoughts after watching her last few films)

Jackfruit Worst Director - Sajid Khan (Humshakals)

Naam hi kaafi hai, Jackfruit awards ka sartaj Badshah, shenehshah – Sajid Khan

Jackfruit Lifetime Threatening Award – Himesh Reshammiya (The XPOSE)

Whenever an Himesh Reshammiya film releases and flops we thank GOD and the Universe because we feel this is it, however this man doesn’t seem to give up. After Karzzzzz (which put the audience to sleep with its title itself), Kajra Rey and Radio, he comes with a film called The Xpose. The film ’Xposed’ his acting abilities, his dancing skills and even his inimitable dialogue delivery. The serious scenes were hilarious, emotional scenes was funnier. Here is the Jackfruit award to the man that will never give up on acting, to a man whose career in films will seem longer than AK Hangal’s age.

Jackfruit Award for Worst Lyrics - Engine Ki Seeti

“Engine ki seeti mein maaro bum dole” – Enough said – Hand over the Jackfruit please.

Jackfruit Award for Worst Choreography - Keeda (Action Jackson)

• Prabhudeva to Ajay Devgan “I am going to make you dance”
• Ajay: ”Sounds cool”
• Prabhu: ”Take 897″ (this is not happening, please bring back shahid)
• Ajay: “I think we nailed it”
• Prabhu “Yup, we nailed our coffin”

Jackfruit Award for Worst Banner of the Year - Eros International

Eros films seems to have truck loads of Jackfruits this year - Jai Ho, Happy Ending, Action Jackson, Purani Jeans, Lekar Hum Deewana Dil and the disastrous 2014 continued into 2015 with Tevar. Here’s hoping for fresher fruits next year.

Note: We have utmost respect for all actors and filmmakers. We understand the effort that they goes behind the making of films. The Jackfruit awards is not meant to hurt or disrespect anyone. We love them all, including Himesh the music composer.