<p>From 'Bhuj: The Pride of India' to 'Bhoot Police': The 7 worst films of &nbsp;2021<br />
2021 saw filmmakers take a bold step in telling refreshing, new and thought-provoking stories. While the year witnessed some great stories, there were several misfires even. Subhash K Jha picks the 7 worst films of &nbsp;2021.&nbsp;</p>

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<strong>Bhuj The &nbsp;Pride &nbsp;Of &nbsp;India: </strong>This is the shame of &nbsp;2021. A &nbsp;pulp patriotic drama it is shamefully shoddy work, exposing its glaring inadequacies under the garb of nationalistic jingoism. Everybody in the film talks with flag-waving braggadocio, as though competing for the best actor award at the local amateur theatre workshop. So devoid of cinematic quality is this war film, and so oafish are the battle sequences, that &nbsp;I wondered if the whole endeavour was planned as a Doordarshan serial on the occasion of Veer Diwas. While purporting to honour our brave soldiers Bhuj insults the entire army by deploying the worst computer graphics for the aerial and ground battle scenes that &nbsp; I’ve ever seen in a war film. While Pakistani soldiers drop bombs erratically on the vulnerable airbase in Bhuj, none can equal the bomb that the film proves to be. Nothing prepares us for the sheer volume of clumsiness and mediocrity that &nbsp;Bhuj so proudly displays. From the opening airborne attack to the closing runway hijinks, the soggy saga reeks of sham valour. Each frame groans with tons of rabblerousing rhetorics punctuated by sounds of aerial bombs dropping on land as arid as the screenplay of this clumsily punctuated war drama. The director just doesn’t know where to stop. Or for that matter where to begin.</p>

<p><strong>Haathi Mere Saathi:</strong> &nbsp;First things first. This Haathi Mere Saathi has nothing to do with Rajesh &nbsp;Khanna’s &nbsp;1971 &nbsp;blockbuster of the same title. This one has lots of elephants in it but fails to address the elephant in the room: why has this film been made? If I was &nbsp;the producer I would quickly throw the footage &nbsp;into the sea and pretend it never happened. Haathi Mere Saathi &nbsp;has &nbsp;Rana Daggubatti running around with a wild &nbsp;look in his eyes as if he’s just seen the Chinese releasing the Covid virus. He plays some kind of an &nbsp;animal conservationist battling to save elephants &nbsp; from evil &nbsp;capitalists.Ananth &nbsp;Mahadevan is &nbsp;the greedy entrepreneur &nbsp;who &nbsp;builds &nbsp;a big wall &nbsp;blocking the elephants from the jungle.Someone &nbsp;should block the elephants &nbsp;from &nbsp;queuing up too see this film. They would feel insult is being added &nbsp;to injury.And poor &nbsp;Sheeba Chadha! That extraordinary actress &nbsp;is reduced &nbsp;to &nbsp;a prop &nbsp;in a &nbsp;film that is not really a film. It’s torture &nbsp;chamber &nbsp;, sure to but conservationists &nbsp;off conservation for a lifetime.There is a whole &nbsp;lot &nbsp;of &nbsp;noise and screechy &nbsp;sermons on how &nbsp;human plunderers are &nbsp;destroying the elephants’ &nbsp;natural &nbsp;habitat. But &nbsp;the &nbsp;tone is way too shrill to convey the message . Messages &nbsp; work only when conveyed &nbsp;in a reasonable tone.Haathi Mere Saathi is &nbsp;the sledgehammer of &nbsp;conservationism.The CGs are extremely.Poor &nbsp;Daggubatti monopolizes &nbsp;the &nbsp;footage . The voice that’s dubbed for him in Hindi doesn’t suit him. Ditto Zoya Hassan &nbsp;running around &nbsp;the jungle trying to save the elephants &nbsp;and &nbsp;trying to save &nbsp;poor &nbsp;Pulkit Samrat who looks &nbsp;lost in the jungle.Anyone would, &nbsp;after running &nbsp;from dawn to tusk.But who will save &nbsp;the &nbsp;audience &nbsp; from this hysterical tripe &nbsp;about the plundering tribe? This film &nbsp;should be referred &nbsp;to the SPCA. The Society &nbsp;for &nbsp;Prevention &nbsp;of &nbsp;Cruelty &nbsp;to the Audience.</p>

<p><strong>Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai: &nbsp; </strong>So much has changed. But not Salman Khan. He &nbsp;continues to be a one-man vendetta army &nbsp;, this &nbsp;time out to clean Mumbai of drugs &nbsp;and drug peddlers.And &nbsp;there are &nbsp;so many of them! The villains just keep pouring in like unwanted &nbsp;monsoon showers. I tried to &nbsp;keep a count . But after the &nbsp;17th baddie &nbsp;I &nbsp;simply gave up. I hoped &nbsp;Radhe’s crime-fighting &nbsp;skills are better than my counting. And I was right! &nbsp;At the end &nbsp;of the 1 hour 49 film Salman’s cop act had eliminated &nbsp;all the villains,two of them, &nbsp;Gautam Gulati(playing a henchman named Girgit) and &nbsp;Pravesh Rana &nbsp;from Bigg Boss. If post-Covid &nbsp;this is what &nbsp;big-screen entertainment is meant to be, then we are &nbsp;better of watching OTT serials &nbsp;at &nbsp;home. Radhe India’s Most Wanted Bhai is &nbsp;strictly for the Salmaniacs. &nbsp;It transports &nbsp;Bhai , the &nbsp;plot and the audience into a &nbsp;never-never land &nbsp;of freewheeling combats where we get an extremely hazy, lazy , crazy &nbsp; view &nbsp;of who’s beating whom to &nbsp;a pulp.All &nbsp;that &nbsp;is for sure in the action scenes is &nbsp;that &nbsp;our hero emerges from each physical conflict looking like &nbsp;he has just finished &nbsp;a bath and a meal &nbsp;with a little bit of the ketchup from the French fries stuck on his &nbsp;cheek and sleeves.</p>

<p><strong>Bhoot Police:</strong> &nbsp;How bad is &nbsp;Bhoot Police? It’s hard to say. &nbsp;This work touches such &nbsp;unscaled &nbsp;peaks &nbsp;of dumbness that one is &nbsp;at a loss &nbsp;for words.Descriptions like, awful and mediocre &nbsp;would &nbsp;just about touch the &nbsp;tip of &nbsp;the &nbsp;tale’s woeful &nbsp;inadequacy. If I say it was unbelievably bad, I’d only be talking about Saif Ali Khan who &nbsp;tries &nbsp;so hard to be funny, it’s scary. In fact I could write a whole thesis on &nbsp;Mr Khan’s ‘Bihari’ accent, Being from Bihar I am yet to hear &nbsp;anyone speak like that.Bhoot Police is filled with &nbsp;such never-before sights and &nbsp;sounds. &nbsp;…Like &nbsp;A Chudail belching profanity like Linda Blair , &nbsp;like Saif trying to &nbsp;mimic Rajkummar Rao in Stree &nbsp;and failing miserably,or &nbsp;Arjun Kapoor &nbsp;puking into &nbsp;a &nbsp;holy earthen pot while Saif holds it for him, or…never mind! This &nbsp;pointless &nbsp;illustration of the &nbsp;horror-comedy that neither &nbsp;horrifies &nbsp;nor amuses can go on &nbsp;all day, and we would still not &nbsp;be able to do justice to the &nbsp;plot holes and &nbsp;storytelling absurdities.</p>

<p>5. &nbsp; &nbsp; Squad: It really &nbsp;hurts to see young Rinzing Denzongpa’s career being crushed &nbsp;under the &nbsp;undiscriminating wheels of &nbsp;such &nbsp;amateurishness.This is an unpardonably tawdry &nbsp;film. Those &nbsp;behind the making of Squad &nbsp;should be put &nbsp;in front of &nbsp;a firing squad. &nbsp;Those in &nbsp;front of &nbsp; the camera deserve our heartfelt sympathy. &nbsp;No actor, no matter how incompetent, deserves to be &nbsp;so brutally compromised. No &nbsp;film in recent memory has &nbsp;made such woefully inadequate use &nbsp;of a cast in desperate &nbsp;pursuit of some &nbsp;moments, some &nbsp;hope in the midst of the despair &nbsp;that &nbsp;shrouds this cadaverous &nbsp;compendium of the cretinous and the cacophonous.The &nbsp;humourless action film about RAW-like agents rescuing a little girl from Georgia is &nbsp;shot with all &nbsp;the seriousness of a drunken &nbsp;monk &nbsp;trying to trapeze across a tumultuous river. &nbsp;There is no interest in seeing the proceedings plumb new &nbsp;depths &nbsp;every &nbsp;moment. It is &nbsp;like &nbsp; watching a car crash &nbsp;into &nbsp;a wall.Debutants &nbsp;Rinzing Denzongpa and &nbsp;Malvika Raaj &nbsp;playing squad members have &nbsp;no &nbsp;opportunity to &nbsp;prove anything except that they are in the wrong fun. Seniors Mohan Kapoor and &nbsp;Pooja Batra try to have &nbsp;some fun with their &nbsp;roles as &nbsp;a couple of squabbling squad commanders with a &nbsp;chip on their &nbsp;shoulders. While Ms Batra takes her &nbsp;role seriously(the spectacles &nbsp;don’t really help) Kapoor tears into his part &nbsp;with wolfish delight. He is &nbsp;the only one who knows what he has &nbsp;gotten himself into.Debutant &nbsp;Rinzing Denzongpa’s character &nbsp;Bhim &nbsp;suffers &nbsp;from a serious &nbsp;deprivation of &nbsp;motivation. He is &nbsp;on a mission to rescue a &nbsp;little girl. But he is afraid of children, he says. Why? Because &nbsp;he saw one &nbsp;die during a terror flush-out operation. The &nbsp;relationship that &nbsp;grows, or is meant to grow, between &nbsp;the &nbsp;hero and his &nbsp;vulnerable visitant &nbsp;remains a flickering &nbsp;possibility in this laughably &nbsp;loutish &nbsp;film .The &nbsp;potentially &nbsp;interesting outdoor locations are &nbsp;squandered away &nbsp;with most of the heated &nbsp;discussion happening indoors.Producer-writer-director &nbsp;Nilesh Sahay owes &nbsp;everyone an explanation on what exactly the purpose &nbsp;of &nbsp;Squad is supposed to be. Is &nbsp;it meant to be a &nbsp;joke? Or &nbsp;perhaps to show future generations how actions films are &nbsp;NOT &nbsp;supposed to be directed?</p>

<p><strong>The Girl On The Train: </strong>&nbsp;The &nbsp;biggest suspense for me was not whodunit(so don’t worry, &nbsp;no spoilers &nbsp;ahead). But whydunnit? Why oh why &nbsp;did Ribhu Dasgupta see the need to remake &nbsp;what was &nbsp;a middling thriller &nbsp;with a stand-out central performance &nbsp;by Emily Blunt &nbsp;as a trainwreck of a &nbsp;woman whose &nbsp;judgment we &nbsp;can’t trust.Turns out , director Ribhu Dasgupta’s judgement sucks even worse. &nbsp;There is &nbsp;no point to this remake that relocates the original thriller from New York to London and &nbsp;then proceeds to make &nbsp;some &nbsp;horribly misguided radical &nbsp;changes &nbsp;from the original which I &nbsp;can’t reveal because if I do, Parineeti Chopra &nbsp;will kill me. Having survived this remake I want to live some more. Hopefully the &nbsp;next Bollywood &nbsp;whodunit &nbsp;will get right and won’t barter &nbsp;the fright for the trite.I sensed something going wrong from the start of &nbsp;this &nbsp;2-hour ‘whydunnit’ when five minutes &nbsp;into &nbsp;the &nbsp;narrative &nbsp;a shaadi song &nbsp;showed up. Coy glances, wriggly hips , the works. Emily Blunt must be choking her popcorn. &nbsp;It was &nbsp;a reminder of more indigenous &nbsp;moderations &nbsp;in the original script &nbsp;which was &nbsp;about a a woman on the skids drinking herself &nbsp;silly and making a nuisance &nbsp;of herself in other &nbsp;people’s lives .This &nbsp;poor remake &nbsp;takes itself &nbsp;too seriously with red herrings &nbsp;scattered across &nbsp;the unruly &nbsp;chaotic &nbsp;pandemic &nbsp;plot &nbsp;like &nbsp;confetti in &nbsp;a room filled with a wild party of revelers who wake &nbsp;up the next morning wondering &nbsp;what they did, and to whom. Worse still are the endless explanations… oh Lord, every move is explained in case &nbsp;the audience misses the point. And &nbsp;I still say &nbsp;this &nbsp;is a pointless remake.Parineeti &nbsp;Chopra starts &nbsp;on &nbsp;a shaky note but gets confident eventually &nbsp;. When &nbsp;the &nbsp;dialogues are not cheesy in their originality &nbsp;they &nbsp;are corny translations &nbsp;of &nbsp;the original. A sample: “Do you think tumne &nbsp;ussey hurt kiya hoga?”I understand these are Indians in London. &nbsp;But no one talks like this, anywhere. Parineeti Chopra,God bless her &nbsp;brave &nbsp;soul, ploughs through the incoherent remake trying to keep her sozzled stumbling character on its feet. Another bright(and brave) performance comes &nbsp;from &nbsp;Kirti Kulhari &nbsp;as a cop at Scotland Yard with a turban and a dark secret. Aditi &nbsp;Rao does what she is &nbsp;good at: look pretty. The male characters are all drug dealers, philanderers, killers &nbsp;and extortionists. Avinash Tiwary as &nbsp;Parineeti’s husband &nbsp;infuses some brio into his inert part. He &nbsp;might as &nbsp;well have saved himself &nbsp;the effort. This &nbsp;remake is &nbsp;DOA.</p>

<p><strong>Dial 100: &nbsp;</strong>This one is &nbsp;a downright &nbsp;embarrassment &nbsp;for all &nbsp;concerned, specially Manoj Bajpai and &nbsp;Neena &nbsp;Gupta who have lately been going &nbsp;through a &nbsp;bright patch &nbsp;in &nbsp;their career. Little &nbsp;did they know that they would &nbsp;have to &nbsp;deal with an unforeseen hurdle .Dial 100 is &nbsp;so bland &nbsp;in presentation and the suspense so wan, you &nbsp;wonder if &nbsp;the director slept through its making. Or else, what was Rensil d’Silva thinking while casting &nbsp;Bajpai as a &nbsp;cop at a call centre &nbsp;who receives &nbsp;a distress call from Neena &nbsp;Gupta who is just a voice for &nbsp;more than 20 minutes &nbsp;after the show &nbsp;begins.Hawa Mahal could have done more justice to Neena.When &nbsp;she finally appears on screen , at Manoj’s wife Sakshi Tanwar’s door &nbsp;Neena is &nbsp;a &nbsp;full-on &nbsp;gun-toting psychopath &nbsp;, with &nbsp;the expressions that &nbsp;one sees on the face of a mother after she finds condoms in &nbsp;her son’s room, &nbsp;out to get revenge &nbsp;from Manoj &nbsp;and &nbsp;his &nbsp;wife.Neena Gupta, poor &nbsp;soul, struggles with &nbsp;her character &nbsp;trying to understand her motivations. The script doesn’t help &nbsp;her in any way, &nbsp;choosing to get even in &nbsp;the &nbsp;oddest &nbsp;of ways, &nbsp;getting more and more abstruse with &nbsp;every passing moment.A &nbsp;young &nbsp;boy &nbsp;playing &nbsp;Manoj and Sakshi’s &nbsp;son shows up as a &nbsp;delinquent &nbsp;selling cocaine(no &nbsp;less) &nbsp;to his friends. Why would a &nbsp;boy from a &nbsp;well-to-do family, a cop’s son to &nbsp;boot, fall into such awful company? &nbsp;The &nbsp;screenplay has no answers. Instead &nbsp;it makes &nbsp;Manoj grit his teeth and tell the partying boy, ‘Go home right home.’I would tell myself exactly the same &nbsp;if I were watching this film in a theatre. Luckily &nbsp;for us, the pandemic has &nbsp;reduced the torture level of a &nbsp;movie critic’s life substantially. I still watch the crap. But at least I watch &nbsp;it &nbsp;in &nbsp;the comforts of my &nbsp;own four walls. It’s like your mother &nbsp;holding &nbsp;your &nbsp; hand while you’re getting molar surgery done.The tortuous ordeal &nbsp;is &nbsp;made worse &nbsp;by the director’s &nbsp;persistent attempts to infuse suspense into the &nbsp;proceedings like boosters injected &nbsp;into a corpse. In one sequence &nbsp;Manoj’s son &nbsp;hides in an abandoned building &nbsp;while &nbsp;an undesirable &nbsp;type is &nbsp;looking &nbsp;for him &nbsp;with a knife. &nbsp;What is &nbsp;Manoj’s son doing &nbsp;in that godforsaken place? &nbsp;More importantly, what &nbsp;is &nbsp;Manoj doing in this &nbsp;comatose melodrama with the production values of a student’s film and the wit and intelligence of a &nbsp;lobotomized ventriloquist?At the end we &nbsp;have Sakshi doing a &nbsp;big breakdown sequence and Manoj trying to comfort her. And we don’t even get a sorry?</p>


From 'Bhuj: The Pride of India' to 'Bhoot Police': The 7 worst films of 2021 2021 saw filmmakers take a bold step in telling refreshing, new and thought-provoking stories.

From 'Bhuj: The Pride of India' to 'Bhoot Police': The 7 worst films of 2021 2021 saw filmmakers take a bold step in telling refreshing, new and thought-provoking stories. While the year witnessed some great stories, there were several misfires even. Subhash K Jha picks the 7 worst films of 2021. Bhuj The Pride Of India: This is the shame of 2021. A pulp patriotic drama it is shamefully shoddy work, exposing its glaring inadequacies under the garb of nationalistic jingoism. Everybody in the film talks with flag-waving braggadocio, as though competing for the best actor award at the local amateur theatre workshop. So devoid of cinematic quality is this war film, and so oafish are the battle sequences, that I wondered if the whole endeavour was planned as a Doordarshan serial on the occasion of Veer Diwas. While purporting to honour our brave soldiers Bhuj insults the entire army by deploying the worst computer graphics for the aerial and ground battle scenes that I’ve ever seen in a war film. While Pakistani soldiers drop bombs erratically on the vulnerable airbase in Bhuj, none can equal the bomb that the film proves to be. Nothing prepares us for the sheer volume of clumsiness and mediocrity that Bhuj so proudly displays. From the opening airborne attack to the closing runway hijinks, the soggy saga reeks of sham valour. Each frame groans with tons of rabblerousing rhetorics punctuated by sounds of aerial bombs dropping on land as arid as the screenplay of this clumsily punctuated war drama. The director just doesn’t know where to stop. Or for that matter where to begin. Haathi Mere Saathi: First things first. This Haathi Mere Saathi has nothing to do with Rajesh Khanna’s 1971 blockbuster of the same title. This one has lots of elephants in it but fails to address the elephant in the room: why has this film been made? If I was the producer I would quickly throw the footage into the sea and pretend it never happened. Haathi Mere Saathi has Rana Daggubatti running around with a wild look in his eyes as if he’s just seen the Chinese releasing the Covid virus. He plays some kind of an animal conservationist battling to save elephants from evil capitalists.Ananth Mahadevan is the greedy entrepreneur who builds a big wall blocking the elephants from the jungle.Someone should block the elephants from queuing up too see this film. They would feel insult is being added to injury.And poor Sheeba Chadha! That extraordinary actress is reduced to a prop in a film that is not really a film. It’s torture chamber , sure to but conservationists off conservation for a lifetime.There is a whole lot of noise and screechy sermons on how human plunderers are destroying the elephants’ natural habitat. But the tone is way too shrill to convey the message . Messages work only when conveyed in a reasonable tone.Haathi Mere Saathi is the sledgehammer of conservationism.The CGs are extremely.Poor Daggubatti monopolizes the footage . The voice that’s dubbed for him in Hindi doesn’t suit him. Ditto Zoya Hassan running around the jungle trying to save the elephants and trying to save poor Pulkit Samrat who looks lost in the jungle.Anyone would, after running from dawn to tusk.But who will save the audience from this hysterical tripe about the plundering tribe? This film should be referred to the SPCA. The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to the Audience. Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai: So much has changed. But not Salman Khan. He continues to be a one-man vendetta army , this time out to clean Mumbai of drugs and drug peddlers.And there are so many of them! The villains just keep pouring in like unwanted monsoon showers. I tried to keep a count . But after the 17th baddie I simply gave up. I hoped Radhe’s crime-fighting skills are better than my counting. And I was right! At the end of the 1 hour 49 film Salman’s cop act had eliminated all the villains,two of them, Gautam Gulati(playing a henchman named Girgit) and Pravesh Rana from Bigg Boss. If post-Covid this is what big-screen entertainment is meant to be, then we are better of watching OTT serials at home. Radhe India’s Most Wanted Bhai is strictly for the Salmaniacs. It transports Bhai , the plot and the audience into a never-never land of freewheeling combats where we get an extremely hazy, lazy , crazy view of who’s beating whom to a pulp.All that is for sure in the action scenes is that our hero emerges from each physical conflict looking like he has just finished a bath and a meal with a little bit of the ketchup from the French fries stuck on his cheek and sleeves. Bhoot Police: How bad is Bhoot Police? It’s hard to say. This work touches such unscaled peaks of dumbness that one is at a loss for words.Descriptions like, awful and mediocre would just about touch the tip of the tale’s woeful inadequacy. If I say it was unbelievably bad, I’d only be talking about Saif Ali Khan who tries so hard to be funny, it’s scary. In fact I could write a whole thesis on Mr Khan’s ‘Bihari’ accent, Being from Bihar I am yet to hear anyone speak like that.Bhoot Police is filled with such never-before sights and sounds. …Like A Chudail belching profanity like Linda Blair , like Saif trying to mimic Rajkummar Rao in Stree and failing miserably,or Arjun Kapoor puking into a holy earthen pot while Saif holds it for him, or…never mind! This pointless illustration of the horror-comedy that neither horrifies nor amuses can go on all day, and we would still not be able to do justice to the plot holes and storytelling absurdities. 5. Squad: It really hurts to see young Rinzing Denzongpa’s career being crushed under the undiscriminating wheels of such amateurishness.This is an unpardonably tawdry film. Those behind the making of Squad should be put in front of a firing squad. Those in front of the camera deserve our heartfelt sympathy. No actor, no matter how incompetent, deserves to be so brutally compromised. No film in recent memory has made such woefully inadequate use of a cast in desperate pursuit of some moments, some hope in the midst of the despair that shrouds this cadaverous compendium of the cretinous and the cacophonous.The humourless action film about RAW-like agents rescuing a little girl from Georgia is shot with all the seriousness of a drunken monk trying to trapeze across a tumultuous river. There is no interest in seeing the proceedings plumb new depths every moment. It is like watching a car crash into a wall.Debutants Rinzing Denzongpa and Malvika Raaj playing squad members have no opportunity to prove anything except that they are in the wrong fun. Seniors Mohan Kapoor and Pooja Batra try to have some fun with their roles as a couple of squabbling squad commanders with a chip on their shoulders. While Ms Batra takes her role seriously(the spectacles don’t really help) Kapoor tears into his part with wolfish delight. He is the only one who knows what he has gotten himself into.Debutant Rinzing Denzongpa’s character Bhim suffers from a serious deprivation of motivation. He is on a mission to rescue a little girl. But he is afraid of children, he says. Why? Because he saw one die during a terror flush-out operation. The relationship that grows, or is meant to grow, between the hero and his vulnerable visitant remains a flickering possibility in this laughably loutish film .The potentially interesting outdoor locations are squandered away with most of the heated discussion happening indoors.Producer-writer-director Nilesh Sahay owes everyone an explanation on what exactly the purpose of Squad is supposed to be. Is it meant to be a joke? Or perhaps to show future generations how actions films are NOT supposed to be directed? The Girl On The Train: The biggest suspense for me was not whodunit(so don’t worry, no spoilers ahead). But whydunnit? Why oh why did Ribhu Dasgupta see the need to remake what was a middling thriller with a stand-out central performance by Emily Blunt as a trainwreck of a woman whose judgment we can’t trust.Turns out , director Ribhu Dasgupta’s judgement sucks even worse. There is no point to this remake that relocates the original thriller from New York to London and then proceeds to make some horribly misguided radical changes from the original which I can’t reveal because if I do, Parineeti Chopra will kill me. Having survived this remake I want to live some more. Hopefully the next Bollywood whodunit will get right and won’t barter the fright for the trite.I sensed something going wrong from the start of this 2-hour ‘whydunnit’ when five minutes into the narrative a shaadi song showed up. Coy glances, wriggly hips , the works. Emily Blunt must be choking her popcorn. It was a reminder of more indigenous moderations in the original script which was about a a woman on the skids drinking herself silly and making a nuisance of herself in other people’s lives .This poor remake takes itself too seriously with red herrings scattered across the unruly chaotic pandemic plot like confetti in a room filled with a wild party of revelers who wake up the next morning wondering what they did, and to whom. Worse still are the endless explanations… oh Lord, every move is explained in case the audience misses the point. And I still say this is a pointless remake.Parineeti Chopra starts on a shaky note but gets confident eventually . When the dialogues are not cheesy in their originality they are corny translations of the original. A sample: “Do you think tumne ussey hurt kiya hoga?”I understand these are Indians in London. But no one talks like this, anywhere. Parineeti Chopra,God bless her brave soul, ploughs through the incoherent remake trying to keep her sozzled stumbling character on its feet. Another bright(and brave) performance comes from Kirti Kulhari as a cop at Scotland Yard with a turban and a dark secret. Aditi Rao does what she is good at: look pretty. The male characters are all drug dealers, philanderers, killers and extortionists. Avinash Tiwary as Parineeti’s husband infuses some brio into his inert part. He might as well have saved himself the effort. This remake is DOA. Dial 100: This one is a downright embarrassment for all concerned, specially Manoj Bajpai and Neena Gupta who have lately been going through a bright patch in their career. Little did they know that they would have to deal with an unforeseen hurdle .Dial 100 is so bland in presentation and the suspense so wan, you wonder if the director slept through its making. Or else, what was Rensil d’Silva thinking while casting Bajpai as a cop at a call centre who receives a distress call from Neena Gupta who is just a voice for more than 20 minutes after the show begins.Hawa Mahal could have done more justice to Neena.When she finally appears on screen , at Manoj’s wife Sakshi Tanwar’s door Neena is a full-on gun-toting psychopath , with the expressions that one sees on the face of a mother after she finds condoms in her son’s room, out to get revenge from Manoj and his wife.Neena Gupta, poor soul, struggles with her character trying to understand her motivations. The script doesn’t help her in any way, choosing to get even in the oddest of ways, getting more and more abstruse with every passing moment.A young boy playing Manoj and Sakshi’s son shows up as a delinquent selling cocaine(no less) to his friends. Why would a boy from a well-to-do family, a cop’s son to boot, fall into such awful company? The screenplay has no answers. Instead it makes Manoj grit his teeth and tell the partying boy, ‘Go home right home.’I would tell myself exactly the same if I were watching this film in a theatre. Luckily for us, the pandemic has reduced the torture level of a movie critic’s life substantially. I still watch the crap. But at least I watch it in the comforts of my own four walls. It’s like your mother holding your hand while you’re getting molar surgery done.The tortuous ordeal is made worse by the director’s persistent attempts to infuse suspense into the proceedings like boosters injected into a corpse. In one sequence Manoj’s son hides in an abandoned building while an undesirable type is looking for him with a knife. What is Manoj’s son doing in that godforsaken place? More importantly, what is Manoj doing in this comatose melodrama with the production values of a student’s film and the wit and intelligence of a lobotomized ventriloquist?At the end we have Sakshi doing a big breakdown sequence and Manoj trying to comfort her. And we don’t even get a sorry?

From 'Bhuj: The Pride of India' to 'Bhoot Police': The 7 worst films of 2021

<p>Ajay Devgn starrer action movie 'Bhuj : The Pride Of India' first teaser is here! The movie which is all set to release on Disney+Hotstar on August 13, 2021, features Ajay in the role of Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik who was in charge of Bhuj airbase during the 1971 war. &nbsp;</p>

<p>By sharing the short teaser, Devgn wrote, “THE GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT. TRAILER OUT TOMORROW. #BhujThePrideOfIndia releasing on 13th August only on @disneyplushotstarvip”.</p>

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<p>In the teaser, Devgn is donning the Indian Air Force uniform as he takes the role of a suave soldier, meanwhile, fans also catch a little glimpse of thrilling action sequences and other characters of the movie. The trailer is all set to release on Monday (July 12).</p>

<p>Set during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it is about the life of IAF Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik, the then in charge of the Bhuj airport who, with his team, reconstructed the IAF airbase with the help of 300 women from the local village Madhapar.<br />
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<p>Initially, the film was slated for theatrical release worldwide on 14 August 2020 during the&nbsp;Independence Day&nbsp;weekend, but&nbsp;due to covid-19-induced&nbsp;lockdown, the movie was postponed.</p>


Ajay Devgn starrer action movie 'Bhuj : The Pride Of India' first teaser is here! The movie which is all set to release on Disney+Hotstar on August 13, 2021, features Ajay in the role of Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik who was in charge of Bhuj airbase during the 1971 war.

Ajay Devgn starrer action movie 'Bhuj : The Pride Of India' first teaser is here! The movie which is all set to release on Disney+Hotstar on August 13, 2021, features Ajay in the role of Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik who was in charge of Bhuj airbase during the 1971 war. By sharing the short teaser, Devgn wrote, “THE GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT. TRAILER OUT TOMORROW. #BhujThePrideOfIndia releasing on 13th August only on @disneyplushotstarvip”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) × In the teaser, Devgn is donning the Indian Air Force uniform as he takes the role of a suave soldier, meanwhile, fans also catch a little glimpse of thrilling action sequences and other characters of the movie. The trailer is all set to release on Monday (July 12). Set during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it is about the life of IAF Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik, the then in charge of the Bhuj airport who, with his team, reconstructed the IAF airbase with the help of 300 women from the local village Madhapar. Based on a true story, the war film also stars Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha, Ammy Virk, Nora Fatehi, and Sharad Kelkar. Initially, the film was slated for theatrical release worldwide on 14 August 2020 during the Independence Day weekend, but due to covid-19-induced lockdown, the movie was postponed.

'Bhuj: The Pride of India' teaser: Ajay Devgn's new film looks promising

<p>Sonakshi Sinha will play the role of a Gujarati woman named Sundarben in her upcoming film ‘Bhuj: The Pride of India’. The makers released the first look poster of the film and we can’t help but notice how different Sonakshi looks in the poster with tattoos all over her face.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The actor shared the poster on Instagram and wrote, “Honoured to play the HEROIC role of Sunderben Jetha Madharparya, the brave social worker who took 299 women along with her to support the Indian Army! #BhujThePrideOfIndia a crucial incident from History will unveil soon with #DisneyPlusHotstarMultiplex on @DisneyPlusHotstarVIP!.”</p>

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<p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CCu7KjggdLh/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Honoured to play the HEROIC role of Sunderben Jetha Madharparya, the brave social worker who took 299 women along with her to support the Indian Army! #BhujThePrideOfIndia a crucial incident from History will unveil soon with #DisneyPlusHotstarMultiplex on @DisneyPlusHotstarVIP! @ajaydevgn @duttsanjay @ammyvirk @norafatehi @sharadkelkar @pranitha.insta @abhishekdudhai6 @bhushankumar @tseriesfilms @ginnykhanuja @vajirs @kumarmangatpathak #celebratingthevictory #WeSaluteIndianSoldiers #OurSoldiersAreTheBest #OurSoldiersOurPride</a></p>

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<p>Sunderben Jetha Madharparya was a Gujarati woman who led 299 women in her effort to support the Indian Army during the 1971 Indo-Pak war.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Based on a true story, ‘Bhuj: The Pride of India’ is a war film and also stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Ammy Virk, and Sharad Kelkar. Ajay will be seen essaying the role of Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Written and directed by Abhishek Dudhaiya, ‘Bhuj: The Pride Of India’ will release with on Disney+ Hotstar.</p>


Sonakshi Sinha will play the role of a Gujarati woman named Sundarben in her upcoming film ‘Bhuj: The Pride of India’. The makers released the first look poster of the film and we can’t help but notice how different Sonakshi looks in the poster with tattoos all over her face.

Sonakshi Sinha will play the role of a Gujarati woman named Sundarben in her upcoming film ‘Bhuj: The Pride of India’. The makers released the first look poster of the film and we can’t help but notice how different Sonakshi looks in the poster with tattoos all over her face. The actor shared the poster on Instagram and wrote, “Honoured to play the HEROIC role of Sunderben Jetha Madharparya, the brave social worker who took 299 women along with her to support the Indian Army! #BhujThePrideOfIndia a crucial incident from History will unveil soon with #DisneyPlusHotstarMultiplex on @DisneyPlusHotstarVIP!.” View this post on Instagram Honoured to play the HEROIC role of Sunderben Jetha Madharparya, the brave social worker who took 299 women along with her to support the Indian Army! #BhujThePrideOfIndia a crucial incident from History will unveil soon with #DisneyPlusHotstarMultiplex on @DisneyPlusHotstarVIP! @ajaydevgn @duttsanjay @ammyvirk @norafatehi @sharadkelkar @pranitha.insta @abhishekdudhai6 @bhushankumar @tseriesfilms @ginnykhanuja @vajirs @kumarmangatpathak #celebratingthevictory #WeSaluteIndianSoldiers #OurSoldiersAreTheBest #OurSoldiersOurPride A post shared by Sonakshi Sinha (@aslisona) on Jul 16, 2020 at 11:30pm PDT × Sunderben Jetha Madharparya was a Gujarati woman who led 299 women in her effort to support the Indian Army during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. 'Dil Bechara' to 'Gunjan Saxena': Where to watch the big ticket films this season Based on a true story, ‘Bhuj: The Pride of India’ is a war film and also stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Ammy Virk, and Sharad Kelkar. Ajay will be seen essaying the role of Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik. From 'Dark' to 'Hanna': Stream nail-biting thrillers this weekend Written and directed by Abhishek Dudhaiya, ‘Bhuj: The Pride Of India’ will release with on Disney+ Hotstar.

'Bhuj The Pride of India': Sonakshi Sinha aces Gujarati look in the poster

<p>`Bhuj: The Pride of India` makers are all buckled up to recreate the 1971 Indo-Pak war as they began shooting for the film on Tuesday, 25 June.<br />
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Undergoing the direction of Abhishek Dudhaiya, the forthcoming movie is being shot at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad.<br />
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Announcing the news on Instagram, film critic and trade analyst, Taran Adarsh shared a picture of the team including Sanjay Dutt, choreographer Ganesh Acharya with director Abhishek.</p>

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<p>The film stars <a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/ajay-devgn-to-play-the-role-of-iaf-wing-commander-vijay-karnik-in-next-bhuj-the-pride-of-india-204259">Ajay Devgn as the leader </a>who will be seen essaying the role Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik who was in-charge of Bhuj airbase during the 1971 war, which remained operational despite facing heavy bombing from Pakistan.&nbsp;<br />
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Accompanied by 50 air force and 60 defence security personnel, he reconstructed the IAF airstrip at Bhuj. The team convinced around 300 women from a nearby village to help them rebuild the airstrip so that a flight carrying Indian Army officers could land safely.<br />
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Bringing back this heroic tale to life, the film also stars Parineeti Chopra who will play the `femme fatale` Heena Rehman. On the other hand, Sonakshi Sinha will portray social worker Sunderben Jetha Madhaparya, Sanjay Dutt will be seen as civilian Ranchordas Svabhai Ravari, Rana Daggubati playing Madras regiment lieutenant colonel and Ammy Virk as a fighter pilot.<br />
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Bankrolled by Bhushan Kumar, the film will hit the theatres on August 14, 2020.&nbsp;</p>


`Bhuj: The Pride of India` makers are all buckled up to recreate the 1971 Indo-Pak war as they began shooting for the film on Tuesday, 25 June. Undergoing the direction of Abhishek Dudhaiya, the forthcoming movie is being shot at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad.

`Bhuj: The Pride of India` makers are all buckled up to recreate the 1971 Indo-Pak war as they began shooting for the film on Tuesday, 25 June. Undergoing the direction of Abhishek Dudhaiya, the forthcoming movie is being shot at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad. Announcing the news on Instagram, film critic and trade analyst, Taran Adarsh shared a picture of the team including Sanjay Dutt, choreographer Ganesh Acharya with director Abhishek. View this post on Instagram Filming begins at Ramoji Film City in #Hyderabad today... #BhujThePrideOfIndia stars Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Rana Daggubati, Sonakshi Sinha, Parineeti Chopra and Ammy Virk... Directed by Abhishek Dudhaiya... 14 Aug 2020 release. A post shared by Taran Adarsh (@taranadarsh) on Jun 24, 2019 at 8:51pm PDT × The film stars Ajay Devgn as the leader who will be seen essaying the role Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik who was in-charge of Bhuj airbase during the 1971 war, which remained operational despite facing heavy bombing from Pakistan. Accompanied by 50 air force and 60 defence security personnel, he reconstructed the IAF airstrip at Bhuj. The team convinced around 300 women from a nearby village to help them rebuild the airstrip so that a flight carrying Indian Army officers could land safely. Bringing back this heroic tale to life, the film also stars Parineeti Chopra who will play the `femme fatale` Heena Rehman. On the other hand, Sonakshi Sinha will portray social worker Sunderben Jetha Madhaparya, Sanjay Dutt will be seen as civilian Ranchordas Svabhai Ravari, Rana Daggubati playing Madras regiment lieutenant colonel and Ammy Virk as a fighter pilot. Bankrolled by Bhushan Kumar, the film will hit the theatres on August 14, 2020.

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