Rewind 2018: Most Disappointing Films Of The Year

Year 2018 brought in its wake a host of disappointment films, some of whom were big-ticket ones. If some held promise and proved to be a fizzle, others had none right from the beginning. There are very many bad movies (such as 'Inttelligent', 'Touch Chesi Choodu', 'Tej I Love You', 'Lover', '24 Kisses', 'Rangula Raatnam', 'Bhairava Geetha', 'Shambo Shankara' and others), but we have included only atypical ones. Indiaglitz has a take on the movies that made for an exasperating experience.

Agnyaathavaasi

Nobody thought Pawan Kalyan was up for something as vacuous as this one, that too in the name of family entertainment. This is one rare film which disappointed right from the time its teaser was out. The trailer only furthered the frustration of the fans out there. Trivikram Srinivas obsessed himself with Rao Ramesh and Murali Sharma even in the second half. The hero's character failed to be challenged by the main villain (if you remember, the film had Aadhi Pinisetty). The BO result was on the expected lines.

Krishnarjuna Yuddham

Writer-director Merlapaka Gandhi had a routine story. Some rookie must have told him to make it sound different by writing the same story for another set of hero-heroine duo in the film. Thus, what could have been just one Nani turned out to be two Nanis - a dual role story. 'KAY' turned out to be a flop the Natural Star never tasted for years. Anupama Parameswaran and Rukshar Dhillon couldn't have had a worse summer. The only relief was 'Daari Choodu' song.

Mehabooba

Puri Jagannadh's nth flop and his son's first flop as a hero, 'Mehabooba' was a bundle of crazy ideas. Akash Puri falls in love with a Pakistani Muslim girl and what follows next is a tale of creative liberties, shouting, screaming, and all. Many films had laughable climaxes in the year, but this one had a specially ridiculous one where one tweet by the hero wakes up the whole country and makes the nation root for his love story

Nela Ticket

It would be unfair to not include all of Ravi Teja's duds in the year (which means 100 percent of his releases) in our list. But we have a special place for 'Nela Ticket' (over 'Touch Chesi Choodu'). The hero shakes the Home Minister, who in turns terrifies the Chief Minister but forgets to warn the actual enemy - the hero. Our hero achieves every damn thing easily but takes time to impress the heroine. Yes, yes. If even this is achieved easily, who is going to stalk her? Come on!

Officer

Ram Gopal Varma didn't disappoint, again. He delivered a perfect disaster for Nagarjuna. One of the most lazily written movies, this one hardly had any detailing. 'Officer' proved that RGV taking the audience for granted is the only long-lasting phenomenon of the decade. The makers gloated about the film's sound mixing and all. The audience didn't even care to turn up at the theatre since the pre-release videos already convinced them not to watch it. It seems the movie didn't make even Rs 1 Cr (Share) at the BO. A disgrace!

Kaala

Pa.Ranjith's agenda-driven movie with Rajinikanth was one of the biggest flops of the year. In Telugu, it collected a share of Rs 7 Cr. After 'Agnyaathavaasi', here was one more big star's movie which lost it right after its teaser frustrated the audience. Repeated postponements also killed the excitement. A story set in Mumbai's Dharavi, its only positive feature were the scenes involving both the hero and the villain (Nana Patekar).

Srinivasa Kalyanam

Many were scared to listen to the word 'Paddathi' (tradition) after watching the movie. 'Shatamanam Bhavati' director Satish Vegesna had his hero (Nithin) and his grandma (Jaya Sudha) become prophets of a perfect marriage. For the sin of wishing for a simple, one-day marriage, the heroine's father (Prakash Raj) was harassed along with the audience.

Nartanasala

Naga Shaurya decided to play a fake gay in a movie and 'Nartanasala' happened. Everyone from the supposedly pro-women hero to the two heroines and their relatives were preposterous characters in this farcical drama. The audience expected that the hero has an identity crisis in the movie. But nothing of that sort was to be there. He was just an unreal commodity.

Savyasachi

Chandoo Mondeti read an article about Vanishing Twin Syndrome and force-fitted the hero's character derived from it into an outdated story he had had for many years. Naga Chaitanya handed a double disappointment not with one hand but two hands (pun intended). With a formulaic script, all the hype around the ambidextrous hand of the hero proved to be a misleading joke on the poor audience. A major flop at the box office, it wasted R Madhavan like no other Tollywood movie could have.

Amar Akbar Anthony

Ravi Teja was back to cause distress, this time in company with Sreenu Vaitla. Even hours after watching the movie, the audience was at a loss to understand what were the villains doing with that cop (whoever it was). Even though Sunil's character was there to help the hero understand his changing avatars (from Amar to Akbar and Anthony; Ravi Teja has a psychological disorder in the movie), the audience didn't find it easy enough to comprehend it amid the chaos. Easily one of the worst movies of the year despite a host of comedians (Sathya, Vennela Kishore, Sunil, JP Reddy, Srinivas Reddy) being there.

Year 2018 brought in its wake a host of disappointment films, some of whom were big-ticket ones. If some held promise and proved to be a fizzle, others had none right from the beginning.