When your favourites disappoint

They say you only are a true fan if you are willing to suffer through your favourite´s god-damn-awful filmography. Bad films happen. To everybody from Dilip Kumar to Akshay Kumar. Sometimes they are not even really that bad, but somehow disappointing and weak. Some of such films of some of my favourite actors to follow. Jodi BreakersDirected by: Ashwini ChaudharyStarring: Madhavan, Bipasha Basu, Omi...

Agent Vinod

Directed by: Sriram RaghavanStarring: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ravi Kishnan, Prem ChopraReleased: 2012Fight it, if you will, but whenever a spy movie appears people expect to see a version of a James Bond. Stylish, dangerous but fighting for „the good guys“, witty, with awesome one-liners for every occasion possible, sexy and with women swooning at his mere presence. Vinod is no exception and...

Yeh Nazdeekiyan

Directed by: Vinod PandeStarring: Marc Zuber, Shabana Azmi, Parveen BabiReleased: 1982Yeh Nazdeekiyan is not a very well known movie, which you can judge even from the fact I failed to look up a single decent sized poster for it. Everything else that came up were photos of Parveen Babi running on the beach in a bikini and a bottle of Coca Cola in her hand, which I can imagine is the only truly memorable...

Dabangg

Directed by: Abhinav KashyapStarring: Salman Khan, Sonu Sood, Sonakshi Sinha, Arbaaz Khan, Dimple Kapadia, Vinod Khanna, Anupam KherReleased: 2010I am no Salman Khan fan. I genuinly love some of his films from the 90s, but that usually has hardly anything to do with him. Instead the films he stars in either have some other great actor or actress (like in the case of let´s say Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam),...