2013 hall of shame: Top 10 Bollywood flops

Besharam

Directed by Abhinav Kashyap and featuring not one but three Kapoors – Rishi, Neetu and Ranbir - Besharam was an unexpected flop. After the blockbuster success of his previous film Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, there were great expectations of Ranbir. This time round, the Kapoor charm, despite being multiplied by three, failed.

Ghanchakkar

Just when we thought Vidya Balan could do no wrong, she did Ghanchakkar. Director Raj Kumar Gupta may have banked on what seemed to be a winning formula of Vidya and actor Emraan Hashmi, well known for starring in superhit Bhatt camp films, but the odd-couple pairing received little love from critics and movie-goers alike.

Himmatwala

The original Himmatwala made Sridevi a star in 1983. But fast forward 30 years, and the remade Himmatwala spectacularly failed to do the same for Southern starlet Tamannaah, making her Bollywood debut opposite Ajay Devgn. Chances are, the fact that it was patently still 1983 in the 2013 film contributed largely to the audience's disdain of the film.

Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola

This film proved that Vishal Bhardwaj's genius did not quite extend to comedy. The man behind hits like Omkara, Maqbool and Ishqiya cast Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma and Pankaj Kapoor in a rustic tale of political corruption and capitalist greed with little success. Wisely, Vishal is returning to drama with his next film, Haider – based on Shakespeare's tragic Hamlet.

Satyagraha

The fourth in Prakash Jha's socially-themed series after Apaharan, Raajneeti and Aarakshan featured an all-star cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgn and Arjun Rampal but it seemed that the Anna Hazare effect didn't translate all that well onto celluloid.

Aurangzeb

The intricate plot of this crime drama, featuring a double role by Arjun Kapoor, contained just too many twists in the tale for the audience's liking. The impressive line-up of actors included veterans Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and Amrita Singh as well as Southern star Prithviraj Sukumaran, but the clutch of fine performances failed to hold the film together.

Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara

The sequel to the 2010 hit Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai failed to impress despite great dialogues and the presence of Sonakshi Sinha. In its attempt to be both a love triangle and a mafia drama, it failed to be either. The two main male characters, played by Akshay Kumar and Imran Khan, were pale shadows of the original pair of Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi who made the first film so effective.

Zanjeer

The original Zanjeer (1973) made a star of Amitabh Bachchan but there was no new age Angry Young Man rising from the ashes of this remake starring Telugu actor Ram Charan Teja and Priyanka Chopra. Unlike the success of the remakes of other Big B films Don and Agneepath, there was little praise to be had either from the critics or at the box office for 2013's Zanjeer.

Chashme Baddoor

All in all, it was a bad year for remakes, with the new and unimproved version of Sai Paranjpye's 1981 classic leaving both critics and cine-goers cold. David Dhawan's replacement combination of Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma and South starlet Taapsee Pannu fell far short of the charm of the original cast – Farooque Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Ravi Baswani and Rakesh Bedi.

Murder 3

A flop from the Bhatt camp, after the hit Murder and Murder 2 at that? The third in the series, starring Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari and Sara Loren, was a dismal flop, compounded by the absence of Emraan Hashmi who starred in the first two films.