Sometimes casting directors just go to sleep. Then again, it's alarming just how many Bollywood films are made with just the producer making the casting decisions.
Either way, sometimes actors just don't fit the mould. Try as they may, some actors just can't fit in to some roles, and the results are ludicrous and often laughable.
Here's this year's list:
Bobby Deol in Dostana
Bobby was well-groomed and all, but in a film where Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham were posing to be gay, he was the only actor who actually seemed it.
Blame it on the voice -- and the fact that we're still reeling from that bod he tragically showed off in Apne -- but Bobby puttar really wasn't the man for the role.
They needed not just someone secure with his sexuality, but one of towering star power, and one who looked better -- if not as good -- as John and Abhi. Akshay Kumar, where the hell were you?
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Imran Khan in Kidnap
Oh, we all totally dug young Imran in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, but this really wasn't the second film he needed.
Sanjay Gadhvi's unforgivably silly 'thriller' saw him as a bratty youngster trying hard to seethe -- which meant pushing those bushy eyebrows together and scowling -- and the repeated occasions when he asked for vengeance ("Mujhe revenge chahiye!") provided some of the year's most inadvertent laughs.
Who should have been cast instead? Pretty much anybody past puberty, really.
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Harman Baweja in Love Story 2050
Ditto.
Instead of a wannabe clone who spoke like, danced like, walked like, tried to act like Hrithik Roshan, at least the genuine article would have given us something worth watching.
Again, no actor could save a film like this. But still..
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Saif Ali Khan in Roadside Romeo
He has style and grace and glamour, and immense versatility.
He can laugh at himself, and shows off both a Bollywoody love for the over-the-top as well as a more sophisticated sense of casual understatement. Saif rocks.
His voice, however... Um...
Urmila Matondkar in Karzzz
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It's a tough task, if you think about it. Making Himesh Reshammiya look like an actor?
Urmila manages very well in Satish Kaushik's unnecessary remake, though. Whereas Simi Garewal dripped with sheer class, Urmila goes about looking like she couldn't spell or pronounce class. Factor in that hideous swagger and overdone pout, and she's one hell of a tandoori fright.
We'd have recommended someone ultra-graceful for this one. Sushmita Sen, obviously. Or Tabu. Then again, seeing them opposite Himesh could really be the last straw!
Abhishek Bachchan in Drona
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Indulgently speaking, we can totally think of Drona as a stoner film. It's bizarre, tacky, completely plotless and with some random faux-mythological petal-lic theme that just makes the hero seem rather pansy.
And Abhishek Bachchan, he of the understated air and the sporadic humour, was totally hapless in his role as a superhero. Hrithik Roshan, ladies and gentlemen.
While the film would still totally suck, at least it'd make its money back.
Rani Mukerji in Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
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It must have sounded great on paper, getting the irrepressible Rani Mukerji to play a sprightly Punjabi variant of Mary Poppins.
Yet what Kunal Kohli hadn't accounted for was an audience suffering from Rani-fatigue after movies like Ta Ra Rum Pum and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, and Rani herself seemingly developing a love for couches and potato chips.
The result was an assault on the senses, leaving us wishing for anybody else. Even Preity Zinta.
Saif Ali Khan in Tashan
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In a film that paid tribute to the 80s, we had Anil Kapoor playing an over-the-top Don, we had Akshay Kumar playing an outrageous bumpkin killer, and we had Kareena Kapoor playing the mother of all femme fatales.
Vijay Krishna Acharya got virtually everything right except he cast Saif Ali Khan as the archetypal Bollywood 'hero.' Not smart, not for the least Bollywood hero there is.
Who would have worked for this one? Salman, perhaps. Or even Shahid. Anyone, basically, who could look like they believed in the ridiculous dialogues they were spouting.
Neha Dhupia in Mithya
In Rajat Kapoor's tremendously enjoyable film populated solely by actors, somehow Ms Dhupia slunk onto the sets and managed to stay long enough to wangle herself a full-fledged (yet only half-written) role. Clearly Konkona and Chitrangda weren't around, darn it.
link
http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/nov/25slide5-the-most-miscast-actors-of-the-year.htm
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