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Hindi remakes of southern Indian classics were the industry's go-to formula in 2022, and even most of those were done so normally as to be faint shadows of the originals. This year will always be remembered as the one in which the Hindi cinema industry's imagination reached an all-time low. As a result, instead of compiling my yearly Top 10, I chose to rank the greatest and worst Hindi films of 2022 based on what I saw in theaters and on streaming services.
Insha'Allah, the Hindi film business will bounce back and perform better in 2023. Here's a glance back at 2022 for the time being:
Wort film 2022
1: Liger
- Director: Puri Jagannadh
- Primary cast: Vijay Deverakonda, Ananya Panday, Ramya Krishnan
It's difficult to decide which is worse: Liger's sexist remarks in its trademark "haklana" (stammer). Liger is filled to the brim with the tackiness, immaturity, and misogyny that Puri Jagannadh is known for; sexism that also characterizes Vijay Deverakonda because he boldly wore it on his sleeve after succeeding in Arjun Reddy (2017/Telugu).
2: 36 Farmhouse
- Director: Ram Ramesh Sharma
- Primary cast: Sanjay Mishra, Amol Parashar, Vijay Raaz, Barkha Singh
"There are two types of awful: bad and embarrassingly bad. The second category is represented by 36 Farmhouse, a joint production of Zee Studios and (Subhash)Ghai's Mukta Arts. The story, lyrics, and music for this thriller directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma are ascribed to Ghai. From his very first scene, actor Sanjay Mishra's exaggerated mannerisms reveal that it is also intended to be a comedy. In both genres, it falls short.
3: Dhaakad
- Director: Razneesh ‘Razy’ Ghai
- Primary cast: Kangana Ranaut, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta
The song sung by Badshah in the conclusion with lyrics comparing the leading lady to a Quentin Tarantino flick is probably the most cringe-worthy of all the embarrassing moments in the two-hour-long film, "Dhaakad. The phrase "Tarantino ki dasvi filam hai" The phrase unintentionally seals a repulsive truth: Dhaakad (meaning: Formidable) is brazenly a ripoff. Even the heroine's appearance, which features figure-hugging black clothes of various lengths and long plaited hair in significant portions of the tale, seems to be heavily influenced by the Lara Croft movie franchise starring Angelina Jolie rather than Tarantino.
4: Ek Villain Returns
- Director: Mohit Suri
- Primary cast: John Abraham, Arjun Kapoor, Disha Patani, Tara Sutaria
"As the story progresses, Ek Villain Returns' killer/s come up with increasingly horrifying and ingenious ways to kill women, such as running their corpses through a mechanized meat cleaver and, in another instance, suffocating a lady in a bear hug with just their hands. Even a close-up of a female body in pieces being taken through a meat storage facility is captured on video.
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5: Code Name Tiranga
- Director: Ribhu Dasgupta
- Primary cast: Parineeti Chopra, Harrdy Sandhu, Sharad Kelkar
"Twice in the last half-hour, just as I was getting ready to depart, another yawn-inducing stretch began. The heroine is made to recite some dreadfully clichéd lines about how Durga is the form that every woman takes to right wrongs, blah blah blah, and that every time the Tiranga is in danger, she will take that form once more, as if eager to hammer a deep nail into the coffin of Hindi cinema and bury it. Aiyyo! Help us!
6: Khuda Haafiz: Chapter II – Agni Pariksha
- Director: Faruk Kabir
- Primary cast: Vidyut Jammwal, Shivaleeka Oberoi, Sheeba Chadha
"It is astonishing that a Chapter 2 has been made at all, given how flat Khuda Haafiz Part 1 was. The conclusion of this one, which focused on Sameer becoming the "baahubali" of Lucknow and Malihabad (as one character puts it), suggests that there will be Chapters 3, possibly even 4, and 5. In this universe, stranger things have happened.
7: Ram Setu
- Director: Abhishek Sharma
- Primary cast: Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Satya Dev
"Ram Setu is important solely because of the risks that meticulously veiled propagandist movies present, particularly in the current socio-political environment. If not for that, this is just another dull Akshay Kumar movie among the numerous that Bollywood has been producing lately. Cuttputlli, Raksha Bandhan, and now this. Yawn!”
