Shubhra Gupta's list of worst films of 2023

Animal, Adipurush and Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan

Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal won hands down. There were several turkeys in 2023, but nothing can beat this ugly, misogynistic paean to the Alpha male who thinks nothing of demeaning the women around him – mothers, sisters, wives, lovers – just to prove his ‘mardaangi’.

Animal

Adipurush

This Om Raut monstrosity, starring Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan and Kriti Sanon, was dead on arrival: you can hide behind synonyms — Ram is Raghav, Sita is Janaki, Ravan is Lankesh– but there’s no running away from the fact that it was a confused, crass mash-up of Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings and Game Of Thrones, minus any signs of reverence and piety.

This Om Raut monstrosity, starring Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan and Kriti Sanon, was dead on arrival: you can hide behind synonyms — Ram is Raghav, Sita is Janaki, Ravan is Lankesh– but there’s no running away from the fact that it was a confused, crass mash-up of Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings and Game Of Thrones, minus any signs of reverence and piety.

The Kerala Story

In the film, Bhaijaan plays yet another version of himself in a plot which can not get over its delight of having him in the first place. Who cares, in fact, if there’s zero plot?

Kisi Ka Bhai, Kisi Ki Jaan

Kangana Ranaut’s attempt at being a patriot and a fighter-pilot, in which she isn’t as terrible as the movie, but cannot save it from crash-landing.

Tejas

The kindest thing I can say about Ganapath, starring Tiger Shroff, Kriti Sanon and Amitabh Bachchan, is that it should have stayed as an idea.

Ganapath