While Deepika Padukone's performance as Mohini was still fun, the rest of Happy New Year was disappointing. Farah Khan tried too hard to be like Manmohan Desai without really getting into the spirit of the legend's work, and she forgot all about her own great skills as a director of silly comedies and action movies.
Rohit Shetty's attempt to bring back the Kajol-Shah Rukh romance went horribly wrong because it was tacked on to a broad, half-hearted action comedy that didn't have any of its three main parts working.
Abhishek Kapoor set Charles Dickens' Great Expectations in Kashmir, which was in the middle of a war. Unfortunately, the movie bombed, in large part because Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur didn't work well together, and the plot was too serious for the movie.
Khan was the only actor in the Vijay Krishna Acharya movie who seemed to be having any fun with his role. The other actors' serious performances went against the movie's genre goals and made it too heavy to enjoy even a little.
The movie by Abhishek Dudhaiya was based on real events from the 1971 Indo-Pak War. It was the worst thing that old Bollywood could have been. It was embarrassing to watch Bhuj because the actors weren't interested in the story, the practical and visual effects were cheap, the production quality was clear, and the tone had been bad for a long time.
The plot of Ranjit Tewari's thriller about an airplane hijacking was too often broken up by romances and jokes for it to ever seem exciting. Akshay Kumar played the lead role without much effort.
Unlike his other ambitious failures, Bombay Velvet (2015) and Jagga Jasoos (2017), Ranbir Kapoor was actively bad as an actor in Brahmastra. This made a movie that was already poorly written and lacked good performances even worse.