1. Imran Khan in ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai… Dobara’
Is there any justification for this casting? Nope. Imran entered as the ‘chocolate boy’ of Bollywood, and his efforts to defy that typecast failed. He’s a great actor, but not convincing enough to play a gangster, and someone more convincing could have been roped in for the role.
2. Nargis Fakhri in Rockstar
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Rockstar is a great movie. It’s one of the few things in Bollywood that are sacred, and it shouldn’t be touched. But if there was one thing we wish would change, is Fakhri as the character Heer Kaul. She wasn’t great at the parts where acting was involved and it just seemed like an odd pairing to an otherwise beautifully painful movie.
3. Shah Rukh Khan in Fan
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Shah Rukh Khan played the character of the star perfectly, but a younger actor could have easily been cast to play the part of the fan. It looked odd to see SRK play the role of a much younger person, but maybe he didn’t wish to play a mere supporting role in the movie.
4. Shah Rukh Khan in Jab Harry Met Sejal
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Shah Rukh and Anushka Sharma have delivered great hits such as Rabb Ne Bana Di Jodi (which deserves a separate article of its own) and Jab Tak Hai Jaan. But the pairing looked very weird in JHMS, owing to the age gap between the two.
5. Himesh Reshammiya in all his movies
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Whoever promised the man an illustrious career in acting, I just wanna talk… I mean, the man made a remake of ‘Karz’ and then completely botched it, unapologetically. And then didn’t even stop there. Kyun?
6. Shraddha Kapoor in Haseena Parkar
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The movie is a biopic on the life of Haseena Parkar, but Shraddha Kapoor failed to portray the character as a human being with complex emotions, and the performance seemed robotic and devoid of any nuance.
7. Salman Khan in Tubelight
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Salman Khan is best suited to play the role of a toxic cop who doesn’t follow the rules and goes around shoving his masculinity in other people’s faces. That is also the end of his ‘acting’ threshold. We never would have bet on him to play the character of a challenged person convincingly, and the movie only furthers that he is best suited for roles that are, for the lack of a better word, macho.
8. Katrina Kaif in Rajneeti
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The movie was great, and her accent and lack of acting skills did not sit well at all. Why was this even a casting decision, we’ll never know.