Which was the most disaster film of Amitabh Bachchan in his lifetime?

 Two films definitely deserve a mention. Will not go into the details of box-office figures as both of them were not able to recover its cost. Leaving the commercial factor aside few points will disclose how disastrous the two movies were.

Boom (2003):

Boom was produced by Ayesha Shroff (wife of Jackie Shroff) and she had to sell some assets of herself and her husband. They owed an amount of 180 milliion to just one financer.

Jackie also mentioned that his married life suffered due to the financial crisis. Tiger Shroff later mentioned that he still remembered how their furniture was sold off one by one.

Finally his bed was sold and he used to sleep on the floor. The IMDb rating of Boom is 2.3. Amitabh agreed to do this movie as he himself was going through a big financial crisis.

Ramgopal Verma Ki Aag (2007):

Four years later everyone was exicted about this movie which actually ruined the cult classic Sholay. Only Amitabh's performance in the film was noteworthy but the audience were not happy with his negative portrayal especially with some of the character's mannerisms. Amitabh himself admitted that the film was a mistake.

Film received negative reviews. Rajeev Masand rated it 0 out of 5. The Times of India stated that Aag destroyed Bollywood's greatest film. Hindustan Times awarded it the Lifetime's Worst Movie Award.

It was at the first position in FHM India (Indian edition of the British monthly men's lifestyle magazine) list of the 57 worst movies ever made. Total film (British film magazine) included it in their list of the 66 worst films of all time. The IMDb rating of the film is 1.4.

Hits and flops are part of the game, even disasters but these were disasters not only for Amitabh Bachchan but also for everyone associated with it.

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Which is the greatest disaster movie made in the Hindi film industry, Kala Pathar, The Burning Train, or some other?

 Actually nobody wants to make a disastrous movie and the movies that you have mentioned above are not that bad. They were an attempt to try something different and there is always a risk in doing so. Yash Chopra who is mainly known for his romantic musical movies also tried his hand in the thriller genre with Itefaq starring Rajesh Khanna which did not had a single song.

He tried something different with Kala Pathar. A lesser known fact is that Kala Pathar was based on a real incident Chasnala mining disaster that took place in 1975 in Dhanbad, Bihar (now known as Jharkhand.)

There was an explosion in the mine followed by flooding which killed more than 300 miners. The film did average business at the box office but was critically acclaimed and received several nominations at the Filmfare Awards.

It attained a cult status and is considered a classic in Indian cinema. Besides this the IMDb rating of the film is 7.7 which is quite good so it will not be fair to call it a disaster.

Similarly Ravi Chopra tried something different in 1980 by making The Burning Train which was inspired by a Japanese disaster film The Bullet Train. Though the film is considered a flop it was the seventh highest grosser of 1980. It can be said that the movie was some 5 to 10 years ahead of its time.

The Burning Train shows the struggle to live when you are trapped in the clutches of death. It was a different movie which did not work at that time probably might have done better if released later because the special effects in the film were quite normal.

The length of the film is a matter of concern still the film has a good repeat value. The IMDb rating of the film is 6.8 which is not that bad. Therefore these two films cannot be given the tag of being the most disastrous film of Hindi cinema.

Its my personal opinion that trying something different should not be termed as a disaster because it requires a lot of courage to go against the wind and try something different rather than follow the trend. If IMDb rating is considered as the parameter then Sadak 2 is the most disastrous film which has a rating of 1.1 otherwise it is very difficult to pick out one film and term it as the most disastrous movie of Hindi cinema.

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What are some photos clicked right before a disaster happened with people?

 

• A Truck flees from the pyroclastic flows spewing from the Mt.Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, 1991.

• Not the beautiful Florida view anyone imagined! Courtesy of hurricane lan in 2022.

• The eruption of Mt Etna in Italy.

• California Wildfires in 2018.

• The bottom part of the glacier got separated and pushed to the surface of the Lago Argentino lake in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz.

• Earthquake damage in Anchorage, Alaska, March 27, 1964.

• Fast-moving wildfire is approaching the city in Argentina.

• A massive landslide occurred in Nara Prefecture in Japan, in August 2004.

• Volcanic lightning.

• Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano in East Java.

• Blue lava bubbling out of the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The color change is due to the high levels of pure sulfur.

• People escaping a pyroclastic flow.

• The 2011 Great Tohoku Tsunami.

• Nature showing what terror looks like.

• The Great North Dakota Blizzard of 1966.

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