They came with a bang - the bang of the boxoffice window shutting. Alas, Bollywood is cruel and very few make it big with their first movie. Here's the list of those who didn't - but might this year. Hey, Bollywood's about making the impossible possible.
He had the chick, he had the flick and he had the name. Ok, maybe he didn't have the name. But he certainly had hottie Priyanka Chopra (his girlfriend) and a supposedly big budget movie to launch him. But it launched him into space, where nobody saw him. Love Story 2050 was a sci fi flick about the future - and might well be seen in the future. But in the fierce urgency of now, it is a spectacular dud. Enough to be No 1 on our list of dabba debuts of the year. This year, Harman had lost the wanna-be Hrithik look and even briefly changed his name to Hurman. We hope this works for him.
He claimed SRK was his mentor. Of course he was no such thing. Par bolne mein kya harj hai? Not that it helped his movie any. Nikhil's debut My Name is Anthony Gonsalves turned out to be Kholi Number 420. His girl in the movie was Amrita Rao, who's faring little better than he is. This year Nikhil might have a movie ready Khalbali, but that word might well be used to describe the unease of distributors stampeding away from Mr Divedi.
One of the great Khans of Bollywood he ain't. TV boy Ejaz didn't do too well on the small screen, and was an equal opportunity player on the big screen as well. He debuted in Mandira (where's she by the way?) Bedi's Meera Bai Not Out, which was actually out clean bowled on the first ball. Nobody liked him in the movie and his hope is that he still has enough equity to return to TV. He was in Kya hoga Nimmo ka? with Sanjeeda Shaikh. Now the question is: Kya hoga Ejaz ka?
Model Sonal turned actress and debuted opposite the serial kisser of Bollywood Emraan Hashmi in Jannat. Copious amounts of sex gave the film a boost at the box office. Sadly, none of this success rubbed off on Sonal despite a lot of rubbing against Emraan. What next for Sonal? She is a former Miss World Tourism (2005) before she was a model and that shows a certain amount of ambition. Here's hoping the Bhatt camp gives her another chance.
Blabbermouth Shekhar Suman's son Adhyayan piloted a spectacular crash with Haal-e-Dil. The big controversy before the movie was: who was the hero? It is I, said young Adhyayan. It is I, said the also young Nakuul Mehta. After the movie came out, both of them must have wanted to disown it. Fortunately, though Adhyayan (who stays with his parents) found more space in the news after he began loving lovely Kangana Ranaut (whose choice of men - first Aditya Panscholi and now Adhyayan - merits a book). Now he has a second chance to show his mettle with Raaz-TMC coming out this month and also starring Kangana.
Mahakshay Chakraborty was nicknamed MiMoh for his father's two favourite entertainers: Michael Jackson and Mohammed Ali. But he could neither float like a butterfly nor sting like a bee in his totally dabba debut: Jimmy. He lacks the raw power that papa Mithun had in his early movies, neither does he have the endearing quality of mama Yogita Bali. Salman Khan came for his music launch, Madhuri came for his premier. Alas, the audience did not show up for the movie.
Kaveri Jha is a southern actress famous for her role in Nagaram opposite Jagapathi (no, we don't know either). But in Bollywood, she became Kaveri Jha-ja-ja as the kabootars and everybody else fled from her debut movie Hijack. One of the funniest movies made last year, funny for the wrong reasons, Kaveri was done in by a virtuoso performance from space cadet Esha Deol. Not to mention the fact that she was not even mentioned in the movie's promotion. Kaveri has another chance now: Priyadarshan's Bum Bum Bhole, which we assure you is not what you think it is.
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Trainwreck Haal-e-Dil put paid to the blooming ambition of many a Bollywood bud. Amita was one of them. She needed some acting lessons, but her larger problem is that she looks like an aunty from Gurgaon. She says Ajay Devgan is protective of her as a brother would be. Now's a good time for him to show his affection and get her some work.
With a name like a pesticide Advik was a Ram Gopal Verma find. Yes, you know exactly what that means: oblivion. And that's where poor Advik went after his debut, Contract, got him no contracts. But hold on, Ramu always gives his heroes a second chance. Problem for Advik is: he doesn't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Now here's a boy who actually rejects his star name. Ok, whatever star name there is in Anupam Kher. Sikandar chooses to be known only by his first name and we doff our imaginary hat to him for that. His debut was Woodstock Villa, from the production house of Sanjay Gupta. Was it good? Was it bad? Er, we cannot tell you because nobody saw it. But here's what: because he's related to Anupam and Kirron, he'll get another chance. Now isn't that sweet?
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