Riteish Deshmukh's 10 WORST films

At some point, Riteish Deshmukh's everyman appeal and easygoing humour led many to brand him as Bollywood's next Amol Palekar.

It's been nearly a decade now but the 33-year-old actor didn't quite live up to that promise. Clearly stuck playing the hopeless buffoon in embarrassing comic capers, both his best and worst movies belong to the ha-ha genre.

Last Friday saw him, along with Tusshar Kapoor, trying to amuse the audience with his corny antics in Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum, which to no one's surprise, opened to dismal reviews.

On that critical note, here's a compilation of 10 of his worst received films.

Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum

What's worse than absence of sense? Humour, of course. Especially for a film that claims to make you laugh till you drop.

The collective goofiness of Riteish Deshmukh and Tusshar Kapoor in 2005's Kyaa Kool Hai Hum genuinely had its moments but twain cannot make any of the shtick work in its decidedly deteriorated sequel.

Not that the first was any better, Sajid Khan's relentless efforts to assault the senses achieves a new high in a farce crammed with A-listers, veterans, legends and starlets.

And what's Ritz doing in this chaotic spectacle? Getting his rear chewed off by an angry alligator, of course.

While Dhamaal sourced its share of credible laughs from Hollywood's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the needless sequel generates desperate titters with characters hitting each other where it hurts the most.

Sad that a film starring comic talents like Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey and even Deshmukh cannot conjure one good joke.

His boy-next-door appeal contributes adequately in lending a convincing portrayal in and as Aladin but what can the poor actor do when Sujoy Ghosh's ambitious but boring fantasy has nothing mesmerizing to offer?

Despite Amitabh Bachchan's superstar genie and Sanjay Dutt's menacing magician, Aladin fails in constructing a real evil vs good conflict to engage anyone's interest.

The one which started it all.

Sajid Khan's Housefull made abundant money despite what most disgruntled critics had to say.

Quite baffling considering it's the same old pedestrian humour, daft innuendoes, inane plot and a joke that goes by the name of Aakhri Pasta. Deshmukh, along with Akshay Kumar and Arjun Rampal, however, was too pleased to be the least credited feature of its success.

Given their history, it's a fairly exciting prospect to see David Dhawan and Govinda reunite on a movie that bears suspicious resemblance to French caper, The Valet. Throw in the ever-loony Riteish Deshmukh for additional zing and what have you got?

A super, duper, lame comedy named Do Knot Disturb. Seriously, what were they thinking?

It's the same old story, style over substance takes precedence in Anubhav Sinha's 'so hollow, it hurts' heist tripe, Cash.

With not an iota of logic, artistry or entertainment, Cash treats its audience's intellect so shabbily; it's worthy of the fate it meets.

Read the review here.

It's bad enough that they flick the titles of one of David Fincher-directed instant modern-day classics but have the gall to cast some of worst actors Hindi cinema has known to put together an action thriller so moronic, it would boil any real movie buff's blood.

In Riteish Deshmukh's defense, he's the only one who comes out unscathed by the experience.

Our reviewer called it an 'apology of a film' and she wasn't exaggerating.  A lousy comedy directed by actress Antara Mali is about a womaniser who wakes up to be a woman while Riteish Deshmukh plays the latter's love interest leading to silly complications.

Hot Chick, anyone?

Stilted romance triangles are no one's cup of tea.

And so there were absolutely no takers for East-Meets-West-Meets-East again brand of rom-com in Riteish's solo outing, Out Of Control co-starring Hrishita Bhatt and American model Brande Roderick directed by Satya editior, Apurva Asrani.