Indian 2, Kanguva, and Bade Miyan Chote Miyan are some of the films audiences rejected in 2024.

Summary: In 2024, fans savagely rejected these poor 'pan-Indian' films.

In about seven months, filmmaker SS Rajamouli's Baahubali: The Beginning will turn 10. This also means that the term "pan-Indian films" has been around for approximately a decade, as has the rising trend of making big-budget films for a national audience. 

While these films often have a strong regional identity, they tend to follow predictable patterns. To broaden their reach, directors frequently cast actors who speak many languages and release their films globally, as well as dub them in major Indian languages.

The rise of "pan-Indian" films in Indian cinema has been a double-edged sword. On one hand, these productions have generated staggering revenue, shattered box office records, and attracted a flurry of new investors. They've also encouraged collaboration across various sectors, giving a spotlight to lesser-known regional film industries. 

However, this trend has also given rise to detrimental attitudes, such as evaluating a film’s worth solely based on its budget and earnings while sidelining regional uniqueness to appeal to a broader audience. As a result, many films now risk becoming unoriginal and indistinct.

This plan worked like a charm not too long ago, but it’s been losing its charm lately. Even though studios are shelling out crazy amounts of money on these giant "pan-Indian" flicks hoping for huge payouts, a lot of these movies are now just missing the mark. No matter how big the stars or how flashy the ads are, folks just aren’t buying into films that don’t deliver the goods. 

As 2024 comes to a close, it's safe to conclude that audiences have once again confirmed their position as the sole judges of a film's success, serving as a wake-up call for both filmmakers and superstars.

They ruthlessly rejected bad films this year, regardless of the budgets involved, favoring the pictures that honored their own time, money, and preferences. 

Bollywood also experienced a run of high-profile failures. Movies like Ajay Devgn's Maidaan, Vasan Bala's Jigra, which starred Alia Bhatt, Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha's Yodha, which starred Siddharth Malhotra, and Aditya Datt's Crakk, which starred Vidyut Jammwal, as well as Ali Abbas Zafar's Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, which starred Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff, and Prithviraj Sukumaran, all fell short of their expectations. 

The Greatest of All Time (GOAT), directed by Venkat Prabhu and starring "Thalapathy" Vijay; Singham Again, directed by Rohit Shetty and starring Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Tiger Shroff, Arjun Kapoor, and a cameo by Salman Khan; and Vettaiyan, directed by TJ Gnanavel and starring Rajinikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Fahadh Faasil, Rana Daggubati, and Manju Warrier, were among the "pan-Indian" films that fell short of the hype.