Hrithik’s Kites’ String Got Tangled?

Well there’s little wonder that 2010’s most talked about and anticipated movie, Kites has seriously crashed and burned at the box office. Even before it could first soar into the clear skies of the Indian summers, it seems that the string was abruptly snagged and this ‘Kite’ has certainly landed in oblivion.

Indian audiences are known to be unforgiving to movies that are even the slightest out of the comfort zone. Tweaking the plot and making the promos look like a cross between ‘Love Sex aur Dhoka‘ and ‘Prince‘, didn’t make it work. Neither did the bare backs of the handsome hunk Hrithik and the beautiful siren Barbara. When the Indian audience has decided that it doesn’t like the movie… it simply doesn’t like the movie.

Let’s face it. If you remember the older days of Hrithik in some of the must-forget movies like ‘Main Prem ki Diwani Hoon‘ and ‘Aap Mujhe Acche Lagne Lage‘, you would also know that he doesn’t act. He has nothing to offer besides that deliciously chiseled body of his. After a while, even the weird dance moves start to seem repetitive. This year he did try to put in something new though – an alleged affair with co-star Barbara Mori. Well to be very frank, these Bollywood tactics have become so ghisa pita, that no one even gives a passing thought to such news anymore.

When it comes down to it, there are only two possible ways to sell Indian movies anymore. Either your surname should be Khan or it should be Chopra.