8 Times Bollywood Celebrities Blamed The Directors For Their Film's Failure

Bollywood films that are big hits at the box office get a major chunk of praise from the audiences particularly for the stars as it is believed and it's rather true that the actors are the face of the film. But as we see in our daily lives, if, by chance and as is the case with a majority of Bollywood films, the particular film flops, the passing the buck trend starts.

From directly lambasting the people associated with the film or attacking under a veil of diplomatically chosen words, the actors, directors, producers and their relatives often get indulged in a war of words that only generates major headlines for next few weeks but it hardly brings the audiences to the theatres.

We see celebrities talking about standing up and taking responsibility but hardly anyone does that in real life. Rather the baton of failure is shoved into the hands of next person in the circle and keeps coming back over and over. Here are 9 instances when Bollywood actors or their friends/parents/relatives blamed the directors or other reasons for their film's failure:

Rishi Kapoor- The actor went on his now infamous rant against 2 prominent directors in Bollywood, Anurag Kashyap, and Anurag Basu. He blamed them for the failure of Ranbir's films and compared them to monkeys who got excited about the big budget and ended up spoiling the film.

Ajay Devgn- He recently expressed his disappointment over the failure of Baadshaho (it did average business but was expected to become a big hit) as it was a big-budget film and he didn't like the abrupt ending. He blamed it on Milan Luthria who had the last call as he was the director and said that he didn't include some important scenes in the 2nd half.

Dilwale- Apparently, it's said that both SRK and Rohit Shetty blamed each other for the Dilwale debacle. Rohit didn't want the clash with Bajirao Mastani and SRK thought Rohit didn't work hard enough on the film. The film was slaughtered by SLB's Bajirao at the box-office in India.

Hrithik Roshan- He was unhappy with how the film panned out to be in the end. He was also unhappy with the VFX and blamed the failure on poor graphics and sent some aggressive texts to the director. His father Rakesh Roshan supported him and also blasted Ashutosh Gowariker.

Shahid Kapoor- The actor was very unhappy after the disaster that Shaandar became and blamed the failure on director Vikas Bahl who also wrote the story of the film. He also said he only did the film because he was friends with one of the 4 heads of Phantom films, Madhu Mentena. So that makes it 2 reasons.

Humshakals- Bipasha Basu refused to promote the film because she didn't agree with the final cut. Her role was cut and many of the important scenes were not in the film, she disowned the film from the start and vowed to never work with Sajid Khan again. A couple of years later Saif Ali Khan also disowned the film, calling it a mistake and blamed Sajid Khan. Sajid, in turn, said that director is the captain of the ship and its the responsibility of everyone. 

Amitabh Bachchan- He blamed the film's failure on the poor editing and telling that its the director's call on the final cut. The film was directed by Mani Ratnam and was a huge flop.

Imran Khan- He said in an interview that he never got his due in the industry as when his films were hits everybody got credit and when his films flopped, he was made the scapegoat, especially after the failure of Once Upon A Time in Mumbai Dobara. He said that a jooton ki maala was laid on him after the film's failure. He believes that a film is a director's vision and the whole crew should take responsibility.