India, July 10 -- There were box-office successes and critically acclaimed films for Hindi cinema in the first half of 2026. But for every Dhurandhar 2, there was an O'Romeo, films that did not land. In an industry with an infamously high failure rate (90% of films that release do not recoup their budgets), there are more misses than hits. And even among the misses are films that make you pull your hair out and wonder - how was this greenlit? Here's a ranking of the five films that made me question this the most this year:

This Rajkummar Rao film should be a case study in how to murder an interesting premise. What begins as a rather innovative setup descends into chaos, and not even the nice kind, where there are bizarre subplots and a c...