Hack Film Directors

The original Hollywood hack is Joel Schumacher the man who single handedly destroyed the Batman franchise (thank god for that) A hack in my opinion is someone who churns out film after film that on the surface make you think that they might be of some substance but when you look deeper they are fairly generic, phoned in creations (Ridley Scott is fast walking this line)

In Bollywood we have completely done away with any semblance of quality and focus completely on simply churning em out.

Lets begin

David Dhawan
The original hack, 40 films since 1989 he was busted for being a charlatan when his partnership with Govinda tanked and he had to go back to the drawing board. Until then he was making some truly atrocious, brain dead, lewd films. It seems his connections seem to keep him in business his latest hit was a rip off of Hitch.


Priyadarshan
The current king of the hill when it comes to volume with 62 films since 1984. His movies are watered down comedies, some so watered down that it seems the director himself forgets what he set out to make and half way loses the plot, interest and the audience. Except for the one Hera Pheri, he has seemingly done thing nothing half way acceptable. Each film has the same theme and he churns them out by the dozen and it truly leads to a scenario of half baked films. I think Hera Pheri worked because he was probably focusig on one film at one time. Add to that idiots who hired him to make 11 films, hah - he will finish that contract in a week.


Sanjay Gupta
10 films since 1994, not so much a hack as a plagiarist. He has been single handedly responsible for changing where we steal from. While most film makers were stealing from Hollwyood, Sanjay went East and stole from Hong Kong & Korea. He is also Apoorva Lakhias mentor and that pretty much sums up his style (rent DVD, copy, copy, film) Even hacks i reckon can come up with something worthwhile but Mr.Gupta has done nothing of merit (Kaante was just okay, Musafir was terrible) I dont understand how he keeps himself in business.


Vikram Bhatt
A truly atrocious film maker, pretentious beyond belief and unoriginal beyond acceptablity. 21 film since 1992 and not one of merit. The only thing he can get credit for in my opinion is pulling some hot babes like Sushmita Sen & Amisha Patel (i like her, no matter what anyone says) but when it comes to making movies he is fucking terrible. He rips of Hollywood films and then presents them with some fake ass gravitas to make it look like his film is of some substance. Other times when he goes the other way and tries to come up with something on his own its either untolerable (Speed) or plain badly put together (again Speed leads a long list)

The one film that was above average was Ghulam which had Aamir khan playing Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Probably salvaged only because of AK.