2009 Predictions

As 2008 comes to a close people will be talking about which films made it big and which flopped over the past year. While Dostana and Singh is King (I refuse to spell it incorrectly!) ruled with their comedy, big films like Yuvraaj and Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic sank without a trace. So with this is in mind, I stole a copy of India FM's list of releases for 2009 and made a few predictions.

Movie Name	Director	Starcast	Prediction
A Love Issshtory	John Mathew Matthan	Himesh Reshammiya	Flop
Aa Dekhe Zara	Jehangir Surti	Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Amrita Arora, Koena Mitra	Flop
Acid Factory	Suparn Verma	Fardeen Khan, Dia Mirza, Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Dino Morea, Aftab Shivdasani, Danny Denzongpa	Flop
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani	Rajkumar Santoshi	Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel, Darshan Jariwala, Asrani, Salman Khan	Average
Aladin	Sujoy Ghosh	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Ritesh Deshmukh, Juhi Chawla, Jackie Fernandez	Average
Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai	Ravi Chopra	Govinda, Lara Dutta, Tabu, Boman Irani, Rajpal Yadav, Satish Shah	Average
Billo Barber	Priyadarshan	Shahrukh Khan, Irrfan Khan, Lara Dutta, Asrani, Deepika Padukone	Hit
Blue	Anthony D'souza	Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif, Zayed Khan	Average
Bum Bum Bole	Priyadarshan	Darsheel Safary, Kaveri Jha, Atul Kulkarni, Rituparna Sengupta	Flop
Char Yaar (Earlier Titled Paying Guests)	Paritossh Painter	Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffrey, Ashish Chowdhry, Johny Lever, Chunky Pandey, Asrani, Paintal, Delnaz Paul, Celina Jaitly, Vatsal Sheth, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Sayali Bhagat, Viju Khote, Inder Kumar	Flop
Daddy Cool	K Murali Mohan Rao	Sunil Shetty, Aarti Chhabria, Ashish Chowdhry, Tulip Joshi, Aftab Shivdasani, Javed Jaffrey, Kim Sharma, Sophie Choudry, Rajpal Yadav	Flop
De Dana Dan	Priyadarshan	Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Neha Dhupia, Sameera Reddy	Average
Delhi 6	Rakesh Mehra	Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Divya Dutta, Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman	Hit
Delhi Belly	Abhinay Deo	Imran Khan, Shenaz Treasurywala	Flop
Dharma Productions' Next	Rensil D'Silva	Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Tara Sharma	Average
Do Knot Disturb	David Dhawan	Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen, Ranvir Shorey, Rajpal Yadav	Flop
Dulha Mil Gaya	Muddassar Aziz	Shahrukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Fardeen Khan, Mohit Chadha, Tara Sharma, Johny Lever, Beena Kak, Suchitra Pillai, Vivek Vaswani, Howard Rosemeyer	Flop
Fox	Deepak Tijori	Arjun Rampal, Sagarika Ghatge, Udita Goswami, Sunny Deol, Vipul Gupta	Flop
Har Pall	Jahnu Barua	Preity Zinta, Shiney Ahuja, Isha Koppikar, Jai Kalra, Dino Morea, Lilette Dubey, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Yatin Karyekar, Dharmendra	Flop
Hello Darling	Manoj Tiwari	Celina Jaitly, Gul Panag, Isha Koppikar, Javed Jaffrey, Rajpal Yadav, Chunky Pandey, Amrita Arora, Divya Dutta, Asawari Joshi, Rasika Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee, Sunil Pal	Flop
Hissss	Jennifer Lynch	Mallika Sherawat, Irrfan Khan, Divya Dutta, Jeff Douchette	Flop
Housefull	Sajid Khan	Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jiah Khan	Hit
Jashnn	Raksha Mistry, Hasnain S Hyderabadwala	Adhyayan Suman, Anjana Sukhani, Shahana Goswami	Flop
Johnny Mastana	Shoojit Sircar	Amitabh Bachchan, Dia Mirza, Sarika, Jimmy Shergill	Flop
Kajraare	Pooja Bhatt	Himesh Reshammiya, Monalisa	Flop
Kambakth Ishq	Sabir Khan	Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Aftab Shivdasani, Vindu Dara Singh	Average
Kaminay	Vishal Bharadwaj	Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amol Gupte	Flop
Kisaan	Puneet Sira	Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Dia Mirza, Nauheed Cyrusi, Dilip Tahil	Flop
Kites	Anurag Basu	Hrithik Roshan, Kangna Ranaut, Barbara Mori	Hit
London Dreams	Vipul Shah	Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, Asin, Om Puri, Chris Wilson, Michael Gamarano, Rannvijay, Babsy Artner	Flop
Main Aur Mrs Khanna	Prem R Soni	Salman Khan, Govinda, Sohail Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Sajid	Hit
Milenge Milenge	Satish Kaushik	Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Aarti Chhabria, Satish Shah, Delnaz Paul	Average
Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekkh Mudh Mudh Ke	Seema, Sudhir	Himesh Reshammiya, Jennifer Kotwal, Niharika Singh	Flop
My Name is Khan	Karan Johar	Shahrukh Khan, Kajol	Hit
New York	Kabir Khan	John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan	Flop
Paathshala	Milind Ukey	Shahid Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Ayesha Takia, Swini Khara, Dwij Yadav, Ali Haji, Sushant Singh	Flop
Raftaar	Shamim Desai	Emraan Hashmi, Neha Dhupia, Sagarika Ghatge	Flop
Run Bhola Run	Neeraj Pathak	Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor, Amisha Patel, Celina Jaitly	Flop
Saif Ali Khan's next	Imtiaz Ali	Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone	Average
Shortcut - The Con is On	Neeraj Vora, Roshan Andrews	Akshaye Khanna, Arshad Warsi, Amrita Rao, Simi Garewal, Sanjay Dutt, Chunky Pandey	Flop
Tasveer	Nagesh Kukunoor	Akshay Kumar	Flop
Teen Patti	Leena Bajaj	Amitabh Bachchan, R Madhavan, Sushmita Sen, Raima Sen, Mahesh Manjrekar, Irrfan Khan, Boman Irani, Jackie Shroff, Danny Denzongpa, Sharadha Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Saira Mohan	Average
Three Idiots	Rajkumar Hirani	Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, R Madhavan	Hit
Tum Mile	Kunal Deshmukh	Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan	Flop
Veer	Anil Sharma	Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Lisa Lasarus, Jackie Shroff	Flop
Wake Up Sid	Ayan Mukerji	Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul Khanna	Flop
Wanted Dead And Alive	Prabhu Deva	Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sayaji Shinde, Asseem Merchant, Vinod Khanna, Sajid	Flop
What's Your Raashee?	Ashutosh Gowarikar	Harman Baweja, Priyanka Chopra	Flop
Yahoo	Ken Ghosh	Shahid Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Jiah Khan	Flop
Yash Raj Films' Next Untitled	Anurag Singh	Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee	Flop

And there you have it. According to my calculations; Billo Barber, Dehli 6, Housefull, Kites, Main Aur Mrs Khanna, My Name is Khan and Three Idiots should all be hits! My criteria for judging what might work and what might fail is pretty much all down to the star cast! A bit of a weak way of choosing but hopefully a few of my predicitions will come good! Roll on 2009!