We are constantly talking about good films that didn't work. I think at some point or the other each of us has seen some film that we really liked, but the film didn't do well, and we wondered why. Doesn't each of us know at least one film that should have done well at the box-office, but didn't?
For me, that film would be Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Khamoshi: The Musical, which I've always felt was Bhansali's most sensitive and most honest film. It's completely unpretentious and unlike his last two films, he wasn't showing off through that film.
I also think it had the best acting ever from every single actor in the cast. Nana Patekar, Seema Biswas, Manisha Koirala's career best performance undoubtedly, even Salman Khan showing a spontaneity that we'd really never seen before.
So many years have passed since the release of Khamoshi and I think I can safely say I've figured out to some extent why the film didn't do well.
But there are also blockbusters that we hated.
I'm sure each of us can find plenty of those too - films that did huge business and became big superhits, but films that you really hated.
These are some of the blockbusters that I truly hated:
Mohabbatein
First up, Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein. Now here's the director of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge making his second film, so the expectations were naturally huge.
But look at what he gave us. A sickeningly tearful and contrived imitation of Dead Poets Society with three insipid love stories between six of the most amateur actors that ever existed.
The confrontation scenes between Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan were so silly and so flat that you didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
The film, however, went on to become a colossal box-office hit and that can be attributed to many things, except of course to the merits of the film itself.
There was some good music, it was Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan together on screen for the first time, and then of course, the marketing and the promotional clout of the Yashraj banner.
But on the yuck-o-meter, it's four big, fat rotten tomatoes for Mohabbatein. I shudder every time I think of the film.
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Raja Hindustani
Next up, Dharmesh Darshan's Raja Hindustani. Rich girl falls for taxi driver-cum-tour guide, leaves her daddy's mansion to marry the pauper with a big heart. Have you heard a more predictable story than that?
Now the film redefined the word 'cliched' with its cardboard characterisation of the evil stepmother, the good as gold foster parents, and of course the poor taxi driver who may have had a small pocket but an ego the size of an elephant.
And can you ever forget how melodramatic that film was? It just seemed like somebody had left the volume button switched on to its peak - they were yelling in good times and in bad times and they were yelling when they were making jokes, and they were yelling when they were weeping.
But the film was a blockbuster of its times. Raja Hindustani was the beginning of the reinvention of Karisma Kapoor and it almost made Dharmesh Darshan the successor to Yash Chopra's King of Romance title, until of course Dharmesh Darshan made Mela and botched it all up for himself.
On the yuck-o-meter, Raja Hindustani also has four rotten tomatoes coming its way.
Devdas
Third on my list is Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, a movie I hated so much I wanted to either burn the screen, or burn myself half way through the picture.
From the very word go, I didn't particularly think it was a wise idea to remake that film because I genuinely feel it's a very mediocre story that - whether we admit it or not - is about the glorification of an alcoholic loser.
And Bhansali's romanticism of Devdas' pain and longing just didn't work for me. I couldn't bring myself to sympathise with that idiot Devdas.
And the other thing that just didn't work for me was the scale of the movie. In my opinion it's a very personal and intimate story of three characters, and by blowing it up into this epic saga, Bhansali only diluted the core love triangle.
Imagine my horror when that film went on to become one of the biggest hits ever. On my yuck-o-meter, it's five rotten tomatoes for Devdas, a film I can't bear to watch again even in passing.
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Gadar
And finally, fourth on my list is Anil Sharma's Gadar, the most blood-curdling, offensive excuse for patriotism.
A film whose message is so skewed that any self-respecting moviegoer can't help feeling completely manipulated by the director's intentions.
It's a film that went on to do thunderous business, a film that went on to become an undisputed blockbuster.
Much of that could be credited to Sunny Deol's immensely convincing performance as a man torn between his love for his country and his love for his wife.
How that kind of jingoism escaped the attention of the entire nation is something I still find difficult to understand.
So you won't be surprised when Gadar lands four rotten tomatoes, all big and red on my very handy yuck-o-meter.
Those were four blockbusters that I violently and passionately hated, and now it's your turn.
Tell us which superhit films make you sick in the stomach and tell us why. The most interesting ones will be aired on Now Showing next week on CNN-IBN.
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