Review of R....Rajkumar

When you go to watch a film directed by Prabhdeva(director of movies like “Wanted” and “Rowdy Rathode”),what will you expect from it, Romance,Action,Comedy,Song , Dance in a whole , a full package of masala entertainer, with a south Indian touch given to it. And the fact is you will get all this as expected from this movie, but still it does not provide the similar entertainment as of the earlier movies directed by the same director. So what is missing here, the answer is the Super heroism of the leading man is missing here. For such movies the hero needs to have a larger than life image like Salman Khan or Akshay Kumar, but unfortunately it is hard to accept Shahid Kapoor as a Superhero.

The story of the movie is very simple and gives a feel of old 80’s movies. Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) works for a drugs dealer Shivraj (Sonu Sood), in a village. Rajkumar is very

loyal to his boss and even ready to eliminate the rival drug dealers. But the problem arises when Rajkumar and Shivraj both fall in love with the same girl Chanda(Sonakshi Sinha).As predictable in the climax Rajkumar fights alone with the whole gang of Shivraj ,in a 15-20 minutes action sequence to win over his girlfriend.

The story is very much predictable and you have seen all these things earlier in other movies and unfortunately you have seen all this in a better way too in other movies. In the screenplay action, romance, comedy, song and dance everything has been added in a routine way. As expected the humour is very cheap. No respect has been shown for woman characters. For example the hero calls her girlfriend as “lollypop”; the villain is always looking at the curves of the heroine (whom he wants to marry actually) and the height of all- the heroine gives an open challenge to the villain that if he can defeat her boyfriend in fight then she will strip for him.

There is no doubt that Prabhudeva does not direct movies to get any awards, he actually make movies just for the masses with his own trademark style. This time also there is no difference.

Shahid Kapoor is desperately trying to experiment with different type of movies from last few years to get a hit. He has tried his hands in a tragic love story (“Mausam”) to a romantic comedy (“Teri Meri Kahani”) to a comedy (“Phata Poster Nikla Hero”) and now finally to an action masala entertainer. 

But the problem is, he has been unsuccessful with all this experiments. There is no doubt that he is an above average actor and has acted quite well in this movie. His comic timing is good, his dancing is superb even his romantic pairing with Sonakshi is okay, but in the fight sequences , he is not in his comfort zone. It does not look convincing at all when Shahid fights alone with the whole army of goons. It seems Shahid has tried hard to enter in the shoes of Salman or Akhshay , but the shoes are too large for your size Shahid. The best thing about him is in spite of giving so much flops still he gets chance to work with directors like Vishal bhardwaj, please take advantage of this opportunity Shahid. Best of luck to you, Shahid.

There is no point of wasting words in describing the acting of Sonakshi Sinha. She has done

the same type of role with same dialogues, same costumes ,same dance moves in so many movies that perhaps in the shooting floor, she herself forgets for which film she is shooting. Probably the daily soap actresses gets more variety of roles than Sonakshi Sinha. In spite of that the girl was giving solid box office hits but it seems that her luck has left her since last few months. It seems Sonakshi should wait for a “Dabbang 3” to bring back her luck.

Same thing is applicable for Sonu Sood, he also is getting type casted by the south Indian remake makers. It is high time for Sonu, to realise his potential and be little selective about his roles.

The rest of the cast including Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukul Dev,Asrani, it can be said neither the audiences nor the actors themselves are worried about what they are doing in the film.

As for the technical team is concerned , there is nothing much to highlight except for the action and dance sequences which have been choreographed very well, but unfortunately looks too similar with the other movies of same zone.

The music by Pritam is very good, though it may not appeal to the classes especially due to the strange lyrics but it is very much popular with the target audiences of such movies. The songs like “Gandi Baat” and “Saree Ke Fall Sa” are already a hit and will definitely help the movie to get a better opening at the box office. For such movies a hit item number works very well but the item number here (“Kaddu Katega”) deserves a big thumbs down.

On a whole it is just like any other remake of a B-grade south Indian movie and if you like such movies then you can go for it, only you have to adjust a bit with the wrongly casted leading man in the action sequences. Otherwise watching the dubbed version of the south Indian action movies on TV can be a better alternate.