Sunday 8 December 2013

Film Review - R...Rajkumar


                            Dumb and Dumber

Film: R… Rajkumar
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha
Directed by: Prabhu Dheva
Duration: 2 hrs 27 mins
Rating: *

Directed by Prabhu Dheva (don't miss the newly added h in the surname), who has a couple of 100cr films under his belt, R…. Rajkumar (earlier known as Rambo Rajkumar, till Rambo got into the act and threatened to sue the producers) marks a new low on every count in the name of cinema. Meant to appeal the masses, surely if this is entertainment, then sir, spare us from it, please.

Juvenile gags, jokes about rape and a non existent story this is nothing short of a travesty.  In one scene, the villain who is learning to speak English keeps repeating 'I am your bull, you are my sh*t' and then he combines the words together, acknowledging what the audience thinks about the film.

In another scene where the policeman is about to rape a woman, he is interrupted by a phone call, some men and women were laughing like hyenas. On a sociological note, that was quite worrying.

The film is set in an unknown part of the country where we two rivals and fighting to control the drug trade. Enter RR (Shahid Kapoor) a new kid in town who joins Shivraj (Sonu Sood) and helps him eliminate members of the other gang led by Ashish Vidyarthi. 

When he is not breaking bones, he is admiring the village damsel Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha), actually pestering would be an appropriate word rather than admiring. Like many filmi heroes he bludgeons her into submission only to discover that his boss has also fallen for her. It doesn’t help that she also happens to be the other rival niece compounding his problems and the audiences as well. 

There is nothing going in the films favor – the plot is hackneyed, the lines are strictly from the 80’s but on the whole, it doesn’t even match up to the standards of some of the films then. He calls her lollipop (what kind of a name is that anyway?) and there is also a rather elaborate description about what will happen on the wedding night. Enough endured.

There were some people in the audience who were laughing their guts off but perhaps they even find picking the nose as a funny act. 

The choreography and the music are the only non-irritating aspects of the film. As for the acting, they could all have phoned in their part even though Shahid Kapoor shows a little more zest than that.

Watch it at your own risk.

Published in The Navhind Times on 8th Dec 2013

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