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After the first couple of scenes, director and writer Tigmanshu Dhulia bungs a mujra into Bullett Raja. Mahie Gill appears, wearing her ghagra-choli with a precariously low waist and a plunging neckline, naturally. She shakes her stuff, as is expected of a mujra madam. Soon enough, matching Gill's jhatka for jhatka, are Saif Ali Khan and Jimmy Sheirgill.
Thrusting their chests, popping their crotches and scrunching their faces into expressions of contorted joy are descendants of the aristocratic clans that can boast of having the likes of Rabindranath Tagore, Tiger Pataudi, Amrita Shergill and Vivan Sundaram in their family trees. Now the scions are mispronouncing words like "close" (it's "cloje" in Dhulia's lexicon) and playing unpolished, unentitled, coarse sons of UP's soil in order to belong to the new Bollywood order of privilege. Feudalism is dead, long live feudalism.
But let's not make the mistake of intellectualising this film. Within the first few minutes of Bullett Raja, it's obvious that details like plot, logic and consistency are minor botherations that Dhulia and his crew have decided to ignore. The story jumps awkwardly from point to punchline to stunt to intermission to complication to twist to the end. It's like the men became boys while making Bullett Raja and shot a 138-minute long game of chor-police.
Much like that childhood sport, Bullett Raja doesn't make much sense. Khan plays Raja Mishra, an unemployed young man whose hair and stubble change colours at an alarming rate (it's as though Dhulia couldn't afford an assistant director to handle the continuity in the film).
The poster of the film Bullett Raja. Image courtesy: Facebook
Raja rough and tumbles his way into a wedding where he meets Rudra Tripathi (Sheirgill). The two quickly become friends and are thrown together when a local landowner decides he needs them killed in order to take over Rudra's uncle's fields. Not surprisingly, Raja and Rudra are the ones who do the killing rather than getting killed. In the process, they become a fearsome twosome and career criminals in the Dabangg mould.
Their track record earns them a state minister's (played by Raj Babbar) attention and they become the captains of his henchmen. While indulging in some kidnapping and extortion, Raja meets a Bengali damsel named Mitali, played by Sonakshi Sinha. When we meet Mitali, she's so keen on being cast as the heroine in a film that she's willing to meet seedy businessmen in hotel rooms.
However, after meeting Raja, Mitali quickly forgets her Bollywood dreams and happily cooks Bengali food for Raja and his posse. It's vaguely reminiscent of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but for the fact that instead of Dopey and gang, it's a collection of buff strongmen for whom Mitali's making luchi.
In the middle of all this, Dhulia adds Chunkey Pandey with too much oil in his hair, Ravi Kishan in drag (and later, sporting the fastest sprouting moustache ever), Gulshan Grover in a suit, as well as a few detours to Mumbai, Kolkata and the Chambal region. For every twist in Bullett Rajas tale, the answer lies in a bullet (or ten). So we see shootout after shootout after shootout, interspersed with a few witty lines and dialogue that does its damnedest to make UP sound cool.
For all the lurid shirts he wears and the male cleavage he bares, Khan is neither convincing nor charming as Raja. He's just trying too hard. While doing the stunts, he looks creaky and isn't able to make the most of the punchlines that Dhulia gives him. Also, Khan looks very red in the film, as though he was plunged in boiling water like a lobster, rather than appearing ruggedly suntanned as he was probably meant to be.
The other headliner, Sinha, is both inconsequential and forgettable, unless you're Bengali because then you'll be aghast at how bad her Bengali accent is. Fans of Sinha are better off putting Lootera in Google's image search than watching Bullett Raja.
The two men who are fun to watch are Sheirgill and Vidyut Jammwal. Khan might be the star of the film, but Sheirgill is very much the hero of the first half and if there is a central story to Bullett Raja, it's the bromance that he shares with Khan's character. Jammwal plays a super cop and doesn't have to do much by way of acting. He's there to look macho and stride sexily, and he does this very nicely indeed. As a bonus, he doesn't mess up the few lines he's given and his stunts are almost balletic in their execution.
It's difficult to decide what is the most disappointing aspect of Bullett Raja. Is it that Dhulia, who won such acclaim for his small-budget films, has botched up so comprehensively with this wannabe blockbuster? Could it be the soundtrack that is a thumping, tuneless cacophony? Or is it the lazy writing that can't be bothered with either building characters or a coherent storyline?
With its emphasis on machismo and male bonding, Bullett Raja is clearly targeted at the manly men puffing up the country's male population as Khan does his chest and biceps. What does it say about that audience that Bullett Raja is Dhulia at his silliest and most inept?
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According to opening #BulletRaja will collect approx 7Cr on first day means now Saif Ali Khan is as big star as John Abraham.
#BulletRaja has opened approx 20-25% all over India n will increase till 35% in the evening means 100% as I predicted before few days. Hah
Pluses:
Saif Ali Khan stands tall and repeats his intense 'Langada Tyagi' act, Jimmy Shergill is impressive, Chunky Pandey is loveable, dialogues are clap-worthy
Minuses:
Boring music, Sonakshi sleepwalks, Gulshan Grover offers nothing new, uninspiring plot, lazy direction
Critic Rating:
2.5/5
Business Rating:
3/5
Verdict:
Watch it for only some dialogues and complete performance by Saif Ali Khan
Detailed Analysis:
Director Tigmanshu Dhulia has interesting career. After acclaimed flick 'Haasil', he made horrible 'Charas'. Then he found his groove with acclaimed hit flicks like 'Paan Singh Tomar' and 'Sahab Biwi Aur Gangster'. Now he is trying his hands first time on big budget masala Bollywood flick 'Bullett Raja'.
Film does not promise to be as sensitive as director's earlier work 'Paan Singh Tomar' but the problem is the thin plot which has more style than substance. It tells us a story of a common man Raja Mishra (Saif Ali) who becomes a infamous gangster. He has an attitude of nawab (literally) and some real funny humorous ways of enacting dialogues and crimes.
1st half takes time to establish the plot and characters but its entertaining after initial 20 minutes. 2nd portion of 1st half is so slow that even 'Tamanchey Pe Disco' looks like respite. Side kicks like Jimmy Shergill and Chunky Pandey make the proceeding interesting but Gulshan Grover and Sonakshi Sinha completely forget to bring acting capabilities to the set. Supporting cast comprising of Vipin Sharma, Deepraj Rana and Vishwajeet Pradhan does decent job.
Editing is poor with long stretched sequences and costumes are letdown and look dated throughout. But film's real saving grace is dialoguebaazi, some real clap worthy one liners. Though same can not be said about screenplay which keep giving you jhatkas like Uttar Pradesh roads where saga unfolds. Story is cliche and lacks novelty especially in last 20 minutes. Director Tigmanshu Dhulia tries his best to bring style of Saif from 'Cocktail' and intense rustic nature from 'Omakara' but it looks evident that director is not comfortable with larger than life treatments and that is why those beautiful nuances of his earlier works are missed here. There is only one thing for Mr Dhulia, 'Tumse na ho payega' (his famous one liner from 'Gangs Of Wasseypur'). He should get back to making small gem rather than making big blunders.
Film will take a good opening today especially in north/UP and single screens. But eventually film will find it tough to score at box office because such films lack all India appeal plus the content itself is not extraordinary. Only a very good word of mouth in mass centers can save the film.
Go for this one if you love desi action and dialoguebaaazi!
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Sanki, Yaaron Ka Yaar, Dil Phenq Aashiq, that pretty much sums up the quirky Raja Misra a.k.a our very own Bullett Raja (Saif Ali Khan) as he goes from being an average Joe to a gangster in UP's deadly mafia to avenge the wrongs done to him. He is joined in the mission to become the protector of UP by Rudra (Jimmy Shergill) and soon the two not only become inseparable but become the most dreaded "political commandos". To add charm to the racy proceedings there's also Mitali (Sonaskhi Sinha), an aspiring actress, who enters the scheme of things and spices up the love story quotient with her sweet talk and batting eyelashes. But where there is revenge and violence, there are also cops or rather a cop in the form of Munna (Vidyut Jamwal) to stir things up for the hero. And of course a whole host of villains headed by a dirty politician Ram Babu (Raj Babbar), Businessman Bajaj (Gulshan Grover) and a hardcore sharpshooter turned eunuch Sumer Yadav(Ravi Kishan)
Bullett Raja, today's version of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is racy, action-packed and stylishly heats things up. But this massy entertainer, which, is purely in Tigmanshu Dhulia's style, replete with small town gangsters, guns and gaalis lacks the fluidity that one has come to associate with the director's narration of a story. There are peaks where you see sparks of what could have been a brilliant movie and then there are dips when you are left wondering whether the director left the reins in someone else's hands. For instance the way Saif and Sonakshi fall in love leaves you bewildered and bemused ki bhai yeh kaise aur kab hua!!! Howevr, given the genre and the setting, Dhulia mostly does do justice. But one wished he hadn't diluted his brand of film making by bringing in commercial elements to make the movie a more viable option at the box office. Tigmanshu is known to surprise audiences and with Bullett Raja, all we can say is he doesn't disappoint, that is, if you are not a Dhulia fan.
There are lots of fast paced, well crafted action choreographed by Vidyut Jamwal himself, the dialogues have the right flavor with the scope of becoming fan favourites, the music by Sajid and Wajid is, however, mediocre
Saif as Tigmanshu's new small town hero may not be Langda Tyagi from Omkara but he packs a punch and makes a lasting impression with his sizzling action-romantic act!! Sonakshi Sinha needs to broaden her horizons and exercise that hidden talent of hers before it dies due to lack of use. Jimmy Shergill is absolutely flawless. Vidyut shines in the deadly action sequences. Mahi Gill comes in for an item number, Ravi Kishan, Chunkey Pandey, Raj Babbar and Gulshan Grover do justice to their pivotal roles.
On the whole Bullett Raja is an entertaining film but for fans of Tigmanshu's films it is a disappointing watch as the soul seems to be missing from it and much more is now expected from the director.
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