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Movie Review: 'R...Rajkumar' is the worst film of the year

Shubhra Gupta : New Delhi, Fri Dec 06 2013, 17:37 hrs

Director: Prabhu Dheva

The Indian Express rating: Zero star

'R.. Rajkumar' is the worst film of the year. It has not one redeeming feature. Nothing. Zero.

Shahid Kapoor plays R...Rajkumar. The R.. was meant to be Rambo. The name was axed because of copyright issues. It is now Romeo. It makes no difference. This is a role that will, and should, haunt Shahid Kapoor: it is empty of all sense and sensibility. Shahid Kapoor presents a head full of carefully streaked hair, cultivated stubble, puckered lips, and swinging fists. He mouths crass dialogue. He thrusts his pelvis. His idea of romance is to stalk and harass and bludgeon his girl into submission, and his idea of vengeance is to batter bodies till blood spurts.

His love interest is played by the actor who has done this so many times in her brief career that she may find it hard to remember which set she's on. Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha) submits to her romeo's stalking after pouting and swinging her waist. She shows up in a song called 'Gandi Baat', which happens early in the film, and which turns out to be sorely prophetic: there is not one 'acchi baat' in this atrocity.

'R..Rajkumar's has one friend (Mukul Dev). And two enemies. Nemesis Number One is the muscle-bound Shivraj (Sonu Sood). He plays it in the defunct-Bollywood-thakur mode, beheading innocent gaon-walas, and casting a lascivious eye upon Chanda. Her uncle, also a baddie, is played by an Ashish Vidyarthi, who seems to crawl out of the woodwork strictly for these unsightly parts. R..Rajkumar goes after these two one at a time before the interval; after that, it's open season on broken limbs and spattered gore.

When you are bereft of all ideas, this what comes of it: one fight scene with hapless extras being subjected to all manner of ghastly violence, one song with a line of pelvises ready to meet our face, rinse, repeat. And a background score that is set poundingly to head-busting levels in every single frame.

Prabhu Dheva, with an extra 'h' in his name, has designed a film that gives us everything that Bollywood doesn't need at this point: a setting that has no roots (where is this village, who are these people?), an atmosphere brimming with viciousness, crudity, and misogyny (the lead female part is barter between men), and a hero who stands for nothing.

I was left asking, why was R.. Rajkumar made? It is nothing but blank putrid noise. R.. for Rubbish. Zero star.

@shahidkapoorFC saw #RRajkumar special screening! Seeing my rajkumar shahid back to back for 2 days. Still can't believe it! Superb movie!

"Just watched first half of #RRajkumar in chandan ka stall. The claps, the hoots, the whistles " this is what we live for! Yeh hota hai AUDIENCE ka review bosss!"

That's what Sonakshi Sinha, the heroine of R... Rajkumar tweeted this morning. Perhaps she's taken the reviews of the film, which opened in India this morning to heart, after it was torn to shreds by critics, with some going as far as calling it 'the worst film of the year.'

Sinha shouldn't take it so personally though. R... Rajkumar which is directed by Prabhudeva and sees her opposite Shahid Kapoor for the first time, has opened reasonably well to collections of about 50%, and is likely to do well in the Northern territories of India. According to Box Office India, the film's opening is similar to Ram-leela, although the Ranveer-Deepika starrer had good reviews in its favour, while the Shahid-Sonakshi starrer will have to rely solely on the mood of the movie going public.

"At the end of it, all that remains with you is some 'gandi baat'. Quite literally," said Gaurav Malani of The Times Of India.

The Indian Express review of the film was brutal too:

"I was left asking, why was R.. Rajkumar made? It is nothing but blank putrid noise. R.. for Rubbish. Zero star..." " Shubhra Gupta.

Taran Adarsh, who usually loves this kind of masala fare, was harsh on the film too:

"On the whole, R... Rajkumar doesn't work. It is Prabhu Dheva's weakest Hindi film to date!"

The film is crucial for its star Shahid Kapoor, who's had a whopping eight flops in a row. Here's hoping for his sake, that it sails through and shuts up his detractors once and for all.

Have you seen the R... Rajkumar? What did you think of it?

Originally posted by: TheJake

But I'm still skeptical. Don't trust WOM. It only works in Khan's favor.

Originally posted by: vssaras

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