Raanjhanaa underrated? - Page 2

No, it is overrated 👎🏼

Originally posted by: Vella_sameer

yehi hota hai reality main bhi.. koi banda bandi ke peche laga huwa hai.. bandi enjoy kar rahi hain giggle kar rahi hai toh obviously bande ko lagega ki bandi ko feeling hai mere liye..

bande ko kya pata 2 rs wali pen ki tarah uska use and throw hone wala hota hai. 😆

Lol what about that guy who killed a girl by pouring petrol all over body and lighting fire near college library while fellow guy students looked on.. because she resisted his f**king stalking advances?? Another guy who sliced a girl into peaces in Madras for refusing his proposal?😳

Girls might play boys and manipulate when they are bored but the heartbreaking heinous crimes done by boys toiwards who dare to challenge their enormous ego in name of so called love is getting higher day by day.Absolutely cruel and heartless.The wombs who gave berth to these animals must be cursed🤢

Ranjhaana is purely overrated.Absolute shit of a movie.Dhanush is amazing in his job but I cant begin to explain the things wrong with this film.ALR is overrated🥱

Coz of dhanush stupidity abhay got killed :/ this part I hated.. Otherwise it was a good movie.. Liked dhanush character more than the other two..

^^Oh thank God!!! Seems like Raanjhana gets a lot of love around here & ive never understood WHY! It's absolutely shitty & very over-rated & Kundan as a character, is a loser of the highest order!! Can't stand him or that Zoya. Though no women can be as cruel as men with all the manipulation & making them spend money on their lunches & dinners, what men do is absolutely fatal & extremely dangerous!!! These men who cannot take NO for an asset & treat it as a challenge to make the woman worship at the shrine of his ego, are absolutely despicable!!!! 😡 That Madras incident was totally heinous ESP b/c they kept playing it on the telly like it was some sort of evil form of entertainment for them & they wanted to share it with others!!! 😡 Which is why films like Raanjhaana leave me completely cold & sick to my stomach. Bloody loser couldn't get over her after years & was just trying to buy her love! Yuck yuck yuuuck!!!

Ranjahana is a great movie. And no it is not underrated, it was a hit and is well appreciated by respectable amount of people.
In IF ,people zero down everything to woman empowerment/proving how men suppress women, so asking question here about a movie which tried to show the dark side of the woman psyche will never get praise here.

I dont get why people want movie characters to be 100% morally pure. What made Raanjhanaa unforgettable for me was how despicable Zoya and Kundan were at times yet how utterly real they felt as characters living in small town India.

Like other "stalking" films, the heroine isnt some mome ki gudiya here who gets assaulted by the hero from time to time and ultimately decides to give in. Zoya is a very complex yet relatable heroine IMO- she is conceited, selfish and enjoys attention. Yet she is brave and at the same time foolish enough to hand herself over to the police as she knew what she had done was wrong (ie killing Kundan)

I most liked how despite coming from different social classes, at a more basic level, Zoya and Kundan were essentially the same. Both were impulsive, used people around them for their own benefit, and were mad enough to push themselves (Kundan slitting his wrist twice, the educated Zoya slitting her own despite previously shaming Kundan for his "jaahil" tactics) and eachother (Kundan driving himself and Zoya into the Ganges in utter fury, and Zoya ultimately pushing Kundan to death at the end of the film) to misery and doom.

Their pair was not meant for romance or happily ever afters. But whenever they came together they brought destruction in their lives and in the lives of people around them (bindiya, jasjeet).

Edit- What slightly upsets me is that when people talk of Raanjhanaa they either see it as some disgusting film that promotes stalking or some great love story depiciting the great sacrifices made by Kundan. For me the film is above all of these and is highly subtextual. ALR himself probably didnt see the film that way but that is how I perceived it.

Well that escalated quickly.. I believe it was an honest film with very honest characters.. You could relate to everyone and everything happening in the movie..

it was a beautiful movie

I liked dhanush's acting n both the fruends' acting...sonam can't act...n the premise of the movie was not something I appreciate...love n all is fine but making catcalls in the name of love and saying Roadside Romeogiri is okay by a movie is a no go for me...

Originally posted by: dingle_hopper

I dont get why people want movie characters to be 100% morally pure. What made Raanjhanaa unforgettable for me was how despicable Zoya and Kundan were at times yet how utterly real they felt as characters living in small town India.

Like other "stalking" films, the heroine isnt some mome ki gudiya here who gets assaulted by the hero from time to time and ultimately decides to give in. Zoya is a very complex yet relatable heroine IMO- she is conceited, selfish and enjoys attention. Yet she is brave and at the same time foolish enough to hand herself over to the police as she knew what she had done was wrong (ie killing Kundan)

I most liked how despite coming from different social classes, at a more basic level, Zoya and Kundan were essentially the same. Both were impulsive, used people around them for their own benefit, and were mad enough to push themselves (Kundan slitting his wrist twice, the educated Zoya slitting her own despite previously shaming Kundan for his "jaahil" tactics) and eachother (Kundan driving himself and Zoya into the Ganges in utter fury, and Zoya
ultimately pushing Kundan to death at the end of the film) to misery and doom.

Their pair was not meant for romance or happily ever afters. But whenever they came together they brought destruction in their lives and in the lives of people around them (bindiya, jasjeet).

Edit- What slightly upsets me is that when people talk of Raanjhanaa they either see it as some disgusting film that promotes stalking or some great love story depiciting the great sacrifices made by Kundan. For me the film is above all of these and is highly subtextual. ALR himself probably didnt see the film that way but that is how I perceived it.

Loved what you have written about Ranjhanaa and how it is way above the way Peiple perceive as just a Stalking film .

And I am quite sure Anand as well as writer Himanshu did see Ranjhanaa the way we have perceived it . Their offscreen interviews of that time make me feel so .
Both of them loved Zoya and Bindiya more then any other character ...even Kundan .

One of the best scenes of the movie was how it exposed the Psuedo Intellectuality of those JNU's Students through the scene where Kundan asks for a cup of chai ... whatte Scene 👏


OT : No ...it is not underrated ... it got its due and labelled Hit .
Sadly there were very few critics who actually got the crux of the movie others just labelled it as a Stalking glorifying movie just like how many members here labelled it .