Raanjhanaa underrated? - Page 3

Originally posted by: RollingStones

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 .

excellent posts. And it is true my mind baffles when I read Ranjhaana glorified stalking. Had it really glorified stalking, Zoya in the end would have been in the bed happily married and doing her suhaagraat with Kundan. But the movie never showed it like that, it showed Kundan was an absolute idiot for trying to show his ek taarfa pyaar bullshit.
People in IF cry every time for lack of realistic movies, and when one like Raanjhaana happens people are like "Oh I cannot see, how X character can be so selfish" , "how creepy is Y character". I will not be shocked if people believe BW item numbers is responsible for rape.

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais

^^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!!!

👏 👏 Word MEB Word!!Even I could not relate to either Kundar or Zoya.Though Dhanush tried his best to give layers to Kundan,all the nuances fail to make an impact when the premise itself is so disturbing🤢
On another note,Have u ever seen the society slamming guys if they manipulate girls with sweet talks,gifts,secret trips and then disappear on the girl when they are bored? No! at most they will say bechari ladki,why she was so naive to fall for his charms! Some will simply blame her upbringing and her parents that she had no sankaar' inculcated in her..She will also be labelled foolish for getting her heart broken,trusting wrong guy.The guy on other hand will get a compliment abt how cleverly he escaped from crutches of girl,how he is chaloo,all girls want a piece of him,lovely flirt yada yada..🤢.Now if the situation is reversed girls get called all names starting from bitch to s**t for having fun with a guy's heart.

But the most disgusting part is when people defend the animals who throw acid bombs,cut a girl's body into pieces,put her on fire claiming how she should not have broken his heart and how deeply he was in lurvee🤢.The fault of the girls in both the Madras and Kerala cases was that they tried to chip off a piece of the massive ego of these ass holes by rejecting them on their face.And that fuels these psychotic men (who must be hell inspired by herogiri shown by mass heroes of Tamil or Malayalam movies abt how stalking is their birth right) to destroy the girl's life as a whole since taking a NO for an answer is insult to their mardaangi👎🏼

LOL @ IF conveniently questioning thought process of ppl just coz they do not subscribe to sensibilities of their fav movie script and director😆.So predictable.Yea missed catching the underlying meaning ALR tried to convey...How abt its a matter of perception not intelligence?😆I rather look for these elements in a VAM or Shootjit movie anyhow.My friend told me young men in Delhi and UP theaters were cheering for those gangsters when they were beating up Anu in NH10.So I wonder how much of the subtexts in Ranjhaana were properly conveyed to the vast diaspora of rural Indian middle class youth who contributed to the B.O as well

^^Yes exactly!!! If men sleep around & are
Promiscuous, they're called "studs, awesome people" Bla Bla and if women do it they're "characterless, s**ts, wh**es" Bla Bla & they're total double-standards!!!

LOL. Even I couldn't relate to their character at all & W*F would want a man like Kundan anyway. He's an absolute loser of the highest order & Zoya was terrible herself & callously used Kundan knowing exactly what he felt for her --- She used his love for her gain. Ofc such ppl exist irl but it's best to be far from them b/c they'll use everyone around them to make their point if they have to, use you, toss you aside & then malign you itself!!


I had a problem with all the 90s films that showed stalking, love Bla Bla & I most had a problem with Raanjhaana. I am all for complexity, black layers etc but having seen & experienced such ppl irl, I had rather not see them onscreen too. I see no great complexities in such ppl, they're just despicable losers of the highest class.

Guys keep shaming Zoya for what she did to Kundan and conveniently forget what Kundan did to Bindiya.

Originally posted by: Padfoot_Prongs

Guys keep shaming Zoya for what she did to Kundan and conveniently forget what Kundan did to Bindiya.

I find this film utter crap specially 2nd half where the whole plot is lost. I regret I wasted money on this crap.

Becoz both kundan and zoya were super flawed, they were self centered to the core! And their foolishness lead to the death of abhay's character in the movie, which pissed me off the most! I only liked the role of kundan's bestie in that movie 😆

Fab film. Loved it & always enjoy watching it.