R..Rajkumar
Year: 2013
Director: Prabhu Deva
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, Ashish Vidyarthi

Prabhu Deva has developed a peculiar brand of movies-full of masala and totally bereft of realism. Relying on catchy item-songs, cavalier stunts, crude comedy and corny dialogues to entertain the masses, his movies require a megastar's larger than life persona  to carry them to box-office glory. Salman Khan did that in Wanted and Akshay Kumar in Rowdy Rathod. Will Shahid Kapoor manage to do that in R..Rajkumar?

What’s the plot?

Two rival gang-lords – a veteran old hand (Ashish Vidyarthi) and a young contender (Sonu Sood) are controlling the poppy fields and the related drug business in a village. Their terror has turned the villagers into submissive spectators. Enter Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor), a daredevil drifter who enters into the young crime-lord’s gang and soon becomes his right hand. He falls in love with a spunky village belle (Sonakshi Sinha), who accepts him after a brief resistance. But then the feuding gang-lords join hands and older one decides to marry off the girl, (who is his niece!) to younger one. The drifter rebels and challenges both goons that on the day of the marriage, he would be the one getting the bride! What happens next?

What’s hot?

·         Sonakshi Sinha is the only bright spot in this hopelessly inane movie. She sparkles despite a horribly written part.

·         A few item songs work well.

What’s not?

·         Prabhu Deva has simply run out of ideas as a director. He keeps using the same tricks, which once clicked but have now become stale.

·         To carry such a bad movie single-handedly would have been a tough job even for a megastar like Salman or Akshay and here, Shahid Kapoor simply does not have the star presence to make it work. His rough-and-tough makeover spouting dialogues like ‘Tu silent ho jaa warnaa main violent ho jaaoonga!’ doesn’t make much impression.

·         The crude comedy fails to tickle the funny bone; the romance is lukewarm, the melodrama is extra-loud and the stunts grate on the nerves (particularly in the overstretched climax).

·         The side-acts by Ashish Vidyarthi and Sonu Sood are as bad as they come.

Verdict

In one obnoxious ‘comic’ sequence, the villain, trying to learn English to impress the heroine, is made to sing ‘I am your bull, you are my shit; Together we make bull-shit!’

Can you beat it!

I think that is what this movie is! Pure B..S!

Rating

2 stars