R.. Rajkumar

*ing : Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood
Director : Prabhu Dheva

Tagline : Silent ho ja, Nahi to mai violent ho jaunga


Circa 2009, Salman Khan was going through a bad phase when Prabhu Devaa resurrected his career with his directorial debut Wanted which was a remake of Telugu film Pokiri, The film was a hit and resurrected the south remake action genre in bollywood, after GHAJINI(2008). Prabhu Devaa got lucky again in 2012 with Rowdy Rathore which brought Akki back to action and also he started doing south remakes. But now off recent this genre has been done to death and it's getting irritating, The action scenes too are becoming more cartoonish with heroes jumping around and doing somersaults. Such action was restricted to Tamil/Telugu/Kannada films but now even Hindi films are copying them. One thing that is striking in R Rajkumar is that it's the first time perhaps a younger 30+ hero has donned the lead role, unlike 40+ heroes and 50+ unfit heroes(Sanjay Dutt,Sunny Deol). R Rajkumar has a plot that is so thin and non existent, that it's boring. Mostly South remakes don't have a proper plot, even Wanted and Rowdy Rathore didn't have a great plot per se, but R Rajkumar is so banal, so stupid it gets to the nerves. Shahid trying to patao Sonakshi is done so cheesily like films of South and gets to the nerves; There is nothing new, novel or exciting about the film. To Digest that Shahid can bash up goons double his size even with his makeover is too much. There is nothing appealing of the film and many times seems like it's a telugu film with Indian actors.

Rating :
**