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Friday, April 19, 2024
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BOLLYWOOD RA.ONE
EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: ***1/2
Here`s a movie the Hindi film industry can be proud of. Ra.One can
be touted as the first Hindi film that blends the elegance of Hollywood with
Indian sensibilities.
From the very onset, this classy sci-fi film sets the viewers` adrenalin
soaring. It also educates, entertains and eulogises our culture. And, very
predictably, from the very beginning you know that the crux of the film is about
how good triumphs over evil.
Ra.One dwells into the virtual world of today`s youngsters who are
hooked on to technology and video games.
Prateik (Armaan Verma) is one of them. For him the villain is the hero simply
because he does not play by the rules. It`s winning, by hook or by crook, that
matters to him.
Shekhar Subramanium (Shah Rukh Khan), the clumsy, nerdy game developer father of
Prateik, lovingly tries convincing his son with, Allow me to
quote.... and quotes Mahatma Gandhi and such like. The youngster is
unimpressed, thereby revealing the generation and cultural gap between the two
of them.
Disheartened by the strain in the father-son relationship, Shekhar develops the
invincible Random Access One (Ra.One), who can take any form, to please his son.
Still not fully convinced with his own creation, as a standby he also develops
Good One (G- One), who could exterminate Ra.One if need be.
Excited with his father`s creation, Prateik plays Ra.One with a screen name,
Lucifer. He manages to cross level two of the video game, thereby antagonising
Ra.One. Unknown to Shekhar and his team, Ra.One steps out of the
game into their real world to eliminate Lucifer, thereby threatening Prateik`s
life.
This concept of the characters sliding from the virtual world into the real
world seems to have been inspired from the Hollywood film, The Purple Rose
of Cairo.
Ra.One is an outright Shah Rukh Khan film.
The way Shah Rukh gracefully slips into the roles of Shekhar, Ra.One and G-One,
leaving no room for confusion, is remarkable.
He is the superhero of the film. That`s because the script was skillfully and
convincingly put together by Anubhav Sinha, Kanika Dhillon, Mushtaq Sheikh and
David Benullo. The dialogues by Kanika and Niranjan Iyengar are good in parts.
The little gimmicks by Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra and Rajnikant add to the
lighter moments of the film but take the story nowhere.
Shahana Goswami as the employee at the electronic company and Arjun Rampal as
Ra.One look fine for the roles they play but have very little to deliver. Armaan
as Pratiek is impressive.
The outfits of Ra.One and G-One designed by Robert Kurtzman and the bright
production design are worth a mention.
Vishal-Shekhar`s music and the background score along with the awesome stunts
and thrilling chases are electrifying. The film would not have been what it is
if it was not for Resul Pookutty`s sound design, Sanjay Sharma`s editing and for
the visual and special effects team.
With all the minor blemishes, this movie is still worth seeing at least once.
This high energetic film is loaded with antics, animation and action. With many
thrilling sequences mounted with grandeur, it gives you the feel of a live video
game. It is probably one of the classiest movies seen in the Hindi film industry
and a feather in Anubhav`s hat.
Director and producer Anubhav Sinha is all set to bring Rishi Kapoor and Tapasee Pannu together for his upcoming movie 'Mulk.'Read More
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A father trying hard to `fit-in` in his son`s badass world.
A son is trying hard to `dude-up` his dad from `aiiiyyyo` to `YO!`.
And a mother lost in translation between her husband`s `ingeva` and her son`s `innit`.
While Shekhar was trying every trick in the book to woo his son, get `dude-ified` and `up his coolness quotient`, his son had given up on him.
Just when the father-son duo hit a deadlock, Shekhar strikes gold when he designs one hell of a game.
Finally it all starts falling in place
... as the family comes together....
.... only to find themselves in the middle of a crash...
.....not just a hard drive crash but a crash that would drive them to disaster and make their lives go - KABOOM!!!
...all hell breaks loose when the game that was meant to be played with
...START PLAYING THEM
Ra.One premiere in London