{"id":8726,"date":"2012-06-01T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/forum\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2013-12-01T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:27:39","slug":"rowdy-rathore-movie-review-by-rajeev-masand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tanqeed.com\/rowdy-rathore-movie-review-by-rajeev-masand\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowdy Rathore Movie Review by Rajeev Masand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rating:<\/strong> \"1\"<\/p>\n

June 01, 2012<\/p>\n

Cast:<\/strong> Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Nasser, Yashpal Sharma<\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong> Prabhudeva<\/p>\n

Rowdy Rathore<\/em> is the kind of movie that\u2019s made by people with a cash register in place of their brain. Because no legitimate reason, other than financial gain, can justify why this movie was made \u2013 it has no story or plot whatsoever, the characters are entirely forgettable, and it\u2019s so long and loud and silly that the laughs dry up early on. That the film has such impressive pedigree \u2013 it\u2019s produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, directed by Prabhudeva, and stars Akshay Kumar \u2013 is both baffling and shameful.<\/p>\n

The premise is a familiar one: a small-time crook, Shiva (Akshay Kumar), feels obliged to step into the shoes of his doppelganger, a lookalike cop named Vikram Rathore, when the fearless officer dies trying to rescue a village from its despotic gang-lord.<\/p>\n

Remade from a super-hit Telugu film, but with no attempt to tailor its aesthetics or its sensibility for a new audience, Rowdy Rathore<\/em> is packed with brutal action scenes shot in slo-mo, low-brow humor, and regressive drama. The problem isn\u2019t that the film is merely mindless, but that it revels in making you squirm uncomfortably. In one scene, after his wife has been kidnapped and raped by the villain\u2019s son, a helpless police officer accompanied by his little kids begs for her release, only to watch the rapist tell his father that he isn\u2019t done with the woman yet, and will return her to her husband in two days.<\/p>\n

The heroine, and Shiva\u2019s love interest, a buxom Sonakshi Sinha, seems to exist in this film only to have her midriff repeatedly pinched by Akshay Kumar, and he refers to her on at least three occasions as \u201cmera maal<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

At 2 hours and 20 minutes, Rowdy Rathore<\/em> is excruciatingly long. The one-liners have little impact and make no sense, and the action has a been-there-seen-that feel to it. A few jokes work because Akshay Kumar does goofy well, but this film doesn\u2019t have half the energy of Prabhudeva\u2019s last directorial outing in Hindi, the Salman Khan starrer Wanted<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Aside from a few moments of inspired lunacy from the film\u2019s leading man \u2013 who can do this part in his sleep (and probably did!) \u2013 Rowdy Rathore<\/em> comes off as nothing more than a cheap attempt to rob moviegoers of their money! I\u2019d have bet Sanjay Leela Bhansali has no idea what he\u2019s produced, except that the film\u2019s outtakes reveal that he did in fact visit the set, and hence more than likely knew exactly what film he was making!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going with a generous one out of five for Rowdy Rathore<\/em>. Surely there\u2019s a better way to spend a lazy weekend!<\/p>\n

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