RA.ONE is no doubt the most anticipated movie of the season
and the reason’s obviously for it being the movie of Sharukh Khan, the King of
Khan’s. Added to it, it’s a huge scale science fiction and not to deny that is
exceedingly publicized that it is talked over than any other burning problem of
the nation, thanks to the promotion campaign run by the Sharukh himself as he
has stake in the movie. Directed by Anubhav Sinha who debuted with Tum Bin and
later directed Stylish “Dus”, RA.ONE has gorgeous and lucky lady Kareena Kapoor who
boasts of handful of biggest grosser’s of Bollywood.
Let’s peep into this virtual world of RA.ONE!!
Plot: Shekhar (Sharukh), a very caring father always fail to
get the hugs from his son Prateik (Armaan Varma) for being so timid. While Prateik
loves the villains in his video games, Shekhar believes in Good to win over
bad. But to win over his son’s attention, Shekhar designs a video game RA.ONE (Random
Access .ONE) where it is almost impossible for the hero of the video game, G-ONE
(replica of Shekhar) to win it. Prateik takes the challenge and wins the first
round. Now RA.ONE who cannot bear the defeat enters the real world to win the game, killing prateik. Witness the Super battle of RA.ONE and G.ONE on big screen.
Virtual world comes to real…
Well RA.ONE before the release, promised to serve us a feast
of stunning visuals. And truly holding to it, the premise set for the film and
the things we see on the screen firmly stand to the word given. Go start from
the titles, the reference to the virtual world is made. Of course movie do take
some little time to introduce the family members and colleagues of Shekhar, who
are gonna be part of this adventure. Bear the very filmy, but not too funny
appearances of Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt.
But once the real game begins, there’s no seeing back. We
see the ambitious RA.ONE trying to escape into the real world. And then there’s
a brilliant chase and fight with stunning visuals of flying cars when RA.ONE
fights with G.One. I guess that’s more than suffices the pre-interval block and
make viewers happy for they get what they expect to see. Then the later part
brings us Sharukh’s kind of slapstick comedy made of few silly fights (ok,
bearable) and few things that draw line between Robot and a human. While there
is a lengthy train sequence reminding you the Rajnikanth’s Robot, Sharukh might
have felt it inevitable to bring in RajniKanth for a cameo. Well Rajni’s
appearance as chitti is small and fits in considering Rajni’s health condition
too. And here’s the climax that’s good enough visually while keeping us engaged
throughout.
Actor’s On-screen…
Sharukh has chosen to play south Indian Shekhar Subramanian,
may be to offer some difference in what we see in regular films. That served
the gap between him and his kid and supported the variation he offered for
G.ONE.As G-ONE, he with ease plays superhero, who has a mission of protecting
his family. But the producer in him dominated the actor, for providing rich
extravaganza live to the screen.
Kareena does her job well and even sizzles in “Chammak
Challo” saving some money to the producer for not bringing in an additional item
girl for that one.
Young Kid Armaan Varma, plays way better for a debutant and
scores full marks.
As RA.ONE, the Villain in the game gets into the skin of
someone in real world, Tom Wu a Chinese actor plays the role in first half and
Arjun Rampal does it in second. Both are adequate. Sahana Goswamy and Satish
shah suffices well for supporting roles.
Fantastic Visual effects…
Jeff Kleiser took care of the visual effects for RA.ONE in
unquestionable manner. The perfection in the work is seen in cubic
transformations of lead roles. The fantastic chase sequence and blowing up of
cars in London, is just mind-blowing as Bollywood movie is concerned. While
Train sequence though well shot, has less impact as we see similar thing in
Rajni’s Enthiran. Climax and loads of visuals which we see in movie flow are all
superb. Credit also goes to Red Chillies VFX team on whole. Oscar winner Rasool
Pookutty does the in-sync sound mixing. Nicola Pecoroni does splendid job for
cinematography.
Awesome work off-the screen…
“Anubhav” Sinha as name suggests might have gained much experience
watching other Sci-Fi films, but still makes a difference with RA.ONE. And
while making an Indian science fiction, there are some things like sentiment
and Romance that do hinder the proceedings, but it’s up to audience to answer themselves,
if those things are unavoidable considering the whole thing as fiction. Vishal Shekhar
increases the reach of movie by providing some cool tunes in form of “Dildaara..”
and rocking “Chammak challo”
Time for negative points…
It would have been absolute joy to watch a movie that has
perfect storyline combined with the Visual effects like Avatar. But RA.ONE
lacks behind there. Nevertheless our Shekhar aka G-ONE tries to build in few
emotions of family, playing a caring father telling idealistic proverbs now and
then and giving a message towards the end. When termed as Children’s movie, is
there a need to include words like “Kondom Kondom” for Konjum Konjum. This is
high time, censor needs to wake up.
Finally…
RA.ONE stands number one for Visual effects, so far on
Indian cinema. If that is what you expect from the film, RA.ONE delivers it
without hesitance. While the movies with no proper story but just go to become
block-buster with the star value, RA-ONE can also attain and surpass them, but
whether it surpasses the 175 Crore put on it!! Time should tell it.
Rating
3 STARS. RA.ONE is one happy watch for the difference it offers, and you might be unhappy if you focus on flaws!!.
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