Tuesday, December 17, 2013

R[edacted] Rajkumar


I still really want to call this Rambo Rajkumar, because R...Rajkumar is a really dumb title and if nothing else, this movie needs a bad-ass title, because it doesn’t really have that much else going for it. But apparently they got in some sort of hot water about using the name Rambo, so Shahid's character became Romeo Rajkumar and the title became. . . that. As far as the movie itself, I’m not sure I was disappointed, since it was a timepass in the very best sense of the word. But, well, I’m not sure it’s worth watching more than once.


The beginning was promising. Shahid Kapoor (as the titular whatever-you-want-to-call-him Rajkumar) beats people up and dances in fantastic Prabhudeva fashion. We first meet Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha) breaking bottles over the heads of some obnoxious men, and Angry Sonakshi channels Madhuri from Beta in a great way. Sadly, we don’t see much more of that, although Indignant Sonakshi (as Rajkumar stalks Chanda) is almost as good.