R.. Rajkumar Times of India Reviews!

Story: A rowdy Romeo falls in love with a village belle, but he has to fight the enemies of love - chachas, chamchaas and cronies - to take home his dulhaniya.

Review: He rips, he roars, he rages. He rides roughshod. Like a lovelorn 'Rambo', he rolls his 'R's. He's the riotous R...Rajkumar (R for Romeo!). Once again, a rebellious and raving hero jumps out of Prabhu Dheva's story - loaded with gaon-full of goons, buffoons, 'item' chhoris, less 'silence' and unstoppable violence.

'RR' (Shahid) lands in Dhartipur, with his heart on his colourful sleeve, double power in his muscles and bravado in his bones. Flaunting his mawaligiri and 'maar'daangi with equal gusto. One quick encounter with desi beauty Chanda (Sonakshi) and his dil is 'attached' to her for eternity. He woos her aggressively (lovingly calls her Lollipop!), even turns Action Jackson for her, 'breaking a few legs' and tons of bottles. She's no less a razor-tongue firebrand and hard-to-get girl, albeit briefly.

Some gandi baat, chummas, and 'sari falling' scenes later (nothing scandalous!) she melts, and their love story seems complete. Not really! The gaon is infamous for two warring drug dons, Shivraj (Sood) and Parmar (Vidyarthi). 'RR' joins Shivraj and becomes his lead henchman, but soon realizes that Lollipop is Parmar's niece. More trouble ensues' it turns into a 'sarry affair' (everyone seems to fight for a yard of Chanda's sari!) and 'RR' has no choice but to become the new posterboy of the now stereotyped, violent, angry, young man.

Shahid pulls off the tapori act well, dances fabulously, does kickass action and slips in good comic moments. His makeover as action hero can't go unnoticed, but his demolition man act is unconvincing for action larger than his boyish shoulders. He scores better as Romeo than ruffian. Sonakshi has some dumdaar lines but repeats her desi doll act. Sood's dabang-giri works, Asrani (as Shivraj's senile soothsayer) shoots funny one-liners, but his OTTism is sadly stuck in an 80s loop.

While 'R...Rajkumar' entertains at some levels, it suffers from utter plainness and predictability. The raw action is impressive (Ravi Varma), the songs (Pritam) and the choreography are routine attractions. The second half seems like a sari too long and the comedy is often forced.

It has some 'Must Haves' of a pot-boiler, but misses the real thing - a SOLID STORY! 

Rating:***
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R.. Rajkumar Review from Yahoo!

Just when you thought that Prabhu Dheva had perfected the art of churning out potboilers with typical southern spicing, ‘R… Rajkumar’ disappoints like nothing else.

‘R…Rajkumar’ is the kind of formulaic film that was very popular in the 1970s. When made well, it works because of nostalgic value but unless there is at least one unique thing in the plot, the action formula has become so passé.

Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) decides to become the right-hand person of a local goon after he’s struck by love at first sight. His research is so bad that he doesn’t even realize that he is helping the rival gang. By interval the director has exhausted all his ploys and yet we are forced to sit through another hour of mindless violence and slapstick humour.

If stories like this one need to have some sort of structure, we have already seen the set-up, the conflict and have a fair idea of the resolution by the end of the first half and the later half holds little promise to keep us hooked.

We have grown tired of watching flimsy plots that reek of shoddy writing and have nothing to boast of but slow motion Matrix-style action sequences, peppered with songs shot in exotic locales and raunchy items songs shoved in just to titillate the audience. I just couldn’t get over the ‘Kaddu Katega’ song from ‘R…Rajkumar’, how do the censors even let this pass?

Sonakshi Sinha has made a giant leap in her acting career; from just batting eyelids in her previous films, she gets to shoot a fiery glance now and then in ‘R…Rajkumar’, she also gets to break a beer bottle on someone’s head in her introductory scene and start a small fire by burning wedding cards.

Shahid really needs help when it comes to choosing the right role. He is saddled with a character that has little scope to improvise. The right dance moves and all the Keanu Reeves-style action is just wasted in this film.

‘R…Rajkumar’ is a huge disappointment because there is hardly a single praise worthy thing in the whole film.

 Rating:*1/2

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