Ra.One

Just imagine…

The King Khan in a nerdy soda-bottle glass look, doing some south-Indian spoof with all the Tamil accent, eating noodles with curd, wearing silly tight leather pants & an unforgivable wig! He is Shekhran (Shahrukh Khan), the doting dad, who makes a video game with an invincible villain, RA.ONE (Arjun Rampal)  just in order to fulfil his son, Prateek’s (Armaan Verma) fantasy!

On the day of launch of the “new” video game, Prateek tries the game & beats Ra.One in two levels (hello! Wasn’t Ra.One supposed to be invincible? Seems his artificial intelligence went for a toss Post reading the script!) & just when he is about to start the third level, he is summoned by his parents. This pisses off Ra.One (May be he thinks audience is leaving already!) & he decides to leave the digital world to find & defeat Lucifer (Prateek’s Gaming name). Ra.One kills Shekhran along with a few other team members to get to Lucifer! Sonia (Kareena Kapoor) decides to go back to India along with her son Prateek, post Shekhran’s sudden death!

Prateek by now has figured, if the Villian can come out of the digital world why can’t the Hero? Enter: G.One (Shahrukh Khan). Then on it’s a kill Lucifer mission for Ra.One & save Lucifer mission for G.One! What happens next? What would Sonia’s reaction be to this Shekhar’s look-alike Robot version? What would happen if G.One meets Chitti (Rajnikant)? Will G.One be able to defeat the “unbeatable” Ra.One?

The Film can easily claim to have best VFX in Bollywood till date-but it doesn’t match up to Hollywood standards at all! The movie definitely is weak on script, screenplay, dialogues & most of all, the premise itself! Most of the superhero stories are based on the good v/s evil that will change the face of the world, be it Spiderman, Batman, Superman or closer at home-Krish; G.One’s only obsession is to save Lucifer-he doesn’t bother to protect other people Ra.One is killing- he only incidentally saves thousands when he rescues Sonia in the train stunt! What about the Mask? A Superhero’s Costume is incomplete without a mask-the movie clearly banks on SRK’s Face Value! So, no hiding the face for G.One! Moreover the basic recipe for a great superhero flick is that the superhero lives amongst us, like a common man & when need arises he gets into his superhero avatar, which tends to bring a ray of hope amongst the viewers- but in here G-One seems to be the bodyguard robot of Shekhran’s family! But he is not a regular bodyguard- you see, he works out probably by lifting cars, stopping a derailed train with bare hands & hiking skyscrapers!

With Patchy scenes, songs thrown in here & there & despite some “Friendly” appearances-the movie is not viewer-friendly at all!

There is only ONE reaction to this G.One-Ra.One drama: its BOOOO.ONE!

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