First thing first, it is great to be in Bhopal Bhopal
Shahrukh’s last release (apart from his 3 movie cameo
appearances in between) was in Feb 2010, so after about 21 months he comes up
with the most expensive movie in Bollywood (175 crs). First of all there were
rumors that the movie was inspired from ROBOT, which actually is not true, even
Rajnikant Sir makes a special appearance in the movie, which for me was the best
part of the movie. Jackie chan was approached for an important part in the
movie, which he eventually turned down. Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra also makes
special appearance in the movie as well. And everybody has seen the trailers of
the movie, so the quality of special effects is no mystery. Can some thing go
wrong, well yes and it dose go wrong at a lot of places.
To make myself clear, the plot where a villain comes out of
a video game is not a problem for me, you have to accept a basic premise for
any movie to enjoy, it may be accepting a 45 year old Aamir Khan to play a
college boy in ‘3 Idiots’, or accepting that Anushka Sharma cant recognize her
husband in a different getup in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. So I am comfortable with
the idea that a super villain comes out of a video game, but my problem is,
although the villain may have the same intellectual capacity in the real world
as he had in the virtual world, but how do you account for the same physical
capabilities he has in the game to be carried of in the real world, which
defies physics from the very beginning. Because an artificial intelligence
program can develop by itself and could transmit itself from one location to
another makes sense, but the powers enjoyed by a video game character in a
video game can not be just transmitted to an ordinary suit. Another weakness
comes in the climax when somehow Shahrukh’s son is able to make a connection
between reality and the game, it just doesn’t makes any sense.
Even the director needs to evaluate his humor quotient, as
in the initial 15 minutes of the movie, you get a Priyanka Chopra in an
irritating role, and you get a Shahrukh who looks terrible as a south Indian
and plays the character without any conviction. Abuses by Kareena dose not
enlighten anybody neither it entertains.
However leaving all the negative things said above in the
backburner for some time, the movie is watch able, the effort and money put in
could be felt without any effort. Especially the local train sequence is best
of the lot. Performance wise Shahrukh has done well as G.ONE but failed as
Shekher Subramaniam, Kareena is fine when she is not abusing, the kid who plays
Shahrukh’s son is good, Shahana Goswami and Arjun Rampal dose not got any scope
in the movie, although Arjun is the main villain, the Chinese actor is
likeable, Sanju Baba in guest appearance is excellent, best performance for me
is by Suresh Menon with his 3-4 minute of role.
The movie may remind you of Terminator-2 :The Judgment Day,
in various scenes or in the general feeling of the story, where a robot is
trying to kill a little boy and other is trying to save him, only difference
being in Terminator the robots came from future, in RAONE they came from a
computer game. The climax of RAONE also leaves a possibility of a sequel if the
movie does ample business, which looks a certain possibility.
So altogether on the script level the movie could have a few
flaws, but that should not stop you from watching it at least once. And if you
have kids in home, they are going to love the movie.
Rating **1/2
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