Rajjo Movie Review | Rajjo Hindi Movie Review | Rajjo Movie Hit or Flop | Rajjo Movie Rating | Rajjo Movie Story

Rajjo Movie Review | Rajjo Hindi Movie Review | Rajjo Movie Hit or Flop | Rajjo Movie Rating | Rajjo Movie Story

Movie : Rajjo

Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Paras Arora, Mahesh Manjrekar

Director: Vishwas Patil

One of the most unintentionally funny films to come out this year,Rajjo takes the cake for setting the clock of movie making back in time not by minutes and hours, but several years. A story of a nautch girl (Kangana) from Grant Road who falls in love with a teenager (Paras), the film breaks new ground in creating absurd situations and coming up with inane dialogues where women are compared to sim cards and construction sites! An assault on our sensibility, the film fails to strike a single chord with its story or treatment.

Supporting characters make up for a badly dressed under shaved eunuch (Mahesh Manjrekar), a hilarious cameo by Jaya Prada and Prakash Raj hamming it up with more relish rolled at a Subway outlet! Misery loves company, and so at the press screening, a young woman in the next seat kept muttering.

Sure, a sexually exploited woman is at the centre of the story (if it can be called a story, charitably) but she’s made out to be so daft and dizzy that it’s impossible to summon up a shred of sympathy for this walking-talking-dancing bundle of cliches, dithering away to evoke the memories of 'Pakeezah', 'Umrao Jaan', Rekha from 'Muqaddar ka Sikandar' and Manisha Koirala from 'Market'. Heh heh, 'Rajjo' has an ice cube’s chance in a furnace, actually

Worse, the backdrop which is supposed to be Mumbai’s Grant Road – at times, suddenly called Agripada – is a feverish figment of the imagination. Kothas, as in Lucknow, no longer exist there. Neither do dance club bars, but then logic and authenticity are the least of your worries. Technically, the result is amateurish, the writing borders on the crude consistently, and the supposed love story of a courtesan and a kiddo is reduced to a joke, in a manner that is quite degrading to the portrayal of women.

Kangana Ranaut’s last performance as Kaya was a blessing compared to this. What remains constant is her bad dialogue delivery and over dramatic nautch girl act. However she is confident, which isn’t a praise because it isn’t appreciable that the girl is bad so confidently. Paras Arora has the looks of an adorable child which works in his favor. The boy doesn’t act and presumably cannot act. Still no idea why Mahesh Manjrekar and Dalip Tahil agreed for the film at all. Men of their potential should bend beneath their stature under any cost. And Prakash Raj is ace as the villain who makes you laugh with his constant caricatures. Why is he a common figure in all films these days is unknown to me but it surely needs to change. Rajjo is a futile exercise in trying to titillate the masses or win over the classes with a strong narrative. “Zulmi re zulmi!”.

Movie Rating : 1/5