One fine Sunday morning you wake up and think let’s make a superhero movie stuffed with SFX, VFX, CGI and release it in 3D. Ra-One is one such nightmare. It is a badly conceptualised wannabe Hollywood movie with a defective screenplay and no logical writing sense at all. Forget about how Ra-One was conceived (a badly programmed AI they say, and we tend to understand.), but there were certain scenes where you scratch your head thinking how this happened? Shouldn’t the writer have explained it a bit more? When you have a star like Sharukh in a film you don’t expect punches like Condom Condom as in Kunjam Kunjam in Tamil. They were not funny at all. It was occasionally good with some decent scenes (thanks to the FX) otherwise it consisted with some confusing fillers with cheap comedy, unjustified emotional scenes, making dumb lines sound heavy and flying cars instead of hitting the villain.
The movie was an amalgamation of perhaps all the superhero movies mixed in (Ra) one. From Ironman, the suit and the glowing heart as they would say HART with some forced acronym. From Superman, the looks where he appears to be well shaven and a close shot to show how cute he is. From Hancock, the train stopping scene and sudden plunging into the air. From our very own Robot, the train hopping scene. The story neither says anything about his powers nor what he is capable of doing. It just explains a complex method to kill the villain with keeping the HART inside. A much more research was surely needed to pull off a story of this kind.
Not only writing, the music was very mediocre. Two tracks except dildara and bhare naina, all were very ordinary. I don’t care much about the songs in the album but a good background score always turns me on and the script as well . Where the theme score of G-One sounded like RD Burman’s intro of duniya me logo ko was a total fail for me. The background score was not at all synced with the story whatsoever.
Director Anubhav Sinha tried to make the film as classy as possible putting in some great foreign location, more and more FX to build a movie which is out of the league. But little he realised that the writing team he had was the actual cause of the fall. When you present a movie of this kind, you should at least make your narrative simpler and use less technical jargons while putting illogical technical theories of the birth of a super-villain and a super-hero. I know getting bitten by a radioactive spider is not logical either but look at the way they had introduced the story that even a five grader will understand. Forget the west, even Krishh which was a massive hit because it was kept simpler but at the same time was strong with its script.
The movie was a home production of Sharukh so he kept it that way. He wanted to be everything. A multi-dimensional game developer, a failed dad, a charming lover and lastly for which the movie speaks a Superhero. Putting his Kal ho na ho arm stretching stance in the scenes which kept me thinking, WHY? His acting was average. Nothing compared to his grand cinemas like Chak de India and Swades. Whereas Arjun Rampal gave a phenomenal performance being a villain. A good casting I would say. Kareena mostly killed it with her smoking hot persona with a brief stunning performance when she gets transformed into a pseudo bad character. Newcomer child artist Armaan was not bad being a first timer.
The movie still floats only and only for its FX and nothing else.As I have seen it in 3D, can say that it is the best 3D Bollywood movie so far and can be comparable to any good Hollywood film. There were pretty decorous scenes which were well shot and picturised, gives you a feel that you are watching a movie budgeting 180+ crore.The car chase scene and the coming down of VT station were done very precisely. The editing was good but could have been sharper. There is a brief scene of Chitti from Robot as a tribute to the Superstar Rajnikanth. The voiceover of Amitabh Bacchan sounded very apt. The intro dream sequence with Priyanka (desi girl) and Sanjay Dutt (Khalnayak) could have been better.
Overall the movie has some feel good scenes .Though it mostly speaks of Sharukh’s arrogance which was evident from the film itself. A not so consistent story along with confound writing. After putting a whopping 180 crore on a movie it shouldn’t have ended in just another home movie which is only worthy for a singular watch. Nevertheless one should always encourage his attempt in breaking the age old special effects and looking beyond for some high end VFX which is here to stay in bollywood for sure.The movie is a one time watch because at the end of the day you just cant resist a movie of this class no matter how badly it is penned.
And Shaktiman still remains my favourite SUPERHERO...
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