Raabta Review

What happens when you take,

1. 2 plot points from Magadheera (& the basic general idea)

2. 1 Character (khal Drogo) from game of thrones

3. Add in a bit of modern age Bollywood rom-com

4. A half baked script with multiple dead ends.

The answer is obviously Raabta.

I LOVE reincarnation stories, from Karz to Magadheera I must have seen them all.

This movie although takes elements from the most common clichés, it doesn’t manage to put them in place properly.

The good parts of the movie is Sushant singh rajput’s modern day avatar’s acting. It keeps the film going. Kriti Sanon is really good looking, her acting is a bit lacking, but so is her character.

Spoilers ahead.

The villain is like a mix of Joker from Dark Knight and Shah Rukh Khan from Darr, and he is REALLY bad.

The acting is so over the top that it looks like he is in a different film from the other two leads.

Plot wise, the film tries to do what magadheera did, but SO halfheartedly that it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

Some things make no sense, proving the director is a class a moron. In one scene towards the end the hero and heroine are bantering while on the run, when suddenly they are shot at with automatic guns. But 2 scenes ago, the villain shot dead one of his henchmen for shooting a gun at the heroine, because he obviously wants her alive. So why will the henchmen now shoot hundreds of bullets at the pair?

The climax is sudden and half-baked too. They intercut the past’s ending and present repeatedly as if the audience has forgotten that they saw those scenes barely 15 minutes ago.

Coming to the part of the film which shows their previous lives:

OH boy is this embarrassing. They try to go more game of thrones than Mahabharat, everyone is shown as savages, the war scene involves 10 people fighting near a waterfall. The dialogs trying to show olden times is complete gibberish and the audience started leaving in those scenes…

I tried hard to not compare this film to Magadheera, but they are two VERY similar subject films, but with totally different treatments. The reason magadheera worked was because it was over the top, it was grand and the past scenes were simply amazing (i.e before baahubali came out).

This film is SO lacking that it doesn’t even use it own title track properly, the background music is lacking, the title theme is not used at all dramatically. All in all, the theater was empty on a Saturday afternoon. This film is a flop and deserves to be one.

Verdict: Lack of imagination, awkward romance, over the top idiotic villain, does not a good reincarnation movie make…

Rating: 4/10. Hard to see it one time. DIE hard fans of Magadheera and KArz and other such films might be interested to see it, but my advice:

SKIP IT and watch it on DVD or HOTSTAR, or Netflix or amazon prime. Whatever.

P.s: the two songs ik baari aaja and the raabta title track are really amazing songs. Sad that they are wasted on such a bad film.