Rating: 2.5/5 stars (Two And Half Stars)
Star cast: Girish Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Randhir Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Vinod
Khanna, Poonam Dhillon, Satish Shah,
Govind Namdeo, Zakir Hussain, Nassar,
Anchal Singh, Pankhuri Awasthi
Director: Prabhu Deva
What's Good:
Designed to be an obsessive crowd pleaser this film doesn't
leave any stone unturned to be obviously
funny!
What's Bad:
The film tries too hard to be funny, loud and ridiculous, not to mention
cliched!
Loo break: Innumerable
Watch or Not?:
Ramaiya Vastavaiya is for people who have a taste in juvenile
comedy. This Prabhudeva directorial
works unabashedly on regular formula of
a hero, a heroine and her staunch elder
brother. Expect an average entertainer,
this one is a stylishly silly, regular masala rom-com that expects you
to leave your
brains at home!
User Rating:
An Australian born NRI Ram flows down
to India to attend his cousin's wedding
and falls in love with her friend Sona.
Despite other women eyeing him, her
naïve charm makes our hero go gaga on
her.
But one insulting scene between his
mother and girl's brother shatters his
perfect picture. Now he must impress a
conservative and robust brother, who is
fiercely protective of his only sister. The
film attempts to celebrates the triumph of a love story that must mend a few
impossible fractures to win.
Ramaiya Vastavaiya Review: Script
Analysis
I would have shamelessly said 'What
Story?' but that would be unacceptable
and so I will care to elaborate on this.
This movie is a cross between Salman-
Kajol starrer Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya
and the classic Hum Aapke Hai Kaun. What lacks here is the innocence and
elan of those films! The one-liners and
gags are simply stupid and leave no
impact. The term subtle has no relevance
in such films and hence its best you don't
expect it. The gags don't seem to exhaust themselves as they begin to
stench more
through its runtime, making it even more
tedious to bear with. The heavy
borrowing from Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna
Kiya just proves that there is such a
dearth of innovation in dishing out old ideas!
Prabhudeva manages to make the story
sleek in extraordinary ways but his
efforts are half baked as every frame of
the films will remind you either of the
afore mentioned films. This film is
invariably stale with no earnestness that is what fails it.
Ramaiya Vastavaiya Review: Star
Performances
Girish Kumar has innocent eyes and
that's all I managed to notice about him.
It was bearable sitting through his chimp
like acting because he is endearing!
Shruti Haasan is the striking shadow of
her mother, in beauty. However, her
acting has way to go before it evolves to
that! She has a pleasant screen presence
to aide her shaky performance which
works in her favor.
Sonu Sood is robust and scorching! Yes, it
indeed doesn't match up to the charisma
he lent to Chedhi Singh in Dabangg but
he is undoubtedly good!
Randhir Kapoor is wonderful as Girish's
father and Vinod Khanna is just as
appealing. And both Poonam Dhillon and
Satish Shah deserved better roles!
Ramaiya Vastavaiya Review: Direction,
Screenplay and Music
Prabhudeva's signature flamboyance is
what the film reeks of. His first tryst with
making a romantic comedy is as good or
bad as the rest of his repertoire.
However, the film lacks the enigma of his
previous films, for the obvious lack of actors that colossal. The screenplay is
colorful and doesn't go insipid but the
grotesque sense of humor it imbibes
could have been avoided. The music is
strictly fine and Jaadu Ki Jhappi is what
prevails for Prabhudeva's maverick like dance.
Ramaiya Vastavaiya Review: The Last
Word
Ramaiya Vastavaiya is strictly a mediocre
entertainer that despite its loud and
garish ways manages to hold well. Its
childish and regular formulaic affair
works if have the appetite for standard
entertainer. I am going with 2.5/5. If you lock up your logic, this
one will do for
you!
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watching Ramaiya Vastavaiya.
Rahul Raut
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