It’s been more than 7 years, since we saw Akshay Kumar in an out-an-out action film. Known as the ‘Khiladi of Bollywood’ for his popular Khiladi films in the 90s, Akki returns to what he does best – bash the baddies on screen. In Rowdy Rathore, directed by Prabhu Deva who last directed Wanted, Akshay has a double-role. He plays Siva (the smart thief) and Vikram Rathore (the IPS officer).
The film is produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and has music composed by Sajid-Wajid.
Story: Rowdy Rathore is about Siva, a thief who falls in love with Priya (Sonakshi Sinha). It’s love at first sight, as he promises her to give up all his bad deeds to lead a good life together. Just then enters a 6 year old Neha, who calls Siva her father. Out of nowhere, people start attacking him and Siva becomes the target of a gang. Why do they want to kill him? Who is Neha? Watch Rowdy Rathore to find out!
Rowdy Rathore Movie Review
Before we get into the negatives, let’s look at the positive aspects of the film and who the target audience are..
- Rowdy Rathore is a film for the masses. If you’ve seen Dabangg or Singham, Rowdy Rathore is similar but with an added twist.
- The action only begins to unfold in the second half, as Akshay Kumar proves why he’s called the Khiladi. There is a lot that goes into making an action scene look convincing, apart from the action choreographer who plays a major role, the actors need to get their body language right. That’s exactly where Akshay shines. He’s brilliant in the action sequences, with comic timing that is unmatched in the industry.
- The sequences that involve Akshay Kumar and the young child artist, touches your heart.
- The dialogues will work big time with the single-screen audience. “Joh main bolta hoon, woh main karta hoon. Joh main nahi bolta, woh main definitely karta hook”, “Don’t angry me” and “Rathore.. Rowdy Rathore”. There are several such one-liners or punch dialogues, which are one of the biggest attractions for the masses.
- There are several special appearances and most of them in the Chinta Ta Chitta Chitta song. Kareena Kapoor looks beautiful and does a couple of moves from Criminal and Chammak Challo (both form Ra One). South superstar Vijay and director Prabhu Deva too make small appearances in the same song. Mumaith Khan and Maryam Zakaria (who was last seen in the Agent Vinod mujra) are part of the post-interval item song. Maryam looks very pretty.
What we didn’t particularly like
- The first half! The love angle between Akshay and Sonakshi doesn’t work, as the film takes forever to get to the point. To add to the woes, there are 3 songs which are forced into the narrative. Why do we need so many songs in hindi films, like seriously??
- Sonakshi Sinha is wasted. She has absolutely NOTHING to do, expect dance to 4 odd songs and hug the hero. Her only noteworthy scene is just before the climax, where she verbally abuses the villain.
- Rowdy Rathore is not for everyone. The urban audience may not like the excess of action (a bit of blood and gore included). Also, it’s all about entertainment here, so not much in the film for those looking for sense or logic.
Performances: Akshay Kumar towers above the other actors, director and the script! He makes even the most mediocre of scenes, entertaining. We’ve already spoken enough about Sonakshi, she should seriously look into doing roles that gives her scope to perform. Nassar, who plays the negative role, is brilliant. The other supporting actors are all good.
To sum up, if you’ve watched and enjoyed films like Dabangg, Singham and Wanted, you’ll like Rowdy Rathore. At the box-office, the film has already opened to a mind-boggling response at single screens and it should continue to do well there. But it’s at the multiplexes where Rowdy Rathore could falter after the initial weekend.
Do post your Rowdy Rathore reviews in the comments section below and stay tuned for all the updates box-office related updates.
Rating:
ROWDY ka fatka INSAAN ka jhatka
ROWDY ka fatka DE DANA DANA DAN jhatka
Rowdy Rathod total screening 2900 & collection -14 Crore
Bodyguard total screening 2300 & collection — 21.5 Crore
isse pata chalta hai kaun kitna pani main hai. yeh hai TIGER salman ka star power,,
Yeh Sabi comments padke,main ye samaj gaya ki,har ek ko APNA APNA HERO SAB SE BADA LAGTA..
Kuch logon ko Aamir,kuch Logon ko Sallu,aur kuch ko Srk..
Agar aap ek,film star ke fan binaa,EK ACHE FILM PASAND KARNE WALE HO,toh,GO AND WATCH MOVIES..
Not only as a star fan..
But,also as an audience..
We want gud cinemas..
Aur ek baath bi yaadh rakh lo:never undr estimate any star..kyon ki,HAR EK STAR KO,APNA APNA,CREDIT AUR APNA APNA LIMIT HOTA HAI..
They are also like ours..they are Human beings..NOT ROBOTS..
I love salman khan
I love salman khan
ek tha tiger,dabangg 2,kick,sher khan,atbb
Saari dunya mein sirf 1 hi tiger hai
aur wo hai Sallu Bhai
akki ROCKS IN DIS FILM MUST WATCH FILM…….. SAllu aur srk tho kuch bhi nahi
Akshay flop kumar
Mahesh iz the one and only action hero
perfect comedy perfect action and perfect comedy timing and roamnce i have ever seen
akshay kumar’s shiva character reminds one of BigB’s character of Vijay from Don 2. where he’s cool and funny, macho and tough and street smart at the same time, he’s good at playing a clever thief, only he could of done it.
biggest bluk buster in boyywood next 100cr movie
Audience should not be mislead by some foolish comment made by hypocrite, rowdy rathore is akki’s best and peole loves it.bluck buster yaar.
” ROWDY RATHORE ” is a very good movie as an expected .
GOOD POINTS
akshay’s comedy and specially the action and also some emotion makes move perfect . people wants 2 part is good than the first and this give him a very good 2 part . the acting of akshay kumar is outstanding . the song of this film is good specially – chint ta ta & dhadang . the directing of prabhudeva is superb and the story is outstanding
BAD POINTS
the acting of sonakshi sinha is not good and the sonakshi’s role is very short and not an imporant role . only one bad song of film is :- chammak challo chel chabeli .
there is no much bad points because the rowdy rathore is and awesome movie ….. :):):):):) ……
Akshay is a allrounder in the film industry like as south afrika crickator kallis
salman is a great action hero – a big joke haha
copying all telugu movies how he can become hero?
recently he is copying a couple of scenes from our telugu film”GABBAR SINGH” which was a partial remake of his dabbing, for his movie dabangg2
can’t do any film without any remake
Akki you r great
Rowdy rocks the boxoffice . Akshay is the real star.
AKKI YOU ARE SUPER STAR BEST OF LUCK
Akshay kumar is the best.
Akshay ia s self made man & a true Punjabi.Punjab loves u akki.
Best action hero in Bollywood.
Hey, thanks for the blog post.Really looking forward to read more. Will read on…