Saturday 6 July 2013

Review of Raanjhana

Release date –21'st June 2013

One Word which describes the film – Intriguing

Best  Dialogue – 

"Mere piche scooter mai baithna padega. Main break maarunga toh mujhpe girna padega. Mere saath naachna-gaana padega. Girlfriend na sahi..feel hi dede"

Genre – Romance /Drama

Story - Himanshu Sharma

Music – A. R. Rahman

Producer - Krishika Lulla

Direction Anand L. Rai


Budget - 35 crores


The promos of the film showed a love story in a rustic background and melodious music by A.R.Rehman . The film starts with the dialogue ,"Ek baat main samajh gaya hoon. Ladki aur rocket aapko kahin bhi le jaa sakte hain"  
We are presented with a hero who knows he is dark and not very good looking and still is madly in love with a pretty girl and wants to get her by hook or crook . Till interval the film has lots of comic moments.


Dhanush has done full justice to his role. It's hard to imagine any other 30 year actor play the role of a 17 year old. In his school dress and clean shaven look he looks like a teenager who is desperate to express his feelings to his crush.   
Dhanush and Zeeshan as childhood friends  share an amazing chemistry . The dialogues  they share like ,  "Tumhara pyaar na ho gaya..UPSC ka exam ho gaya. 10 saal se paas hi nai ho raha" is an important factor in the film's success .

Sonam Kapoor as the manipulative Zoya has given a good performance though in the second half most of the time she has the same expressions on her face .

Abhay Deol has a short role and totally fades in front of Dhanush.

In a line though the love story may not be perfect with everyone using everyone else for their benefit but the characters of the film are so real and down to earth that you can relate with them .

Must watch for a totally paisa-vasool first half . 

Rank - 15  ( out of the 54 films  I have seen in 2013 )

1 comment:

  1. I went to see the movie only & only for the awesome songs and with zero expectations of a good movie

    The first half of the movie is simply mind blowing and awesome, Dhanush has overshadowed Sonam in the movie. Never expected such awesome natural acting by Dhanush. He suited the role to the T and has lived the character to magical levels of 10/10 marks basis

    Their transformations from Teens to Adults is the best part of the movie, as their dress, hairstyle , body language makes you believe that they are teens/ school going teens and then the gradual transform to grown ups is very well cone

    The second half just sucked big time, lost the plot , movie goes into a different track all together and just could not connect with the movie atoll.he should have kept the 2nd half lighter basis but somehow the director was convinced of dark 2nd half

    Overall a awesome first half to watch and then walk away.....

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