Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Vir Das, Zakhir Hussain, Piyush Mishra
Direcor: Sai Kabir
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
If one has to live through REVIOLVER RANI, cotton for ears,
and a pillow for your brain is mandatory accessory you might require. Set in a
hinterland of India against the background of two political entities trying to
take pot-shots at each other for victory. But what they do to reserve their
victory is written in pattern of shoddy screenplay where predictability is
written all over even if the pretends to have wooed you with the interval
twist.
The film starts to drag down from the word go. The first couple
of scenes involving Zakhir Hussain and his two good-for-nothing nincompoop
companions is stretched to death. I felt I watched half the film in first 10
minutes itself. When Kangana arrives in the film, you expect the film to catch
a flight and raise a momentum. But alas! REVOLVER RANI has nothing in its
kitty. The abrupt incestuous love sparkling between Vir Das and Kangana too
doesn’t help the film either especially given the kind of person Kangana plays
who is virago-esque. But the film only looks struggling although amidst all the
bumps and hurdles there are few sharp dialogues that one can crack a chuckle.
Even post intermission, which starts afresh after a sudden
U-turn in the story, starts to succumb to old
revenge format of our Bollywood and quite unconvincingly so. The only
moment I remember from this film is the one where Vir Das’ character is
compelled to do stuff which is far away from what he is looking at in life.
You’ll know that when and if you watch the film. The climax of the film where
all pretentious heroics of our heroine creeps in reminded me of another poor
women-centric drama released few weeks ago called GULAAB GANG: the similarity
is both the film is trying to glorify women’s power but with an inane plot.
With terrible songs and background score it only helps in
deteriorating the overall impact of the film. The film’s crux i.e. the
screenplay itself is filled with clichés and failed attempts of writing whacky
characters which are far from funny even if they do help you have some laughs
in couple of scenes.
Vir Das is the only bright spot in this dreadful film. I
enjoyed watching his scenes even though he is capability is far better. Kangana
Ranaut couldn’t develop a single emotion in viewer’s hearts even while she is
going through deep trouble in throughout the second half. She never justifies
the role, which was a new one. Her bewildering expressions would have been apt
for rather a horror film.
In the end, all I can say is REVOLVER RANI can be missed
with pride. And if you’re a Kangana fan, then you must skip it- this is not a
performance any fan would like to see of his/her star.
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