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Rowdy Rathore
Release Date: June 01, 2012Language: HindiGenre: Action
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Maryam Zakaria, Sonakshi Sinha, Nasser
Mini Review: Villains that make you cringe by their crudeness, never-ending number of henchmen who yell grotesquely before they attack hero, a rural setting where the villagers are cowards, police officers who are more pathetic than sheep, card-board cutout politicians who are pure nasty. In this fabulously...
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Villains that make you cringe by their crudeness, never-ending number of henchmen who yell grotesquely before they attack hero, a rural setting where the villagers are cowards, police officers who are more pathetic than sheep, card-board cutout politicians who are pure nasty. In this fabulously...
Villains that make you cringe by their crudeness, never-ending number of henchmen who yell grotesquely before they attack hero, a rural setting where the villagers are cowards, police officers who are more pathetic than sheep, card-board cutout politicians who are pure nasty. In this fabulously unique setting is our hero, larger than life, spouting bhelpuri dialog like, ‘Don’t angry me’ who rescues not only the trite plot but makes it fun to watch people being slashed.
Okay, then! Do yourself a favour. Do not go to YouTube and watch Pratighat A Revenge a movie starring Ravi Teja and Anuskha Shetty dubbed in Hindi. Because this is a copy of the movie. Thankfully we have the effervescent Akshay Kumar who saves the movie by his great ham act.
That Akshay Kumar can pull faces is a given. The mooch in the movie takes away half that ability. He looks so gorgeous as Rathore, they should be giving away clip-on mooches to every kid, and the police department should use the speech he makes for their passing-out parades.
His colorful pants and matching canvas shoes are their costume department’s wet dream. Add to that Sonakshi Sinha’s delicious curves that are made for sarees, and her awesome ear rings, and we have a super hot throw-pennies-at-the-screen kind of hotness in the lead pair. That itself assures claps and whistles all through the movie.
Prabhu Deva (as he did in Wanted) manages to convince none other than South Super Star Vijay to show up in a dance number and take a whirl with Akshay Kumar. I was happy to see Kareena Kapoor shake her leg in the song as well. Prabhu Deva’s phenomenal talent as a dancer is evident in the choreographed numbers (including the item number) and as a director too in the imaginative fight sequences. My only grouse is, Prabhu Deva makes the same mistake in the last fight as he does in the original movie. But give me Sonakshi any day over Anushka...
Yes, that brings us to Sonakshi Sinha. She brings voluptuous back in vogue. Unabashedly sensuous, she lights up the screen with her presence. Trouble with sensuality is that young studs in the audience will now take to eve-teasing by calling girls on the street, ‘maal’. Pity, because she is gorgeous.
I haven’t said a thing about humor, because it is plain silly. And no matter how deadpan his delivery, Akshay Kumar cannot save a movie by his divide the loot joke. Why then am I telling you to go see it? Because you dear Bollywood audience, haven’t seen such happy mara mari movies that the audience in the South have grown up watching in the late 70s and early 80s. Remember this though, there are better angry young men movies out there. However, none have Rathore’s mooch...
Plot
Rowdy Akshay Kumar is a small-time thief and crook who is crazy about acts of daredevilry. One day, he gets the shock of his life when a young girl turns up and claims him to be her father. After recovering from the stunning blow, he slowly starts to find out the truth behind the claim. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of IPS Police officer Vikram Singh Rathore also Akshay Kumar . Vikram is the long-lost twin of Rowdy. After the two meet, in an excitement shock, Vikram Rathore is confronted by underworld-gangsters who then murder him right infront...
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Taran Adarsh - Bollywood Hungama
ROWDY RATHORE, a remake of the Telugu smash hit VIKRAMARKUDU 2006 , marks the return of Akshay Kumar in the action genre after a hiatus. Directed by the supremely talented and super-successful S.S. Rajamouli and starring Ravi Teja, the movie was a gigantic victory at the turnstiles. It was later remade in Tamil as SIRUTHAI, in Kannada as VEERA MADAKARI and in Bengali as BIKRAM SINGHA: THE LION IS BACK. The Telugu film, VIKRAMARKUDU, was also dubbed in Hindi as PRATIGHAT - A REVENGE.
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Srijana Mitra Das - Times of India
Rowdy Rathore pays homage to iconic filmi characters - identical heroes, golden-hearted chors, brave Men in Brown beating evil people to pulp. However, it pays most homage to its own star, Akshay Kumar, who pulls off Shiva with style but Vikram less so, possibly because all that violence overwhelms acting itself.
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Blessy Chettiar - DNA
Rowdy Rathore has some very well-executed action scenes. There’s no doubting that the fun in these remakes of South films is directly proportional to how many and for long a hero can beat up rogues.
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Raja Sen - Rediff
Rowdy Rathore surprises, somewhat.Inured to the kind of exploding-beedi violence promised by the trailer, the film instead starts stupid and stays silly.
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Saibal Chatterjee - NDTV Movies
Rowdy Rathore is a shrill action flick designed to help Akshay Kumar return to his hit-making ways. Accept that obvious intent and you might actually end up enjoying certain parts of the film against your own better counsel.
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Martin D'Souza - Glam Sham
ROWDY RATHORE is Akshay's absolute conviction of the characters he has to play. Throwing caution to wind, he fights, dances and romances with gay abandon.
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Mrigank Dhaniwala - Koi Moi
What’s Good: The comic scenes; the action sequences; Akshay Kumar’s performance; the music. What’s Bad: The contrived screenplay; a few boring portions of the drama. Verdict: Rowdy Rathore entertains in parts.
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Anupama Chopra - Hindustan Times
Rowdy Rathore beats you to a pulp, cinematically. It’s a relentless assault that kicks in as soon as the credit titles roll. Directed by Prabhu Deva, this is the fourth remake of the story about a super-strong police officer named Vikram Singh Rathore, who twirls his moustache and smashes baddies into the ground.
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Rajeev Masand - IBN Live
Rowdy Rathore is the kind of movie that's made by people with a cash register in place of their brain. Because no legitimate reason, other than financial gain, can justify why this movie was made – it has no story or plot whatsoever, the characters are entirely forgettable, and it's so long and loud and silly that the laughs dry up early on.
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Rummana Ahmed - yahoo
The film is loaded with Tamil-style punch lines, slow motion action sequences where blood quietly trickles on to dusty ground and menacing-looking villains who live in a Ramgarh-styled haunt.
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Cast
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Akshay Kumar
as Shiva/ Vikram Singh Rathore
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Maryam Zakaria
as Item Number
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Sonakshi Sinha
as Neeraja
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Nasser
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Paresh Ganatra
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Jayant Gadekar
as Bhima Goon
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Kareena Kapoor
as Akram
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Prabhu Deva
as Rahul
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Vijay
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Mumaith Khan
as Item Girl
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Shakti Mohan
as Item Number
Crew
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Prabhu Deva
Director
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Producer
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Ronnie Screwvala
Producer
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Zarina Mehta
Producer
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Siddharth Roy Kapur
co-producer
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Sajid Ali
Music Director
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Wajid Ali
Music Director
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Shabina Khan
Producer, co-producer
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Shreya Ghoshal
playback singer
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Mamta Sharma
playback singer
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Mika Singh
playback singer
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Sarosh Sami
playback singer
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Kumar Sanu
playback singer
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Javed Ali
playback singer
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Akshay Kumar
playback singer
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Shiraz Ahmed
Writer
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Sanjay Sankla
Editor
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Santosh Thundiiayil
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Dhadang Dhang Dhang
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal,Wajid Ali
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Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita
Singer: Wajid Ali,Mika Singh
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Aa Re Pritam Pyaare
Singer: Mamta Sharma,Sarosh Sami
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Chamak Challo Chel Chabeli
Singer: Kumar Sanu,Shreya Ghoshal
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Tera Ishq Bada Teekha
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal,Javed Ali
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Chandaniya (Lori Lori)
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal
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Rowdy Mix
Singer: Akshay Kumar,Sarosh Sami
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