R...Rajkumar: death of the mass entertainer

Critics may have panned movies like Dabangg, Rowdy Rathore and Boss but they went ahead too earn hundreds of crores, mainly because the action-comedy works with the masses. Prabhudeva's latest film, however, brings the Bollywood masala several degrees lower.


Watching Prabhudeva's R...Rajkumar, I thought what has gone wrong with Hindi film industry! 
Just because a Dabangg becomes a hit, we get a flood of similar films, only getting worse in the repetition of matter, locations and now even the actors (read Sonakshi Sinha). R...Rajkumar is the worst of the lot. 

Right from the beginning of the film, the characters and dialogues irritate you. Each moment in the plot is completely predictable since you have already watched things like Rowdy Rathore and other Prabhudeva remakes made by the master choreographer-dancer himself. 

Another mistake Prabhudeva seems to have made is that he has tried to portray Shahid Kapoor as an action hero, beating up goons ten-times his size. Now, what else do you call unconvincing? A lean, stout man - Shahid - beating up tens of villians at one go is such an unbelievable scene, you feel Prabhudeva has made a spoof of Hindi films. Dear Prabudeva, Shahid is no Rajinikanth, he ain't even Akki!

In films like Rowdy Rathore, Wanted and Dabangg, the saving grace was the comedy. The, worst of Hindi films are passable in the name of entertainment. Sadly.even a tag like masala entertainer does not work for this Sonakshi Sinha,Shahid Kapoor-starrer, The comedy here is irritating and an abuse to the comic sense of the audience. 

Even actors like Sonu Sood, who emerge wonderful performers from such antics have failed to save the movie. 
Perhaps, Salman Khan foresaw the insult Prabhudeva was preparing in the name of R...Rajkumar when the Dabangg actor said that such entertainers will die soon. Khan said, "This space will die totally. I think this was a beautiful format where we had films like Wanted, Dabangg etc. Now everybody has overdone it so much that it might die away."