Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Prakash Raj, Mahesh Manjrekar, Paras Arora

Director: Vishwas Patil

Rating: * 1/2

There is no denying the fact that Bollywood's cine literati have a firm fascination for the story-lines with a high value of social relevance. But as they say,"not every piece of art is destined to be a masterpiece" and so seems to be the case with, Vishawas Patil's 'Rajjo' which with a women centric theme attempts to showcase the women-empowerment.

With an entire brigade of most talented and versatile actors comprising Kangana Ranaut, Prakash Raj, Mahesh Manjrekar and an attention grabbing theme at its base "Rajjo" received a very poor opening at the multiplexes. Probably it was the co-existence of Sanjay Leelas Bhansali's 'Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela' at cineplexes which took away the limelight from Rajjo's basket.

Anyhow, coming straight away to Rajjo's premise, then as stated earlier, it's the cine delight with a women centric approach targeting women empowerment and primarily narrates the story of a prostitute Rajjo (Kangana Ranaut) who circumstantially slips into the dark world of flesh trade. But subsequently she has tryst with destiny's fairer side, where she fall in love with a baby faced innocent chap Chandu (Paras Arora) and subsequently gets married to him.


But as they say, "life is not about goodies only", so even in the case of Rajjo this thumb rule prevails, where Handa Bhau (Prakash Raj), a corrupt and lusty politician who wants, Rajjo, creates turmoil in, Rajjo and Chandu's life.

Doubtlessly Rajjo has got a theme which own a good amount of attention grabbing potency. But despite their earnest efforts script writers Jayant Pawar along with movie's director Vishwas Patil have only succeeded in coming up with a story idea which is too scuffed and has already been scoured by numerous cine intellects in the past.

As soon the story starts unfurling you start counting on your tips that how many movies belonging to same ilk have you watched in the past. And with a messy story-line entire plot of "Rajjo" looks like a "hither and yon" affair. With a hyper amount of predictability Rajjo's story nowhere makes you feel attached to the onscreen proceedings.


And what further adds to disaster is the, super hazy screenplay. Be it any of the halves of "Rajjo" you never feel smitten by the either the pace of the narration or any of the visual offerings. Especially if we talk about the first half, then despite tolerating a protracted scenario which defeats even a snail's pace in slowness, you keep on hoping for a better second half. But all your hopes get crumpled when you realize that you were hoping against the hopes, while expecting something better in the second half, because even the second half of "Rajjo" looks like an outcome of ill tailored screenplay which keeps on rushing hither and thither. Even by adding a mild dose of humor maker attempted to add some entertainment to this otherwise dull movie, but even that attempt of Vishwas goes futile because the blandness of humor further catalysis the devastation.

But the thing from writing department which completely leaves you dumbstruck is the dialogues. And that's because they seem to be something propounded in other to attest the authenticity of the onscreen proceedings but what they actually do is, compelling the viewers to correlate the logic. As I can still remember on of them where one of the protagonist says "Kothewali ke pair hamesha keechad mein hote hain", even this kind of colloquy somewhere down the line puts some extra burden over audience head to understand the logic.


Even on the music front Rajjo doesn't have any thing pleasing in the offering.

Coming to the performances, after watching Rajjo's output probably many of you will compulsively think that, what made super talented actors like Kangna, Prakash Raj, Mahesh Manjerakar et al sign this filthy affair, at-least I still have this apprehension with me.

Anyhow after seeing Kangana excelling in "Krrish 3" even this time you may get surprised to see her in altogether different shade. And even while portraying her character as Rajjo, Kangana has once again proved that she masters the art of grabbing the right pitch in any and every kind of character. On his debut Paras Arora is just OK.

Prakash Raj once again succeeds in performing, and as usual Mahesh Manjrekar is at his acting best and plays the character of an unuch with utmost excellence. Besides them it's Swati Chitnis uptill some extent succeeds in registering her presence.

To sum up, despite having that just right spirit at its core, Rajjo completely fails in leaving any impact on those watching it. And in the absence of any social message or any entertaining offering it ends up being an absolute scuffed affair which keeps on testing your patience through-out its run time.