Cover Picture Copyright: Fox Star Studios & Rajshri Productions (P) Ltd

Venue: PVR Naraina
Date: 20th Nov 2015

Diwali would have been much better if we could remove these three things from our festival – Frooti, Soan Paapdi and Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo (‘PRDP’). Promoted as the biggest Diwali release, this sorry excuse for a film, made films like Talwar and Titli taken off the big screens and all multi screen theaters in town played PRDP on all of their 4 or 6 screens leaving us with no choice but to watch this shoddy film.

Talking about the storyline would be a complete waste of time. Here’s what worked and what didn’t work for us:

What did not work:

1. The starting of the movie with Ramlila scene is terrible. It just doesn’t look like a Ramlia in Benaras. The song was bad and we knew we are in for some yawning time.
2. In first half, a lot of dialogs are in English. We wonder.. why? To tell us it’s not a period film? Well if you have palaces, sheesh mahal, people traveling by carriages and bowing down to Maharajas and Rajkumaris…. well it better be a period film. Dimaag ka dahi mat karo.
3. It’s supposed to be a musical with a song every 10 minutes in the movie. Sadly the movie doesn’t progress with the songs. Music is very week. Songs about Gujia, barfi and Mathri….seriously
4. Disney like computer graphic  effects… the fireworks and waterfalls. We liked your CG generated parrots and dogs in “Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon” better. At least they made us laugh/hoot for Rajshree’s technical team. These bring tears to our eyes.
5. Sonam Kapoor. She’s as flat as a scale. Neither cute as Bhagyashree nor sexy like Madhuri Dixit. We do not expect any acting prowess from her but she couldn’t even manage to look nice. Probably the worst Rajshree heroine till date. … and apologies to Bhagyashree and Madhuri for the comparison.
6. Salman Khan in double role. Whatever happened to a fine actor who did movies like Maine Pyaar Kia, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Andaaz Apna Apna etc. Tere Naam was probably the last film where he was promising. After that Salman is churning out one trash after another. How about doing some good cinema?
7. Sawara Bhaskar and Sudhir Misra. You guys don’t belong to this genre. Please don’t make us hate you.
8. Terrible lyrics. Boring songs and jarring background score. Bhansali style choreography – Thousands of extras swirling their ghagras made us reel and we felt like  travelling through the rabbit burrow to enter Alice’s Wonderland.
9. The reference and forced connection to Lord Ram and Sita. When Sonam Kapoor said “Sita wohi karegi jo Ram kahenenge (Sita will do what Rama wants)”, we observed a minute of silence for the death of logic and sensibility in Indian Cinema.
10. Armaan Kohli, who probably landed this role by calling Salman, “Sir” a 100 times during last season of Bigg Boss, is as bad in a character role as he was as a hero.
11. Neil Nitin Mukesh. Dude, try modeling. Acting ain’t for you.
12. Sooraj R. Barjatya’s story, screenplay and direction. Congrats this trash made 200 crores in 3 days.

What worked:

1. You have reached the end of the review!