"Ramaiya Vastavaiya"

Director: Prabhu Deva                                 

Main Lead : Shruti Hassan,Girish Kumar

Producer: Ramesh Taurani

Music Director: Sachin , Jigar

Lyricst: Irshad Kamil

Singers:
Atif Aslam     Shreya Ghoshal     
Mika Singh     Neha Kakkad     
Monali Thakur

After a span of unconventional love stories like ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Lootera’, here is a typical romantic flick which has a storyline seen in many, many movies before.


After watching the movie for merely 20 minutes, the audience will be able to reminisce the Kajol-Salman-Arbaaz Khan starrer ‘Jab Pyar Kia Toh Darna Kya’.

The movie revolves around “love” – brotherly love, sisterly love and love between two people who are attracted to each other. Sonu Sood – who plays an over-protective brother – takes care of his sister Sona, played by Shruti Hassan, after their mother dies. Raghuvir – played by Sonu – educates his sister and never lets anything or anybody hurt her. All he desires is to find a down to earth guy who can keep his sister happy in their own village.

However, as luck would have it, she falls in love with an NRI, Ram – played by Girish Kumar - whom she meets at her best friend’s wedding. Then starts the typical love-hate relationship, which actually culminates into proper head-over-heels, let’s grow old together kind of love. 

Sadly, this doesn’t stay for long and then comes the cliched separation and the guy’s desperation to prove his love.

After having delivered “macho” movies like ‘Wanted’ and ‘Rowdy Rathore’, Prabhu Deva has done a fair job with ‘Ramaiya Vastavaiya’, but it has nothing new which has not yet been seen before.

Alas, there is one thing that has not been seen ever before – a villain who speaks just one sentence in the entire movie. There is a lot of commotion because the bad guy wants to marry the good and beautiful girl, but the bad guy never mouths these words himself – not once!


 As for the actors, Shruti Hassan fails to captivate the heart with her performance and delivers her dialogues at the same pace and with the same emotion no matter what the scene is. As for Girish Kumar – who has debuted with this movie – India may have literally found a “jumping jack”. Weather he’s dancing, or flirting or just walking, he is always “jumpy” about it. Sonu Sood, on the other hand, does manage to portray a farmer to perfection – from his clothes to the way he speaks.

Poonam Dhillon - Ram’s mother – plays a woman obsessed with money and her status, while Randhir Kapoor – Ram’s father – doesn’t have much of a role apart from playing a husband petrified by the very look of his wife.

Paresh Ganatra – who plays Bijli - walks away with the cake for his comic timing. He manages to make the audience laugh each time he makes an entry – be it a light hearted scene or emotional.

As for the actors, Shruti Hassan fails to captivate the heart with her performance and delivers her dialogues at the same pace and with the same emotion no matter what the scene is. As for Girish Kumar – who has debuted with this movie – India may have literally found a “jumping jack”. Weather he’s dancing, or flirting or just walking, he is always “jumpy” about it. Sonu Sood, on the other hand, does manage to portray a farmer to perfection – from his clothes to the way he speaks.

Poonam Dhillon - Ram’s mother – plays a woman obsessed with money and her status, while Randhir Kapoor – Ram’s father – doesn’t have much of a role apart from playing a husband petrified by the very look of his wife.

Paresh Ganatra – who plays Bijli - walks away with the cake for his comic timing. He manages to make the audience laugh each time he makes an entry – be it a light hearted scene or emotional.

Rating -- **