Circa 2009, Salman Khan was going through a bad phase when Prabhu Devaa resurrected his career with his directorial debut Wanted which was a remake of Telugu film Pokiri, The film was a hit and resurrected the south remake action genre in bollywood, after GHAJINI(2008). Prabhu Devaa got lucky again in 2012 with Rowdy Rathore which brought Akki back to action and also he started doing south remakes. But now off recent this genre has been done to death and it's getting irritating, The action scenes too are becoming more cartoonish with heroes jumping around and doing somersaults.Such action was restricted to Tamil/Telugu/Kannada films but now even Hindi films are copying them. One thing that is striking in R Rajkumar is that it's the first time perhaps a younger 30+ hero has donned the lead role, unlike 40+ heroes and 50+ unfit heroes(Sanjay Dutt,Sunny Deol). R Rajkumar has a plot that is so thin and non existent, that it's boring. Mostly South remakes don't have a proper plot, even Wanted and Rowdy Rathore didn't have a great plot per se, but R Rajkumar is so banal, so stupid it gets to the nerves. Shahid trying to patao Sonakshi is done so cheesily like films of South and gets to the nerves, There is nothing new, novel or exciting about the film. To Digest that Shahid can bash up goons double his size even with his makeover is too much. There is nothing appealing of the film and many times seems like it's a telugu film with Hindi Actors.
Direction is bad Music is the only saving grace but songs pop up at any place, Their choreography too is like south films Gandi Baat which became very popular is the best song,though the voice of Mika is replaced by Nakash, Saree Ke Fall and other songs are good too
Shahid Kapoor tries hard to don the new garb, In fact very very hard but as I said it's hard to digest him in that role, But it's kudos to him to do something different but he should keep away from such dumb products.But then he has had a bad year since Kaminey and needs a hit. Sonakshi Sinha is Sonakshi Sinha, doing the same irritating stuff she has been doing since Dabaang except Lootera. In fact I Agree with Koimoi which called her Female Prakash Raj. Sonu Sood too is typecast but does have his moments Ashish Vidyarthi acts as if he is in a south film, Mukul Dev is good in a second fiddle role, Late Srihari who died after the film is okay
Amongst rest mostly regulars of such films none impress much.
Direction is bad Music is the only saving grace but songs pop up at any place, Their choreography too is like south films Gandi Baat which became very popular is the best song,though the voice of Mika is replaced by Nakash, Saree Ke Fall and other songs are good too
Shahid Kapoor tries hard to don the new garb, In fact very very hard but as I said it's hard to digest him in that role, But it's kudos to him to do something different but he should keep away from such dumb products.But then he has had a bad year since Kaminey and needs a hit. Sonakshi Sinha is Sonakshi Sinha, doing the same irritating stuff she has been doing since Dabaang except Lootera. In fact I Agree with Koimoi which called her Female Prakash Raj. Sonu Sood too is typecast but does have his moments Ashish Vidyarthi acts as if he is in a south film, Mukul Dev is good in a second fiddle role, Late Srihari who died after the film is okay
Amongst rest mostly regulars of such films none impress much.