The RajaSaab movie review: Pra-bas, bhai, please, stop, seriously...

UA Comedy horror romanceDir Maruthi DasariCast Prabhas Sanjay DuttRating 1 starSince erotica resides in subtlety mdash consider the shot of this filmrsquos hero Prabhas as he takes a phone call on the street outside his rural homeNeighbourhood girlies at the sheer sight of him in shorts exposing his legs literally lose their mind His village girlfriend mdash or it appears hersquos friendzoned her mdash canrsquot restrain her jealousy any longerThe camera however never tilts down to Prabhasrsquos legs mdash mainly to save audiences from an equal bout of extreme desire I guessHomoerotica is complete Given I suppose a fair portion of Prabhasrsquos picturegoing public must be male And for whom hersquos already started off with a dance number with more extras than the population of Jubilee Hill The camerarsquos fixated on Prabhas obviouslyBesides the woman in the village he finds another ldquoangel nunrdquo who works at a church in the city and instantly compares his appearance to Jesus ChristLikewise one more lassy lands at a restaurant to hand him a bag of cash wholly hit by how he looks like a million bucks He pays her attention in returnThese three brainlessly besotted ladies neednrsquot be named Theyrsquore thoroughly interchangeable in the film mdash simply appearing reappearing without intention or warningNo knock on Prabhas fans who dub him the lsquoRebel Starrsquo Yet to have an entire threehourplus movie where everyone around the hero is as pointless as the lsquozerorsquo button of a ceiling fan must mean a lotta pressure to deliver when the point of it is basically hot airSo what exactly to make of this tall dark horselike eponymous character besides that Raja Saab wishes to be RajnikanthFrankly I havenrsquot sought help from multiple sources to confirm what I saw As I should have since itrsquos impossible to piece this assault on the senses togetherThat said letrsquos assume for argumentrsquos sake there is The Raja Saab as per the title possibly born of immaculate conception since we learn nothing about his parents mdash only that his grandmother Zarina Wahab is aliveShe suffers from Alzheimerrsquos She had a husband whorsquos possibly gone missing if not dead The two oldies were royalty once The hero goes in search of his grandpa purportedly spotted in HyderabadThe larger purpose still is to essentially fill the screen up with visual effects mdash on occasion of such low quality that you could be in a cartoon film instead Global benchmarks are too high as it isMuch of the debilitatingly deliberate nonsense being passed off as bigcanvas extravagance probably comes from the fact of the lsquopan India filmrsquo having got into the filmmakersrsquo uneasy heads that wear a crown without a story tell looking like such sad clowns henceBudgets fly at the same rate as the characters onscreen Itrsquos like theyrsquove shot sequences and figured along the way on the edit where to fit themAnd no Irsquom not just saying it for this one Prabhas pic mdash since the rare glory of SS Rajamoulirsquos Baahubali 2015 rsquo17 that shone a spotlight on Telugu cinemarsquos storytelling technical brillianceI groan equally under the weight of having survived Saaho 2019 Radhe Shyam 2022 Salaar 2023 thereafterUnlike the aforementioned tentpoles The Raja Saabrsquos supposed genre is horror comedy mdash that appears to work well with Hindi cinema audiences although even the worst scenes from an already terrible Bhool Bhulaiyaa franchise should beat this hollowness hollower stillThe setting therefore switches to a haunted haveli that looks rather hotellike for a palatial ruinThis is where those two ladies simultaneously in love with Raja Saab observe skincare routine together while one of them has just returned from performing a sexy song in a separate bedroom I guess it takes imagination of another kind to line up horny scenes between heroines and the hero while theyrsquore stuck with a large group in a doomed palace with the spectre looming over their headsThese remain the most random romantic stuff in the history of onscreen lunacyWhat follows is further bullshit over lsquobhramrsquo illusiondelusion and reality over a climax the size of a featurelength filmWhich is when you wish to have stayed longer on the lsquoitem numberrsquo with Prabhas and his three ladies dancing to a remix of Bappi Lahirirsquos Koi Yahan Nache Nache from Disco Dancer 1982 Could totally hit the dancefloor with itMaybe with Sanjay Dutt on the console He plays the ghost in this film Which is fine Herersquos what gets my goat mdash hersquos also the grandpaSaying this as a Bollywood fan you know what Dutt even at 66 must play anything including the dada of the street than Prabhasrsquos DadajiBut then again this is a joke And the larger jokersquos on my wilting brain anyway

The RajaSaab movie review: Pra-bas, bhai, please, stop, seriously...

U/A: Comedy, horror, romance
Dir: Maruthi Dasari
Cast: Prabhas, Sanjay Dutt
Rating: 1 star

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The RajaSaab movie review: Pra-bas, bhai, please, stop, seriously...

U/A: Comedy, horror, romanceDir: Maruthi DasariCast: Prabhas, Sanjay DuttRating: 1 star

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U/A: Comedy, horror, romance
Dir: Maruthi Dasari
Cast: Prabhas, Sanjay Dutt
Rating: 1 star