Radhe Shyam Movie Review: Check out Radhe’s kaam!

Radhe ShyamUA Romance dramaDir Radha Krishna KumarCast Prabhas Pooja HegdeRating 155Basically no love line on your palm no love life offline And thatrsquos effective at the core of the conflict in this film Say what Well to understand that better you must know the lead character Radhersquos kaam profession in Radhe ShyamHersquos a palmist That rsquo90s folks of my covintage will remember from Cheirorsquos Palmistry mdash a popular paperback at railway stations and street vendors that I donrsquot see any moreThis film is the biggest investment since Cheiro to promote palmistry that Radhersquos mentor babaguruji calls a ldquo99 per cent sciencerdquo which is also the title of his 200odd page book that hersquos been writing for 70 years Why 99 per cent asks the disappointed Radhe ldquoBecause no science is 100 per cent accurate Also if everything was determined by destiny alone the creator would not have blessed us with the power of thoughtrdquoFair point but then Radhersquos concerns are valid too He gets everything right mdash down to the place and exact time of an event reading lines on a personrsquos hand and rubbing his index finger on his forehead after Consider Indiarsquos richest man he consults once Radhe tells him the guy wonrsquot make it in politics and should concentrate on family business instead which he will take over on November 20ldquoNordquo says the rich man I thought hersquod say he has better things to do on that day In fact he goes out golfing to beat Radhersquos prediction His papa pops it right then So you see as with other instances in this film Radhe is no ordinary fortune tellerHe is ldquoIndia ka Nostramadusrdquo So globally famous that John Lennon once took his autograph Only that hersquos not in India anymore because he had predicted Emergency and was driven out of the country as a resultHence hersquos in Rome where peoplersquos regular homes like his own bear ceilings the height of Sistine Chapel and massive Corinthian columns indoors Yes this is a period film but set only in the late rsquo70s and performed on overelaborate setsAs with the palatial Italian hospital where the girl Pooja Hegde the hero fancies works as a doctor at among only desi coworkersAnd this one Indian patient in particular who loves to be admitted and actively demands surgery upon himself mdash complaining that his piss is darker than single malt heart beats faster than an express train and the gas in his stomach could blow up like a bomb That guy wersquore rightly told suffers from nosophobia which is the morbidirrational fear of diseasesThe heroine it turns out also suffers from a disease Although more real Whatrsquos it called ldquoIncurable rare tumourrdquo And it is as her doctor uncle laconically explains ldquoincurablerdquo Only that she fancies the idea of living on positive palmistry prediction and prayers still and that docchacha blasts her for it ldquoDonrsquot make fun of my 40year experience by keeping hoperdquo Face palmBut let me not make this movie sound morbid For it is anything but It is a love story through and through mdash a series of meetcutes and songs and ballroom dancesStuck slightly in the period itrsquos set in mdash for what constitutes the early days of courting someone as it were Which is the guy following the girl around mdash and that all love starts from hate after all Shersquos eventually impressed because he travels over 300 kilometres in the rains to stalk her if I may put it rather harshlyAt the centre of this romance is the heroine who could be dying and the hero who has no love line The latter means what exactly given his loveinterest Hersquos up for lsquoflirtationshiprsquo a new term Irsquove discovered through this film thatrsquos a lot shorter than lsquofriends with benefitsrsquo and sounds less creepy than a one night stand surelyPrabhas the massive hero of Baahubali captured through a string of low angle to shots to denote his bigscreen stature plays Radhe of Radhe Shyam Basically the unprecedented success of Baahubali 2015 17 mdashthat he followed up with the senseless but scaledup Saaho 2019 mdash has rendered it impossible for the national hero from Hyderabad to play a normal lover boy anymoreA genre thatrsquos essentially about storms in a relationship which must morph into an actual tsunami from nowhere to turn this into a lsquodisaster filmrsquo as well mdash mean that here as another genre of courseWhat do you do in the comfort of a cinema with your feet up and eyes on the gigantic screen Well remember everything you can and recount it to your friends in as much detail you can As I just did so I donrsquot have to watch it again

Radhe Shyam Movie Review: Check out Radhe’s kaam!

Radhe Shyam
U/A: Romance, drama
Dir: Radha Krishna Kumar
Cast: Prabhas, Pooja Hegde
Rating: 1.5/5

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Radhe Shyam Movie Review: Check out Radhe’s kaam!

Radhe ShyamU/A: Romance, dramaDir: Radha Krishna KumarCast: Prabhas, Pooja HegdeRating: 1.5/5

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Radhe Shyam
U/A: Romance, drama
Dir: Radha Krishna Kumar
Cast: Prabhas, Pooja Hegde
Rating: 1.5/5