RA.One Movie Reviews
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Verdict: Cool based on 18 reviews
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2.9
Verdict: Cool based on 263 reviews & ratings
4.5
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
I've often heard people say, film-making is nothing short of a gamble. And as any gambler will tell you, you've got to gamble huge to triumph huge. Going by this logic, Shah Rukh Khan is The Supreme Gambler of the year. What's at stake, beside the big money invested in RA.ONE of course, is a dream, a vision, an aspiration to make a film which appeals to kids and kids at heart. In short, attempt a film that appeals to the universal audienceRead full review4.5
Taran Adarsh | Bollywood Hungama
On the whole, RA.ONE is a solid entertainer, no two opinions on that. It’s not merely a great looking film, but also has soul, which is so essential to strike a chord with the avid moviegoer. As for the business prospects, RA.ONE is sure to shatter all previous records and set new ones, in India as well as internationally. The film will be the new yardstick for measuring success. It has Blockbuster written all over it!Read full review4.0
Khalid Mohamed | The Asian Age
Virtual reality bites, and it tickles too. Woohoo, computer-generated G: One (Jeevan, get it?) is so goody-good that he would happily chomp a chewing gum made of wood. And his fi-fie-fo-fum adversary is the eponymous Ra:One (Raavan), a Frankenstein’s monster of sorts who’s as aluminium-plated as pans-’n’-pots. Daft and dotty? Absolutely, and that’s its strength. The Anubhav Sinha-directed Ra.One revels in being a zippy, zany, zowie rideRead full review3.5
Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph
You kill your film several times. Mostly by talking about it. A film is a dream. You kill it writing it down, you kill it with a camera. Your film might come to life for a moment or two... when your actors breathe life back into it; but then it dies again, buried in film cans. Mysteriously, sometimes, in the editing room... a miracle happens when you place one image next to another, so that when finally an audience sits in the dark; if you’re lucky, very lucky, the dream flickers backRead full review3.5
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Rajnikant's Robot may have pre-dated it, but Ra-One does manage to hold despite the larger-than-life quality of Rajni's antics as Chitti. Here, Shah Rukh Khan does the train walk sideways and he does it rather well. And if that is not enough, the two desi sci fi heroes have a split second encounter on the streets of Mumbai, with Rajni saar showing off his flying googles act and SRK replicating it with elan. Twin Rascals! Ra-One works on several accountsRead full review3.5
Aakanksha Naval-Shetye and Soumyadipta Banerjee | DNA India
Shah Rukh Khan and director Anubhav Sinha seemed to have cared a damn as they have borrowed in generous doses from wherever they felt it was necessary for their own magnum opus. The biggest inspiration seems to be Terminator 2 — right from the black sunglasses, the villain chasing a kid and running into his saviour, the signature neck movement of the villain, bike chase sequences, the villain running faster than a car, the robot eye scanning, liquid metal fusingbackRead full review3.5
Komal Nahta | Koimoi
Ra.One review by Komal Nahta. Biz rating: 3.5/5 stars. What’s Good: Individual sequences; stars' performances; e...Read full review3.5
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
Ra-One is sure to usher in a crackling Diwali at the box office and give the audience paisa vasool entertainment, with fine performances by both Shah Rukh and Kareena. Even young Armaan is efficient. Go have a blast.Read full review3.0
Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph
You kill your film several times. Mostly by talking about it. A film is a dream. You kill it writing it down, you kill it with a camera. Your film might come to life for a moment or two... when your actors breathe life back into it; but then it dies again, buried in film cans. Mysteriously, sometimes, in the editing room... a miracle happens when you place one image next to another, so that when finally an audience sits in the dark; if you’re lucky, very lucky, the dream flickers back to life againRead full review3.0
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
“Raavan kabhi marta nahi. Issi liye tum har saal usse jalate ho.” The bad guy gets the best line in the film. Sadly, his screen time is minimal. Ra.One comes alive every time the good (G.One, Khan) and the evil (Ra.One, Rampal) face-off. But they hardly do. Ra.One carries the burden of being Hindi cinema’s costliest film, and stars one of our biggest superstars. The film has almost everything going for it: The SFX is up-to-mark, the concept interesting, the scale mammothRead full review3.0
Martin D'Souza | Glamsham
Three characters stand out in this movie. Ra One (Arjun Rampal), G One (Shahrukh Khan) and young Armaan Verma who plays Prateek Subramaniam. Kareena Kapoor for once is thrown into the background, so is SRK (Shekhar Subramanium) who gets his Tamil accent off-centre. The supporting cast would be the action team and the sound engineers led by Resul Pookutty. Jeff Kleiser, heading the visual effects team has packed in as much digital technologyRead full review3.0
Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV Movies
Can anything be beyond the ken of a movie megastar and his much-awaited super-ambitious sci-fi action flick? So life, real and imagined, comes neatly gift-wrapped this Diwali with all the sparkles and frills of dazzling computer-generated graphics, crowd-pleasing stunts and good ‘ol Bollywood set pieces in RA.One. Huge box office fireworks are but inevitable when SRK is at the turnstiles on a festive weekend. But does RA.One offer anything more than the joyRead full review3.0
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
Even though die-hard fans will freak out, SRK’S G.One lacks the chutzpah of Main Hoon Na’s Major Ram, where he similarly vanquished a terrorist called ‘Raghavan’ at the end.Read full review2.5
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Superhero film 'Ra.One' kicks off on an unusual note, as geeky tech-wiz dad Shekhar Subramaniam, played by Shah Rukh Khan, tries to become his young son's hero by creating the greatest video-game villain of all time. Named Ra.One in a not-so-subtle reference to The Ramayan's Lanka king, this super-villain almost immediately shows signs of breaking out of his virtual world to wreak havoc and destruction in the real one. Yet even as danger is lurking around the cornerRead full review2.5
Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day
RA.One ¦a super-duper star playing a robot, a mighty overwhelming budget, path breaking (apparently) visual effects, a gorgeous villain and stunner of a heroine, promotions that almost elevated the film to a national event ¦in such circumstances what are the chances of it not being a fantastic watch? Well, surely there are. RA.One manages to stumble and falter, IN SPITE of all the crutches that it has been provided with.Read full review2.5
Rajeev Masand | IBNLive
Like the spaghetti and curds concoction that Shah Rukh digs into in an early scene, ‘Ra.One’ is clearly an acquired taste.Read full review2.5
Anjum Shabbir | Bollyspice
For me it’s a one time watch if you’re curious, best saved for DVD and will be quickly forgotten. A massive opportunity gone to waste!Read full review2.0
Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times
After adequately warning children against trying any such stunts, the super-hero leapfrogs over and at right angles of a running train. Background score is ‘70s RD Burman imitation. Brown walls of the majestic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus eventually start to crack, statue of Queen Victoria alongside falls as the suburban train, running at top speed, its brakes not working, collides on to the CST railhead, juts out of the station, on to the main streetsRead full review2.0
Abhishek Mande | rediff.com
Anyone, who has written about India in the last 10 years, will probably tell you about the 'two Indias' -- one that is leaping and bounding towards the future, eager to embrace everything that is new and the other that continues to be tied down by archaic traditions, refusing to adapt. One wouldn't be entirely incorrect if one says the same about Shah Rukh Khan's Diwali release Ra.One. Starring Khan alongside Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal, Ra.One, on the one handRead full review2.0
Arthur J Pais | rediff.com
Ayyayyo, what a glorious mess of a film Ra.One is. Over bloated,lacking in human magic and exciting for just about one fourth of its more than two hours run, it crawls for the first 45 minutes, delivers over a dozen lame body jokes, and abounds in miserable stereotypes including Shah Rukh Khan's ungainly mannerisms as a Tamilian (in the first half). The action picks up just as you start counting how many times Shekhar, the nerdy inventor of a gameRead full review2.0
Aseem Chhabra | rediff.com
There was a time when we used to read books, talk about them with each other, share ideas and sing lullabies to little kids. Those were simple and quieter times. Shah Rukh Khan may remember those times when was a young kid growing up in a middle class family in Delhi, or when his NASA scientist character sings Ahista, Ahista in Swades. But then technology came into our lives. Consumer electronics became a vital part of our existence and video gamesRead full review2.0
Karan Anshuman | Mumbai Mirror
There is more than a hint of autobiography in Shah Rukh Khan’s latest movie. He's often publicly professed his intent of doing what he does only to impress his kids, and this - the biggest budget Hindi film ever made - is his tribute, gifting them a superhero version of their dad. The film too is about a parent trying to live up to his son's idea of him. Question is … how much of a father figure is he to his audience, including the under-10-year-olds this movie is targeted at?Read full review2.0
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
Can a film which boasts some of the most boggling special effects ever seen in an Indian venture, and a couple of Bollywood’s most jiggly, shapely navels—one male, the other female, one pierced, one not but oh-so-hot—be a slurry sludge? 'Ra.One’ goes one better. It is a superstarry slurry sludge, with just the occasional consolatory sparkle. Shah Rukh Khan’s shout-out to superheroes is a Three Part Something : borrowing from past superhero outings, imbuing themRead full review2.0
Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times
Look at the film. The fuss was necessary! Producers make plans of a franchise obvious with the final scene. That, I fear may have G.One with the wind. But then you never know, right? Seriously.Read full review2.0
Abhishek Mande | rediff.com
Ra.One seems to have been put together rather half-heartedly — a song forced in here, a handful of laughable special appearances there (including an unforgivable one of Superstar Rajinikanth) and a little slapstick comedy and rona-dhona thrown in too.Read full review2.0
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
It is a superstarry slurry sludge, with just the occasional consolatory sparkle.Read full review2.0
Zeenews Bureau | Zee News
Watch it for the special effects and for ‘Chammak Challo’. Don’t expect it to woo you the way other SRK films do, because it isn’t the same.Read full review1.5
Raja Sen | rediff.com
Once in a while, movies compel you to write odd things. You end up with sentences you stare at in disbelief, wondering if your fingers misled you or you slipped up dyslexically, missing a crucial word or a thought. This film, the biggest budget Indian feature of all time, provides one such daft line: Arjun Rampal is the best thing in this movie. That fact should, in itself, tell you all. Still, I'm getting far ahead of myself. Ra.One is a subpar superhero film with a mediocre soundtrackRead full review
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4.0
'RA'avan Vs. 'G'eevan - A Technical Epic
bollyfan25, 9 years agoSuper hit movie. I loved everything about this movie. -
3.5
ITS NOT A GOOD MOVIE...IT IS AVERAGE..
rajverma67, 9 years agoSuper hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.