Raavan -- Most Boring Movie To Date!

Rating: 1/5
Value for money: Rs.20/100

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RAAVAN :most boring movie. First half it felt like Mani Sir was hitting me with a hammer on my Sir (Now I know why they call him Sir). AR Rahman helping out with his grating sound! In the climax, there is some whiff of a story. Er Mani-ji, you will get many awards for the films, but here is one from me: Most Boring Film of the Year. Rating 1/5 Value: Rs.20/100. Stay far away!

There is hardly any story in the first half of the movie. You have the forest and you have Beera and you have the screeching and screaming Ragini. Ragini is appropriately named -- one fails to keep count of the numerous raagaas she cries out throughout the movie. Beera played by Abhishek Bacchan is so boring and stale and repeated that one wants to go out and have a Beer-ah! The forest or the locale is in some grey and dark shades and is really frightening. As a member of the audience said, Ram Gopal Verma ka movie lagta hai. (You are still reading this nonsense that I am writing. Well, OK, it is much more interesting than the film!)

I fail to understand why the name Raavan and why all the hungama about being based on the Ramayana. Honestly, it is a great insult to a great, epic story.

Cop chasing a criminal has been done to death in hundreds of movies. Here we have one more attempt. That too by a very boring copy, Vikram as Inspector Dev (notice our award winning director's creativity). An extremely boring criminal Beera -- whose antics are most childish and pathetic. At one level, we have Gabbar at 100 and we have Beera at 1 or 0. In fact, we are confused whether he is a villain at all at times. It appears more like someone pretending to be a villain. I cannot even say Abhishek disappoints, as I hardly have any expectations from him. He is another one of our non-acting actors. Ditto -- Aishwarya Rai. Ditto -- Vikram. Govinda does his comic capers and routines -- and fails. Kishen-wa should stick to Bhojpuri films.

The music score throughout the movie is grating and really makes the movie even more worse! The song sequences are idiotic. This is from a musician whom I love to hate -- AR Rahman. Jai ho!

The problem with this movie is that it has a very weak story. Basically, it is a tiny short story stretched into a novel. The cinematography is good, the locales are terrific. The pace and the direction in the movie is uneven. The stunts are awful and nothing new in here. Old wine in new bottle. In how many movies have we seen these same old stunts, bridges giving away, steep fall, and the hero and villain come back to the top unscathed.

Why do we make such bad movies? Why do reviewers like Nkhat Kazmi give it 3.5 stars? Is Times of India influenced by Reliance Big Films? Imagine all the revenue from full-page ads carrying all these stars.

Should you see this movie? Yes, definitely see it if you want to get a free headache! It is one of the worst movies that I have seen in recent times. It is one of the most boring movies that I have seen. Stay far, far away from this movie.

Despite all this, I am sure the film will take many awards. I do not know how Mani Ratnam does it and how come he has such a big following when all he does is make such boring films. Average films that are highly overrated. Well, here is one award from me, in fact the first one to be awarded: Most Boring Film of the Year.