Gunjan
After classics like Karan Arjun, Om Shanti Om, and Karz, it's safe enough to say that Bollywood has established a good set of movies on the topic of reincarnation. If the story, characters, and purpose of reincarnating are interesting enough then Bollywood reincarnation movies are always well worth the watch.Unfortunately, Raabta is the worst Bollywood reincarnation film I've ever seen. During the last half I was fighting the urge to turn the movie off. It's quite obvious that it's meant to be a parallel of the Telugu film, Magadheera. While Magadheera was quite interesting, Raabta fails miserably.The love story of Shiv and Saira was not enough to have me invested in them at all. And at times I even found Saira to be a flat character. Her actions were quite predictable and she didn't have that spark that most reincarnated characters have.I don't even know where the begin with the historical setting. It was very terribly done. I'm not exactly sure what point in Indian history the director of this film was trying to show. The costume and look was not similar to those during the time period portrayed at all. Even that love story was dull for me.I feel like Jim Sarbh's character was quite pointless. His character also didn't have that spark for me. His character was ridiculous in both the first life and the second one. I would highly recommend fans of Kriti Sanon and Sushant Singh Rajput to pass on this one. As talented as they are, they're not enough to save this movie. The only thing I would recommend is the movie's soundtrack which is available on YouTube.
Rahul143125
1. SUMMARY: RAABTA tells the story of two lovers Shiv (Sushant Singh Rajput) and Saira (Kriti Sanon) who live in Budapest. Once they both go to a party where Saira meets Zakir (Jim Sarbh), a wealthy liquor baron. Later, Shiv tells Saira that he has to leave for Vienna for a week. Saira becomes all alone and now befriends Zakir. Zakir takes her to a party and gets her fainted. He takes her to his house and tells her that 100 years ago, they were lovers but did not unite. Eventually, Saira also realizes the fact that she is also reincarnated. Now what happens next, will Saira marry Zakir and leave Shiv? or will she betray Zakir and stay with Shiv?2. STORY, SCREENPLAY AND DIALOGUES: Story, screenplay and dialogues seem to be good in the first half of the film but becomes a big disaster in the second half for the audience. Overall writers, Siddharth-Garima can to much better than this.3.PERFORMANCES: Sushant and Kriti's performance in the film was mediocre whereas Jim's acting deserves good appreciation.4. DIRECTION AND OTHER TECHNICAL ASPECTS: After producing a few films, Dinesh Vijan has made his directorial debut. His narrative style in this film is not bad, but he has an ability to make a film better than this. Music by JAM8 and Background score by Sachin-Jigar is really amazing, Cinematography by Martin Preiss and Editing by A. Sreekar Prasad and Huzefa Lokhandwala is reasonably good.5. BOX - OFFICE VERDICT: Raabta has a total budget of 50 crore which seems to be impossible for the film to be a Box-Office "Hit", but has a few chances to recover's cost. Overall, this film is not at all profitable for the distributors but can recover their budget by satellite and various other rights.6. RATING: Because of the film's weak script and poor hype, I'll give it 1.5/4.
guptaharsh0381
**Non Spoiler Review**Story: Are you Kidding me? Even Kids don't like these type of tales.Direction: First Movie directed by Dinesh Vijan and he completely blew it off!!!Acting: Only Sushant Singh Rajpoot Did a so called "Acting" and that's not enough too. Rest of the cast members were just messing around.Music: The only saving Boat in the sea full of Mud.Summing up in one Sentence "You'll Come out of Theater Beating Your Head"
dineshprakash
There was nothing in the name of story. It is most conveniently conceived movie about reincarnation. Screenplay offers some freshness in beginning like, ice cream being swapped between lead pair very casually but then it starts being repetitive. Dialogues are good at places. Love triangle comes and the spark of freshness turns into bitterness. The actor who was introduced as third angle is unbearable. His characterization is purely baseless. Film back ground is set abroad and clearly lead girl is very comfortable with English then why this third angle was trying to converse with her in typical Hindi, when he was not a bit comfortable with Hindi!! Just for audience sake!? All dialogues he mouthed, you have to bear and most of the time you feel different emotions than it was meant. Second half takes you into flash back of some ancient era. This flash back is so dull that even being full of actions going on screen, you have to yawn and stretch. Even you fail to understand the reason of all the happenings. Then they toss childish climax. Performance wise Sushant Singh Rajput as Shiv is impressive. He is so swift with the emotions as a flamboyant and subtle as a warrior. Kirti Sanon as Saira is good in romantic scenes but looks confused in flash back scenes.
AD
