The story has nothing new or different as claimed by the makers.
Vishwas Patil’s Rajjo revolves around the life of a young
nautch girl in the
city of dreams – Mumbai. Rajjo (Kangna Ranaut), who was sold to a kotha by
her own family. Rajjo aka Rajjo Rani wants to emulate her idol Jankidevi (Jaya Prada)
a classical dancer, but instead our heroine ends up in a kotha serving
lusty men.
21-year-old Chandu (Paras Arora) hot blooded naïve
guy who wants to feel like a man goes to akotha with
his friends to celebrate a cricket match victory, instead ends up losing his
heart to an older Rajjo. Chandu keeps returning to the kotha to
woo her and predictable as it may sound Rajjo too falls for this hero’s
innocence who wants to save his damsel in distress from the kotha. Rajjo and Chandu’s love story
even reaches its next phase – marriage thanks to support from Begum.
The couple moves to a village, what
follows is some unwanted confusing twists – that are incoherent, irritatingly
and clichéd. The story loses its plot and the film becomes boring to a point,
where you only wait for the film to get over. Ranaut plays a village belle in the
second half, but her nautch girl trade mark scarlet red lips and garish outfits
remain. There are some real tacky dialogues which were meant to be powerful one
liners that end up sounding silly!
Performances
Like always Kangna Ranaut delivers a performance as nautch girl
with utmost honesty, however we wish our Fashion babe would get some lessons on
dialogue delivery. She slips in this department several times, we have to
admit, she is the only saving grace in the film. Paras Arora surprisingly isn’t
too bad and is quite confident although he is surrounded by industry heavy
weights like Mahesh Manjrekar and Prakash Raj. Mahesh Manjrekar is does justice
to his role of Begum but Prakash Raj certainly needs to try something new.
Though the film was promoted as a
romantic musical drama, its sad that the music is least impactful in fact
forgettable. The film’s weak in both screenplay and the editing departments.Vishwas Patil’s directorial debut fails to
leave a mark,its almost two decades old as far as execution goes and has the
‘80s feel which probably may not work today.
Rajjo also fails because its a half baked
attempt. When you have a performer like Kangna who has done intense roles in
the past be it Fashion or Gangster patil fails to exploit a daring
heroine who is willing to ride solo and take risk. For Kangna all we can say is
this might not be her career’sRascals, but neither is it Fashion!