Revolver Rani, hindi Bollywood Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * 1/2

Revolver Rani, hindi Bollywood Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: *  * 1/2  
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Revolver Rani(Hindi) Rating: *  * ½ insipid, intangible, oft-kilter dacoit dramedy with Kangana struggling to make sense of her role..and it shows!The attempt to put up a Tarantinoesque ‘Kill Bill’ appears futile with the lack of sustaining energy within.

Hindi Film review
Johnson Thomas
‘Kill Bill meets Khoon Bhari Maang’
Film: Revolver Rani
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Vir Das, Zakir Hussain
Director: Sai Kabir
Rating: *  * ½

Sai Kabir’s maiden directorial effort goes astray with the intangibles he structures within a ‘Kill Bill’ meets ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’ scenario. In a weirdest opening scenario for a film ever, this Rani/Alka Singh/Coco(Kangana Ranaut) is a dacoit turned elected representative turned thugee from Chambal,  who gets called to judge a MTV style competition a la ‘luv ke liye kuch bhi karega’ types,  from where she takes up with her toy boy lover Rohan/Chamcham(Vir Das) a wannabe Bollywood actor who is looking for a financier for his next project and sees opportunity in faking a relationship.
The opening credits follows the ‘Kill Bill’ blood and gore comic book patterned  animation drenched in crimson and black. Thereafter we are made privy to Alka’s fetish for high-fashion straight from Italy. Rohan, her paramour,  already has a girlfriend whom he supposedly loves and given Alka’s wild and ferocious nature , he obviously cannot risk estrangement- at least not until he gains free reign of her coffers. Alka’s mama/Uncle(Piyush Mishra) is her back seat driver, stage-managing her career in politics where she appears least likely to fit in. Udayban Singh Tomar(Zakir Hussain) and his two nephews are her bête-noirs. He has just managed to make her lick the dust in the recent elections and she is spitting mad, shooting bullets and hurling accusations of his truck with Sidhanta( an obvious reference to Vedanta) and gifting away of prime adivasi land to the conglomerate.

The political vendetta play interspersed with the love triangle mechanics, causes developments to intensify with Alka finally aiming the gun at her lover and finding herself at the edge of a precipice, double-crossed and defeated. Well, not quite, because the end-play leaves room for a sequel suggesting Alka’s return to a vendetta spiel.

There’s room for tremendous drama and emotion but the treatment is such that the convoluted plotting leaves you completely unaffected. The tone is not consistent enough and the tenor lacks energy and bite. There are of course a few howlarious moments but they come very late in the film- by then you are wondering when it will all be over. The sluggish opening section detailing the political squabbles and romantic quibbles of Alka Singh appear like protracted plot extensions that find little justification in the scheme of things. Alka, the lead character is a little too wishy-washy to be the hardened, sexually insatiable  criminal-lover she is projected as. The script is not sharp enough to draw out the inherent humor in the wild ideation either. Wildly illogical , could well have been reason enough for an energized passion play with both guns and mayhem on the agenda. But that was not to be. Sai’s script is basically a reverse of the  ‘Bullet Raja’ plot with the similar political machinations. The only surprise comes from the manner in which the lead female character is represented here. She is a kick-ass badass who cares a damn for male supremacy and keeps taking frequent pot-shots at the male ego. Kangana , fresh from her ‘Queen’ success tries hard to emulate Uma Thurman’s ruthless vendetta play but finds herself short on both agility and ability. Her moves are way too sluggish to pass muster, her handling of firearms is awkward and her energy levels appear far too low. The scenes she scores in are the ones where she has to emote. Her frustration and anger come through quite well. The overall persona though doesn’t come across as consistently tenable. The cross-pop-culture references, smattering of English in the dehati dialogues, the badly done dark make-up are hindrances to enjoyment. The pulpy-kistch ingredients are also not justified-so there’s little to draw you in other than hopes of another great performance from Kangana- which is not what you get in the end, anyway!

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