Raanjhanaa
Raanjhanaa
G | 21 June 2013 (USA)
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A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.

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Scanialara

You won't be disappointed!

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VividSimon

Simply Perfect

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InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Donald Seymour

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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anand1213

Raanjhanaa shows a tragic tale of love which begins on the streets of Banaras in the heart of little Kundun childishly sprouting at the sight of a girl during her prayers. This was not a mere childhood infatuation and turns out to be a lifelong unquenched desire for Kundun who is ready to go to any extremes for the fulfillment of it. 1. Stalk, Love and GriefKundun stalks Zoya across the town, in her school, on the terrace, in the markets and almost anywhere you can imagine and the shots where she notices him creates an obvious question as to what her reaction on all of this is. This is not left to much guessing as Kundun confronts her by holding her hand and confessing his love. Zoya's reaction i.e. slapping and laughing is not very clear but clearly she is enjoying all this attention. But 16 slaps later when the 9th grader slips her hand inside the shirt of her prospective lover only to discover his religion her consciousness comes knocking to make her realize of the communal divide between them, this gives a felling that the film is going to be about how religion divides two lovers and its going to be pretty predictable but the film builds upon more serious questions about love in general and mutual compatibility in particular. Kundun in his childishness slashes his wrists and ends up winning the girl on the backseat of an auto-rickshaw. Zoya is reported at home and is sent off to her relatives leaving Kundun hanging on brief memories of the little love that they shared. The final shot when Kundun follows Zoya's train and she looks at him while he promises to wait for her creates the similar doubt in our minds of the future when she returns.2. Love LostZoya returns and everything about her is changed. She doesn't even remember her childhood lover. This part of the film is particularly interesting as it builds up the relation between Zoya and Kundun. Kundun is the same, has lived in the same place, among the same friends and still the same child that fell for Zoya 9 years back and he confirms this by again slashing his wrists when he discovers about Zoya's college love but Zoya is all grown up now and she doesn't hug him this time confessing her love but calls his actions stupid and intolerable. Kundun agrees to help her get married to Jaswant aka Akram but promises a kind of revenge on her by marrying someone else on the same day. This is not digestible as Kundun can clearly see that Zoya doesn't even care. Kundun's intention are not very clear as to what exactly he wants to achieve by breaking the marriage he helped set up and his spur of the moment religious reveal lead to a dead Jaswant and a forlorn Zoya. 3. JNU Student PoliticsThe student political scene of JNU is poorly filmed. The politics and the activists seemed childish. Abhay Deol's character was all too positive and fairy tale like, it was like we were seeing him through the eyes of Zoya and are suppose to love him too. Sonam Kapoor was pathetic in her dialog delivery and was nowhere near to either a street play artist or a student leader. The whole political scenario seemed gullible in the way they carry out their protests i.e. wearing black and pulling and pushing, convince people in a charming way with quotations and smiles and give humdrum speeches.4. Kundun grows up or notKundun confesses his actions by taking Zoya to her love in Punjab only to find out that things are worse and he is responsible for the death of blameless and ever exemplary Abhay Deol. We think this might effect Kundun in a big way and being the religious man that he is, he visits various religious establishments is search of confession. Many things were perplexing here as to why he stays in Punjab and tries to help the family of the deceased when Jawant's sister very well knows that he is the one responsible for her brothers death. He goes back to JNU, still following his childishness or maybe its madness that is often associated with love, trying to win over Zoya. This film like Kundun's love is inexplicable and resorts to childish logics at various points. Morari's role was acted really well and seemed to me a much real character. Also the other girl who loves Kundun is rarely given much attention and we hardly care for her feelings but she might have a Raanjhnaa-Esq saga of her own going by the side, she was in real pain clearly and felt betrayed like the audience.

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ashirvad parida

This is one such movie which tries to cash in on your emotions without anything substantial to offer.But in every aspect it is better than mausam a story which just tried to glide through without any emotional moments.I don't think any actor could have made it believable so he deserves appreciation.Sonam was outstanding in the second half which was lot more unpredictable with lot many twists and therefore interesting to watch.But it downplays a serious issue like suicide with the hero slashing his wrists time and again n his friend joking about it.This is not a good message from the film.There was another with president of the party throwing things around while protesting in the office for sonam.This is not the right way i feel to project things even i as a former student from JNU know that we hardly resort to such things protests and reasoning your point of view are more than enough.The movie none the less was refreshing, well made and light hearted romantic to the core and deserves high ratings.

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sandeeprajput

Very nice movie. Story of the movie is very impressive. Sonam's acting is not so good. Nice direction. A clichéd love story backed by superior performances. Raanjhanaa impresses despite its few flaws because Rai portrays a simple and honest love story without making any changes. Dhanush even with wobbly Hindi is splendid in his debut performance. He makes the pursuit of a lover to be loved funnier, pure and honest than anyone else ever. Sonam is charming and even with few flaws, she and Dhanush make up for a wonderful pair. Raanjhanaa is not one of the best love stories captured through celluloid, but it certainly is one of the finest performances by a lead pair in a love story. Even better than SRK and Kajol in the over hyped "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge". Yeah, I said it but that's the truth. I don't say this because I'm a south India nor I personally like Dhanush. I mean I do like him in some films but I'm not his fan boy.

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silvan-desouza

When the film promos hit air, I thought this will be just another Issaqzaade type film but I was wrong The film is multilayered and well handled The first half slowly and steadily explores the romance angle and it's well handled till the interval it keeps surprising you. The second half focuses more on the politics but yet the story is well narrated and handled superbly, though Zoya's character does seem mystified at times but yet the story is well handled and the climax is brilliant.Direction is good, Music by A.R.Rahman is amazing Dhanush doesn't have any qualities of a star but of an actor, he infuses life into Kundan that he becomes the character, Barring his Hindi which isn't perfect as he is south Indian yet he does a great job Sonam Kapoor who was never known for her acting talent surprises and does a perfect job, her diction too is off many times but she is simply superb Amongst rest Abhay Deol in a cameo is superb Swara Bhaskar is good, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub last seen in Jannat 2 is amazing, rest are all good

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