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Raja Rani Review
- 10/2/2013 3:34:06 AM
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Cast: Arya, Jai, Nayanthara, Nazriya Nazim, Santhanam, Sathyaraj, SathyanDirection: AtleeGenre: RomanceDuration: 2 hours 44 minutes
Synopsis: John and Regina get married despite being unable to come out of their previous romances. How do they learn to accept each other, and eventually fall in love?
Review: In many ways, Raja Rani is a familiar tale. It is about John, a young man, and Regina, a woman, who get married, even though they can't stand each other and how they realize that, maybe, there is life — and love — in their new relationship. Both have a romantic past — she with the innocent Suriya (Jai) and he with the chirpy Keerthana (Nazriya) —have lost their loved ones in different ways, and are unwilling to come out of their loss. How they decide to let go of the past and embrace the future is what the plot is all about.
The inbuilt problem in Atlee's Raja Rani is that it tells three love stories, one in the present and two in flashbacks that take a chunk of the movie's running time. The film starts effectively, and over the course of the inventively picturized Hey Baby, Atlee lets us peek into John and Regina's married life, which is a non-starter. She feels bitter while he acts boorish and all that the two would like is to beat the hell out of the other. Then begin the flashbacks — Regina's past romance takes over the first half and in the second half, you get the love story of John and Keerthana. The problem is Atlee devotes too much time on these that you
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