Jennifer Shaw Hancock (jen-122-636160) This movie delivers everything you expect it to deliver from the previews. Shahid is adorable and wonderful. Sonakshi is wonderful and beautiful and fierce. And Sonu Sood is a) incredibly handsome and b) too handsome and beautifully handsome to be the evil villain he plays. He does a great job, but his handsomeness was a bit distracting for me.Dancing: This movie is written, directed and choreographed by Prabhu Deva, so the dancing is amazing and technical. If you are a dancer, watch this movie. Seriously. Some of the stuff Shahid was doing is nothing short of amazing and of course Prabhu has a cameo in one of the songs (Gandi Beat). It was nice to see that Prabhu is capable of dialing it back when he needs to as the "we both just realized we are in love fantasy dance sequence" was low key, and beautiful without all the complex technical moves of the other numbers.Action: Speaking of choreography, this is an action flick. And some of the fight sequences are beautifully choreographed as well. Most of them are jump cut so the flow doesn't allow you to see extended sequences and they could very easily just film individual action shots and cut them together. But there is a fight scene in the middle of the movie where Shahid is fighting 60 guys, and we get a long sequence of uncut moves that are really well done.The final battle between Shahid and Sonu is in sepia tone – to give it more gravitas. It's hokey. They may have chosen that to hide flaws in Shahid's make up because at this point his character had been stabbed twice, beat up and buried alive before heading into the final battle, so... he had a lot of fake blood on him and it might not have looked right in regular color. The battle itself reminded me a bit of the final battle in the 3rd Musashi movie except without the swords. They rush at each other. Fight a bit. Rush at each other and eventually, Shahid, after nearly dying 3 times in the battle manages to land a punch to the throat and they just stand there. For a long while. And no – I'm not giving anything away – obviously Shahid was going to win this battle – duh. Anyway, I thought it was a nice touch and used the main elements that everyone remembers from the final Musashi battle well.Technical Details: As for what I didn't really like. Some of the editing was really odd and distracting. One of the first expository scenes is jump cut with odd angles of the faces talking, ending with extreme close ups. I found it distracting and annoying, especially since I was trying to read subtitles.The other odd choice was a jiggling earthquake effect on the film at a pivotal moment. It was distracting and didn't really add to the scene. Those were the only two moments where this was done. The rest of the movie was well done.The love story was OK – I have mixed feelings about the first half since it involved Shahid stalking Sonakshi and having been a victim of a stalking, it didn't sit well with me. I don't normally get that sort of reaction from other movies where this "following" happens. Normally, I think – ahhh. But I did react badly here so I think they missed the mark. My conclusion: If you like rough action masala – this movie is great. If you like amazing dancing. This movie is really great. Love story? Meh. Really handsome actor – Oh YEAH! Sonu!!!! Music – fun. Worth seeing? Probably.

Ketan Gupta There is a overdose of masala films in 2013 - Police giri, Chennai Express , Boss, Bullet Raja , Singh Saab The Great and now R..Rajkumar. Good news is that R..Rajkumar is better than above movie ... bad news is that it is yet another typical action-melodrama with nothing new to offer. R..Rajkumar (played by Shahid Kapoor) is a fearless and daring thug who lands up in the lawless village and joins a drug-dealer's gang, Shivraj( played by Sonu Sood). Enters Chanda and our hero is head-over- heels in love with her. Things becomes ugly when Shivraj also starts liking and war is declared between the two to marry Chanda. After giving of string of masala films like Wanted , Rowdy Rathore and Ramaiya Vastavaiya , Prabhudeva is back with yet another popcorn entertainment with strong first half but diluted second half. The film begins with a bang by incorporating scenes like Shahid Kapoor saving Sonu Sood's life , the dance number in the song "Gandi Baat", the chemistry and comic humor between Shahid and Sonakshi. However, the film goes down the rabbit hole and is completely lost in the dark in the later part. Screenplay is weak. Cinematography is amazing. Art direction is good. Background score is better. Songs like "Gandi Baat and Saree ke fall se" are catchy. Shahid steals the thunder from the show. He is superb in acting , dancing and even doing action scenes. This film should prove his mettle. Sonakshi Sinha repeats herself. Sonu Sood is good.Overall, R..Rajkumar promises to deliver but is letdown by wafer-thin 2nd half. Watch it for Shahid. Average 2.5/5

Achyuta Ghosh Right from the first scene where a flying Shahid Kapoor's wrist deflects a bullet, you know he is venturing into sacred territory- Rajni Saar territory. What follows is partly entertaining, and partly unbearable, in short as inconsistent as Air India flights, but is definitely not as bad as the media has made it out to be. If anything, R..Rajkumar is just as banal as Boss, Himmatwala, Besharam, Grand Masti, Race 2 and other such stalwarts released this year.Pyar pyar pyar, ya maar maar maar- is the motto of Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) , who lands up one fine day in Dhartipur, which is ruled by two warring bad guys- Gurjar (Sonu Sood) and Parmar (Ashish Vidyarthi). He initially sides with Gurjar, but both of them fall in love with Parmar's niece, sparking off a clownish game of oneupmanship between the two, leading to a brutal and bloody end. Even though it is not a remake, the rest of the movie is standard Southern masala action fare- gravity defying stunts, multiple slow motion cuts, lungi clad goons, a few catchy songs, romance and melodrama. The first half passes away rather breezily, but the film falters badly post interval- everything in it never seems to end- the fights, the songs, the repetitive dialogs.Shahid Kapoor is at his sincerest. He dances well, fights even better, and puts on his best lovestruck Romeo act, but such a larger than life character is beyond his wiry shoulders. Sonakshi Sinha is again the familiar annoying village belle- the one role she has perfected. She is two heroines for the price of one, alternates between the scowl and the shy- and takes a beating like a man. Sonu Sood is at his hammiest worst, and Ashish Vidyarthi is reduced to rather sad comedy.It is hard to find positives in R..Rajkumar. Initially the R was supposed to stand for Rambo, but later changed to Romeo. It somehow felt that director Prabhu Dheva lost sense of the characters midway- whether to make an all out action film, or to make a romantic one. To go full on emotion, or get some comedy on. The end product has a bit of all, but the soul of none. At the end the only thing worth talking of is the style with which Rajkumar beats the living daylights of however stands in his way. Is that worth the price of admission? A definite no- 5/10

Vaibhav Pandey Movie is all about entertainment..we should not expect from all movie where we would get thrill..excitement..sometime you need just refreshment..full on masti..and that is what all about R...Rajkumar. Fulltoo mas ala bollywood movie..emotions..love..affection..chicky comedy...awesome action..all in tapori style... Shahid has done very hard work..lots of surprise with Shahid action scene..After Interval you will feel bore for at least 10-15 mins...but wait..picture abhi baki hai mere dost.. :)NOTE : Do not go this movie with shahid Ishq-vishq image..his best after Kaminey.