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Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai

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Jackie Shroff, Salman Khan, and Disha Patani in Radhe (2021)

An honest cop is determined to bring down a corrupt drug mafia, who targets youth to drive towards drug addiction. An honest cop is determined to bring down a corrupt drug mafia, who targets youth to drive towards drug addiction. An honest cop is determined to bring down a corrupt drug mafia, who targets youth to drive towards drug addiction.

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Radhe movie review: A complete Salman show

There's no doubt that Radhe - Your Most Wanted Bhai was made especially for the big screen. From superstar Salman Khan's 'Seeti Maar' entry to the climax fight sequence, the movie is aimed to drive the Salman Khan fans go into frenzy and celebrate the actor.

While reports had it that Radhe - Your Most Wanted Bhai is a remake of the Korean action film The Outlaws , the Salman Khan-starrer exudes the aura of the superstar leaving nothing in store other than glorifying Bhai.

The film begins with Rana (Randeep Hooda), the evil boss in the drug mafia. Rana has shifted his base from Delhi and reached Mumbai to set up his empire there. From spreading terror to selling drugs to students and teenagers, Rana grabs the attention of cops.

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Realizing that a powerful officer is needed in the case, the police force assigns Radhe and the rest might be easy for one to guess. Radhe is a fearless rebel cop whose resume boasts 97 encounters and 23 punishment transfers.

In the meantime, Radhe meets Diya (Disha Patani) and falls in love with her at the very first sight. Like every other Bollywood masalas, Radhe tries to impress Diya, who is a model and is also the sister of ACP Avinash. What follows is a series of logic less fun sequences.

Radhe movie review: The complete Salman show

By half way, Radhe realizes that Rana isn't like usual criminal and that he needs a perfect plan to catch him. And that's where lies the crux of an action-filled flick within hyper masculine men.

If it was Bhai versus Sonu Sood in Dabangg , in Radhe it's Bhai versus Hooda. Apart from the fact that Hooda appears in a black leather jacket with long hair, the scenario almost seems to be the same like those of Salman Khan's earlier flicks including Wanted .

Well, one has to take note of the fact that Radhe marks the third collaboration between Salman Khan and director Prabhudeva and the two worked together in Dabangg 3 and Wanted . Prabhudeva creates the similar style and swag to the narrative.

It was sad to see Jackie Shroff's character written in a comical manner and his dialogues didn't really fit into the action flick. Disha Pathani was just yet another female character to bring some relief from the actions and for romance.

As a through out Salman Khan show, Radhe might be enjoyed by Bhai fans especially during the lockdown and festive time. However, it might not come as Bhai's most wanted film.

(The movie is available on Zee5 with ZeePlex)

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Radhe on Zee5 Review: The Salman Khan-Starrer Is So Free Of Craft That It Hurts

Director : Prabhu Deva

Writers : Vijay Maurya, AC Mugil

Cinematography : Ayananka Bose

Edited by : Ritesh Soni

Starring : Salman Khan, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff

Streaming on : Zee5, ZeePlex

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is a sequel to the 2009 blockbuster Wanted . In the climax of Wanted , Radhe is pummeling Ghani Bhai, a dreaded don played with mischievous sadism by Prakash Raj . When blood starts gushing out of Ghani bhai's mouth, he says to Radhe: ruk na yaar ruk na. Bahut dard ho raha hai. As I watched Radhe , I wanted to say the same thing to director Prabhudeva because my brain was in an advanced stage of melt down. After their last collaboration Dabangg 3 , Prabhudeva delivers yet another loud, numbing, pointless paean to the cult of Salman Khan . Radhe is so free of coherence and craft that it hurts.

Wanted was a remake of the Telugu film Pokiri . Radhe is a remake of the 2017 South Korean film The Outlaws, which itself was based on real events. The Outlaws in which Ma Dong-seok plays the tough detective, is a violent but consistently entertaining action film about cops battling warring city gangs. All Prabhudeva had to do was tweak it to suit a Mumbai setting. But the director and writers Vijay Maurya and A. C. Mugil insist on adding a romantic track, feeble comedy, a sprinkling of item songs – including a reworking of Allu Arjun 's Seetimaar – and several scenes to establish Radhe as a superhero and saviour. Early in the film he murders a man who has raped a woman and declares that this murder is for 'auraat zaat.' Later, Radhe discourages a female cop from quitting service. He tells her that 'Dar ke aage zindagi hai'. And towards the end, he enlists young people to help the police in their war against drug dealers by lecturing them about youth aur student ki power. Clearly Radhe hasn't met a cause that he won't champion.

This interminable propping up of the persona of Salman Khan through scenes, dialogue, songs and slow-motion entries is interspersed with two tracks. One is that of the drug dealers who are wrecking havoc in the city. Randeep Hooda , in leather jackets and pony tail, has some fun strutting around and butchering people with an axe. But in one scene, his character Rana kills so strenuously that he gets out of breath and I thought maybe if he ditched the jacket, he could do his job better. Also at the end, he has braids in his hair, which made me wonder, who braids Rana's hair? Is it the job of one his two tattooed sidekicks? I wish I knew.

The other running subplot is Disha Patani as Diya, a model who thinks that Radhe is an aspiring model and tries hard to help him find employment. The 27-year age difference between Disha and Salman makes their romance decidedly awkward. Neither attempts to act. I think she perhaps thought that her incredible washboard abs would be distracting enough. He, I suspect, has concluded that it doesn't matter. His fans will consume whatever he dishes out in the name of entertainment – here it includes close-ups of his trademark blue bracelet, a scene in front of Galaxy apartments, his actual home in Mumbai, another gratuitous scene in which he stands shirtless with what looks like, a digitized chest, and him breaking the fourth wall to wish his audience Eid Mubarak.

Radhe is an encounter specialist who has killed 97 people and had 23 transfers in 10 years. This of course is considered heroic. It's bewildering to me that Maurya's last feature as a dialogue writer was the terrific Gully Boy . How did the same artist create the superbly cringey scene in which Radhe tells Diya that if he had a sister, he would name her Na-diya. Meanwhile, Jackie Shroff plays Diya's older brother and Radhe's boss – in one scene, he's close dancing with Radhe wearing a strappy silk dress. I'm not making this up. The only saving grace is that at one hour and 49 minutes, this is among Salman shortest films.

Radhe is playing on Zee Plex and Zee 5. But I recommend that you see The Outlaws instead.

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai Movie Review

Radhe Devesh Sharma , May 13, 2021, 16:00 IST

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Such is the popularity of Salman Khan that Zee’s online platform crashed several times during the transmission of Radhe as too many people were watching it when it was released today online. It’s the perfect Eid gift for fans hungry for high octane entertainment during the lockdown. Radhe was supposed to have a huge nation-wide release and bring succour to the theatre owners but it wasn’t to be as the second wave of COVID-19 played spoilsport .

Directed by Prabhu Deva, Radhe can be said to be a spiritual successor of sorts to Salman’s own Wanted (2009), which too was directed by Prabu Deva. There, Salman played an undercover cop who pretends to be a gangster in order to cleanse the corruption from within. Here, he uses the same brutal methods employed by the gangsters to battle them and bring peace. The film is said to be based on the hit Korean crime thriller The Outlaws (2017). But while the original is said to be a gritty, hard boiled film, said to be inspired by true events, Radhe has elements of comedy and romance in it as well. And since it’s a masala entertainer, songs have been added to the film as well. Seetimaar, composed by Devi Sri Prasad, is a hit massy number and so is Zoom zoom, composed by Sajid-Wajid. Though the songs sound well outside of the film’s narrative, in the context of the film their presence is hard to explain. They can be termed as fantasy sequences as best.

The film starts off with a gory sequence. Rana (Randeep Hooda) and his two bloodthirsty henchmen -- Girgit (Gautam Gulati) and Lota (Butanese import Sangay Tsheltrim) arriving in Mumbai from Delhi to extract an unpaid loan. Rana is no longer interested in just being a loan shark and wants to take over the drug business. The three outsiders manage to intimidate the two big gangs functioning in Mumbai city and take over their resources.

Radhe (Salman Khan) is a maverick encounter specialist who gets shunted from one posting to the other because of his unorthodox ways. Radhe, who is currently suspended, is made to report to top cop Avinash Abhyankar (Jackie Shroff). Avinash is the brother of Diya (Disha Patani) who later becomes Radhe’s love interest. Disha is 28, Salman is 55 and Jackie is a sprightly 64. So whoever came up with the casting maybe didn’t have these facts in hand. Or they are plain bad at maths.

Disha Patani is taken in the film so she can call Salman Bhola -- we don’t know why, as his name is clearly Radhe. She flirts with him, ogles at his six packs, dances around him in some ’90s MTV inspired videos and to get herself kidnapped at the end so the hero gets extra motivated to put an end to the gangsters. Jackie Shroff gets to dance with Salman in a cocktail gown, and is shown to be full of bluster and pomp, with a mandatory fight scene thrown in towards the end. Anyways, Radhe has a unique way of looking at problems. He wants the Mumbai underworld to actually help the Mumbai police in nabbing drug dealers. Because being a criminal is okay as long as you’re not into the drug trade. So he bashes some skulls and becomes a big enough menace for them to comply with his demands. Of course, Rana and his henchmen prove to be almost invisible and invincible. In the end, Radhe has to appeal to the patriotic feelings of the youth in order to nab the drug cartel . Now, this he could have done much earlier without involving the other gangsters...

In order to sound ‘realistic’ and ‘contemporary’, the film starts off with the sucide of a brilliant boy who wanted to be a space scientist but whose life was torn apart by drugs. Okay then! The viewers can draw their own conclusions just whom the makers are referring to. But this token nod to realism aside, the rest of the film is set up as a fight between a super villain and a superhero. Picture this: Both Randeep Hooda and Salman Khan are thrown off a burning helicopter, which later crashes dramatically but remain unhurt. Randeep is then shot by Jackie Shroff but still continues to fight as if nothing has happened. Salman Khan is beaten black and blue by Randeep using metal tools but no bones get broken. When a metal rod hits Salman’s arms , we keep hearing a clang -- a metal on metal sound. Maybe he had a bionic arm or something.

A gang of three is able to bring the entire Mumbai underworld under their heel. It’s perhaps the first film where the villain is shown to be more ferocious, resourceful and powerful than the hero. Having said all this, one must add that the action scenes are slickly choreographed indeed. Yes, they are over-the-top and all that but have a certain intensity to them which is appealing. One question comes to mind. Salman is introduced as an encounter specialist and yet doesn’t draw a gun when it comes to dealing with Randeep Hooda and his goons , choosing instead to fight man-to-man with them with his bare hands. Why? He could have just shot them, given the fact they are a totally ruthless bunch.

Does Salman look his age doing the action? He doesn’t and seems to be in fine fettle still battling 20 goons at one go. Yes, he doesn’t have Tiger Shroff’s agility but his screen charisma hasn’t deserted him. As for romancing Tiger’s alleged girlfriend Disha Patani on-screen. Well, the fluffy romance is mostly restricted to songs and stuff and lacks intensity. It’s unintentionally hilarious when she calls him boy but then this is a masala film. If the aim is to portray him as a ‘boy’ then of course we’re never going to see him being paired with a 30 plus or a 40 plus heroine. Disha never looks intimidated by him and does her bit confidently. We don’t know what a method actor like Randeep Hooda was doing here. In his interviews he’s said he loves Salman so maybe he did it out of friendship. One can apply that same logic to Jackie Shroff’s presence as well.

All-in-all, watch Radhe if you want to see a genuine superstar in action -- someone who makes you forget the absurdity around him by his sheer presence. The film is manna from heaven for all Salman Khan fans. Don’t try to find logic and a coherent screenplay and story here and you won’t be disappointed...

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I Watched Salman Khan’s ‘Radhe’ & Here’s Why I Think It’s The Masterpiece 2021 Needed

*Sarcasm alert throughout*

Salman Khan is one of those rare actors who are known for their nuanced performances, author-backed roles and cinematic genius. Naturally, his latest release Radhe is one of the finest Bollywood movies ever made. Khan plays the role of a suspended cop who’s asked to resume his duties as Mumbai’s youth fall prey to drug abuse. His mission is to catch the baddies and make the city drugs-free. Such a noble plot for a film in 2021, isn’t it? As I spent two precious hours watching the film, I realised that it’s definitely a must-watch and here are some reasons why.

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1. Compelling storytelling

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A remake of the 2017 Korean film The Outlaws , Khan’s Radhe is an action potboiler that relies on a tight script that features every kind of action scene Bollywood has ever written. Right from gravity-defying fight scenes to shooting an enemy, Khan pulls out all stops to remind us of action sequences that some so-called modern filmmakers might have written off. Also, it has some ingenious scenes that truly make it an Oscar-worthy script. For example, in one of the scenes, Radhe’s colleague covers a security camera with a paper cup so that Radhe can undertake illicit questioning of a suspect. I mean, even Tarantino wouldn’t be able to come up with a trick such as this one.

2. Disha Patani exists

...and we must thank Salman Khan for it. Sure, her character is reduced to a highly sexualised, one-dimensional being whose only purpose is to gape at Khan’s (CGI) abs and engage in nonsensical banter. Sure, their chemistry might remind one of a cardboard box lying around in the house but, at least, she’s a woman who’s been cast in Bhai’s film. It’s the highest form of honour Khan can bestow upon a Bollywood actress and we must acknowledge it. Honestly, we think Patani’s career couldn’t get bigger than this, she’s definitely at her peak.

3. Progressive plot points

If you’ve ever watched a Salman Khan movie, you know that Bhai stars in the most progressive films produced by the industry. So how could Radhe be any different? The movie is so woke that Khan’s character, a police officer, casually employs underage children to spy on drug dealers. Also, women are randomly molested in the movie because the male characters’ moral fibres won’t wake up until a woman has been sexually harassed by a villain. It doesn’t matter if women’s trauma is used as a convenient plot point, it’s the thought that matters. No wonder he’s the bhai of all bhais .

If you aren’t convinced, here’s another example. When Radhe’s junior colleague wants to quit her job due to the sheer trauma of the everyday violence around her, he equates his fear of cockroaches and lizards to her PTSD. He goes on to give her pep talk and says, “ Darr ke piche maut, darr ke aage zindagi .” Honestly, a certain beverage brand can just stop airing its advertisements, Bhai has arrived.

4. Bhai, bhai, and only bhai

What makes Radhe stand out is in devotion to its titular character. Haters will not agree, but just like the Marvel Cinematic Universe worships its heroes in different Avengers movies, the same can be said about Khan’s films. After all, the movie pays an ode to Khan’s biggest hits Tere Naam and Wanted by calling itself Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai . Sheer poetry. Additionally, Khan doesn’t shy away from rehashing the dialogue “ Ek baar jo maine commitment kar di to main apne aap ki bhi nahi sunta ” to remind the audience that he still reigns supreme. Some people may say it’s Khan’s desperate attempt at staying relevant but ignore such trolls.

Last but not the least, Khan takes off his shirt, occupies almost every scene in the movie, and barely emotes while delivering dialogues because he’s a great artist and the world knows it. No wonder he waited a year before releasing the movie online. After all, great art needs time.

To be honest, after watching the movie, I’m planning to do a Salman Khan marathon so that my brain cells can be blessed with the man’s artistic experiments. BRB, see you soon (or never).

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Radhe Review: Salman Khan Does Everything Fans Expect Including Shedding His Shirt

Radhe review: randeep hooda, in the guise of a brutal baddie in black, upstages the rest of the cast, which includes jackie shroff in an underwritten comic role of a bumbling assistant commissioner of police..

<i>Radhe</i> Review: Salman Khan Does Everything Fans Expect Including Shedding His Shirt

Cast: Salman Khan, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda and Jackie Shroff

Director : Prabhu Deva

Rating : 2 stars (out of 5)

A Salman Khan movie is usually like a running tap that cannot be turned off. It stops only when the water tank has been emptied of its content. Radhe , directed by Prabhudeva, is another unapologetic addition to that tradition. The film dumps a whole lot of dross on us, albeit with a certain degree of surface gloss.

The lead actor, doing justice to the tagline in the title (“Your Most Wanted Bhai”), has the entire film to himself. When Radhe loses his cool, which obviously is pretty frequently, there is no stopping him. The one-man army goes all guns blazing. It is, however, Randeep Hooda, in the guise of a brutal baddie in black, who upstages the rest of the cast, which includes Jackie Shroff in an underwritten comic role of a bumbling Assistant Commissioner of Police who seeks to hide his failings behind a wall of bluster.

Available for on-demand viewing on Zee5 – it would also have hit the multiplexes had the second wave of Covid-19 not shuttered movie halls across India – Radhe deals with an urban epidemic of sorts. Youngsters are dropping dead (or harming themselves grievously) owing to widespread drug addiction. Our man Radhe , an under-suspension police inspector, is hurriedly pulled out of hibernation and entrusted with the task of weeding out the drug dealers who are taking a toll on the nation's future.

Towards the end of the film, the protagonist, who has been given the assignment owing to his reputation (he has toted up 97 encounter killings and 23 transfers in ten years, the audience is told), proclaims: I will clean the city up. Swachch Bharat! Jai Hind! You expect him to round it off with Bharat Mata Ki Jai. He stops short. Mercifully.

The source of the basic story is duly acknowledged. Radhe is a remake of the high-grossing 2017 Korean action film The Outlaws, which had drawn inspiration from real-life, turn-of-the-millennium gang rivalries in a Chinese-dominated neighbourhood of Seoul. The Salman Khan starrer is only fitfully focused on the ground realities of Mumbai. It is far more at ease with the larger-than-life treatment that the star imposes upon the film.

Salman Khan goes about the mop-up job with all the swag at his command. In his grand entry scene, he flies through a sturdy glass pane without causing himself any pain. While he is in one piece and lands on his feet ready to take on the world, he sends shards and bodies flying. The goons who cross his path stand absolutely no chance – Radhe can stand up to entire battalions single-handedly, and without losing much sweat, let alone blood, over it.

Needless to say, we have seen this persona of the star on the big screen times without number. But just in case you don't get it, he spouts his signature Dabangg refrain: “Main jab commitment kar deta hoon….” Among the other punchlines that dialogue writer Vijay Maurya (also the film's screenwriter along with A.C. Mugil) gives the lead actor is: “Radhe jaane ke liye nahin bhejne ke liye aaya hai.” This is in response to an unsuspecting question posed by the first bad guy that he eliminates: How will you get out alive? It is Inspector Radhe's job to send criminals packing post-haste. As for the man himself, he comes and comes at his own sweet will.

Radhe is Salman Khan's customary Eid release. So, before he proceeds to hasten his first adversary's tryst with death, he declares: “Tere hisse ki biryani mil-baatke khayenge aur bolenge Eid Mubarak.” What that also means is that the star wants you to treat the film as a diversion in tough times and not fret over the illogical methods that it wallows in. Much later, Radhe brings us back fleetingly to the real world. The crawl on a television news channel reporting on a shootout in a Mumbai pub refers to the launch of the Coronavirus vaccination drive in India on January 16, 2021. But let us not even go there considering where we are a few months on.

Life isn't all work and no play for Radhe . He does get the occasional breather, thanks to the largely decorative presence of Disha Patani. The character that the hero's romantic interest plays is defined by the skimpiness of the outfits she sports rather than by the depth of her relevance to the plot. She is in the film to try and ensure that it is sufficiently peppered with songs and dances and that the musical set- pieces are endowed with reasonable glamour quotient while Salman Khan provides the star power to keep the unabashedly silly plot moving.

Not that she succeeds. In one scene, after she has sent her sloshed dad – the aforementioned ACP Avinash Abhyankar, Radhe' s boss, to bed, she breaks into a seductive dance to inveigle the object of her affection. Radhe , however, responds with spirit-dampening snores. That, to be charitable to her and to whoever decided to cast her opposite Salman (there is little compatibility, forget chemistry, between the two), is the effect Patani's presence has on the film. She slows it down.

The songs, picturised in a manner that harks back to Prabhudeva's early days as a choreographer, might pass muster if one were to watch them independently of the film, but in a thriller centred on vicious drug peddlers on the rampage and a cop bent upon bringing them to book, they are totally out of place.

Talking of placement of songs, the much-hyped Seeti Maar number does not add up at all. It is bunged into the 110-minute film at the top of its last quarter. It simply doesn't work. In anything, it pours a whole gallon of water on the possibility of any sort of dramatic anticipation building up as Radhe prepares to launch his final assault on Rana, the ruthless crime lord who goes about bludgeoning and slashing people who owe him money.

Radhe has enough inducements for diehard Salman Khan fans to keep them interested in the goings-on. The star does everything that they would expect of him, including shedding his shirt. For all others, there is Randeep Hooda.

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'Radhe' movie review: On Eid, Salman Khan chooses to treat only 'die-hard' fans

Director: Prabhudeva

Cast: Salman Khan, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff, and Disha Patani

Rating: 3/5

Actor Salman Khan's movies usually cater to his die-hard fans while failing to satisfy intelligent cinephiles. Dabangg , a film that had everything from action sequences to an 'item number', worked because of its massy presentation. Nothing about it was remotely subtle or artistic. The star's latest release Radhe is no exception.

The film revolves around the journey of a rowdy cop who decides to 'clean' Mumbai by eliminating a deadly gangster. The storyline is as old as the hills and follows the 'good vs evil' formula, which has previously been used in films such as Sholay , Rowdy Rathore and Baahubali .

As commercial as it gets

A commercial action drama can keep viewers hooked only if it has two important ingredients -- a hero worth rooting for and an antagonist who one loves to hate. Radhe , luckily, has both these elements. The opening sequences introduce us to the antagonist, setting the stage for what is to follow. It is quite predictable but builds an aura around the character. The focus then shifts to Salman's character and this is where Radhe comes into its element. The action sequences cater to 'Bhai' fans, even though they aren't as intense as the ones seen in the Baaghi franchise or even Force . The washroom fight sequence is a highlight of Radhe but pales in comparison to the one seen in John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi's Mumbai Saga .

The romantic sequences are again tailored to suit the masses and are reminiscent of the ones seen in Wanted, Salman's first film with Prabhu Deva.

The bromance between Jackie Shroff and the Kick star is a bit over the top but works well in the Radhe world.

Punchy, oh yes!

Mass movies are usually synonymous with punch dialogues. Dabangg , for example, featured the iconic "itne chhed" dialogue that was as massy as can be. The film too has its share of one-liners with the 'commitment' dialogue being the pick of the lot. A few dialogues in Radhe are a bit cringeworthy, but even they are better than the ones heard in the underwhelming Race 3 .

How about some 'tapori' swag?

Salman Khan is the heart and soul of Radhe and does justice to a character that often comes across as an extension of his real personality. His 'tapori' swag and bindass dialogue delivery may remind one of Balakrishna's performance in the Telugu movie Paisa Vasool. Randeep Hooda holds his own against Salman, which is not an easy task. His intensity in the action sequences is another plus.

Commercial cinema isn't exactly the go-to place for strong female characters. Kajal Aggarwal, for example, did not have much to do in Singham. Similarly, Sonakshi Sinha was not really the star of Rowdy Rathore. Radhe pretty much follows the same pattern. Disha Patani does not really get too much scope but fares better than Ayesha Takia in Wanted. Her spunkiness and glam quotient are likely to remind one of Anushka Shetty from her maiden film Super. Jackie Shroff essays a character that has shades of the one played by Arjun Rampal in Housefull .

Take it or leave it

The music is a mixed bag. The title track and Dil De Diya are worth a listen while Zoom and Seeti Maar are quite underwhelming. The Telugu version of Seeti Maar had worked due to the 'NTR, ANR, Megastar' line, which is missing in the Hindi one. The choreography is mediocre at best. Editing is decent as the film does not really drag. The background score suits the content.

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‘Radhe’ movie review: Salman Khan can’t save this mess of a film

Prabhu deva and salman khan’s third outing is dull and unintentionally hilarious.

Updated - May 13, 2021 04:17 pm IST

Published - May 13, 2021 04:11 pm IST

Salman Khan in ‘Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai’

Mumbai is in the grip of a drug mafia. Teens are falling prey to substance abuse. The existing crime lords of the city don’t seem to be the main culprits. The perplexed police force decides to bring in a specialist to ‘clean up the city’. The latest Salman Khan starrer Radhe , directed by Prabhu Deva, acknowledges that the film is inspired by the 2017 South Korean film The Outlaws .

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Cast: Salman Khan, Disha Pathani, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff
Direction: Prabhu Deva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad, Himmesh Reshamiyya, Sajid-Wajid and Sanchit Balhara
Streaming on: Zeeplex by Zee 5

Radhe plays out like The-Outlaws -meets- Darbar -meets-many-masala-movies. Rajveer Shikwat or Radhe (Salman Khan)’s entry will put superheroes to shame. Who needs a Spider-Man or Superman when Radhe enters like a whirlwind and those at the receiving end are left to reconstruct what has just happened, in hindsight. The science-defying entry is meant solely for the massy superhero movies, to be lapped up by cheering fans in theatres.

As theatres remain closed in many parts of the country, Salman keeps his almost annual date with Eid, through ZeePlex this time.

Radhe’s reputation precedes his arrival. He is credited with 97 encounters and has been transferred 23 times. No task is challenging for him and he throws away redundant a punch line ‘ ek baar commitment kar diya toh apni bhi nahin sunta’ . It’s a role that Salman can sleepwalk through.

If that isn’t enough, Dia (Disha Patani) believes that Radhe is an aspiring model and gives him suggestions for modelling and body language. Ghajini anyone? Disha is saddled with a ‘cute but downright dumb’ character.

Megha Akash and Bharath are relegated to the background as young cops. At least Megha gets two scenes to make her presence felt.

There isn’t much in the film to hold interest, but for the menacing Rana (Randeep Hooda) who proves to be elusive and a tough nut to crack, even for Radhe. But their face-off, especially in the pre-interval segment, falls flat. One can recall several Tamil and Telugu masala films that have gotten these pre-interval clashes right, however repetitive or banal the storylines might have been.

Rana goes about slashing anyone who hinders his path. But there aren’t enough cat and mouse games between Radhe and Rana to keep us hooked. It’s a straightforward ‘I will clean up the city’ (there’s even a mention of Swachh Bharat) remark by Radhe and a smirk from Rana.

Radhe’s story is all over the place and you hardly care for what’s happening on screen. Dance numbers are thrown in, including the much-publicised ‘ Seeti Maar’ (originally composed for the Telugu film DJ ).

One of the biggest puzzles has to do with Jackie Shroff’s character. He plods through the film with ‘the script said so’ demeanour.

Radhe is dreary and listless, with no attempt to do anything innovative within the purview of star-led masala entertainers.

(Radhe can be watched on ZeePlex, the pay per view service of Zee5)

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Review: Salman Khan’s ‘Radhe’ Is Loud, Senseless & Offensive

Salman khan’s radhe is streaming on zeeplex., review: salman’s ‘radhe’ is loud, senseless & offensive.

When the heroine tries to speak, the hero smiles and puts a tape over her mouth. He then proceeds to peck her on her taped lips and a love song follows. Salman Khan films generally have the IQ level of an orange, but the ignominy caused by watching Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is another matter.

God knows that we all need something to distract ourselves from the pain and sadness all around. Radhe, one would have wished, would alleviate the distress but it does everything in its capacity to elevate our suffering.

Radhe is a loud, senseless and offensive film that has little regard for women, the police force and the audience‘s intelligence in general.

One does not expect much sense from a Salman film, but this kind of “nonsense" sure has its best before date and its well past it.

A Salman Khan film usually means a big screen experience, where his entry is carefully choreographed so that bhai bhakts can cheer and clap for their hero. The scenario, of course, is different this time. We must compromise and watch him in yet another larger-than-life avatar on our laptop or TV screens.

Salman Khan’s Radhe is streaming on ZeePlex.

Said to be a remake of the Korean film The Outlaws , AC Mugil’s screenplay weaves a tale where every character exists to simply allow Radhe (Salman Khan) to flex his muscles and feed into his megalomania. Mumbai is a mess and the only one who can clean it is Radhe. In what appears like a “high level meeting “ with senior officials and bureaucrats, one person shouts “we need a specialist”. The saviour is one with a rather inglorious achievement to his credit - 97 encounters and 23 transfers in 10 years. “Revoke his suspension” another person screams, and we have a slo-mo walk by the man himself . Radhe either saunters with swag or crashes through windows of highrises. He truly lives in extremes.

Since Radhe stands for all things good, the “bad” comes in the form of Randeep Hooda. He plays Rana, a drug lord new to Mumbai but determined to make it big in the city. Unkempt long hair and black clothes, it’s painful to see an actor of Hooda’s caliber reduced to just another cliche. Credit goes to Prabhu Deva for making even decent actors ham their way through Radhe . For the sake of Jackie Shroff let’s pretend he was never a part of this debacle.

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The segue crashes are jarring and the film's messaging even more so. When asked why he shot dead so many men, Radhe replies “ auratzaat ke liye (for the women)”. It's another thing that the 'protector' of aurat and their izzat thinks nothing about lying to a women he falls for in pehli nazar and goes on to manipulate her. Disha Patani as the featherhead Diya seems to be at ease though. Like many women in Salman‘s films, she has little or no agency. The songs are jarring and you would almost miss Jacqueline Fernandez gyrating suggestively in one of the dance numbers. A female police officer is shown visibly shivering when faced with criminals and needs Radhe's saviour complex to be able to breathe. The few other women are either raped or molested and are almost always crying and pleading. All this to show that had Radhe been around they would have been saved.

Salman Khan does everything - from repeating his most popular dialogue “ Ek baar jo maine commitment kar di ”, which clearly has lost its novelty, to going shirtless. Radhe is frustratingly tone deaf to how it promotes police brutality and the almost suffocating toxic masculinity that is sprayed on like a cheap deodorant. Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is nothing but a cringefest.

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Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai

Cast: Salman Khan, Disha Patani, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff

Direction: Prabhu Deva

Streaming on: Zee5

Radhe is allegedly an official remake of the 2017 South Korean film, The Outlaws. This means that we could sit with both the films and play “spot the difference” till the end of time. But what’s the point?

No Salman Khan film before and since Dabaang (2010) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) has really had a point except to treat India's legions of Salman-esque man-babies to how "bhai" shaves, dances, kicks and flexes.

In fact, Salman Khan films these days don’t even qualify as films, in the sense that they are not even moving images. They are simply a collage of snapshots of him posing in high heels which his pants try to hide by splitting at the bottom and flaring out.

It’s one thing to suspend disbelief for the sake of a story, characters, a world conjured up. It’s quite another for us to have to also pretend that Salman Khan is tall, that he can move, and that he is a young man and not a 55-year-old first-in-line for the Covid vaccine.

The Salman Khan universe is always pivoted on imagined masculine physical power, prowess, speed and moral courage where he is the good guy up against bad guys. And this is the plot of Radhe.

The Outlaws was about a group of cops. But here, as in most Salman films, no one else matters except him. That is because his Radhe has superpowers that even Superman, Spiderman, Shaktiman haven’t yet harnessed.

Radhe is no ordinary cop. He is an encounter specialist on suspension, and yet when the menace of drugs and suicides spreads through the schools and colleges of Mumbai, it is he that the commissioner of police turns to for help.

Because even when he is off duty, Radhe flies into the high-rise apartment of a bad guy who has raped and killed a girl. Why he couldn’t get there earlier and save the girl is not disclosed. But then, that’s not the point of this scene. This scene is meant to inspire The Matrix people.

Radhe, you see, is so fast that he’s not even a blur. People he attacks and even kills are not even aware that they have been attacked till they find themselves bleeding or dead. But since some people need to see and process how lethal he is, Radhe kills everyone and then proceeds to show the main bad guy a replay of how he did it.

Director Prabhu Deva's Radhe is like that horrible “I’ve Mixed Everything That Was Leftover” dish which Mummyjis are given to cooking every few months.

The film can’t even come up with a single whistle-worthy dialogue and uses that old “Ek baar jo main commitment karta hoon...” line over and over.

Even the supporting characters are like zombies who have risen from Salman’s previous tacky films. As if, upon hearing that Salman is making another film, they crawled out of those films and arrived on the sets of Radhe. They do here what they did then.

Radhe's official world is made up of minions who are devoted bhakts and his bosses are either corrupt or bumbling fools. ACP Avinash Abhyankar (Jackie Shroff) is a moron who gets to wear a silk maroon dress and show-off his waxed legs.

The wider world is made up of a good, old Muslim man who is a mute, moral approver, a young kid who wants to catch the bad guys, and several women who either get raped, killed or beaten. Except for the one Salman is romantically inclined towards, of course.

Salman Khan could never really act and for a while now he has stopped moving as well. Throughout Radhe, Salman carries a fixed expression, as if he sent his wax statue to the shoot and everyone around had to pretend it was the real thing.

So directors, choreographers and fight masters have to make him stand in poses that can be joined together later, on the editor’s screen, to insinuate movement .

This means that we get several stills of him: The pinky-lipped pout, eyes crinkled to project smoldering, Salman standing with feet shoulder distance apart and arms making round brackets around his torso. Sometimes, after beating the bad guys, he hooks his jacket to his index finger and flings it on his back. There are also several shots of him holding his belt buckle or hands in his pant pocket. All these call attention to his manhood which, unfortunately, is shy and whimpering when it comes to having any meaningful contact — romance, chemistry — with any actress.

Since Salman Khan went bonkers over a girl in the 2003 Tere Naam, he has been a reluctant suitor. So it’s the women who must prance around him like dizzy squirrels in short skirts. These women are shapely, much younger do-gooders who, when not simpering or dancing, are helping others. When they are dancing they take his hand and place it on their waist or present their booties for him to do a gentle tabla thing on it.

In Radhe, Disha Patani’s name is Diya. Since she is always in shorts and skirts, she gets told off about her clothes, Baddi Ammi style. But there is that mandatory bare torso scene of Salman for his fans to swoon over.

In Radhe, Salman doesn’t just show us a six-pack torso (hello, CGI), but attention is also called to his ample man-boobs which twitch in a rather creepy way at the sight of Ms Diya.

The main bad guy in Radhe is Rana (Randeep Hooda) whose shoulder length hair is annoying.

Rana doesn’t seem to have or want a life. He stays in an abandoned mill and with his two men eats out of aluminium takeaway containers. Sometimes the sweet people who send him food also send him thermocol plates.

Rana doesn’t inspire much love for a life of crime. And just a video of his sad life would have been enough to deter future criminals. But since Salman Khan films are a sequence of dances and fights, he goes after Rana.

In Radhe, Salman doesn’t just beat up all the bad guys, he converts some into duffle bags and even sends a flying knife into a goon’s half-eaten Batata Vada and pins it to a wall.

At the end he jumps out of an SUV and flies into an airborne helicopter. It all ends with a dance where Salman barely moves and Disha Patani overcompensates with worrying pelvic thrusts.

What is more worrying, however, is that two very loved men of our film fraternity — Salman Khan and Prabhu Deva — think it is okay to peddle this imbecility as a film.

PS: A joke has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp about Radhe:

“You guys don't know him, but I have a friend who has been on a wheelchair most of his life. And today he stood up to switch off the TV while watching Radhe.”

I just want to know at what point he stood up from the wheelchair. I want to frame that scene.

Radhe: Release Date, Trailer, Songs, Cast

Release Date 13 May 2021
Language Hindi
Genre Action, Thriller
Duration 1h 53min
Cast Salman Khan, Disha Patani, Sangay Tsheltrim, Randeep Hooda, Jackie Shroff, Megha Akash, Bharath Srinivasan, Gautam Gulati, Govind Namdev, Pravin Tarde, Darshan Jariwala
Director Prabhu Deva
Writer A. C. Mugil, Vijay Maurya
Cinematography Ayananka Bose
Music Score: Sanchit Balhara, Ankit Balhara; Songs: Sajid–Wajid Devi, Sri Prasad, Himesh Reshammiya
Producer Sohail Khan, Atul Agnihotri, Salman Khan, Nikhil Namit
Production Reel Life Production Private Limited, Sohail Khan Productions, Salman Khan Films, Zee Studios
Certificate U/A

About Radhe Movie (2021)

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is a Hindi action thriller film based on the Korean movie The Outlaws. The film has on focus a crime syndicate and a large drug cartel, supposedly being run by a ruthless gangster named Rana (Randeep Huda). An imminent underworld figure, Rana is also the wealthiest man in town, popular for murdering anyone who fails to return his borrowed money. To battle Rana and bust the syndicate, police hires ACP Radhe (Salman Khan), an undercover cop.

Radhe Movie Cast, Release Date, Trailer, Songs and Ratings

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#	TITLE	ARTIST	DURATION
1.	Seeti Maar	Kamaal Khan, Iulia Vantur	4:04
2.	Dil De Diya	Kamaal Khan, Payal Dev	4:47
3.	Radhe Title Track	Sajid	3:02
4.	Zoom Zoom	Ash King, Lulia Vantur	3:45

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Radhe movie review: A dozen Salman Khan starrers diced and tossed together in stale oil

Radhe is so generic that it would be a challenge to write down the plot from A-Z after a single viewing.

(Our software does not permit us to show less than a 0.1 in the rating graphic above. Please note that the actual rating given to this film by our critic is 0 stars.)

Language: Hindi

Take a dozen Salman Khan starrers. Peel and dice them without washing. Throw the whole lot into a wok with stale oil left over from last week’s cooking. Toss them together and serve when half cooked.

That seems to be the recipe director Prabhu Deva followed for his latest collaboration with Salman Khan. Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai harks back to their blockbuster team-up in 2009, Wanted , in which Khan played an undercover cop going by the name from which this new film takes its title. Wanted was a remake of the Telugu smash hit Pokiri . Text on screen right before Radhe rolls declares that it is based on the Korean film The Outlaws directed by Kang Yun-sung – the fact that they do not bother to specify whether the Korea in this case is South or North Korea should tell you all you need to know about Radhe ’s attention to detail.

Briefly, Radhe is the story of a turf war in Mumbai’s drug-peddling scene when a new lord – a guy called Rana played by Randeep Hooda – enters the picture, and a disgraced cop (Radhe, but of course) is called in to bust this deadly racket that has led to an outbreak of addiction and deaths among the city’s youth.

(Also read on Firstpost —The Salman Khan interview | ‘Radhe’s box office may be almost zero, but we’re going ahead with the release’)

It speaks volumes about Bollywood’s terrifying notion of coolth that it persists in reminding us of that other Salman-starrer Tere Naam in which his character was called Radhe years before Wanted was released. Tere Naam was a horrific romanticisation of a self-destructive man whose obsessive, proprietorial attitude towards the heroine was portrayed as a mark of his bottomless well of love. Radhe is not scary in the way Tere Naam was. It is just plain bad.

This film is so generic that it would be a challenge to write down the plot from A-Z after a single viewing. As with a zillion films featuring Salman that have gone before it, this one too gives him a grand entry complete with Dhan-te-nan and fisticuffs, a scene in which the camera focuses on his trademark bracelet before we glimpse his face, and he breaks the fourth wall to address his fans directly, looking straight at the camera in the middle of a conversation with a gangster just as he says the words “ Eid Mubarak ” in a supposedly clever sentence.

Radhe is so dull that at one point Salman himself fell asleep in the middle of a conversation. I kid you not – there is a scene in which his girlfriend (Disha Patani) does this weird seduction dance and as she slides up close to whisper sweet nothings to him, he begins snoring lightly with eyes open while standing facing her; as she realises he has dozed off, his head flops down on her shoulder. This appears to be a shot at humour by the writer, but since the context makes no sense, I can only guess that it was a self-aware inside joke by Team Radhe about the soporific quality of their film.

(Also read on Firstpost —Salman Khan’s Radhe hybrid release is less a compromise, more a sustainable exhibition model during pandemic)

Like most Bollywood works in this space, Radhe treats its ‘heroine’ as nothing but a body on display whose sole job is to give the hero someone to fall in love with, dance with and protect. Nevertheless, it features two scenes designed to gaslight what it must assume is a very stupid audience into believing the opposite. First is an episode in which the leading man bashes up a whole gang of men to save a woman from assault and when one of the villains says in disbelief, “ Itne saare logon ko tuney ek ladki ke liye maara ?!” (You beat up so many men for the sake of just one woman?!), he replies grandly, “ Aurat zaat ke liye ” (for all womankind). Dhan-te-nan again!

Later, when Radhe’s creepy, horny elderly boss (Jackie Shroff) excitedly poses for selfies with a group of sexy women, he says pointedly, “I respect women.”

I mean, what the…

Okay, I must clarify that at this point I collapsed on my sofa laughing.

Radhe’s helmsman has emerged from the same medical college that services many Indian film industries, a college where they are trained to believe that the average Indian mother has a much longer reproductive cycle than women actually do. This fantasy enabled director Santhosh Vishwanath to cast the nearly septuagenarian Mammootty and 24-year-old Nimisha Sajayan as siblings in the recent Malayalam release One , and here has Shroff at 64 playing 28-year-old Patani’s elder brother.

Cliché piles up on cliché in Radhe. There are so many that an exhaustive list is impossible within the limited space of a review. Even the film’s production quality is sub-par – it has a plastic look in both indoor and outdoor sequences.

Shockingly for a film headed by Prabhu Deva, whose reputation as a dancer precedes all else across India, Radhe ’s choreography is also unimpressive (as it was in Dabangg 3 , which too he directed). As they dance to ‘ Seeti Maar’ , a lively number mindlessly placed right after a scene of brutal violence, the centrepiece step assigned to Ms Patani and Mr Khan has them awkwardly rubbing their bums together.

Salman plays Salman throughout Radhe , which has been fun on rare occasions in the past but is no longer so. It’s a pity though that fine actors like Shroff and Hooda have wasted themselves on this pile of nothingness. Hooda’s role is confined to bloodletting, a threatening stare and wearing his hair in a ponytail.

(Also read on Firstpost —With muted reception to event films on OTT platforms, release of Salman Khan’s Radhe is a high-profile litmus test)

As for Patani, who is definitely capable of being more than just a clothes horse, her decision to sign up for Radhe is either a reflection of the limited choices available to women in Bollywood or her own lack of confidence – Ms, you are better than this.

There is absolutely nothing in this film to recommend it. Nothing. Not even an atom of the novelty that made Wanted and Dabangg attractive to audiences beyond Salman’s hard-core fan base. The actor does a version of his jiggle-the-belt move from Dabangg somewhere along the way in Radhe . He also repeats the line from Wanted that became a rage back in the 2000s: Ek baar jo maine commitment kar di, toh apne aap ki bhi nahin sunta (Roughly: Once I make a commitment, even I can’t persuade myself to turn away from it). But… kisi ki toh sunn lo , Bhai. Listen to someone, please. Radhe is a non-starter. It should never have been made.

Rating: 0 (out of 5 stars)

Radhe is available on ZEEPlex and several other platforms.

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Movie Review: Quaid looks (and sounds) the part, but ‘Reagan’ is more glowing commercial than biopic

“Reagan” runs for 135 minutes, and yet at the end, it's hard to say we've learned anything insightful about such an influential figure in American politics

“Is there anything worse than an actor with a cause?” asks an annoyed Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan’s first wife, early in “Reagan,” the new biopic starring Dennis Quaid.

Well, after watching two more hours of this story, an adoring look back at the man who served two terms as our 40th president, we can report that there is definitely one thing worse: An actor without a movie.

Let’s not blame the star, though. Quaid, who has played more than one president, has certainly got the charismatic grin, the pomaded hair and especially that distinctive, folksy voice down — close your eyes, and it sounds VERY familiar. If he were to appear on “Saturday Night Live” in the role, it would feel like a casting coup akin to Larry David as Bernie Sanders.

But this is not an “SNL” skit, despite the fact that Jon Voight appears throughout with a heavy Russian accent as a KGB spy, but we’ll get to that. This is a 135-minute film that demands a lot more depth. And, so, to co-opt a political phrase from Bill Clinton, whom Quaid also has played: It’s the script, stupid.

Lovingly directed by Sean McNamara with a screenplay by Howard Klausner, “Reagan” begins with a chilling event (and a parallel to a recent one): the assassination attempt on Reagan in Washington in March 1981, only two months after he became president.

There are those who say Reagan cemented his relationship with the public by surviving that attempt; he famously told wife Nancy from his bed: “Honey, I forgot to duck.” In any case, the filmmakers use the event to set up their story, and will return to it later on, chronologically.

But their early point is that Reagan came away from the scare with a divine plan. “My mother used to say that everything in life happens for a reason, even the most disheartening setbacks,” he says. And as he will tell Tip O’Neill, the House speaker, everything from then on will be part of that divine plan.

The yet broader point here is that Reagan, according to this film, was basically solely responsible for the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union, because he showed the people of the world what freedom meant. “I knew that he was the one,” says Viktor Petrovich, the retired spy played by Voight as a narrator figure throughout — meaning the one who would bring it all down. The script is based on Paul Kengor’s “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,” and Kengor has said Viktor is based on a number of KGB agents and analysts who tracked Reagan for years.

That point is made early and often. The rest is a history reel, with lots of glorious, loving lighting around our star. We go back to his younger years, learning about his mother and what she taught him about faith, and then his Hollywood years as an actor, Screen Actors Guild president (and a Democrat) before fully committing to politics, and the GOP.

We also see a newly divorced Reagan meet a winsome Nancy Davis, who will become his second wife, loving partner and constant companion. Like Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller is a perfectly fine actor who has little nuance to work with here. Together, they embark on the path to political stardom, starting with the California governorship. When they arrive at a neighbor’s home to campaign, the housewife at the door hears Reagan's “RR” initials and thinks he's Roy Rogers.

But a decade and change later, Reagan is sworn in as president, beginning his eight years in office. “It became my obsession to understand what was beneath the facade,” says Voight’s Petrovich, explaining why Reagan was so consequential.

Maybe, then, he could let us know?

Because when this movie ends, with the president’s death in 2004 a decade after announcing he had Alzheimer’s disease, we don’t know a lot more than when we began about a figure so influential in American politics.

Sure, we get all the great hits. ”Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” we see him say in 1987 in Berlin, a scene with much buildup.

And it’s fun to see the famous debate lines, like “There you go again,” to Jimmy Carter in 1980, and of course his famously deft deflection of the age issue in 1984, with Walter Mondale. “I will not make age an issue of this campaign,” the 73-year-old president told his questioner. “I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

The line, which made Mondale himself laugh, got Reagan back on track in the race. The movie, not so much.

“History is never about when, why, how — it always comes down to ‘who,’” says Voight’s Petrovich. However historians feel about that, we would have gladly taken a more incisive look at when, why, how or anything else that would give us real insight, instead of an extended and glowing commercial, into who this man really was.

“Reagan,” a Showbiz Direct release, has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association “for violent content and smoking.” Running time: 135 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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Salman Khan's Radhe Movie: Where & How to Watch Online, Star Cast, Trailer, Release Date, HD download

Directed by prabhu deva, radhe stars disha patani, randeep hooda and jackie shroff along with salman. in the film, the superstar's macho cop avatar will take on the drug mafia. it promises to be a complete commercial package of action, drama and music. if you're interested to watch radhe: your most wanted bhai, here's each and every possible piece of information about salman khan's film curated just for you.

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If you're interested to watch Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, here's each and every possible piece of information about Salman Khan's film curated just for you!

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What is Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai Release Date?

May 13, 2021

Who is the Director of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai?

Prabhu Deva

Who are the producers of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie?

Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Atul Agnihotri, Nikhil Namit

Who are the screenplay writers of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie 2021?

A. C. Mugil

Vijay Maurya

What is the star cast of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie?

Salman Khan as Radhe Disha Patani as Diya Abhyankar Randeep Hooda as Rana Jackie Shroff as Abhyankar, Diya's Brother

Who are the Music Directors of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie?

The film's music has been composed by Sajid–Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Himesh Reshammiya , whereas lyrics have been written by Shabbir Ahmed, Sajid Khan and Kunaal Vermaa.

How Can I See Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai Movie Trailer?

You can watch Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie trailer on the official YouTube channel called Zee Studios. You can also watch it here-

Also read: Salman Khan bursts bubble about parallels between his role in 'Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai' & 'Wanted'

Where can I watch Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai full movie?

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is releasing in theatres worldwide; adhering to the COVID protocol issued by the government; and on ZEE5 with ZEE's pay per view service ZEEPlex in India which rests on country's leading OTT platform ZEE5. It is also available on all leading DTH operators i.e. Dish, D2H, Tata Sky and Airtel Digital TV; giving the audience multiple options to watch the film as per their comfort and convenience.

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You cannot book Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai movie tickets as the film will release online. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film will not be released theatrically in India. However, it will have a wide theatrical release internationally.

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You can download the movie from the paid subscription of ZEE5 in HD after it is made available on May 13.

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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Becomes ‘La Callas’ in an Opera Biopic That Would Ring Hollow Without Her

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The trouble is that “La Callas” has a tendency to be conflated with her characters. Tosca. Turandot. The exploited daughter. The unreliable diva. She is all of these things, but also none of them and so much more. Four years since her failing health forced her into early retirement at 49, and one week before she’ll die of a heart attack on the floor of her musty Paris flat (where her body is found in the film’s opening scene), Callas is determined to perform the role she born to play — even if it kills her . Related Stories ‘Riefenstahl’ Review: Damning Documentary Portrait Makes a Compelling Case the Propagandist Was a Nazi Until Her Death ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’ Review: Doc on Bolsonaro Era Has Strong Images but Superficial Analysis

And yet, despite the richness of Larraín’s directorial vibrato, and the haughty (but tenderly knowing) spectacle that Angelina Jolie makes of his latest muse, the specifics of Callas’ immortal essence remain frustratingly vague. “Maria” — again, much like “Spencer” before it — is at once both nebulous and overwritten. In stark contrast to “Jackie,” the only installment of Larraín’s trilogy that wasn’t scripted by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, this claustrophobic psychodrama is so focused on freeing its subject from her own legend that it struggles to convey who she is or was beyond it.

While “Maria” cleverly illustrates how Callas’ life was the stuff of opera itself (and therefore immune to the drudgeries of reason), Larraín’s freeform portrait of the diva’s final days seldom feels like more than a libretto: passionately sung, but lacking the detail and fullness needed to bring it to life.

Suffering from a combination of ailments that vocal researchers have since ascribed to dermatomyositis, the Callas we meet in the fall of 1977 is too fragile to mount a comeback; so much of herself has been taken away over the years, to the point that her curls have become the thickest part of her body. When she needs an audience, she belts out an aria for her loyal housekeeper (the great Alba Rohrwacher). When she needs an adversary, Maria gently tortures her wincing manservant (“The Traitor” actor Pierfrancesco Favino). And when she needs adulation, she sits outside at the local café and waits to be recognized, even if that makes her an easy target for the bitter fans who bought tickets to some of the concerts she canceled toward the end of her career.

The line between fact and fantasy isn’t hard for us to define, nor is it meant to be in a film so determined to let Callas reconcile the two on her own terms. “What is real and what is not real is my business,” she purrs at one point. “There is no life apart from the stage,” she declares at another, “and the stage is in my mind.” She insists that she’s happy with “the theater behind my eyes,” and the movie refuses to end until we believe her.

The reasons why Callas feels that her voice doesn’t belong to her are at once both obvious and inscrutable. When Callas was a teenager in Nazi-occupied Greece, her mother forced her to sing for their supper, and it’s implied that the girl’s soprano compelled the SS not to exploit the rest of her body along with it. When she began a well-documented and long-lasting affair with shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer, gravel in his throat and Mastroianni in his hair), he “forbade” her to sing, preferring that she belong to him rather than the rest of the world.

If not for Jolie, it’s possible that “Maria” would feel like another form of the unfounded scrutiny that made Callas’ life so miserable; more sensitive, perhaps, but still cobbled together from echoes that are made to sound like a single voice. Jolie gives this immaculately adorned movie a much-needed sense of interiority. Callas may be straining to find if she “still has a voice,” but Jolie’s sharp transatlantic drawl fills the space around her, even in its frailty. Jolie may not be doing all of the singing (as it was with Rami Malek and Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a recognizable percentage of the actor’s voice is interpolated into Callas’ recordings), but you can practically see the music coming out of her mouth with every note.

Like Larraín’s other heroines before her, Callas belongs to “the magical group of people who can go anywhere they want in this world, but can never get away,” and there’s no doubt that Jolie belongs to that magical group as well. In the harmony that she creates with Callas, and by extension in the harmony that she allows Larraín to create with Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy beyond her, these women give each other the lasting escape they had to find from within, but could never keep on their own.

“Maria” premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival . It will be available to stream on Netflix later this year.

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Even With Angelina Jolie, Maria Struggles to Hit the High Notes

In Maria, a biopic of the late, great opera singer Maria Callas that premiered here at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, Angelina Jolie tackles her first big leading role in three years—and her first major dramatic role in far longer. She was, it seems, drawn to director Pablo Larraín ’s woozy picture of an icon in decline, perhaps because Larraín has done this before, with good results for his actors.

Maria is the third film in Larraín’s series of interior, nonlinear studies of famous women at a crossroads. Jackie follows Jacqueline Kennedy in the days immediately after the assassination of her husband. Spencer peers in on Princess Diana as she spends one last miserable weekend with then Prince Charles and his family. Larraín has developed something of a brand, an upending of biopic norms that seeks to uncover core emotional truth rather than dutifully reenact a series of events. It worked brilliantly in the strangely frightening Jackie, slightly less so in the stiflingly gloomy Spencer.

Maria is the thinnest of the three, psychologically facile and overly mannered. There is something arbitrary, unspecific about the film. With a few details removed, Maria could be about any grand diva, this blurry picture of a woman swanning through the final week of her life. Larraín and screenwriter Steven Knight don’t convince us of the iconography; they shoot past artful abstraction and land in the realm of vagueness.

This could partly be blamed on their choice of subject. Callas, who died at 53 in 1977, was certainly a legend of the opera world, renowned around the globe. She suffered her fair share of tragedies and tabloid scandals. But she does not engender the same sort of international fascination associated with Jackie and Diana, such enduring emblems of glamour and privilege darkened by cruel twists of fate. I’d imagine that most audience members will walk into Maria with fewer preconceived notions, less readiness to fill in the gaps in Larraín’s portraiture. His particular trick proves less effective when it isn’t subverting or complicating long-held ideas about a person.

What biographical information the film does contain is clunkily delivered. In black-and-white flashback, we learn that Callas was essentially pimped out by her own mother during the Second World War, a trauma that this version of Callas never recovers from. That’s compelling pathology, but Larraín doesn’t linger on it. He’s more interested in Callas’s affair with Aristotle Onassis ( Haluk Bilginer ), which would eventually be undone by Onassis’s marriage to Jackie Kennedy. (Perhaps Larraín is quite deliberately looping back on himself.) The film trusts we will feel the grand drama of this tortured romance, but such swells of emotion never arrive. Similarly undercooked and overly telegraphed are Callas’s hallucinatory musings about life, art, and career, given to an imagined interviewer played by Kodi Smit-McPhee. There is little insight to be found in these interludes, coy and generic as they are.

Still, Jolie brings some life to this programmatic exercise. She murmurs and laments in a pleasing midcentury accent, one that doesn’t sound much like the real Callas’s but is a nifty bit of transformation anyway. Jolie keenly renders Callas’s regret and wounded pride, which flicker across her face as she tries to keep her head held as high as a prima donna’s should be. She doesn’t push as far into inner depths as Natalie Portman did in Jackie, but that’s not exactly being asked of Jolie here. In some ways she is meant only to be a physical manifestation of the music—recordings of Callas that play throughout the film, sometimes mixed in with Jolie’s own singing. Jolie struggles in these scenes, never quite convincing us that these huge notes and plaintive lilts are actually coming from her. Whether that’s a problem with Jolie’s performance or the postproduction sound-matching process, the film suffers for it. These moments of Callas lost in song, or struggling through it, are the tentpoles of Maria, but they prove pretty wobbly.

The uncanny-valley singing is representative of the fussy artifice of Maria as a whole. Our admiration for the ardor Larraín feels for these oft-misunderstood women, figures battered and ennobled by the forces of money and history, begins to curdle. With Spencer and especially with Maria, the director seems less like he is reaching for understanding and more like he is bending his subjects’ legacies toward his preferred style—as if he has been merely searching for tragic women of the past to send wandering around his luxe, prefabricated haunted houses.

I still prefer his mode of biography to the standard varietal—at least in these sorts of films, there is some attempt to grapple with the ineffable. But should Larraín continue this project, it might serve him well to adjust the approach. Perhaps he could turn his focus to characters like the ones sensitively played by Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher in Maria, a doting butler and cook who tend to their ailing employer with the care of concerned family members. Through their quiet and despairing presence, Maria hits on something stirring, the idea that these two individuals might be the last people on earth who truly know this dying star. It’s only in their eyes that we catch the glimmering reflection of something Maria otherwise denies us: a woman in full.

Richard Lawson

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