Radhe Shyam
Director: Radha Krishna Kumar
Cast: Prabhas, Pooja Hegde
In the first few scenes, we see a character based on Indira Gandhi showing her hand to palmist Vikramaditya (Prabhas), as he predicts that she is going to declare an emergency in the near future. There is another scene where we see a picture of singer-songwriter John Lennon taking Prabhas’s autograph as he is a world famous palmist who is often compared to the French astrologer Nostradamus.
A romantic drama featuring Pooja Hegde as the heroine, Radhe Shyam is so ambitious in its scale that it almost fools you into considering it a great film. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even come close to being great and it’s just a yawn. The film ends up as one of those big budget endeavors that is overly ambitious and silly at the same time. While Prabhas tries to put it together somehow, the film is mostly underwhelming, if not for the grandeur and some amazing scenes.
Director Radha Krishna Kumar, along with the makers, made sure that the trailers made it look like the film was a rom-com, with some tragedy. The film takes just 15 minutes to burst that bubble. The tag line reads: Witness the biggest war between love and destiny. I was seriously given up on something to watch in the run time of about two and a half hours.
Set in 1976, the story is about Vikramaditya who believes that astrology is a science that is 100% accurate. On the other hand, his guru Paramhansa (Satyaraj) has a theory that astrology can predict up to 99 percent, not 100 percent. Paramhansa says, the remaining one percent write their fate and create history, to which Vikramaditya is different.
Also, he has no love lines and hence does not believe in relationships. He only believes in ‘flirt’. But he meets Prerna (Pooja Hegde) and immediately falls in love with her. He is a doctor working in a general hospital in Rome and is suffering from a life-threatening illness. When Vikramaditya saw her palm, he predicted that she would live for 100 years. But he decides to leave her and go too far from her. The rest of the story takes you through the journey of these two lovers and how luck and karma play a part.
The film lacks two essentials. At first there is no chemistry seen between Prabhas and Pooja. Their journey to fall in love is often cut abruptly to add a few comic scenes that don’t generate any laughs. Second, the love story is not clear enough. It’s no surprise that the tangled mess that goes on for more than two hours doesn’t touch anyone’s heart. There are many meaningless scenes and characters that have no meaning.
Talking about the positives, the film has been shot beautifully and on a grand scale through some of the amazing locations in Europe. The climax sequence of the ship is executed really well for which the VFX team is sure to applaud. But despite all this, the film completely sinks like a ship.
I wish director Radha Krishna Kumar should have shown his hand to some palmist before making the film, who might have predicted the future of the film and advised the makers not to invest Rs 300 crore in making this bore. For now, the future of the film is grim.
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