Ramaiya Vastavaiya Review

One Line Review: A virtuously and soberly fabricated concoction of innocent love and emotions.

Positive Points: Fresh pair of lead actors, Excellent direction, Crispy music, Slice of humor, Well-weaved storyline.

Negative Points: Repetitive story theme.

Plot: The story starts with Raghuveer (Sonu Sood) in the jail for 7 years. On the day of his release, Raghuveer tells his past story to a jail person. The father of Raghuveer does second marriage and leaves his mother without any financial support. Unable to bear the shock, his mother dies suddenly. Raghuveer also has a loving younger sister Sona (Shruti Haasan). After the death of parents, Raghuveer tries hard to provide the best things to Sona.

Ram (Girish Kumar), who is happy-go-lucky by his nature, the only child of Australia-based billionaire couple, Siddharth (Randhir Kapoor) and Ashvini (Poonam Dhillon). The rich brat Ram attempts to flirt with each and every girl by wooing girl with his 'badmaashi'. For the purpose of cousin's marriage, Ram comes to India along with his parents. During this marriage, the flirt Ram meets the timid Sona, who had come to attend marriage as bride's friend. Gradually, a pure love starts budding between Ram and Sona. One day, Ram's snooty mother, who is against their love, badly insults Sona and her brother Raghuveer. Full of anger and heartbroken, Raghuveer takes Sona along with him back to their village. This incident leaves severe scarves on the bond of love between Ram and Sona, leaving them apart. The series of twirling events stars.

Will Ram be able to win Sona's love ever?

Will Raghuveer forgive Ram's family for humiliation?

Direction And Other Technical Aspects: After cashing praises in earlier flicks like 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Wanted', this directorial venture of the dance-deity Prabhu Deva seems like a concoction of various romantic flicks in Bollywood. The movie looks like an assimilation of constituents from the blockbusters like 'Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya', 'Hum Aapke Hai Kaun' and 'Maine Pyar Kiya'. The event of wedding, love blossoming during the wedding and resistance of girl's brother for the marriage seems like deja-vu factors observed earlier in loads of movies. The pinch of humor and tricky dialogues steal the show.

Apart from this, the direction is very good and to-the-point. The film wonderfully showcases the bond between brother and sister and brother's concern about his sister. The film seems like a buffet of family aspects and emotional events. Definitely, the emotional events does not fail to touch one's heart with their authenticity. The dash of light-hearted comedy in the film does not give one a boring moment. The fight sequences and the music of the film add more masala in the story. Some events in the film have been unfolded very well, such as the entry of Sona in the film, Sona appealing Ram to not to break the horse replica given by her brother and Ram getting accustomed to eating terribly spicy food. It would have been better if the melodrama part would have been cut short. Besides this, the movie illustrates amazing village-side beauty with the farms, houses, flaura and fauna. The camerawork is good, while the cinematography and background score are also appreciable.

Performances: This film introduces a newcomer Girish Kumar. Girish had aptly depicted his role in the manner in which it had to be. He shines well as a comic person in the first half of the film, while the second half of the film brings out the true lover hidden inside him, which he enacts conveniently. The dancing abilities of Girish clears his path as a stunning performer and dancer.

Sonu Sood, who had enacted vicious villain in many of his earlier flicks, plays his part brilliantly rendering positive shades. The depth of his strong voice adds a special layer to his character.

Shruti Haasan showcases the essence of a timid girl as Sona. The facial expressions of the beauty are praiseworthy, though there was a room for improvement in terms of dialogue delivery. The ace actor Vinod Khanna greatly portrays a ticket checker, who has close relations with Raghuveer's family.

Paresh Ganatra well-portrays the buffoonary character as 'Bijli', a friend of Ram.

The other eminent personalities like Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Satish Shah undeniably provide full justice to their respective roles.

Music: The music composed by the famous duo Sachin-Jigar bestows a great outline to the entire story and stands as a strong contribution in the story. The track that catches one's attention throughout the film is 'Jeene Laga Hoon'. Apart from being melodious, it keeps on going on in the movie as background music. The other highlighted track is 'Rang Jo Lagyo' with soulful tune. The other songs, such as 'Bairiya' and 'Jadoo Ki Jhappi' blends well along with the tale. The funny and exclusive Prabhu Deva style dance moves and amazing performance of Jacqueline Fernandez makes the song outstanding.

Final Verdict: A great piece of entertainment to watch along with the family and friends. It is the film that encapsulates a simple, sober story in an impressive style. Watch it for the Shruti Haasan, newbie Girish Kumar and obviously for the soulful music.