Anytime there is a Salman Khan release in the pipeline, there is a certain portion of the film-going public that is full of excited anticipation. The trailer release of his latest film Radhe was a much anticipated event and predictably, this one is trending at #1 on YouTube right after its release on 22 April. Check out the Radhe trailer – fair warning – it is awful – and some of the good, bad, ugly reactions.
The movie stars ‘Bhai Salman Khan and in less than 24 hours the trailer has well over 5M views. It’s pretty straightforward: people are dying because of the criminal drug menace and we have to bring in a ‘specialist’ who happens to be an ‘encounter’ specialist to sort it all out.
Bhai is the loose cannon cop mouthing the seeti-maar dialogue, the pretty Disha Pattani is very decorative. Randeep Hooda is the villain wearing an overcoat in sweltering Mumbai with the strange hair and Jackie Shroff seems to be there for some light comic relief.
There is violence. Lots of very improbable, OTT, noisy, graphic violence and major ‘tashan’ from the vigilante cop who is a law unto himself.
Because Bhai.
As I have said before, the Salman Khan fan is sui generis – in a class of his own. If ‘Bhai’ woke up one day and decided to make a film in which he did nothing but fart, his fans would still rave about this.
He smashes stuff, sends people and also motorcycles flying, spits at people, carries them by the suspenders, un-stabs himself and demonstrates some pretty improbable fight moves. RIP physics.
Is this supposed to funny or flippant or menacing or… not sure what it’s supposed to be.
Clearly we can expect nothing original in this film. It is the Salman Khan formula and that is what we will get. The poster is copied, the plot is copied, many of the lines are a repeat, and everything looks done-to-death. Sigh.
As for the ‘humour’, less said the better.
All throughout the trailer I was either flinching at all the brutality or cringing at the predictable implausibility: the 55-year-old ‘hero’ opposite the 28-year-old largely superfluous female lead, nonexistent plot etc.
I'm sure this is great for those who like that sort of thing, but for anyone with half a brain, the trailer seems quite awful.
Radhe is getting a hybrid release – on streaming platforms on 13 May 2021. It will also get a simultaneous theatrical release because apparently this kind of film is best watched in a theatre – COVID no bar. Whatever.
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