South remakes after Ghajini, Wanted, Singham became a norm in bollywood, Rowdy Rathore was Akshay's first South remake The film is a remake of Vikramarkadu(2006) which was then dubbed in Hindi as Pratighat- The Revenge. The film is a copy paste from the original hardly few things have been changed like the character's fight with women in the original. From start to end it looks like a south remake with loud characters like Baapji, actors hamming. The first half is a drag, only the fight towards the interval is well handled however stupid it may seem. The second half gets a bit better when Shiva goes to the village but the end result isn't anything great. One can't fathom how come both the Akki's look the same except the moustache which was a flaw in the original as well Even the navel pinching looks odd in an Hindi filmDirection by Prabhu Devaa is okay, most of the film is a copy paste Music is okay, Dhadaang Dhadaang and Chinta Chinta are fun numbers though their picturisation is very South style.Akshay Kumar entertains though he does ham a lot especially in Vikram's role but yet he is good in his part. Sonakshi Sinha in her second film after Dabaang does just the same type acting Amongst rest Nasser overacts and his dubbing could be better, The actor who plays Titya is hardly terrifying like the original, Paresh Ganantra as 2g is good, Yashpal Sharma is good in his part, Gurdeep Kohli is good in a cameo too rest are okay.

Saw this movie on DVD yesterday. I am told that this is a remake of a Telugu/Tamil movies. That was apparent to me even from start. The movie is over the top but not entertaining. Characters are not developed and they keep jumping from one place to the other. The bad guys were not really scary and were more comical than anything else. It is difficult to review these kind of movies and you have to see whether it is entertaining or not. I found the entertaining portion to be very small and only limited to the time when Sonakshi Sinha was wooed by Akshay. In my opinion don't waste your time on this movie. Do something more meaningful or just watch TV!

Its actually difficult even to wonder how this movie scored something more than twelve crore, leave aside One Twenty Crore.Had it not been for movies like these, Indian Cinema would loose the tag of absurdity that dignifies its existence.Bad bad bad acting, I wish Prabhudeva stops directing movies now, that will be of great help. First Wanted and then this, its so much a man can take dude! Akshay Kumar is a Director's man, and somehow he gets enough of bad directors to work with, sic! Sonakshi Sinha some how succeeds in disappointing with her bad acting skills, does she even have any acting skills? Lets not talk about that! She looked damn beautiful, that was the best thing in the entire movie a real Indian Beauty Most of the songs were uncalled for, bad, most of the fighting scenes were mismanaged, and despite all these draw backs, this movie is a major hit and we call it masala movie, good.What I couldn't understand is Sanjay Leela Bhansali produced this movie. Really? Of course he has made Saawariya after all.I would differ from what I had rated this movie earlier on: 4.5 3.7/10

Everyone was waiting for this movie to release. The reason, "Akshay Kumar" returning in the action genre after a very long period & also "Prabhu Deva" as a director for second time in bollywood.His first bollywood directorial debut was Wanted starring Salman Khan. It was a huge Hit back then. The return of bollywood Masala genre that had been left behind on 90's. What i mean about bollywood masala is, one man hero show or may say the hero is larger then life where one can fight 100 of villains with his bare hand and defeat all of them & doesn't get a scratch or whatsoever. So lets come back to this movie. The title Rowdy Rathore sounds pretty interesting. As i was guessing it to be a good action packed movie with some of akshay's martial arts move. But to my surprise it was not like that at all. Because the promo of this movie looked pretty Rowdy with some fearsome dialogs. But the action is not to the level that the audience expected. Seems like akshay is out of shape now a days because you can compare his action movies in the late 90's & this one. Its far different then of those 90's movies.Back then his movies used to be full of great kicks & martial arts but now u can barely see him doing a round kick or high kicks at all. After he got into the comedy genre, he have forgotten all his moves. The movie starts with some comedy.And the comedy is not fresh.We have seen the same scene in so many other movies. It seems like the writers have just copied & paste it.For example the first scene when Shiva & his friend try to split the money, they just copied the entire scene from the movie "chup chupke", where pares rawal and om puri delivers the same dialogs in a better way. The romantic part was unnecessary. The only part that i was focused was when Bikram rathore's story begins. The character was larger then life. The presence of this character was very dynamic. They could have shorten the comedy parts & could have longer this part more.Watching this reminded me of Ajay Devgan in the movie "Singham". Akshay looked really good in this bold character & the dialogs was also matching the character.But After sometime, again comes the boring part. The magic is gone after they killed the character Rathore. They tried to put some comedy again & it was very boring. The guy Paresh, who played as a friend of Shiva(Akshay) is useless. He can do much better then that.Sonakshi who plays the lead actress is also useless. She has been put in some really unnecessary scenes. Like in the climax when the villains have kidnapped her & rathore's daughter, she says some really funny dialogs that doesn't match with her character at all.Its kinda annoying then funny.Some songs are nice though but not really Awesome.The songs choreography was not so impressive, as the audience expects more when it is prabhu deva's movie. On the whole i give it a 4 star(only for the scene that i mentioned above).