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Bullett Raja
Critic reviews and ratings
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It takes guts to turn the conventional formulistic cinema about male bonding and revenge into a tightly wound intelligently scripted and judiciously executed drama of political subterfuge in Uttar Pradesh...
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Enjoyable, engaging and extremely distinctive.
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The writing is sharp, the scenes are well-constructed and the dialogue is superb without being overtly bombastic.
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...a racy ride, cynical, yet sweet, dark, yet bright.
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Watch it if you’re a fan of some edgy dialogues. As for the rest of it, you’ll want to rain bullets on this Raja.
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...has flashes of fire but mostly it seems to be hobbled by a misguided sense of machismo.
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With a tighter script and an uncompromising vision, he might've knocked this one right out of the park. At the moment though, it's an easy but forgettable watch.
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Here's hoping Tigmanshu Dhulia ditches this spurious chase and returns to form with his brand of movies - forged from truth and insight; straight from the heart - that we've come to love.
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High on style with no thought given to scripting.
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Despite all this interesting sub-text, the film fails to grip you with its central narrative.
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With so much that’s so fascinating at a conceptual level, it’s surprising how dull Bullett Raja is – and that’s because Dhulia, in his attempts to imbue his material with layers and texture, forgets what made those masala movies work in the first place.
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...sorely misses the Dhulia brand of attitude and sincerity in the script and the treatment. Someone bring the real man back please, we will forgive and forget this one.
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Lots of "dialogue", earthy style and of course bullets. Unfortunately, it also means repetitive, predictable, and tiring.
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This is not Dhulia trying to make commercial cinema "aesthically better", as he has been emphasising. This is the celebrated director and now a fancied actor completely surrendering himself to it.
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The acting is inconsistent, the screenplay patchy, the background score jarring and the editing jumpy.
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Tigmanshu Dhulia is best when he opts for content drawn for reality instead of flying off into an absurd land where everyone detests one another with a vengeance.
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...conveniently moves from one point to another without so much as a reasonable justification so much so that even characters get introduced right till the last 15 minutes of the film only to take the hackneyed story forward.
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...had the scope to bring about some content in the current crop of massy entertainers and could cater to the intelligentsia but Tigmanshu Dhulia's inept attempt ruins all such chances.
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Tigmanshu shouldn’t try to copy Prabhudeva but make straight-from-the-heart films that he’s famous for. We missed the comic punches and the black humour of his earlier efforts. He doesn’t deserve this and neither do we.
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Dhulia here is not paying tribute to the B movie in his own distinctive style. He is announcing himself to be a B movie maker with Bullett Raja. Or maybe he tried tribute but has been unable to lend this an iota of creativity or class.
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It is a wishy-washy mix of two brazen hinterland heroes’ misadventures, a revenge drama, and a soap-opera style, hackneyed depiction of Uttar Pradesh politics.
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...a dumbed-down film about senseless revenge and violence...
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...is rife with predictable scenes, bad editing and a lack of control over the script, which spirals into an unending loop of absurdity.
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