Ra.One
- Director
- Anubhav Sinha
- Studio
- Red Chillies Entertainment
- Release Date
- 24 October 2011
- Running Time
- 156 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹120.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹207.00 Cr
Cast
Review
Anushka Sharma deserves better than this bloated, self-indulgent mess that mistakes technical showmanship for storytelling. Shankar's Ra.One is a film that confuses spectacle with substance—yes, the motion capture work is competent and the action sequences have their moments, but they're wrapped around a narrative so convoluted and emotionally hollow that you'll struggle to care whether G.One or Ra.One wins. SRK sleepwalks through a dual role that was meant to be career-defining; instead, he's just a pretty face wearing questionable CGI makeup. The premise itself—a video game villain escaping into reality—could've been thrilling in more capable hands, but Shankar drowns it in unnecessary techno-babble, bloated runtime, and a screenplay that treats its audience like they've never encountered a plot twist before. The film's obsession with its own ambition becomes its fatal flaw.
What's most infuriating is that beneath the Rs 150-crore budget lies a kernel of interesting ideas struggling to breathe—the moral inversion of making the villain stronger, the real-world consequences of digital creation—but Shankar lacks the discipline to develop them meaningfully. Instead, we get repetitive action beats, cringe-worthy humor, and a climax that plays out like a teenager's fever dream rather than a earned narrative payoff. The supporting cast, including Arjun Rampal as Ra.One, feels wasted on poorly written characters who exist only to service exposition. This is cinema designed by comm
Storyline
So there's this guy named Shekhar who works at a tech company in London, and he gets one last shot to create an amazing video game. His son Prateek has been bugging him to make something cool, and the kid suggests that the bad guy should actually be stronger than the good guy—pretty clever, right? Shekhar decides to go all in with this idea, so he teams up with his colleague Jenny to program it and another coworker Akashi to do the motion capture. Shekhar even puts his own face on the hero character called G. One, while the villain Ra. One becomes this super powerful, shapeshifting entity that can read minds and learn on its own. It's basically the ultimate gaming experience.
Here's the interesting part—both characters in the game get these devices called H.A.R.T.s that give them special abilities, but they can't actually be killed unless you destroy the H.A.R.T. The whole game is structured in three levels, and you can only defeat your opponent in the final level using this special gun with just one bullet. The team notices some weird glitches while they're building the game, but they kind of brush them off and launch it anyway. When people see it, they go absolutely nuts with excitement.
Everything seems fine until Shekhar's son Prateek gets his hands on the game and immediately wants to play it. He logs in under his gaming username and rushes straight to the final level, but then something unexpected happens that sets the whole story in motion. Let's just say things get way more serious than anyone expected, and the line between the game world and reality starts to blur in some pretty wild ways.
