Random comedy that’s too bizarre for its own good
Director : Kabir
Cast : Kangana Ranaut , Vir Das , Piyush Mishra and Zakir Hussain
If Robert Rodriguez ever made a film inspired by Quentin TARANTINO ‘s Kill Bill and Anurag Kashyap ‘s Gangsta Of Sydney With Love Jism and Tigmanshu Dhulia ‘s Bullett Raja , it would be a close cousin of Revolver Rani . His version would be Stylish and definitely more fun . Debut director Kabir ‘s pulp fiction honey is a bit all over the place . Kimi it ‘s genuinely funny and at other times it ‘s Painfully An Arbitrary . It ‘s like random That you feel you’ve contracted some form of cinematic dyslexia . It does not make Sense even in the most bizarre way .
The key word though is bizarre . The combination of a Thousand Guns , the Badlands of Madhya Pradesh and costumes from Broadway has to be peculiar . Revolver Rani does not hold back on its visual wit . Kangana Ranaut ‘s costumes are Creative crazy . It ‘s as if the designer Maktob on an acid trip . The heady Hindi Dialect from Chambala gives it a unique Flavour as well . And THEN you’ve got Vir Das sniffing up coke all the time . Now That ‘s what you call a high .
Full Marks to the writer in Kabir . His want to make a demented film with colourful and mad characters is genuinely original . Pity the director in him brings out such Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde contradictions . Why oh why would you copy the music and sequences from Kill Bill ? Talk about Creative hara – kiri . When the film Kicks off with the madcap characters of Zakir Hussain , Reis Mishra and Pankaj SARASWAT plotting to kill Revolver Rani Alka Singh was Sataesh , you sit up and take notice of something Refreshingly different . But with every passing sequence and scene , the movie iLLuSioN jow momentum .
Revolver Rani , right from its retro opening credits to its pulpy end , is a desperate attempt at the grindhouse genre of cinema . In Hollywood , Rodriguez and TARANTINO make grindhouse films with aplomb Because They get A – list stars to do B – GRADE movie bet . In Revolver Rani though , Kangana is the only A – list involved . Yes Actors like Piyush Mishra , Zakir Hussain and Vir Das are talented , but this genre requires an Element of bravado and swagger which is is just plain Absent here .
Nonetheless , Sataesh steals the show with a no – holds – barred act . In a film based in rural Forward she Shines like a star . She ‘s not looking her typical million – dollar self , instead the make – up makes her look earthy . Her new coarse avatar just shows how talented this young actor is . If anything lives up to Kill Bill in this desi adaptation , it ‘s her performance .
There ‘s a brief period in the second Half where Vir Das is getting married on the Loop to different women and it ‘s Truly hilarious . Pity THEN That the REST of the film is like bipolar in nature . Had Sai Kabir maintained the same vein of rhetoric throughout the film , this would’ve been a memorable adult , action comedy . Ironically it is not .