Ramaa the Saviour (2010) - Movie Review

Cast: Sahil Khan, Khali, Tanushree Dutta
Director: Hadi Ali Abrar

Ramaa - the Saviour' is an interesting children film that reflects their enduring love for video games. The movie attracts younger children more than the older ones. While the former enjoy fight between a giant and a pigmy as a great experience, the latter don't. Similarly, the dialogues fare better with the younger than the older. The director's claim that the parents accompanying the kids would also like the movie doesn't seem to be true.

The movie is a story of six kids - Rohan, Riddhi, Kunal, Komal, Sameer and Saanjh. While Rohan and Riddhi are siblings studying in a public school with Sameer, Kunal and Komal study in an international school. They face each other in a dance competition where they try to defeat each other but competition results in a tie. As a winning prize, these 6 kids become first to play a newly launched video game - The Last Battle. Later, they land at an island in Thailand, where enters a boat commanded by Kali and a brilliant and beautiful scientist assistant - Samara. Riddhi is attacked by huge giant man Vali played by none other than Indian wrestler Khali. But she is rescued by a young man - Ramaa who has been living in this jungle for 1800 years. The rest of the movie unfolds as Ramaa and the kids come to their friend's rescue, resulting in Kali demanding Ramaa to show him the way to the river.

The movie has a few significant features inasmuch as producer Abdul Aziz Bablu and director Haadi Abrar try to let the movie look as real as possible. So, the producer sought permission to bring in a tiger to the live jungle, but were allowed only to shoot the tiger in the open zoo of Bangkok. Two, the concept of the film belongs completely to Sahil Khan, the lead actor of the film paying the title role of Ramaa. Cinematographer Sejal Shah does full justice with the beautiful locations of Bangkok. Siddartth Suhas creats the music with the original background as outstanding and helping the film visually.

Performance-wise, Tannushree Dutta looks most beautiful and deadly as Samara in the movie's first shot in the cave. She wears a body suite showing her curves! Besides, her action and postures look stunning. Khali plays his role well. The screenplay and dialogues are weak. Overall, an interesting kids movie.