Radhe : Your Most Wanted Bhai
Radhe : Your Most Wanted Bhai is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Prabhu Deva, produced by Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Atul Agnihotri and Zee Studios. The core plot of the film is based on the 2017 Korean film The Outlaws. The film was announced in October 2019; production on the film began in November 2019 and ended in October 2020.
Radhe was originally scheduled to release theatrically on 22 May 2020, but was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was finally released on 13 May 2021, coinciding with Eid al-Fitr, as premium video on demand on Zee Plex and digitally through ZEE5 in India, with a theatrical release in overseas.
| Radhe | |
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| Soundtrack album by Sajid–Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Himesh Reshammiya | |
| Released | 4 May 2021 |
| Recorded | 2020 |
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length | 15:34 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Label | Zee Music Company |
Cast
Soundtrack
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| Official audio | |
| Radhe - Full Album on YouTube |
The film's soundtrack is composed by Sajid–Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Himesh Reshammiya, whereas lyrics being written by Shabbir Ahmed, Sajid Khan and Kunaal Vermaa. The film score is composed by Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara.
Radhe marks the posthmous work of Wajid Khan (of the Sajid Wajid duo) and the title track of the film was the last song he composed before his death on June 2020.[48] Also becoming the first solo album of Sajid Khan, he contributed one song to the film's soundtrack.[49] Prasad recreated his song "Seeti Maar" from the Telugu film DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham (2017).[50][51] Himesh Reshammiya composed one song to the film.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Seeti Maar" | Shabbir Ahmed | Devi Sri Prasad | Kamaal Khan, Iulia Vantur | 4:03 |
| 2. | "Dil De Diya" | Shabbir Ahmed | Himesh Reshammiya | Kamaal Khan, Payal Dev | 4:46 |
| 3. | "Radhe - Title Track" | Sajid Khan | Sajid–Wajid | Sajid Khan | 3:01 |
| 4. | "Zoom Zoom" | Kunaal Vermaa | Sajid–Wajid | Ash King, Iulia Vantur, Sajid Khan | 3:44 |
Box office
Radhe grossed ₹4.3 crore in the international markets on its opening day.
Reception
Critical reception
Upon release, Radhe was met with generally negative reviews from film critics, many of whom praised Hooda's performance, but criticized the screenplay, story and Khan's performance.
Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost gave Radhe a rating of 0/5 and wrote "This film is so generic that it would be a challenge to write down the plot from A-Z after a single viewing." She stated that, "The film is so dull that at one point Salman himself fell asleep in the middle of a conversation". She also criticized the movie for not giving the lead actress enough screen time by stating, "The movie treats its ‘heroine’ as nothing but a body on display whose sole job is to give the hero someone to fall in love with, dance with and protect".[77] Stutee Ghosh from The Quint gave Radhe a rating of 0.5/5. Calling it a "cringefest" she wrote, "Radhe is a loud, senseless and offensive film that has little regard for women, the police force and the audience‘s intelligence in general". She further stated, "Radhe is frustratingly tone deaf to how it promotes police brutality and the almost suffocating toxic masculinity that is sprayed on like a cheap deodorant". Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express gave Radhe a rating of 0.5/5 and wrote, "Radhe is a mindless, moronic mess of a movie in which Salman does every single thing he’s done a zillion times".
Soumya Srivastava from The Hindustan Times called Radhe a torture of a film and one of Khan's worst movie. She described Radhe as a "cringeworthy movie" and stated, "The movie is nothing but a collection of action sequences piled upon each other as Disha's tight dresses, some dance numbers, and goons saying 'apun' a lot act as fillers". Rohit Vats from News 18 gave Radhe a rating of 1.5/5 and wrote, "Radhe is a collage of high-pitched songs and slow-motion shots that made us cringe even five years back, audience need to have a high appetite for Khan’s antics to enjoy this one." Saibal Chatterjee from NDTV gave the film a rating of 2/5 and opined that "The film dumps a whole lot of dross on us, albeit with a certain degree of surface gloss." He concluded by saying "Radhe has enough inducements for diehard Salman Khan fans to keep them interested in the goings-on. The star does everything that they would expect of him, including shedding his shirt. For all others, there is Randeep Hooda."[ Umesh Punwani from Koimoi gave Radhe a rating of 1.5/5. Criticizing the cinematography of the movie and calling its screenplay "chaotic", he wrote the film lacks substance. He also criticized the screenplay, performances, background score, dialogues, VFX, storytelling and existence of the movie he stated, "The catastrophe is the thought behind creating all this at a time when the viewer has access to a shit-load of better content than this".
Anupama Chopra of Film Companion wrote, "The Salman Khan starrer is so free of craft that it hurts; Prabhudeva delivers yet another loud, numbing, pointless paean to the cult of Salman Khan". Trade Analyst Taran Adarsh gave Radhe a rating of 2/5 and called it 'Disappointing'. Calling its screenwriting "lackluster" he wrote, "Radhe doesn’t meet the sky-high expectations, The film has a clichéd plot and a predictable formula remodelled with new packaging". Namrata Joshi from The National Herald (India) wrote, "Radhe is an empty vessel of a film that tries to sail through by making a lot of loud noise that signifies nothing; It just whizzes past without making any impression with some nod to Swachh Bharat and Jai Hind towards the end to just seem timely." Criticizing the framing Patani's character she further wrote, "Even if one overlooks the starkly visible age difference between her and Salman, the framing of her character Diya itself is acutely offensive. It just shows the acutely conservative mindset of the makers and of the Salman Khan universe itself, where men and women are hardly ever in a relationship of equals, where the man is this self-anointed “protector” of the woman and the woman is seen as some kind of a property or possession". Sushri Sahu of Mashable India criticized Radhe for glorifying police brutality, gun violence and toxic masculinity. She further wrote, "Radhe is repetitive with not just the dialogues but the rogue cop-on-a-cleaning-spree formula. It doesn’t even spare the minimum of one rape assault trope. The film, in fact, looks like a brochure to sell Khan’s already popular brand. It is out-and-out ‘bhai’ porn".
Times of India
Bollywood Hungama
Firstpost
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