Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2011 Indian Hindi-language superhero
film called, Ra.One. Spoilers ahead. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the video.
The movie begins with Jenny Nair presenting the new invention of Barron Industries,
a UK-based technological company, beyond 3-dimensional technology.
The new design allows things to enter the real world using circulating rays.
The next scene transforms into the world of games, where Lucifer is the hero,
and Bad Man is the villain. He rides a motorbike on his way to Bad Man’s place to save a girl.
When he arrives, he sees that Bad Man hangs the girl by tying her both hands. Lucifer fights with
him using his sword, and Bad Man kills him using his flying saucer with sharp blades.
Lucifer successfully avoids it, but the flying saucer blades cut the rope that hangs the girl.
Before she lands on the ground, Lucifer successfully catches him.
On the other hand, Bad Man says “Get up!” to Lucifer, but his voice turns into a female voice.
Bad Man repeatedly says the word with the same female voice until all of them fade, and it
turns out that the voice comes from the teacher of Prateek, telling him to get up from sleeping.
After waking up from his dream, the teacher asks Prateek’s essay about his father as a hero.
Prateek looks at his teacher with disbelief and says, “a hero?”.
The next clip shows Shekhar, Prateek’s father, who drives carelessly on his way to Barron Industries,
where he works as a game developer. As soon as all game developers are complete, their boss
Barron arrives and announces that their company gets a game contract to be released in India.
Barron reminds them about the failure of the last game that they developed. So,
he pressures them to do better. If not, he will make them as waiters of his incoming restaurant.
When Shekhar arrives home, he talks about the new game to his wife, Sonia, and Prateek. Shekhar
says it has a new hero, but Prateek tells him that heroes are boring. He convinces his father to make
a game where Villains are stronger than heroes and never lose because, unlike heroes, villains have
no rules, and they always win. Shekhar tells his son that hero and truth always prevail.
Yet despite his opposed belief, Shekhar decides to consider his son’s request about the villains.
The day after they talk, Shekhar drives his son and friends to their school. After they arrive,
Shekhar tells his son that he will grant Prateek’s request. Before he leaves, Shekhar
reminds Prateek that, "If you join the forces of evil, its shadows shall always follow you."
In their company, Shekhar announces that they will make the most dangerous villain.
All developers are surprised, but Shekhar convinces them that it will be great.
In the making, Shekhar asks for how long they will call the villain, “Random Access Version One.” He
suggests that they should give him his name. Jenny suggests that it is a great name, Random Access
Version One, in short Raavan or Ra.One. Shekhar and others are amazed by her suggestion. So,
they also think of the hero’s name. Akashi, a Chinese developer, suggests the hero’s name
as Good One in which they all approve and turn it into G.One. After they agree, Shekhar lists their
names, “Ra.One = Danger”, and “G.One = Life.” Next, they start to make Ra.One and G.One’s
costumes, moves, and faces. Jenny is responsible for the programming.
Akashi provides the moves of each character by wearing a bodysuit with detectors, and Shekhar
approves Jenny to make his face look like G.One, while Ra.One looks like a black pixelated robot.
While facing the large screen in the programming room where Ra.One is projected,
Shekhar notices the smile that Ra.One makes. He tells Jenny that the villain has a good smile.
Jenny looks confused, and she tells Shekhar that she does not program Ra.One to smile.
In the next part, Shekhar carries a fist-sized tube inside a small glass
container and introduces it as the main part of the game. He says that the tube inside
the container is the “H.A.R.T” which stands for, Hertz Amplifying Resonance Transmitter.
Shekhar explains to his co-developers that once the HART is inserted into the hole of Ra.One
and G.One’s chests, it will give them strength. He explains that the game will have three levels.
After winning every level, the HART’s power will increase, and its color will become brighter.
Blue HART for G.One and red HART for Ra.One. Both the villain and the hero will not die even
if the HART is removed from their chests, and their bodies will repair themselves
after several damages. Shekhar says that they will only die on level three. On this level,
each of them will get an anti-HART firing weapon containing one load. Whoever shots
their opponent’s HART first will win the game, and the one who misses to shoot will die.
To further test Ra.One’s moves, Akashi wears a glove detector and tries several hand gestures
for the villain. As he faces the large screen where Ra.One can be seen, he makes another
hand gestures. After that, Akashi grabs his cup to drink using his hand with the glove,
but to his surprise, Ra.One on the screen clenches his fist and breaks the cup that
Akashi holds. Everyone in the programming room panic and checks the main system.
Despite the previous problem, Barron Industries successfully launches the game. At their stadium,
Shekhar and his co-developers invite their families to launch.
On the big screen, the story tells about the ten villains who create
an undefeatable villain who controls mind. He is equivalent to ten villains in one, Ra.One.
Also, the villain can change his form into someone, whether it is a man or a woman.
After that, they also introduce G.One in the form of Akashi who wears a bodysuit with detectors.
Using the bodysuit with sensors, anyone can wear it and be G.One.
When Akashi steps on the stage, he fights with Ra.One, with the game being projected on the
screen. Using his body to defend, Akashi continues to fight while people applaud and are excited for
the new game, especially Prateek. At the end of the fight Ra.One smashes G.One on his chest, but
Akashi feels the impact too. Everyone is cheering because of the good fight, except for Akashi,
who is puzzled and still aching from the pain he feels in his chest. The launching ends when
the company shows the human-size figures of Ra.One and G.One. They all celebrated
by throwing a party full of drinks and food. To his excitement, Prateek immediately requests
Akashi to play the game under his favorite codename, “Lucifer.” When Prateek is about to
reach the third level, Akashi interrupts him and tells Prateek that he should come to celebrate.
In the middle of Prateek and Akashi’s argument, Ra.One speaks from the big screen
and tells Prateek to finish the fight, in which the two people fail to notice.
Despite his perseverance to finish the game, Prateek gives in, takes off the bodysuit,
and goes to his family. At the same time, Akashi remains to stop the game.
This pisses Ra.One and promises to finish the game by coming into the real world and kill Lucifer.
When the mainframe fails to stop, Akashi goes outside and calls the tipsy Shekhar. On their way
to the programming room, Shekhar stops in front of Ra.One’s human-sized figure with the red HART
beside inside the glass container. Akashi tells him that he will proceed to the mainframe and
leaves Shekhar in the hallway. Smilingly, Shekhar faces the villain’s figure and congratulates
him for being born by inserting a rose in Ra.One’s fist before he proceeds to the room.
As they try to end the game, Shekhar presses different buttons, and without his attention
on the screen, Ra.One collects the rays from the real world, enabling him to come out to life and
turn the recent villain figure alive using his identity. After that, Ra.One inserts the
red HART inside his chest, Ra.One strength magnifies and breaks the glass container.
As he goes around finding Lucifer, Ra.One changes his form into Akashi.
When he reaches the mainframe, Ra.One asks Akashi if he is Lucifer. Even if
he is shocked to see himself in someone’s form, Akashi answer’s Ra.One that he is not Lucifer.
Which make the villain classify him as useless and hangs and kills him using the electric wires.
Shekhar hears the noises and sees Akashi dead, so he immediately goes home but Ra.One interrupts him
on the road. The villain asks if he is Lucifer and when Shekhar realizes that Ra.One is looking for
his son, he lies and tells that he is Lucifer. Ra.One finds that he is lying and kills him
by smashing Shekhar into his car’s windshield. Prateek and Sonia hear the news about Shekhar’s
accident and death. Sonia decides that they should go back to India, but Prateek senses
that something is not right about his father’s death. So, he and Jenny go to Barron Company and
they see its destruction. Prateek calls Akashi and asks what happens in the programming room.
Little did he know, it is Ra.One who he is talking over the phone. As they talk, Ra.One learns that
Prateek and Lucifer are the same and that is also the time when Jenny and Prateek see Akashi’s dead
body in the electric wires. Therefore, both of them conclude that Ra.One has come to life.
After the call, the villain immediately traces Prateek’s location using the phone and proceeds
to the Barron company. On the other hand, Jenny and Prateek conclude that if Ra.One can come
out to the real world, so does G.One. As they try to bring G.One into life,
Sonia stops in front of the company to fetch Prateek but she sees Ra.One,
in the form of Akashi, walking furiously on his way to the entrance. Sonia calls Jenny and
tells that Akashi is heading inside. After they know that Ra.One is coming, Jenny tells Prateek
to leave and she takes in charge of getting G.One out. Before Prateek leaves, he inserts
the blue HART into G.One’s human-sized figure. When Prateek enters Sonia’s car, Ra.One sees
him and immediately go after them. Prateek tells his mother to drive faster, but Sonia does not
understand why she has to follow her son not until she sees that Akashi is following them.
He runs like a speed of a racing car and follows them through.
Sonia starts to drive faster even if she is confused of everything.
From running, Ra.One snaps a motorbike from one of the people on the road
and drives as fast as Sonia. Car crashes and bangs to different things on the road, wrecking Sonia’s
car. They successfully escape from Ra.One when they arrive at a lot full of unused old cars.
Prateek and Sonia startle from shock when Ra.One smashes one of the cars to hit them.
But before the car crashes, G.One arrives and smashes it away. As soon as they realize
that it is G.One, Prateek and Sonia drive away, leaving G.One and Ra.One fighting. At the end,
G.One is able to temporarily destroy Ra.One’s body by hitting the gas behind the villain.
This turns his body into remains and G.One takes his red HART away and follows Sonia and Prateek.
When they reach the airport, Sonia takes G.One with them by handing him over Shekhar’s passport.
On the other hand, Ra.One gets his body back again in the form of a billboard model,
who has a gigantic and well-toned body. When they reach their home in India,
Prateek and Sonia do not tell their neighbors that G.One is not Shekhar.
In the evening, G.One tells Sonia that they should not stay in their
home because Ra.One will soon find them and kill Prateek. Also, G.One adds that
there is less chance of survival because the chase between them and Ra.One is endless.
Emotionally, Sonia decides not to leave the house, because she wants to reside
her memories with Prateek and Shekhar in their house. Instead, she pleads G.One that even if
there is a small chance to survive, he will promise to do anything to protect his son.
In Prateek’s birthday party, Ra.One sedates Sonia and copies her form. He acts like Sonia
and kidnaps Prateek to Mumbai Expo. On the other hand, Ra.One takes Sonia into Mumbai Railway,
because she is hypnotized, Sonia drives the train and the villain’s goal is to kill her
by hitting the train at the last station. When G.One learns about Prateek and Sonia,
he immediately goes to the railway station. Using his strength, he tries to hop on each cabin on
his way to the driver’s seat. Yet as he goes near, the train's motion speeds up and does not
stop to every station, making people furious and puzzled. Before the train hits the last station,
G.One separates the driver’s cabin from the remaining cabin and gets Sonia out.
After he saves Sonia, G.One immediately makes his way to Mumbai Expo, where Ra.One and the
poor Prateek can be found. The child is trapped in the play station room, with duct tape on his
mouth and ropes are tied on his hands and feet. Prateek desperately tries to untie the rope
and when he successfully do, he proceeds to the computer to control the game and it is also the
time when G.One arrives at the place. Before their fight begins,
G.One gives Ra.One his red HART, making him gain the strength again. As soon as they are ready,
they both fight by hitting each other with their cannonball powers. When Ra.One hits G.One with
a statue, Prateek takes over and control G.One’s move by wearing the bodysuit. Both players reach
the third level of the game, where they both have a firing weapon that contains only one load.
Prateek and G.One tricks Ra.One by taking the hero’s blue HART.
When the villain fires his one load onto G.One’s chest, the hero falls to the ground,
and Prateek inserts the HART onto him. When Ra.One finds about this, he gets pissed by his wasted
firing load and multiplies himself into ten to confuse the two in determining the real Ra.One.
Prateek and G.One are both frustrated and confused. Both do not know how to differentiate
the real Ra.One from fake Ra.One. In the middle of frustration, Prateek asks G.One to quote one
of his father’s sayings. So, G.One says, "If you join the forces of evil, its shadows shall always
follow you". After that, both of them realize that the true Ra.One is the one who has a shadow. They
look at each of the copied villains in front of them. When they find the one with a shadow, G.One
fires his weapon to the real Ra.One’s HART and kills him, shattering his body again into pieces.
G.One runs towards the scattered remains of Ra.One and catches all of them using
his body. When Prateek runs after him, G.One says that he will have to go and take Ra.One
back into the gaming world. Afraid, Prateek cries and pleases G.One not to leave them
because it feels like losing his father again. G.One says that as long as humanity resides in
Prateek’s heart, his father will always be with them. Taking his last strength,
G.One lays on the floor, and his body also turns into pieces except for his remaining blue HART,
which Prateek takes with him. Long after the battle, Prateek and Sonia
go back to London. The boy spends all his day on the computer to revive G.One’s HART. The movie
ends when Prateek successfully restores G.One’s HART, making his life come into the world again.