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Ra.One is a 2011 Indian Hindi language superhero science fantasy film directed and written by Anubhav Sinha, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan as G.One, the main protagonist of the film and Arjun Rampal as Ra.One, the main antagonist of the film. The film revolves around the titular Ra.One, a villain who digitally finds a way out in the game created by a designer whose likeness is used to create the titular G.One, and must find a way to stop him.

Plot
A father trying hard to ‘fit into his gamer sons world creates an ace game that captures his sons interests. But all hell breaks loose when the game that is meant to be played starts playing them.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) While somewhat too similar to Tron, the concept about a video game villain coming to life is a pretty interesting and neat idea, as it was never done before in most science fiction films.
 * 2) Great acting from the cast, especially Shah Rukh Khan as both Shekhar and G.One, and Arjun Rampal as Ra.One, whose performance was very well-received.
 * 3) Like most superhero films, it balances the tone very well, as it uses comedy and action very well.
 * 4) The visual effects looks very spectacular, as it was done by Redchillies.vfx, Prime Focus, Tata Elxsi Visual Computing Labs, Alien Sense and other companies, the CGI is very detailed even for 2011 standards, as it's comparable to Hollywood films such as Iron Man (which Tata Elxsi worked on) and more.
 * 5) The humor is really good, such as Prateek hacking onto his bully's computer, thus exposing a striptease the bully watched to the whole class and the teacher.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being rated U in India, which is the Indian version of the PG rating, the film can be inappropriate at times, such as the scene where during the part where Prateek controls G.One through the video game, he then spanks Sonia as a joke, the afromentioned striptease scene and the infamous part where G.One accidentally wears lots of body piercings, which causes the detector to locate it near his nipples and crotch.
 * 2) Some unlikeable characters, such as the bully, who is a complete pervert, and is basically the British Caruso from Everybody Hates Chris, as in a deleted scene, he bullies Prateek and his friends because they're Indian, which makes him a Xenophobe.
 * 3) Iyer Uncle is an extremely annoying comic relief, as he does nothing but create pointless jokes that do nothing but pad out the entire film.
 * 4) The film's premise is somewhat of a rehash of The Terminator and Tron, which resulted in controversies such as accusations of plagiarism.

Critical response
The film received mixed to positive reviews from indian critics but was well received by audiences and foreign critics with praise for the humor, visual effects, performances of Shah Rukh Khan and Arjun Rampal and direction, although the script and screenplay received criticism, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a critic score of 60% from 25 critic reviews and a "rotten" audience score of 50% from 2,500 audience reviews, on Metacritic, the film has a critic score of 60 out of 100 based on 8 critic reviews, indicating "mixed or average" reviews while the audience score is a 5.8 out of 10, also indicating "mixed or average" reviews.