What was worrying me about Romeo Akbar Walter, was Raazi is too fresh on our minds to see yet another Bollywood actor travel back in time and across the border. But into the first 10 minutes of RAW and I was convinced that Abraham had turned the tables in his favour in this one. The film starts with John’s battered body. He is bleeding and raw and it won’t stop till his broken body leads to a broken mind. Slowly we move away from the torture to the years before. The flashback into the life of Akbar (John Abraham) brings us to Romeo aka Rehmatullah (John Abraham) again. We see Romeo’s bulging form cramped into a cubicle, as he works as a cashier but he is also an expert in disguises. This quality of his brings Srikant Rai (Jackie Shroff) to Romeo’s door. Rai, who is the cigar-puffing head of Indian intelligence, immediately decides to enlist Romeo as a spy. With only his mother as family, Romeo’s one request to Rai is to make sure his mother is safe and taken care of.The sequence of events is all pegged around the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 and Robbie Grewal and his team have ensured that the ambiance and the garbs are completely in sync with the era. Given the fact that director Robbie Grewal has worked so extensively around getting the actual events and timelines in perfect chronology for this film, it is a pity that RAW, despite all the effort ends up being unimpressive just as I had feared it would be.