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Pretty Good

Just perfect...

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This movie brings RGV back on track after quite a few miserable movies. This is a sequel to a 2005 hit Sarkar and it fulfills all the requirement of a great sequel.Besides its strong content, SARKAR RAJ has been filmed exceptionally well too. In fact, SARKAR RAJ has the trademark RGV stamp in every sequence. The review would be incomplete without giving the due credit to writer Prashant Pandey's incredible and almost flawless script. Amar Mohile's background score is topnotch. The by-now-famous 'Govinda' chant in the background only enhances the impact. Amit Roy's cinematography is exceptional. The DoP succeeds in giving the film the raw-n-rustic look, which works very well. Action Allan Amin, in minimal doses, is perfect. SARKAR RAJ is embellished with superb performances! Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, comes up with a terrific performance. He's as ferocious as a wounded tiger in the finale and takes the film to great heights.First YUVA, then GURU, now SARKAR RAJ. Abhishek Bachchan is cast opposite the finest actor of this country, yet he sparkles in every sequence. This time, the father and son go neck to neck as far as acting honors go. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is fabulous and delivers her career-best performance in SARKAR RAJ. Enough has been written about her looks, but not much space has been devoted to her performances. HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM, DEVDAS, PROVOKED, GURU, JODHAA AKBAR and now SARKAR RAJ - she's only got better with every film.Every supporting actor in SARKAR RAJ stands out - Dilip Prabhawalkar was superb, Govind Namdev was first-rate, Sayaji Shinde was perfect, Ravi Kale and Supriya Pathak were OK.Tanisha is alright. The actor enacting the role of Dilip Prabhawalkar's grandson makes a strong impact.

This film is awful has not even the politics sense in it. Three things that should not be in the film. Aishwariya Rai first thing she is not even an good actress she is just a slave to Hollywood she don't even deserve to be in this movie. Seconde , Abhishek Bachan he was boring and really ugly i mean get to the fact Bachan family sucks really boring movie. And yeah Tanisha was supposed to be Nagre's Daugther in law but in this movie Ash was more closer than Tanisha to Abhishek so this film is not even watchable please if u wanna save money and time don't go watch this all time crap its for your good. And Yeah! one thing else the music suck's too.

The Bachchans: The new first family of Bollywood.Dad Amitabh was the undisputed superstar in the 70's and 80's;the most prolific actor in his second innings in the new millennium doing as many as 10 movies a year.Son Abhishek after giving 13 duds has given successful movies like GURU and the DHOOM series.He has not given a hit in quite some time and hence needs a relaunch.Daughter-in-law Aishwarya was an international beauty queen and a few makeovers later is one of the highest paid actress around.She has sent the glamor quotient of the family soaring upwards.Poor mom Jaya Bachchan cant keep up and is rarely seen in the public with the family instead spends time hobnobbing with the likes of Amar Singh.The Bachchans have recently come under attack for not contributing to the progress of Maharashtra.The Nagres:The first family in the power politics of Maharashtra.Father Subhash is the original man of Honor,dispensing justice and running the state through the chief Minister.Son Shankar is the heir managing most of the family's mysterious business.In the words of Abhishek Bachchan,"He is a futuristic man in the sense he thinks about the future."He is already more successful his Dad,or so his Dad claims.Both Dad and son have committed themselves to the progress of the Maharashtra.Mom Nagre stays in background making tea and "puris" for the freak characters that come to the house.Enter Anita,an international entrepreneur,who wants to step out of her father's shadow with a power plant project(an obvious metaphor for the power struggles in the plot.) In Sarkar Raj,the ironies and the parallels just don't stop coming. The director: Ram Gopal Verma. Once known as a maverick director, he has reduced himself to his own parody.His legacy of movies like Satya,Rangeela,Company and Bhoot was destroyed by Shiva and "RGV Ki Aag."After Sarkar Raj he is finished.One suggests a five year holiday when RGV can still afford it.The movie:Entirely shot in minimal colors with the camera at the RGV angles which can be:a) extreme close-ups of characters or b)the camera below glass tops,chairs,beds, giving the effect of a sting operation.All of which is supposed to hide the fact that the entire plot comprises solely of set-piece situations.First half-The father-son conflict.Dad Amitabh is against the power plant being made on land taken from the poor villagers.Son is all for taking hard decisions for development.Dad reposes his faith in son finally.Son goes about the easy job of convincing people to give up their lands.Then the bad guys blow up the car in which the pregnant wife Tanissha(yes, we were tortured with her close-ups as well) was traveling,which paves the way for Nagre junior to take revenge and find love in Anita.At which point in second half Nagre junior is bumped off as well,in turn clearing the way for Nagre Sr to take revenge and explain away all the consistencies in the plot with some Tarkash-Ke-Teer,Shatranj-Ki-Bisaat type of dialogs.Every twist in the plot in the movie is predictable.One knows that man-Friday will turn up to be the mole and Gandhian mentor the mastermind of the carnage.There are only two good moments in the movie. First when Abhishek remorse for killing Bhaiyya in the previous edition and last when he stands up to a mob which calls his father a thief.Any review of Sarkar Raj will be incomplete without the mention of the three typical Ramu type villains.Sayaji Shinde(Bachu Yadav of Shool) plays a crooked politician who screams and jumps without any provocation.Giving him company is Govind Namdeo playing a power broker who spews euphemisms by the dozen and when asked to explain just says "Aise hi Kah Diya".Sample these:-Govind Namdeo:-"Shaadi Se Pehle Hi Pataakhe Mat Chodiye"Aishwarya:-"Kya Matlab?"Govind Namdeo:-"Aise Hi Kah Diya"Govind Namdeo:-"Yeh foreign companies Keel Ki Tarah Hoti Hain"Abhishek:-"Kahna Kya Chahte ho?"Govind:-"Aise Hi Kah Diya"And my favoriteGovind:-"Bina Ande Ke Omlette Nahi Banta"Sayaji:-"Matlab Shankar Anda,Mumbai omelet?"Govind;-"Aur hum Masala."But the freakiest bad guy is a Gujrati business called Vohra who keeps singing 70's hits under his breath all the time in the movie.The funniest scene in the movie is in which Vohra sings "Gapucchi Gapucchi gum gum" while threatening to bump off Abhishek. A future project that brings together the Bachchans should be a Hindi remake of the run-away Bhojpuri hit "Sasura Bada Paisewala"

To be honest after Ram Gopal Verma's "Aag," I was a bit hesitant to watch this movie even though it had the top actors and also because, normally, I am not very fond of sequels as I believe that they ruin the original.An overseas based company wants to build a power plant in Maharashtra but the owners, Mike Rajsn and his daughter, Anita Rajan face a lot of opposition and the only man who can help them is Subash Nagre and his son, Shankar. Shankar and his father believe that the plant should be built in Maharashtra and persuade people of the villages where the plant is to be built to accept the plans. But events turn ugly, when one day Avantika, Subash's daughter – in – law is killed when her car is detonated by a bomb.The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Supriya Pathak, Victor Bannerjee and Tanisha.Not as good as the original, Ram Gopal Verma, still has managed to put in some ghosts of Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" more so with reference to bombing of the vehicle and to some extent, he has put in some ghosts of "Sarkar" as well. What was a bit disappointing was that sound track, "Govinda" has not lived to the expectations as it did in the previous one and this is where, perhaps, the music director, Amar Mohile, could have done more to revive the original version.Be warned there is violence but never the less a good movie to watch with elder children and adult family members.