Movie Review: Sarkar Raj (2008)

Published by Hanumant Bhansali at 05:29:12 pm on June 8, 2008

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govind Namdeo, Tanisha Mukherjee, Victor Banerjee, Tanisha Mukherjee
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Praveen Nischol
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Story: Prashant Pandey

EXCLUSIVE REVIEW BY HANUMANT BHANSALI

Unlike Sarkar, which was inspired from Francis Ford Coppola’s film ‘Godfather’, Sarkar Raj is an original script. The script draws no similarity from ‘Godfather 2’, which conceptualized the idea of son taking over the mafia business after the death of his father.

The film captures the political surroundings of rural Maharashtra and Delhi. The plot highlights the performances of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Bachchan whereas Amitabh Bachchan character takes a backseat from the prequel.

After the disaster of RGV Ki Aag, Ram Gopal Varma did not reveal much about this film and worked hard towards his script, which is a suave product altogether.

Subash Nagare ‘Sarkar’ (Amitabh Bachchan) is approached by the CEO of an international company Sheppard Power Plant Anita (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). After convincing Sarkar, his son Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan) starts his ground work along with Anita, trying to analyse the benefits of the project.

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6 Responses to “Movie Review: Sarkar Raj (2008)”

although SR may not be ramu’s worst it is also not his best work. sadly this movie failed to capture the magic of Sarkar, mainly due to ramu’s idea of reworking the same formulae that he did in Sarkar. Simply put it was a cut & paste job by a director who was in dire need of redeeming himself in the eyes of the public, but mostly to Big B. Although the script/storyline was “original”, and tightly written with a bit of punch, the scenes were a renactment of scenes similar to Sarkar. The storyline was a clearly based on the Thackeray/Enron saga - no matter how ramu tries to deny this. When it became clear in the second half that the reins of the Nagres family was to be wrested by sarkar once again, the movie lost it’s fizz (not much to begin with) and with agonizingly slowness you had the watch how this saga played out. Had ramu allowed the character of Shankar to continue to play centre stage throughout the movie, i believe SR would have garnered a more positive response for originality. But as this was a movie of “redemption” by ramu, Big B had to have his moment in the sun, in order to ensure that the debacle of Aag was forgiven & forgotten. As for perfomance a lot depended on the actors ability to “facially act” the part - the closeup shots were a tad too many. Big B was more of a preacher cum actor in fine form, Baby B could have added a bit more fire and passion to his dialogue, and Bahu B saved us from her simpering act by being just a bystander/witness rather than a player. To sum up SR…ramu u are forgiven.