Monday, June 23, 2008

Sarkar Raj


RGV shares a trait with Dan Brown, of riveting story telling. They are able to amalgamate bits of facts with lot of masala fiction. He has done it skillfully in Company, Ab tak chappan and Sarkar. Sarkar Raj is an encore.


The mercurial Nagre household portrayal based on the Thackeray family is carried over from the earlier episode. Additionally this one has an analogy of Subhash Nagre’s mentor to how Gandhiji used to lead the Indian freedom movement from the remote Sevagram ashram. It seems for special effects RGV picked Dilip Prabhavalkar who is fresh in junta’s mind as Gandhiji from Munnabhai movie.

For reasons unknown, this movie has received more than its fair share of flak. I guess we can clearly see how people like SRK churn up farcical stuff while the media sings paeans to his 6-pack. This one is definitely worth a multiplex watch for following reasons:

1. Crisp editing: Not even once did I get bored.

2. No dancing around the trees/ swimming pools/shaadi-baraat/foreign location songs.

3. Suppressed melodrama: Especially the scene where Ash cries in anguish.

4. The final twist in the tale

Rating: 3/5

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i liked sarkar raj too...bt we seem to be in a minority....ohh and 'ab tak chappan' is by shimit amin not RGV

atlee said...

hey dude...I missed sarkar raj!!
I was expecting more from the review...u cud dwell on some more points of the movei