I had the opportunity to see this movie First day first show, but I did not go. This was a blessing in disguise, because the one week of delay gave me the opportunity to observe the battle of words and review debate - for and against Sarkar Raj. I have read most of the review available on the net Amitabh comments on his blog and Ram Gopal Varma attempting interesting, funny and humorous reviews on film critics everything was on my plate to relish. With all memories of positive and negative reviews in front of me I went to see Sarkar Raj after a week.
Sarkar Raj plot goes ahead from where it ends in Sarkar Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai), daughter of UK based business man Mike Rajan (Victor Bannerjee) comes to Maharashtra to start an electricity generation power plant; for which they need to vacate villages and 40,000 people. They approach Nagare family Sarkar Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) and Shankar Nagre (Abhishek Bachchan) for approval. Shankar takes on himself as a mission to help Anita build the power plant, but gets caught in the dirty game of power politics. The results are devastating for Nagre family, and Sarkar has to enter the centre stage of power politics to resolve the mess.
The movie is not as bad as some reviewers are dismissing it; nor it is as great as some Bachchan fans are garlanding it with. For me, it is a good movie but not as good as Sarkar the part one. Part two does not have any awe stucking moments that we saw in Sarkar one. Everyone has acted well especially both the Bachchans senior and junior shoulder to shoulder, they stand on their own and keeps the tempo going with the depth of their glimpse and intensity of persona. Other characters are caricatures, including Aishwarya, whose character is not so well developed.
This is a typical Ram Gopal Varma movie. It has RGV stamp all over it. I think I had written in my Nishabd movie review that RGV is trying to be in league with International great and reputed directors. Yes, he is trying and we can see how close he is to it. He has developed the style, he understands the strength of scene and psychology of audiences, he uses enthralling images to capture close-ups of great actors as never before but still he misses on those few things that would help him break the glass ceiling of world reputation.
The biggest let down for me was the background score (not to be mistaken with the musical score of songs or the Govindam chants) the background score does not vibrate and resound of power but it deafens you. Some restrain would have surely pushed the movie to higher psychological power play on audiences' minds.
It seems that Bachchans have made many enemies, and his blog does not help him to turn to friends either, and the self indulgent and arrogancy that comes of RGV's persona I think, both factors together are creating an negative reaction to his movie.
As RGV is only making movies and not playing himself from reel life characters and stories; the film reviewers are writing critics and not making movies like RGV. Everyone is playing some role in this life, so let RGV make movies as he wishes, and let critics praise or thrash his movies as an audience, if the movie is good I would surely go and see it.
Until and unless the reviews are extremely bad like RGV ki Aag, I will surely go and see the movie because it has a brand of Amitabh and a fantastic director of Satya RGV - behind it.
For me this was a good movie but not great. It had the potential of becoming great.
Sarkar Raj plot goes ahead from where it ends in Sarkar Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai), daughter of UK based business man Mike Rajan (Victor Bannerjee) comes to Maharashtra to start an electricity generation power plant; for which they need to vacate villages and 40,000 people. They approach Nagare family Sarkar Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) and Shankar Nagre (Abhishek Bachchan) for approval. Shankar takes on himself as a mission to help Anita build the power plant, but gets caught in the dirty game of power politics. The results are devastating for Nagre family, and Sarkar has to enter the centre stage of power politics to resolve the mess.
The movie is not as bad as some reviewers are dismissing it; nor it is as great as some Bachchan fans are garlanding it with. For me, it is a good movie but not as good as Sarkar the part one. Part two does not have any awe stucking moments that we saw in Sarkar one. Everyone has acted well especially both the Bachchans senior and junior shoulder to shoulder, they stand on their own and keeps the tempo going with the depth of their glimpse and intensity of persona. Other characters are caricatures, including Aishwarya, whose character is not so well developed.
This is a typical Ram Gopal Varma movie. It has RGV stamp all over it. I think I had written in my Nishabd movie review that RGV is trying to be in league with International great and reputed directors. Yes, he is trying and we can see how close he is to it. He has developed the style, he understands the strength of scene and psychology of audiences, he uses enthralling images to capture close-ups of great actors as never before but still he misses on those few things that would help him break the glass ceiling of world reputation.
The biggest let down for me was the background score (not to be mistaken with the musical score of songs or the Govindam chants) the background score does not vibrate and resound of power but it deafens you. Some restrain would have surely pushed the movie to higher psychological power play on audiences' minds.
It seems that Bachchans have made many enemies, and his blog does not help him to turn to friends either, and the self indulgent and arrogancy that comes of RGV's persona I think, both factors together are creating an negative reaction to his movie.
As RGV is only making movies and not playing himself from reel life characters and stories; the film reviewers are writing critics and not making movies like RGV. Everyone is playing some role in this life, so let RGV make movies as he wishes, and let critics praise or thrash his movies as an audience, if the movie is good I would surely go and see it.
Until and unless the reviews are extremely bad like RGV ki Aag, I will surely go and see the movie because it has a brand of Amitabh and a fantastic director of Satya RGV - behind it.
For me this was a good movie but not great. It had the potential of becoming great.