From the maker of dark flicks like 'Apaharan' and 'Gangaajal', here comes his straight take on politics - Raajneeti!
Raajneeti shows the darker side of politics blended with an over dramatic and a lengthy family feud. But the fact is that these things do not fail to entertain nor do they deviate from the premise. There is an equal amount of everything. So is Raajneeti a must watch? Does Prakash Jha keep up his name? Read on to find out....
The movie centers on a political family and things which happen inside it when the head of the family dies. The family on the whole gave me a striking resemblance to the current scenario in Tamil Nadu but all that kept aside, Raajneeti is a neat, dark, filmy yet real (at places) take on politics.
Starting with the cast, its huge. With people like Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan, Arjun Rampal, Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, what would one expect? An ardent movie goer would definitely feel that - " Oh! there are so many people in the movie? Then it wouldn't be worth watching. It would definitely be a boring movie." But Raajneeti isn't. All of them have the necessary screen space but the only one sad thing about it is that an actor like Naseeruddin Shah is completely wasted. Anyone could have fit in his role.
Anyways, the story is simple or one can say there is nothing so different about it.
The movie is lengthy and could have been shortened but there wasn't a time when you actually looked at the time! It was gripping on the whole with few lackadaisical hence unwanted drags here and there.
The music by Wayne Sharpe is laudable and the central theme is one of the factors which made the movie likeable and watchable.
There wasn't much scope in editing and neither were there any songs which would have possibly made the viewer exit the theatre.
Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif were surprise packages. I never knew that they had the acting potential. Nana Patekar and Ajay Devgan do their parts well with their trademark stamp embossed on every scene of theirs.
Too many kissing scenes for a movie of this genre. (Spoiler: Naseeruddin Shah also has a smooching scene, :) )
Prakash Jha, the man from 'my state' : Jharkhand-Bihar, definitely needs a pat on the back for bringing this huge cast together and making a sensible movie and a movie which will attempt to veer the existing Bollywood trend of continuous non-sense into something which will bring back the magic which existed once upon a time.
So all in all, Raajneeti is a mix masala of Godfather, Sarkar and Mahabharata. Watch it for Prakash Jha's take on politics and also for your knowledge refreshment on the crude truth in today's political world.
Rating: 3/5
Politics is esoteric, Raajneeti throws light on it!
5 comments:
You never knew Ranbir had the potential?..You dint watch Rocket Singh?..Dude watch it RIGHT NOW!
i did watch da..
i meant the potential for such powerful acting..this was differnt form all his previous movies a welcome change..same goes for katrina..
Katrina was NO surprise. She sucked.
And whoever said the genre of a movie justifies its 'kissing' scenes?
katrina was a lot better than her previouses..not much of skin show..her hindi had improved..
and have u seen his previous movies...they were absolutely serious..
kissin is something which has become common now and hence the director added it to the movie owing to the cast but that is not sumthing u would expect from Prakash Jha..
Disappointed. Katrina touched his feet, Ajay and Rampal lifted him on their shoulders, showing their respect for his off beat performance in Rajneeti. You dint even mention Manoj Bajpayee in the cast, an actor of his stature deserved that.
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