Sarkar Raj (2008)

The Cast consists of all the Bachchans (except for Jaya Bacchan whom RGV couldn't fit in with an appropriate mafia role) After the agony and widespread damage caused by Ram Gopal Varrma's AAG, people wanted to see whether RGV and the Big B can resurrect themselves. Plus this movie was a sequel to 2005's Sarkar which was RGV's tribute to 'The Godfather'To make sequels in Bollywood has always been a very tricky issue as the comparisons are too critical in nature with the first part.Lage Raho Munnabhai was probably the first Big Hindi movie which became a major success when compared to its prequel...If any of you guys thought that Sarkar Raj was based on another one of the Godfather series, well then you are grossly mistaken! Writers Prashant Pandey and Ram Gopal Varma have come up with a fresh,new and brilliant plot to assure the audience of 125 entertaining minutes....I don't believe in blogging movie spoilers, so i'll be as vague as possible....cause this movie is a must see!!The movie mainly revolves around three characters ( The Bachchan Arena) Subash Nagre (Big B), Shankar Nagre (Abishek) and Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai)...Subash has full faith in his son Shankar though he finds it difficult to deal with the fact that its Shankar who is the actual 'Sarkar'...Shankar wants what is best for Maharashtra and Anita Rajan steps in from London as a CEO of Sheperd group...her aim is to make India's largest power plant. Anita realizes Maharashtra as a potential site.Even though Subhas is against the proposition, Shankar strongly believes it is for the state's betterment and he decides to support Anita and her project no matter what stands in their way...When so many crores of rupees are at stake, the plant project becomes a battleground for dirty politics, deceit and corruption.I do not wish to disclose any more facts of the movie !!u should see it.....The villains are convincing and the supporting cast has small roles with clearly defined characters....The 3 Bachchans have given subtle yet strong performances and it is difficult to see who is the real Sarkar amongst them....The Dialogues of the movie are powerful and crisp and act as the real Forte of the movie...The background score is impressive though the 'Govinda Govinda' chantings do tend to get annoyingly over used!!RGV gets full marks for his direction...the editing is perfect as well.....even though there are no song and dance sequences the movie doesn't bore you one bit...The movie is self explanatory and one need not have seen Sarkar to follow Sarkar Raj...thats another plus point...The action scenes are spectacular and more importantly 'Very Realistic'!!! RGV clearly demonstrates that the Bullet penetrates both- the Hero and the Villain.The first half is kinda slow but RGV constructs a proper platform to carry the movie further with ease...the second half is totally gripping and moves at a fairly quick pace...No matter what happens don't miss the 2nd half...especially the part where the suspense of the entire plot will be revealed by Subhas Nagre....thats an amazing scene that will take all by surprise!!Overall, a brilliant movie which i totally enjoyed !!!VERDICT: Sarkar Raj - will extinguish the agony caused by RGV's AAG!!! A must see!!!FOR MORE REVIEWS ON MOVIES AND MUSIC ALBUMS PLEASE VISIT MY BLOG http://themusicandmoviezone.blogspot.com/

I saw the movie in the theater the day it was released. I had great expectation as sarkar was a massive hit in box office. I very disappointed in the first half of the movie. First half of movie is nail growing slow AMITABH BACHCHAN the man of few words in SANKAR was wasted in the movie with too much of dialogs and doing nothing. ABHISHEK had a lead but was not able to direct this power in his words. The direction was not up to the mark, same old still camera and dark background as all ram gopal verma movie has. Overall its just one time watchable movie with poor finish at the end. cheers....

I reluctantly went along with my dad for this movie. Don't get me wrong. I liked the first part a lot. It was a gripping, spine-chilling movie by RGV. But after that, he has made a number of debacles such as RGv ki AAG, Go and the list goes on and on. After the film got over, I was satisfied. No, I don't mean satisfied with the film. I mean satisfied that it got over. It wasn't the best sequel nor very good. It just managed to level the bar. Sarkar Raj has its good points and its bad ones.Good: 1) Amitabh Bachchan has acted wonderfully. I thought that his dialogs could've been a bit shorter ( sometimes, his monologues get too monotonous). But he hasn't lost his charm, and has mesmerized me in some of the scenes.2) Abhishek does a good job, in parts of the film.3) Some of the killings are brutal, especially when one of the character shoots the other. I kept looking at the gun and so just went back for a second as the gun fired.4) Aishwaria was good in the emotional scenes. She should stick to movies like Joddha Akbar etc.Bad: 1) The person who played Somji barked, barked and kept barking. Please shut up for a moment. You do not have to shout all the time to show that you are a good actor. I was glad when he sobered down.2) As I mentioned above, the dialogs could be shortened. I was literally fidgeting and twitching myself during the conversation towards the end between Amitabh and Aishwaria.3) Many of the conversations had the same camera effects and background music but unlike the first part, it did not cast the same effect. I was so irked off by hearing the tired chant 'Govinda' and the sudden shriek of a female 'Govindaaaa!' whenever Abhishek entered.4) Aishwaria fumbles in some of the dialogs and scenes trying to portray the rough and tough business woman.5) The story line isn't very interesting, especially towards the end, when Amitabh tells that the power plant plant was to actually bring down Sarkar. What the ....! And showing Aishwaria's father as a part of the plan to kill Sarkar was dumb. And how did Sarkar's men go international, killing his father somewhere out of the country? His power was just over Mumbai.6) And finally, why the heck did they show that the contract killer who killed Abhishek was just another unknown guy? I mean, they hid his face for some silly reason, so that we think he is a person from inside. Then we realize that he is just another bad guy!It was a good sequel, but nothing magnificent. 6 out of 10.

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.