Sarkar raj - The Review

So finally I managed to watch Sarkar Raj and before I start doing a post-mortem, let me tell you, I did not dislike the movie.

A sequel of "Sarkar" released couple of years back, the story line of "Sarkar Raj" revolves around the politics and cacaphony involved around Enron project in Maharashtra. A foreign conglomerate interested a setting up a power plant, of course, on a land of 40,000 villagers, local politician against the project, a big neta comes to rescue, politics going to state level, murder, chetavni, almost all the materials(sans Mamata Banerjee) for a masala movie were present in the movie. Only if there was a story.

The thread of the story line is loose in many places and the monochromatic celluloid also makes you feel claustrophobic at times. There was a particular moment where Big B informs Ash that he arranged to kill Ash's father in London. The conversation goes like this.

Sarkar Raj: " I .. I killed your father in London!"
Ash: "Really??"
Sarkar Raj:"Yes...yes...and there are reasons."
Ash:"Please uncle..tell me the reasons."

Then Sarkar Raj tells a story like Sherlock Holmes unearthing a mystery and Ash listens with her plastic face and her so-called ''ichak-dana-bichak-dana" innocence. Rubbish. What was RGV thinking while shooting this scene?

The movie could also do without the gloves handed-Hitchcockian style murderer and Victor Banerjee. I can't remember if the movie had any song in it so even there is any, its not worth remembering.

However, Amitabh Bacchan is very intense and powerful in acting in his own way. You can watch the movie just for him. Abhishek has also done justice to the role and responsibility given to him.
But, with such a poor script, even Mithunda cannot save the movie.

So, no matter, how much Big B shouts in his blog about the success of "Sarkar Raj", the movie is only moderately hit in India and abroad. And for RGV, after the self-righteous and dumb remake of Sholay, "Sarkar Raj" would probably help him regain some of his lost confidence.

Last but not the least, what was that "Govinda, Govinda" chanting in the whole movie for.