'you complete me'

He's here. He's back. And how.
'Some men just want to watch the world burn'. If evil ever had a face in the world of comics, that face was white, red and green. The Joker has always mystified and terrified readers, moi included, with an uncontrolled madness that cannot be reasoned with. Even as a comic character, his darkness leapt off the pages and drew you into a pit of insanity seldom seen in inhabitants of the written world.
But it was always his unusual relationship with Batman that stood out against all the regular good-evil battles. Even in comic book lore, the advent of Batman has always been associated with the creation or existence of the Joker. Like two sides of the same coin. As a boy, i could admire and relate to Batman aka Bruce Wayne. A tortured soul trying hard to make right the many wrongs of Gotham city without losing his own sense of self. But a part of me also wanted to give in to the delicious chaos and anarchy surrounding the Joker's life. It's this fight, within a single being himself, that has always characterized the Batman-Joker relationship. That sense of fragile interchangeability, separated only by that flimsy film of character and circumstance.
'The Dark Knight' should be the tribute Batman fans have been waiting years for. A tribute to the battlefield where the most deadly demons are fought. Our own heart.

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.

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