Its been a long time since the last time I wrote. Just the reason that its been a long time that any movie has come up, which I would not like my friends to miss. The time has come.. and I sit down to make a effort to make up your mind to go and see and film, which could be well on its way to be a cult film. ADLABS and K Sera Sera come together to give us a masterpiece... a cornerstone in the new age intelligent film making... Sarkar Raj.
For all those who had lost hope in Ram Gopal Verma for his last few disastrous films, he has come out with an absolute blinder.. A person who has given us such great film like Shiva, Satya and Company...he give us a film which could well be his finest.. Sarkar Raj has a RGV stamp all along and we are glad that the genius has finally come to form. As usual I would not tell you the story but would like to point out some points which I picked up and would hopefully make your
viewing interesting.
So what is so great about Sarkar Raj...Let’s start with the casting.. It’s a golden rule that if the casting is right, half the battle is won. RGV has got it spot on. This film does include some of the biggest names in the industry.. but what’s special about these people are that, they are bigger actors than they are stars and that’s what makes them great. Sarkar Raj boasts of a great cast. Amitabh enters the role of Sarkar yet again... and this time he has his son , Abhishek alongside as the Sarkar in the making and we have a new entrant.. Aishwarya...a welcome one that too.:) Then we have the as usual impressive Govind Namdeo and Sayaji Shinde
.. Supriya Pathak and we also have Tanisha and Victor Banerjee.. and last but not the least the immensely talented Dilip Prabhawalkar (or better remembered as Chimanrao).
All the three leading actors, Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya are like 3 Aces of the movie.. As usual they are spot on and into the character.
Supriya Pathak has a very tiny role to play... But still she plays her role with such conviction that it comes out so good. Actually each and every actor has done his/her job very well.
The story takes us through a range to emotions with all kinds of situations thrown at us, like deceit, betrayal, joy, tension, relationship bonding, respect and some dark dirty politics...Sarkar Raj is all about the "evil" and dark world of the underworld and politics...No one is safe... As Sarkar say in one of his dialogues - "Jaan lena jurm hai.. sahi samay par jaan lena, Rajniti".
The dialogues of this film are very intelligent and hard hitting.. Well, but do not worry if you could not get some of the dialogues from Govind Namdeo.. Its ok.. ignore it..Do not lose sleep over it.. :)
Allan amin is the stunt director but he has limited opportunity to show his genius.. and as usual is good. The most let-down factor of this great film is what I thought was the background score. Amar Mohile has given the "Govinda Govinda" chant which is great.. but has not delivered much.. Maybe RGV should have gone for the master of background score - Sandeep Chowta, instead. When you are making the best, its easier to do it with the best... but anyway the "Govinda" chant is used quite effectively in this film. The treatment is overall quite dark.. Typical RGV and that’s truly how the world of politics and underworld is.
Editing is crisp and pace of the movie is quite fast. A RGV film no unnecessary songs. but again.. Sandeep Chowta is sorely missed..
The attention to detail is also good. Chandar the second in command to the Sarkars is a typical Marathi manoos and we can hear Hindi fused with Marathi from him.. in one of the dialogues we hear "Arre woh gawti ko kaun samjhayega".. 'Gawti' is a typical Marathi word meaning simple peasant or a novice. But with Bombaites some Marathi words are so fused with their hindi that Bombaites seldom realise that they are not speaking correct hindi.. but where life revolves around catching the 8:17am local and the 5:13 pm local back, who has time to check if they are speaking the correct hindi.. tereko samjha na..theek hai.. nahi samjha kya... chal watle phir. ;)
Ok back to the review.. Aishwarya plays the daugther of a NRI businessman (Victor Banerjee). So her look is quite British.. Hairstyle, Formal clothes... quite what we can see in case of a British born desis.. One thing which could have made it more effective would have been her accent. She 
does speak a few lines of English in the movie, so if she could have spoken with a British accent that would have been great. But actually British accent is a bit difficult to pick up than the normal American accent. So as this movie is for the masses, American accent is easier to pick up .. so this point can be ignored.
Aishwarya in one of the scenes, eats bhajiya on the road side, if you pay close attention to the expressions you may pick up the detailing.. She picks up the bhajiya offered by Abhishek as something "suspiciously maybe unhygenical" food... holds carefully with two fingers says thank you and eats it.. this is the typical mindset and attitude of a British born desi when they would eat in one of our road side dhabas.. Wonderful detail incorporated. and wonderfully done as well.
Amitabh goes to Thakarwadi and remembers old times.. Chandar who belongs to Thakarwadi proudly shows Shankar (Abhishek) his land and fields.. A typical sense of joy and pride when one visits home with a friend or close and known person. A child (shepherd) climbs up to the hillock to see the vehicles escorting Sarkar to the village and filled with excitement and waves to them.. something which brings a smile...:)
In one of the scene we see what would fill one with awe. The Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan, the Man of the Millenium according some magazines and the Shehanshah of Indian Film Industry bows down and touches Dilip Prabhawalkar's feet... and he does it with
such humbleness and in the character that you know what makes such a talented person truly great.. He could have easily said no to such a scene. In a world where actors constantly say no to scene which would harm their image or even go ahead and cut other peoples roles so that the other person does not look better than him/her, here is a man who stuck to the role and showed us why he is truly the Shehanshah of Indian film industry,. The scene is important scene and Amitabh touching Dilip's feet is not highlighted and everything goes on as normal. but that’s what make the scene such a powerful one.
So I would say this film has quite many incidents where detailed attention is given..and such detailing makes the movie even better.
Overall a very good film. So if you liked Sarkar 3 years ago, you will love Sarkar Raj. A few films beat its prequel and Sarkar Raj is one of them.
So go ahead and enjoy...
Have a nice day.
