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Movie Reviews
Reviews are contributed by Dr. Usman khawaja.
Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
total frustration in a clueless confrontation between him and his repentant rich powerful mother in sheer melodramatic faux pas.
Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar)is a mentor for one of the rival political families who comprise the two feuding political giants who will run india in future ,depending on who plays the best ploys ,ranging from assassinations to bombings to framed rape charges against the feuding opponents who are all cousins and brothers but seem to have nothing else but time for planning political conspiracy and anarchy ,which also describes this rather mediocre version of ''Copolla's Godfather'' guised as a political yarn .
Prithvi Pratap (Arjun Rampal) is actually quite good as the cousin who holds the top position,but is betrayed by Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bajpai) ,the other cousin who will stop at nothing to claw his way back to the top,and in the process bajpai brilliantly steals the entire movie single handedly, from under the noses of everyone else as the evil lonely man who seems to be the only real politician in this medley .
Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar)is a mentor for one of the rival political families who comprise the two feuding political giants who will run india in future ,depending on who plays the best ploys ,ranging from assassinations to bombings to framed rape charges against the feuding opponents who are all cousins and brothers but seem to have nothing else but time for planning political conspiracy and anarchy ,which also describes this rather mediocre version of ''Copolla's Godfather'' guised as a political yarn .
Prithvi Pratap (Arjun Rampal) is actually quite good as the cousin who holds the top position,but is betrayed by Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bajpai) ,the other cousin who will stop at nothing to claw his way back to the top,and in the process bajpai brilliantly steals the entire movie single handedly, from under the noses of everyone else as the evil lonely man who seems to be the only real politician in this medley .
Rajneeti
Director : Prakash Jha
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Arjun Rampal
Producer : Prakash Jha, Ronnie Scrwevala
Lyrics : Gulzar, Sameer, Swanand Kirkire
Music: Wayne Sharpe
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Arjun Rampal
Producer : Prakash Jha, Ronnie Scrwevala
Lyrics : Gulzar, Sameer, Swanand Kirkire
Music: Wayne Sharpe
actually achieves that singular moment of frenzy, where you can rise above superficial and fake sentimentality -
Election fever and an empty plot based on GODFATHER ,KALYUG,AND MAHABHARATA, reigns in this epic family tale of Indian politics ,starring a plethora of stars in an overcrowded script riddled with potholes and plot deficits ,and even poorer characterisations as the director struggles to give it a false sense of persuasive energy but all fall shorts ,despite some potential which betrays sporadically through the screen anecdotes in minor trivia ,which is rather pathetic as this could have been a quality venture if the script had more meat and the characters had some of that meat to eat .
Bhasker Sanyal (Naseeruddin Shah) is totally inept and wasted as a left wing firebrand who pays for a love affair by a self imposed exile .
Sooraj (Ajay Devgan) is the angry poor man stereotype who will stop at nothing to damage the rich and powerful and he too is wasted as the scowling middle aged man pretending to be a young fire-brand revolutionary ,while the best sequence in the movie where drama should deliver is wasted in
Election fever and an empty plot based on GODFATHER ,KALYUG,AND MAHABHARATA, reigns in this epic family tale of Indian politics ,starring a plethora of stars in an overcrowded script riddled with potholes and plot deficits ,and even poorer characterisations as the director struggles to give it a false sense of persuasive energy but all fall shorts ,despite some potential which betrays sporadically through the screen anecdotes in minor trivia ,which is rather pathetic as this could have been a quality venture if the script had more meat and the characters had some of that meat to eat .
Bhasker Sanyal (Naseeruddin Shah) is totally inept and wasted as a left wing firebrand who pays for a love affair by a self imposed exile .
Sooraj (Ajay Devgan) is the angry poor man stereotype who will stop at nothing to damage the rich and powerful and he too is wasted as the scowling middle aged man pretending to be a young fire-brand revolutionary ,while the best sequence in the movie where drama should deliver is wasted in
Well Machiavelli and Mario Puzo might never have heard of Mahabharata ,but here they all mingle in an incoherent ,clumsy and half - baked tale of political fervour and family feuds ,which becomes feverishly excessive yet never
Indu Sakseria (Katrina Kaif) is the so-called rich ,beautiful and tragic woman caught in the middle of these men who is lost both in the script and as an actress ,since she has nothing to do