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Movie Reviews
Reviews are contributed by Dr. Usman khawaja.
Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
violence and tragedy at times engages your attention.
He keeps the pace going and that is one of the few qualities here with the cinematography as well as the fact the script is only interrupted by one short rude song briefly in a disco ,otherwise this is a turbulent ,inconsistent and rather pointless remake of previous classics ,which fails to deliver the hype created by the production design or an all star cast ,which are both much bigger than the innocuously void characters and the trite violence which seems injected artificially rather than being a part of the political thriller ,with a finger in every pot.
It is far better than BOTH -''kites'' and ''my name is khan '',both equally hyped and pretentiously ludicrous bollywood epics ,but it leaves a lot to be desired and that is an understatement ,and much of the credit for that goes to ''Manoj bajpai ''and ''Arjun rampal'' ,who have given convincing performances ,despite ill defined characters which needed to be developed but got lost in the crowd that is both '' india and bollywood ''itself .
He keeps the pace going and that is one of the few qualities here with the cinematography as well as the fact the script is only interrupted by one short rude song briefly in a disco ,otherwise this is a turbulent ,inconsistent and rather pointless remake of previous classics ,which fails to deliver the hype created by the production design or an all star cast ,which are both much bigger than the innocuously void characters and the trite violence which seems injected artificially rather than being a part of the political thriller ,with a finger in every pot.
It is far better than BOTH -''kites'' and ''my name is khan '',both equally hyped and pretentiously ludicrous bollywood epics ,but it leaves a lot to be desired and that is an understatement ,and much of the credit for that goes to ''Manoj bajpai ''and ''Arjun rampal'' ,who have given convincing performances ,despite ill defined characters which needed to be developed but got lost in the crowd that is both '' india and bollywood ''itself .
Rajneeti
Director : Prakash Jha
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpai
Producer : Prakash Jha, Ronnie Scrwevala
Lyrics : Gulzar, Sameer, Swanand Kirkire
Music: Wayne Sharpe
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpai
Producer : Prakash Jha, Ronnie Scrwevala
Lyrics : Gulzar, Sameer, Swanand Kirkire
Music: Wayne Sharpe
Sarah Jean Collins (Sarah Thompson) is playing an irish girl in love with the indian cousin whi is the mastermind in this ridiculous riddle and she cannot act and is strictly there for a few kissing scenes and is the weakest link in the cast .
And Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor) is the ultimate machiavelli , a bespectacled political master of the MACHIAVELLIAN craft ,worthy of Rasputin himself who is both moral and evil incarnate ,and a genius who is the most unconvincing character and his relationships with the two women actually elicit inadvertent laughter and snide remarks from the audience ,as he goes jogging in a scene in the middle of this violent massacre and than decides to take a shower with sarah in the buff,and is totally beaten hollow by both Arjun rampal and Manoj bajpai in the movie.
MR-JHA,is a wonderful craftsman but here he has too many cooks and they spoil or ruin this broth ,with no one to focus this vision of a political tirade, overwhelmed by a plot borrowed from renowned classic sources and also spoilt by some totally inane lines in major key sequences which ruin the dramatic affect ,yet he succeeds in at least creating a ponderous and pensive atmosphere where the
And Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor) is the ultimate machiavelli , a bespectacled political master of the MACHIAVELLIAN craft ,worthy of Rasputin himself who is both moral and evil incarnate ,and a genius who is the most unconvincing character and his relationships with the two women actually elicit inadvertent laughter and snide remarks from the audience ,as he goes jogging in a scene in the middle of this violent massacre and than decides to take a shower with sarah in the buff,and is totally beaten hollow by both Arjun rampal and Manoj bajpai in the movie.
MR-JHA,is a wonderful craftsman but here he has too many cooks and they spoil or ruin this broth ,with no one to focus this vision of a political tirade, overwhelmed by a plot borrowed from renowned classic sources and also spoilt by some totally inane lines in major key sequences which ruin the dramatic affect ,yet he succeeds in at least creating a ponderous and pensive atmosphere where the
except switch lovers like a game of musical chairs ,she rises from one fake tragedy to challenge every contender and it becomes even more of a fracas than all the rest of the frenzy .
The movie can be seen once as it grips you at times but it does not convince you ever, and that is one thing mr-Jha has never been guilty of before this epic multi-starrer in past with his middle of the road but intelligent cinema .
