SARKAR RAJ : MY REVIEW

After coming out of the cinema hall watching Ram Gopal Varma's 'Sarkar Raj' I was wondering if most of the assassinations that happen in the political circuit is due to the conspiracies plotted by the victim's own people? The speciality about 'Sarkar Raj' is that the entire two hour something saga rides on one platform that is 'a political conspiracy'. The way RGV tried to connect the characters to plot the conspiracy is excellent. I saw a complete 'Shiva', 'Satya' , 'Company' and 'Sarkar' put into 'Sarkar Raj'. Another point I noticed is that in a sequel where more than half of the characters are repeated including the actors it might tend to get predictable and thus get boring since they were already introduced to us(audience) before in its predecessor. But again RGV makes it totally unpredictable and thus makes it like any other fresh movie to watch. Though Amitabh Bacchan lasts till the end of the movie and eliminates all the thorns it is Abhishek whose performance will be remembered for a long time. He takes of as 'Shankar Nagre' the son of 'Subhash Nagre' and the successor of the throne of the Maharashtra's famous parallel government the 'SARKAR'. The 'SARKAR' is a well settled parallel government and the Nagres are the undoubted heroes of the public of Maharashtra. 'SARKAR' functions on just one simple but very important policy that is welfare of people of Maharashtra. Nothing is more important to the Nagres than the welfare of Maharashtra's people. Therefore to topple the 'SARKAR' it has to be something really really big which if not India atleast the whole Maharashtra can take notice. The conspiracy enters the Nagre parivar in the form of a Power Plant project. Here I have to talk about the people who plot the conspiracy. One of them is Govind Namdeo who plays Hassan Qazi. I don't know why RGV messed up with his looks. He looked more like a comedian than a dangerous man plotting SARKAR's downfall. His looks reminded me of M.R.Radha the yesteryear Tamil actor. Shinde who plays Kanga has this weird way of eating. The first half of the film entirely focuses on the power plant project and the second half entirely on the politics behind the project. Unlike in the first part 'SARKAR' where the Nagres successfully save themselves from falling prey to a well planned conspiracy, 'SARKAR RAJ' showcases how the conspiracy this time kills Shankar Nagre and his wife. RGV was brilliant in depicting both Shankar's and Avantika Nagre's assassinations. Few scenes have the RGV stamp. For example the press conference scene, where Shankar Nagre and Somji explain the support for each other, can be handled only by RGV(remember the Amol Shukla's press conference scene in 'SATYA'?). Though there are many such RGV stamp scenes in the movie, one scene stands apart is just brilliant. The scene where Rao Saab comes to Subhash's residence to express his condolences and what he finds there is ......oh my gaaawd......what a scene..... just for this scene my ***** to RGV. Couple of things which I couldn't digest was
1) Chander's downfall : How could a man who was so loyal to SARKAR can fall so cheap just because of a small misunderstanding with Shankar?
2) Ash's reign: The film ends with Ash ordering the famous 'chai' that Nagres usually have while listening to the plea of public. How could a London based businesswoman could quickly adapt to the Indian ways and that too Maharashtra and its social,political issues so as to handle people's issues? ofcourse we see Subhash Nagre asking to see his grandson Chickoo just before the climax. So this is a strong indication of Chickoo taking up the throne in what is tentatively called SARKAR-3.

So that is about it. 'SARKAR RAJ' is political fiction at its best.