After that Mahabharat of a post on Dark Knight, I doubt if anyone will dare come here again. But I shall babel on.
I saw Sarkar Raj (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490210/) this afternoon.
Couldn't resist commenting on it, now that I have a barrel to stand on and sermonize.
Well, I have to say, barring very few movies, I thought Sarkar was one of the best movies ever to come out of Bollywood. It was almost perfect. So this sequel was always going to be tough to pull off.
But why fear when Big B is here! That's probably what Ramu thought. And he thought right! There are (if I remember correctly) two monologues where Amitabh Bachchan takes over three minutes with face occupying the entire screen. With any other actor, these would be agonizing minutes that they would want to get through quickly. With any other director, these minutes would have been edited out of the movie. Not so here.
Amitabh Bachchan occupies those minutes and savours them. This is some pattern I'm beginning to pick, of great actors taking time.
So anyway, film's greatest let down was its villains. No Vishram Sawant, Raashid, no Selvar Mani, and no Babaji. Hussain Qazi is not menacing enough. Kanga is downright buffoonish. Vora is merely amusing. Rao Sa'ab is OK. With not so great villains, there's not much to do for our achha log. The plot is sub-prime.
And really, the third part has a very real chance of trumping Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag as the Mariana's Trench of Ramu's film career :) I mean Aish as the Sarkar-ki-Beti or Lady Sarkar? Come on! If Ramu can pull this off, it will mean this will trump Sarkar as his best film.
I would actually bet the third part will be a prequel. How hard is it to make Big B look 50 and show how Subhash Nagre became Sarkar?
4 comments:
I ve heard hritik roshan is acting as abishek's son .. Probably there will be prequel part also in that as you said how Big B becomes sarkar like Godfather II . Where al pacino's part and De niro's part was shown .. But who'll be Robert De niro question still holds :)..
Anyways good posts .. dude!!..
Regards
Hashique
I dont know whether hrithik will become or not, all i am looking forward to aish playing sarkar mata (if u can call that)...
But man, amitabh just pulled the movie man... his last dialogue ' Aie torch daal' was simply superb man.
Also, That bomb blast where tanisha dies, man superb!!!
Sorry it’s not about Sarkar Raj or its prequel and sequel..Well once upon a time there was a director called Ramgopal Verma..People loved him and they called him their Ramu..He was someone who was trying to turn around the hindi film industry by making some sensible stuff. Well he did make some good movies..My favourite being Satya..Maybe followed by Shiva, company and Raat (minus the ending)..I was happy just like other millions who thought that finally they were film-makers like him who didn't take our intelligence for granted..Never cared that Ramu always came with a package deal..To go and watch his films meant watching his latest muse as well..Urmila was bearable..then it was Antara Mali and then someone called Nisha Kothari..Maybe he was too busy scripting films around his angels that the quality control suffered..Still I watched his flicks coz he was Ramu..Then he committed a cardinal sin - he remade Sholay..And some remake that was!! I couldn't forgive him after that..I do have his Aag in my collection, the objective is surely not to watch it. If I ever come across someone whom I really hate and cant kill him, I shall gift the movie to him.
Maybe Sarkar Raj was his feeble attempt at resurrecting himself..For me,it doesn’t matter.. i don't believe in resurrection!! I am an atheist!!
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