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Rajneeti... the Politics and Beyond It is often said there exists a story and a movie, from which, one can derive all possible stories ever conceived or all other movie dialogues ever spoken. The story goes by the name of the epic, the Mahabharata and the movie happens to be the 'Godfather' series. Rajneeti is one such attempt where Godfather met the Mahabharatha. Coming from the director of movies like Mrityudand, Gangaajal and Apaharan, Prakash Jha's latest, the Rajneeti is just a political revengre drama set in the backdrop of UP politics. Seeing the movie, one may believe that Prakash Jha has indeed made the journey from mainstream movies to commercial ones with a list of who's who of acting. Here he tries to mix too many things like revenge, politics and even 'love your family' kind of drama, and ends up highlighting nothing. The story is about two warring political scions Prithviraj Pratap (played by Arjun Rampal), a character resembling Son...

Lamha : The True Story of Kashmir *ing : Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Kunal Kapoor, Anupam Kher Director : Rahul Dholakia As Kashmir was burning (and it still does, unfortunately), Rahul Dholakia brings us a movie that promises to reveal the real truth behind the politics of Kashmir but instead only end up widening the gulf between the audience and the filmmaker. The filmmaker though fail to take a definite position here regarding the political overtures which happen in Kashmir and implicates everyone, right from the politicians, to the police, the army, the intelligence agencies in keeping the unrest alive, leaving the audience a confused lot. Lamha thus, neither does emphasize on Kashmir’s past nor does it spotlight on its present but in fact gives a harsh picture wicked human side. The man on the mission, Sanjay Dutt (an Army Officer from the Intelligence Wing) is sent to the dodgy valley to explore the nitty-gritties of politics in the region and he eventually unearths a plot t...