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 Sonny Corleone in the Godfather and Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bjpai) fighting for a bloody political legacy. Besides them are a rank outsider Suraj (Ajay Devgan), the cunning mamaji Brij Mohan (Nana Patekar), the character of Tommy Hagen and the reluctant yet manipulating would-be king Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor). There were talks about the movie being based on the First family, the Gandhis but the resemblence lies only in way Prithviraj is assasinated by a suicide bomber and his wife, who constumes resemble that of Sonia Gandhi, succeeds him by winning the election on a sympathetic wave.
Prakash Jha is fully aware that he is remaking an epic and because of this he consciously fills the movie with murder, sex, etc. So Ranbir transforms himself from a romantic victorian poet who recites wordsworth, to the Micheal Corleone in a swift turnaround. Still, while playing the character resembling either Arjun or Micheal Corleone gives quite a restrained preformance but he doesnt have to do much acting as the camera focuses on his face very little, and the very few times it does, he is shown smoking apparently showing teh tension behind the face.
Arju Rampal, the Bheema continues in his method acting techniques and gives a good performance. Both Nana Patekar as Krishna and Manoj Bajpai (in a Duryodha Avtar) does justice to the character they perform, but according to me, the standout was of course Ajay Devgan the Karna, the eternal hero,who always have to live with injustice.
The women characters on the other hand, are pretty loosely tied, as they are either portrayed to look pretty or made a mere pawns in the battle. this way, the performance of Katrina Kaif is pretty ordinary with her only job is to look pretty and add some glamor quotient.
In all, I would say, Rajneeti was a pretty good film, but not the best to warrant a 'must-see'.
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 Sonny Corleone in the Godfather and Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bjpai) fighting for a bloody political legacy. Besides them are a rank outsider Suraj (Ajay Devgan), the cunning mamaji Brij Mohan (Nana Patekar), the character of Tommy Hagen and the reluctant yet manipulating would-be king Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor). There were talks about the movie being based on the First family, the Gandhis but the resemblence lies only in way Prithviraj is assasinated by a suicide bomber and his wife, who constumes resemble that of Sonia Gandhi, succeeds him by winning the election on a sympathetic wave.
Prakash Jha is fully aware that he is remaking an epic and because of this he consciously fills the movie with murder, sex, etc. So Ranbir transforms himself from a romantic victorian poet who recites wordsworth, to the Micheal Corleone in a swift turnaround. Still, while playing the character resembling either Arjun or Micheal Corleone gives quite a restrained preformance but he doesnt have to do much acting as the camera focuses on his face very little, and the very few times it does, he is shown smoking apparently showing teh tension behind the face.
Arju Rampal, the Bheema continues in his method acting techniques and gives a good performance. Both Nana Patekar as Krishna and Manoj Bajpai (in a Duryodha Avtar) does justice to the character they perform, but according to me, the standout was of course Ajay Devgan the Karna, the eternal hero,who always have to live with injustice.
The women characters on the other hand, are pretty loosely tied, as they are either portrayed to look pretty or made a mere pawns in the battle. this way, the performance of Katrina Kaif is pretty ordinary with her only job is to look pretty and add some glamor quotient.
In all, I would say, Rajneeti was a pretty good film, but not the best to warrant a 'must-see'.
Comments
Well, Women characters are always loosely tied.One could hardly see any unassailable women characters in contemporary movies. In 90% of the movies, women characters are planted( with all masalas) just to boost up the collection/revenue.
yadha viewers thadha producers OR yadha producers thadha viewers?