Rajneeti

The film on Indian Politics, the bloody and cunning games for winning the power, the powerful and ballastic star cast and most importantly A Prakash Zha movie....all this is quite sufficient for the normal audience to walk down the theatre to watch Rajneeti. The Prakash Zha's earlier movies like Gangajal were really good pieces of work and so the expectations from the director was increased two folds as he was reappearing after quite a long gap.

But Rajneeti was not matching this burden of expectation. The weak point was the story especially in the second half of the movie where the murders were happening as frequently as the songs in typical old Govinda movies. The story line was significantly matching to the Mahabharata and Godfather. The resemblence of the characters to those in the Mahabharata was quite ok but as the story advanced, the writer was quite compulsive about the way in which story should advance. The resemblence of Suraj's (Ajay Devgn) car crashing down the road and then he begging Samar (Ranbir Kapoor) to let him go....Samar's dilemma and Brijmohan's (Nana Patekar) persuation were copied scene to scene from Mahabharata, though that was not necessary. This made the whole storyline predictable.

As far as acting is considered, Manoj Wajpayee was fabulous. He portrayed the exact image of Duryodhana, cunning and evil. And so was Ajay Devgn. Though we all know that Ajay is Prakash Zha's all time favourite, he really performed well the character of Karna. Nothing to say about Nana. The poor actors were Arjun, delivering quite overacting aggression. Katrina is looking too beautiful as usual, but if acting is considered, way to go buddy!!!!! Ranbir was ok but not that good as he was supposed to be, though his character is so leading in the story that his acting looks quite sufficient.

The background music, mora piya by Adesh Shrivastava were really good. But again, the dialogues were quite weird. Sometimes the dialogues consisted of very ancient hindi words like sangram, dheya showing the relation of the script with the epic whereas the next line in the dialogue would be something like com'n do it...

So, overall rajneeti is one time see but never again!!!!!