Concept remains Half-baked. Review on Department

As you all know "Department" was the most awaited movie of Ram Gopal Verma's production. Ram Gopal Verma is brilliant & his brilliance is shown well in his movies. He is the Master of Movie & also known as the "Maverick FilmMaker" in the world of cinema. His past movies like Company, Satya & Sarkar all are brillintly made & were the popular in the bollywood.

Verma's latest Offering movie "Department" too is not much differ from the usual stuff of his underworld movies. "Department" was well hyped to create the popularity among the viewers. The promo of the film was also very high & As per the Promo, the movie is massively hyped.

Ram Gopal Verma even took the edge of the tested formula and the current success mantra of item song and injected it into the narrative. The item number too was publicized colossally in the media to raise the film’s fame. Sanjay Dutt’s homage to the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan in shape of Bachchan’s supremely popular yesteryear song ‘Thodi Si Jo Pe Li Hai’ too was clipped with the flick. In short, a lot has been done to make this food spicy for the people but all went vain since the final product was tasteless and lackluster. The bigger weakness of the movie, despite having the big starcast like Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt on board, is the script that is much weedy and mundane. He wanted to have short cut to get the success since he knew his previous movies on this genre clicked with the audiences. He did not try to make the movie novel at all rather he took the time and tested track to make the movie on.

The top gov. official holds a meeting whose subject is to create "Department" t eliminate the underworld criminals activities. The main thing is that, this force is beyond the Law....  Sanjay Dutt as (Mahadev Bhosale) heads this team & the well known south actor "Ran Daggubati" as (Shiv Narayan) joins in the team. These two police officers on their way to eliminate the underworld turn out to be the puppets in the hands of underworld don turned a corrupt politician, Amitabh Bachchan as (Sarjerao Gaikwad). The screenplay, as mentioned above, is not novel at all. It is like an old wine packaged into a new sparkling bottle. The writing portion is quite weak and that becomes the culprit of the failure of this enterprise. Background score, which is called the highlight of this genre of movie, is superlative. Dharam Sandeep deserves full marks for it. Action is in big quantity in this film and Javed Aijaz has done the great job for adorning this beautifully. Cinematography is below average as the focus is lost at various frames. Music by Dharam Sandeep, Bappa Lahiri and Vikram Nagi is melodious. Amitabh Bachchan is a class to watch. He delivers his goods brilliantly as usual. Sanjay Dutt is superlative. Rana Daggubati is first rate. Vijay Raaz is just about okay. Abhimanyu Singh is fine. Rest of the cast too goes fine with their characters.

The promotional works acted well but how can a product make business when it has nothing to offer to its customers. In Simple world, Department is the Mixture of all the Underworld Movie made by Ram Gopal Verma.

Rating : 2.5/5