Jun 09, 2008 03:48 PM
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Everyone has had great expectations from the sequel to one of the best offerings of the Ram Gopal Verma factory - Sarkar. This movie continues from where sarkar left. It opens with the line 'Power cannot be Given. It has to be taken'.
Abhishek Bachan is the new sarkar now and AB is the one who has full trust in his son. There are a bunch of other people spearheaded by Govind Namdeo, who are against sarkar and want to dethrone him and rule Mumbai. I wont be getting much into the story. Aishwarya Rai has aspirations of starting a power plant in Maharashtra to benefit the people of the state but the same involves relocating 40k people from their homes. This is something which AB does not like but Shankar (Abhishek Bacchan) sees the door ka fayda and convinces AB for the execution of the project. What follows is a series of violent protests and the ugly politics surrounding the project.
The film has the same look as the prequel to maintain continuity. Something which I did not like was that the volume of the haunting background score was a bit high which would drain out dialogues in some cases. The dialogues in most cases are very much predictable. Same goes with the story of the movie. The movie drags a lot in the end half an hour which would have been better if it was made more slicker. Like the previous movie too silence is the one which does is predominant and works in favour of the movie. At no point, the movie feels gripping and lacks twist and turns. Although all the negatives may be because of the skyrocket expectations that this movie came with. But nevertheless it is surely a one time watch for the performances of the main actors. Aishwarya Rai has not much to do. But she looks stunningly beautiful throughout the movie. The whole film looks like it has been shot in a yellow / black & white filter (like Sanjay Gupta shoots most of his movies in green filter). On a whole, Sarkar Raj is an above average sequel to the better Sarkar.
