The audiences are not retarded. This is the message, I would like to give the director Ram Gopal Verma (RGV) for his recent venture, Sarkar Raj. For the hype and hysteria surrounding it, Sarkar Raj turns out to be just a shade better than the worst film of his lifetime AAG.Featuring bollywood's star family - Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, this movie terribly fails to live up to its expectations. This would teach a good lesson for this entire family of vetran actors to chose better scripts in the future.
The story begins with the tag line POWER CANNOT BE GIVEN . IT HAS TO BE TAKEN.
Subash Nagre(Amitabh bachan) a retired Don, is a happy man who is proud of his son shankar nagre(Abhishek Bachan) taking over his place. With an extremely slow pace of delivering dialogues he tells his people outside is house, about how his has accomplished more than what he had done in his entire life time. The usual scenes of him waving slowly at the public with his Rudraksh tied up over his hands and the background score of govindaaaaaaaaaa is quite stereotyped. With soaring temperatures it is quite surprising to see Amitabh looking quite comfortable in a long black kurta and black Dhoti. Sometimes he covers this attire with a white shawl too.
Now to bring some pace into the movie RGV brings in Anita (Aishwarya rai) a bold and brash business woman , CEO of Shepperd power plant who approaches Sarkar with a proposal to build a huge power plant in Maharashtra. Shankar percieves the good it would do for the state and convinces his father who never agrees to it in the beginning.
The plot takes a twist here, and there are many people scheming against the Sarkars and and in the bargain Shankar looses his wife. RGV fails to bring out the emotions from Abhishek as he just has a blank expression on his face after his wife's death. He doesn't emote well even when she tells him that she is pregnant.
Shankar and Anita go to every village and explain to the villagers about the benifits of the plant. RGV shows their car which follows a string of motorbikes with the huge yellow flags again and again which makes the pace of the film even slower.
There are many plotting against the Sarkars and aim at Shankar's life. The scene showing Shankar being shot is extremely slow. The junior Sarkar who is more witty and smart than the Sarkar himself, doesn't have the presence of mind to lie flat of the floor during an attack. The story after this is how the Sarkar finds out who plotted against him and kills them. Being quite a straightforward don I wonder how he gets the money to have about fifty gunned men with machine guns in their hands. The film ends with a big surprise and a emergence of a new Sarkar.
On the whole the movie is extremely slow paced, without being gripping at all, it demands a better screenplay and cinematography and definitely better music. The actors havent been used well.Every scene needs a proper finishing touch. Govindaaaaaaaaaaaaa .... I guess RGV was hinting that your money was gooovinda. For someone who loves Ash and Abhi this is definitely not the movie to watch. A very poor performance by RGV.
