Rajneeti Review | Rajneeti Movie Review Rating

Rajneeti Review | Rajneeti Movie Review Rating

Prakash Jha’s Latest Flick Rajneeti has been into news since its inception; however the news was not always pleasant. The media was always pretty excited about the cast of the film, Katrina Plays Sonia, Ranbir plays a shady character, Veterans like Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan and Manoj Bajpai and some style by Arjun Rampal.

Rating: ***

Ranbir Kapoor, the younger brother, plays what clichéd cricket commentators would call a “cool customer”. He has a life beyond his immediate family, is least interested in his ancestral business (politics), is settled in with a girlfriend abroad. Were it not for a tragic circumstance, he could continue with his innately quiet, private life.

Jha’s GangaaJal (2003, on vigilante justice) and Apaharan (2005, on politics behind a kidnapping and ransom industry) were, in comparison, finely focused works. The ambition of its sweep screws this up alone. This problem has as much to do with silly diktats of a mainstream multi-starrer as with the size of the Hindu epic the film supposes to borrow from.

There’s a reason Mahabharat was a television series. Shyam Benegal could brilliantly adapt it around India’s corporate boardroom, only for his contained minimalism (Kalyug, 1981).

What you sense here instead then is an over-dramatic, over-written screenplay: an over-boiled egg.

Just to let you in on a mental note I made smilingly stepping out of this film’s interval: “You so know it when you’re watching one of the most powerful Bollywood dramas ever!” I wish I could say that for the rest of the movie. Well. Halfway there then, I guess. Mayank Shekhar HT

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