RAAJNEETI (MOVIE REVIEW)

RAAJNEETI - MAHABHARTA MEETS INDIAN POLITICS

Release date : - June 4, 2010

To start with, all votes to Prakash Jha for ensembling such a great and huge star cast including Ajay Devgan, Nana Patekar, Naseerudin Shah, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal and Manoj Bajpai.

Raajneeti's concept is a straight lift from epic Mahabharta blended in morden day's politics. You can easily corelate the characters of Jha with those in Mahabharta. Like to begin with we have Nana Patekar who's character is taken from Lord Krishna's character. He also gives Geeta Updesh to Ranbir who's character is based on Arjun. The whole lot of characters is divided in two parts as in Mahabharta - Pandavas represented by Ranbir(as Arjun), Arjun (as Yudishthir), Katrina and Kauravas represented by Manoj (as Duryodhan) and Ajay (as Karan). Their respective fathers also represent Pandu and Dhritrashtra of Mahabharta.

Despite having such a huge star cast and subject like Politics, Jha has handled the movie well. But over dependence on Maharbharta's concept has made the movie very predictable. The story is of fueding brothers over cheif minister post. Arjun and Ranbir are real brothers. Manoj is their cousin brother. Ajay is also the son of mother of Arun and Ranbir. See the KARAN connection here. Just like in epic tale, they all fight with each other to win the game of politics.



Lets come to the performances :-



1. AJAY DEVGAN : - Ajay is literally wasted in this movie. Unexpectedly Praksh has not given Ajay enough screen space and not enough good scenes. Though Ajay is at his best.

2. NANA PATEKAR :- Nana is good with his modern day Krishan Avatar.

3. ARJUN RAMPAL : - Arjun doesn't deliver anything stellar.

4. MANOJ BAJPAI : - Manoj is very good. He steals everyone's thunder.

5. RANBIR KAPOOR: -Ranbir has got maximum screen space. He acts ok but he lacks finess to potray such powerful roles. He has a long way to go.

6. KATRINA KAIF : -She has a tiny role and majorly appears near the end of the movie



Rajneeti has its moments and its keeps you rivetted to your seats but the blood bath at the end is a let down because political rivals don't gun each other down so openly, atleast in India. Movie is well made, but very predictble as it is a straight lift from Mahabharta. I would also like to mention that movie has shades from Hollywood movie Godfather.



Direction of Jha is strong. But the story lacks originality. Music is ok withonly one hummable song ''mora piya''. On the whole Rajneeti gets 3 stars from me. I wished to give it more but its story and predictibilty forced me to reduce my ratings. Nevertheless, Raajneeti is must watch for every Indian movie fan.



Rating: - 3 out of 5 stars