Sarkar (1/2)
Genre: Drama
Released: 1st July 05
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast: Amitabh Bacchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Supirya Pathak, Kay Kay Menon, Katrina Kaif, Ravi Kale, Jeeva, Zakir
( Exceptional, Brilliant, Good, Average, * Avoidable)
‘There are no rights and wrongs but only Power’ the tagline goes. This movie is about power. It is about the games that political muscles dominate.
This movie moves at a great pace (I am not saying it is fast or slow, it is just perfect for the story) bringing up twists and turns at the most unexpected junctures in the movie. Ram Gopal Varma alone could have made it and Amitabh Bachchan and only he could have played Sarkar.
In short: Sarkar is a must-watch.
The highlights:
Amitabh Bachchan. No doubt he is the ONLY superstar on the Bollywood scene. The roles are being tailor-made for him and how wonderfully he lives all those screen characters! Brilliant. Superb!
Dialogues. Exciting and entertaining.
RGV. A director par excellence. Not a single frame has been wasted in the movie.
Abhishek Bachchan and the new faces from theatre. Everyone’s acted very well. Abhishek has got meaty dialogues towards the end and he makes the most of it through his delivery style.
Background score. Amar Mohile helps create the mood with his score giving every frame, every moment of the movie a newer height.
The let-downs:
A hurried-through finale. Not that it is bad but it could have been better coming from RGV.
The limiting factors:
I don’t see anything stopping this movie from doing well.
A little more about the movie: Sarkar (Amitabh) is a political heavyweight who sort of runs a parallel government in Mumbai. People treat him as their Messiah and come to him when Law and Order fails them. Sarkar has two sons –one who is a movie producer (Kay Kay) and the other (Abhishek) who is an MBA from some foreign university. Kay Kay does not have his feet firmly on ground and is equally unstable with his tongue and temperament. Shankar (Abhishek) on the other hand is quiet and sincere. The story is about how father and sons go through a storm of political moves against Sarkar.
The movie has high points where it sets the adrenaline rushing higher and faster. Sample this , ‘Tere marne ke liye mera yahan aana zaroori nahin tha, par main tujhe marte dekhne ka maza nahin khona chahta tha’ (It wasn’t necessary for me to be here for you to die but how could I miss the fun of watching you die!). There are many such dialogues in the movie which (when viewed with the movie) makes you jump to the edge of the seat.
Some scenes which are magical include Amitabh scolding Kay Kay on dining table, Amitabh’s meeting with Zakir, the scene where Amitabh’s men punish a wrong-doer, Abhishek talking about his elder brother to his father in presence of his mother and his brother’s wife.
Don’t miss the scene where the two brothers are together in the post interval part. The expressions on Kay Kay’s face and those in Abhishek’s eyes are worth capturing and keeping forever.
This movie is truly brilliant in terms of execution (read direction) and outstanding on the entertainment factor. This movie will definitely have the nation rocking.