yadA yadA hi dharmasya gLAnirbhavati bhArata |
abhyutthAnamadharmasya tathAtmAnam s.rjAmyaham ||
abhyutthAnamadharmasya tathAtmAnam s.rjAmyaham ||
As most of you would be aware about above phrase from Geeta, which in fact summarizes the jist of Mahabharatha. Now the reason I put this here is not because it is what Rajneeti tries to forcefit into its script, the actual reason is coz this movie forced me out of my slumber. So basically pissed with the Kauravas (here the movie Rajneeti), I (Krishna, forgive me to brand myself a God) m here to kill a movie which has literally stolen my peace for 3 hours. Its fun to critique a movie which has been rated high by critics all over and has become the blockbuster of this year. I usually write reviews on movies which have moved me. Rajneeti moved me cause I saw the death of the potential of so many stars, complete slander of logic and many other things. Rajneeti was a big rollercoaster ride for me (3 hours of tight sequence of events, some of which were totally irrelevant).
The movie starts off with Naseeruddin Shah and the One Night Stand between the then CMs daughter with Nasseruddin Shah who s fighting against the government.Now just to show the parallel btw Surya bhagwaan and Kuntis love and their alleged offspring Karna, Prakash Jha has to insert this scene of ONS. WHAAAAT!! Naseeruddins role is lmtd to this only ONS common gmme a break. What follows after that is a series of I m CM, m marrying my daughter to the younger brother of another political family to increase my political career, the young brother has 2 sons, one goes to US the other takes care of the family politics (he s a true brat takin advantage of a woman- totally deranged who slips her saree every microsec for a party ticket), the elder brother who s head of the party has a son who acts deranged. U mst b wondering whr our dear Katrina is, wait for te moment ppl, m sorry to disappoint u but she s der only for sm few mins. Sad but its ok so moving to next important character of Nana. This entire family is supported by a smart modern age Krishna i.e. Nana Patekar. It took me approx half an hour to understand who's who and incase u think m a bit slow, there were others in te theatre who voiced te same, so every1 cant b tht dumb.
Uff the first half save the first 15 mins is good to watch, will keep u tied to ur seats, not boring without any songs, but falls horribly in its second half. The movie treats you to serious logic errors, I mean u r showing a political rivalry but no role of opposition party WTH (ok I understand its a family's political rivalry but no opposition party s totally blah), bomb blasts, killing a SP, CM candidate is all child's play, and upon that I ll marry u, no no wait I ll get u married to my brother because ur father wants his daughter to get married to the future CM, and then there s this scene whr a sad Nana gets into the Operation Theater where actually one s going on WHATTTT!!!!
The saving grace is the twits and turns (which are overdone a bit), Ranbir's acting, a cool Nana Patekar and the best acting by the paralyzed modern Drithrastra (kidding). There are a lot of negatives to this movie but I wish not to hurt my fingers writing it.
Rajneeti watch it (if u r too adventurous) expecting no logic. U can actually predict the plot and the subsequent scenes and would come out wondering whether u were too clever for the movie. With this I (future Krishna) sign off, I ve killed the movie, hopefully
