Thursday, June 10, 2010

Rajneeti: Too many characters make the movie chaotic

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 Recently, I saw Rajneeti, a much hyped and long awaited movie of Praksh Jha released on June 04. Though it’s our exam time but we preferred to watch it.

The movie seems a bit hodge-podge due to excess of incidents and the events. Either the time period is shorter or the movie is very fast. When we are just recuperating from a violent scene before that, gunfire occurs in the movie again. It does not give us the time to understand the things properly. The scenes of blood and gore in the film seem exaggerating at some points.

It is not expected from a director like Prakash Jha to correlate the movie to Mahabharata. Correlating is not a bad thing but just doing it on each point seems a little irritating. Due to this theme line the movie lacks originality. People were predicting it similar or near to Nehru Gandhi family, but it was not, instead it took us back to the Mahabharata era. Especially, when Nana Patekar preaches Ranbeer Kapoor to kill his enemy in the same way, Lord Krishna did to Arjuna in the Mahabharata. Though the story keeps you bounded to the movie but the incidents tend to prove the story as Asatya par Satya ki vijay.

One lose point of the movie is all the three cases when the characters, Bharati, Indu and Sara all get pregnant just going once on the physical relationship.

None can deny the song Mora Piya mo se…..the song is best suited at its timing and is very touching. As we can see this song has come to the lips of all. The music of the film is good.

Manoj Vajpayee has acted extraordinarily well, despite the presence of the actors like Naseeruddeen Shah and Nana Patekar, he has dominated the scene. Ranbeer kapoor has acted very well and has carved out a new image for himself from the image of a chocolaty and romantic hero. He has done a terrific job in the movie. Ajay Devgan could not remind us of his acting in his previous movies like, Apaharan or Gangajal.

Some times it seems as if the movie is going predictable but even after every thing the ending remains unpredictable, this is the best thing with the movie.

The thing that I am writing right now or we discussed after the movie was that there are too many characters make the situations chaotic; I had predicted when I saw its promos few days ago.

5 comments:

  1. JHA versus JHA

    Nice review Aparna !!!
    You have pointed out the weak points of the movie very well and the good parts also. Sometimes with big stars and famous directors the movie makes an impact before release (thanks to media), then it becomes tough for a common man to see the unbiased version of the movie (because the mind is conditioned). We see the movie, it entertains but injects a philosophy which we cant trace very easily. It is must to highlight it especially when it is wrong. The way you have written will help people to understand it in many parts and we can filter out what should be enjoyed and what should be changed. My own comments on this movie were very simmilar to yours which i posted few days ago, see:
    जिस तरह विशाल भरद्वाज ने कहानियो को फिल्म का माध्यम दिया उसके काफी दूर रहे प्रकाश झा लेकिन इस फिल्म ने जबरदस्त अभिनय के द्वारा चकित किया. जबरदस्ती महाभारत बनाने से बच जाते तो शायद और अच्छा होता और अजय देवगन जैसे कलाकार का भी कुछ जादा हिस्सा होता. एक विदेशी महिला को जाने दे तो जादातर किरदार क़त्ल और भ्रस्ताचार से काफी सहज थे. फिल्म ने परेशान किया जब ऐसा लगा की हकीकत भी यही है.
    फिल्म की शुद्ध हिंदी कई जगह बड़ी हास्यापद लगी, न जाने कौन से नेता घर में ऐसे बात करते है(" तुम मेरे ज्येस्थ पुत्र हो")
    खैर जो भी हो, पिछली कुछ फिल्मो को देखने की बाद जितना तनाव था उससे थोडा आराम जरुर मिला. अलग तरह का सिनेमा देने के लिए झा जी को धन्यवाद, उम्मीद है अगली फिल्म बेहतर होगी.

    Nice job!!
    Keep writing !!!

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  3. Well Start, Aparna!
    Keep it regular...

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  4. Congrats!!!! You have entered the DEN. Now you will have to learn from and fight with the lions (those who are writing with great spirit on the blogs).. Get going...

    Wish u all d best
    Ashish Jha

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  5. you are getting better each time....keep writing

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