Review Sarkar Raj

India Fm Review

Besides its strong content, SARKAR RAJ has been filmed exceptionally well too. In fact, SARKAR RAJ has the trademark RGV stamp in every sequence. The review would be incomplete without giving the due credit to writer Prashant Pandey's incredible and almost flawless script. Amar Mohile's background score is topnotch. The by-now-famous 'Govinda' chant in the background only enhances the impact. Amit Roy's cinematography is exceptional. The DoP succeeds in giving the film the raw-n-rustic look, which works very well. Action [Allan Amin], in minimal doses, is perfect.

SARKAR RAJ is embellished with superb performances! Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, comes up with a terrific performance. He's as ferocious as a wounded tiger in the finale and takes the film to great heights.

First YUVA, then GURU, now SARKAR RAJ. Abhishek Bachchan is cast opposite the finest actor of this country, yet he sparkles in every sequence. This time, the father and son go neck to neck as far as acting honors go. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is fabulous and delivers her career-best performance in SARKAR RAJ. Enough has been written about her looks, but not much space has been devoted to her performances. HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM, DEVDAS, PROVOKED, GURU, JODHAA AKBAR and now SARKAR RAJ - she's only got better with every film.

Every supporting actor in SARKAR RAJ stands out - Dilip Prabhawalkar [superb], Govind Namdev [first-rate], Sayaji Shinde [perfect], Ravi Kale [terrific] and Supriya Pathak [good]. Tanisha is alright. The actor enacting the role of Dilip Prabhawalkar's grandson makes a strong impact.

On the whole, SARKAR RAJ is an exceptional film in all respects. At the box-office, it has all it takes to set new records in days to come!

Times of India

Ram Gopal Varma gets back into the saddle after a spate of flops which affected his brand equity. He falls back on the subject -- gang warfare -- and the style of cinema he knows best. His camera follows the angles it excels in, plastering the screen with extreme close-ups of his protagonists. Of course, it does help when the faces in full view are extremely emotive and reflect the myriad emotions of anger, pain, passion and revenge with a mere muscle flick. The Bachchan trio -- Amitabh, Abhishek, Aishwarya -- emerge as consummate actors, imbuing their characters with nuances and shades not easily seen in mainstream cinema. But eventually, it is the structure of the film that succeeds above all else.

Ramu's characteristic dark brooding palette of shadow and light and his forte at laying bare the undercurrents of violence in urban society take you on a reassuring trip through familiar terrain.

Nothing experimental, nothing new; just a return to the tried and tested form which first raised its head in films like Shiva , Satya , Company , Sarkar ....Yes, you may have your quarrels with the ideology of the film and the validity it seeks to give to outlaws like Subhash and Shankar Nagre, but you will applaud the style and the performances.

Hindustan Times Review

Look, this is very serious cinema. Varma goes to the Underworld (he always does). The Bachchans are in tow (super-duper-super). And the camera crew shuffles through bungalow interiors, which are so tobacco-nicotine-coloured, that they could raise the hackles of minister Ramadoss. Umm, it's so deja whew. You've seen Sarkar, you've seen The Godfather1 2 and 3. So, how about a new cocktale? Or at least a twist of fresh lemon in the old tequila?

Surely Marlon Brando would boogaloo in his grave to learn that his Indian avatar needs no marbles in his mouth. Bollywood's Brando sounds as if were on Shakespearean stage. So do the others belting out such dramatic aphorisms as Plant ke liye paise chahiye..paise plant ke liye nahin (are we talking botany here?) , "Thought never dies" (ha ha, good one), "Electricity was made to give shocks" (where are you, Sir Benjamin Franklin?) and "Mistakes are not made for the first time, they are made for the last time."

How you hope this is Varma's last mistake. Because there have been enough. Here, he actually ends up glorifying a "power project plant" which is as obvious as stripes are on a zebra. Surely, even cursory research on the net would have indicated that extolling such a plant's 'benefits' is not only politically naïve but irresponsible. And Rebecca Mark, its iron lady, is reconstructed as a crisp Anita (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) who's not after money. Wow. Gazillionaire dad Victor Bannerji is.. who by the way, could clearly do with more expensive suits. Strange, these NRIs are, very Yawnron