Monday, July 04, 2005

Sarkar review
The movie is no where close to Godfather so don't even bother to compare with that.
Sarkar is a philosophy of Robinhood kind of system where a man, Subash Nagre, provides justice to people in need, since the judicial/police system in India is hollowed to such extent that a common man has no say in it. What is absent is how does this Robinhood system get his money ??? oh they have some kind of business ... not sure if they did extortion, election support, or provided security to higher echelons using the goons trained in the backyard ...

Heres the character formation in this drama:
Subash Nagre aka Sarkar : a very uneducated family/tradition oriented guy, with calm attitude towards problem (all solution being "X tum apni aawaz neeche rakho, Y ko bolo mughe se aakar mile" and some punch lines like " Mughe jo acha lagta hai woh mein karta hoon... ) ? Who the hell is this guy ?? oh proly we shud wait for the prequel. At no point apart from the fact that Mr Bacchan is playing the role can i associate any weight to the central character of this drama.

Pathetic editing.
Anyone who has seen Godfather can write a better screenplay than this one. Only audience to mildly appreciate the story wud be anyone who has not read Mario Puzo.
Horribly incongrous soundtrack.

RGV is one of the best directors out there and when he lets down this way ...
1/10 ( why did i even give 1 ?)

Pros: Mani Shankar (one of the right/left hands of Sarkar) brings much needed comic relief with few lines here n there.

Heres a slight improvement which Ramu if u ever read this cud have done :-
1) Amitabh Bacchan doesn't have Marathi touch to his tone. Its not necessary to pick the biggest star, u have to pick the right one. Or u cud have set the story to some other crime cult in India. trust me Bombay and its underworld are not the only one. Amitabh has a very clear hindi tone from Allahabad. Set a hard core Hindu/Sang parivar kind of dynasty with similar plot.
2) Edit the family element away. What the hell are 3-4 ladies doing in the set when none of them have even a significant word to say ??
3) you know a "war hero" turning into a Don Corleone and using his wit and cold heartedness to finish off all the 5 families including his brother & brother in law, makes sense. A foreign return, pseud, squash playing AB baby planning to open a consultancy firm doesn't overnight become the Ace of underworld.

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