Review of "Sarkar Raj"

I just happened to watch this movie last Saturday and after watching I feel this movie needs to be there in my blog.

<strong>Start with Rating: 9 of 10</strong>

<strong>Team:</strong>
Director: <em>Ram Gopal Varma
</em>Music: <em>Bapi-Tutul</em>
Background Music: <em>Debashish Mishra</em>
Lyrics: <em>Prashant Pandey, Sandeep Nath
</em>Cinematography: <em>Amit Roy
</em>Starring: <em>Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Tanisha, Rajesh Shringapure, Dilip Prabhawalkar </em>

<strong>Story:</strong>

This is the sequel of the movie "Sarkar" (2005), where a new angle of power politics is shown. Anita Ranjan<em> (Aishwarya)</em> of a MNC Shepard Power Plant wants to set-up a huge power plant industry which will solve all the power problems of Maharastra. Sarkar <em>(Amitabh</em>) is not in favour of the project as it will displace 40000+ villagers from their land, but Sankar <em>(Abhishek)</em> is able to see the long term profit for the state.
Sankar convinces Sarkar to support him and goes to village to gain support of the villagers. But Somji <em>(Rajesh Shringapure)</em> has other plans and things are not that simple. Lot of dirty politics is in the play to displace the Legacy of Sarkar and as the plot unfolds, one realizes that the things are not as it looks but everything is being played as a master game.
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I will not write about the climax as that is most interesting and enchanting part of the movie. The climax in itself deserves a rating of 10+ out of 10.

This political thriller is backed by very solid performance of the Bachchan family. Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya all three of them do a wonderful performance. The close-ups of the face used throughout the film to bring out the intesity and emotions by Cameraman and Director have just added glitter to this golden movie. Performance of Amitabh and Aishwarya are par excellence but it the Legendary Amitabh Bachchan whose performance again tells us why he is actor of the millennium. Rajesh Shringpure and Tanisha have also done their act very well. In fact there is not a single performance in the movie which worth praising.

The close-up shots which are used in abundance and background music of the movie are perhaps best in the recent times.

<strong>Ram Gopal Varma</strong> has once again shown his caliber and understanding of film making and its direction. The Director of movies Satya, Company, Rangeela and Sarkar is back again with the bang. He has used the script to the perfection, extracting the best from his actors, proving twist and turns in the sequence which will hit you hard and thrill you to the edge of your seat. May be he has flawed in Aag but yes he is back with bang.

The only downside in the movie is rather not so excellent script. Of course, it’s better than many recent hit movies but at some places the script is not upto the mark specially
1. Abhishek falling in love with Aishwarya within a short time after the death of his wife and yet to born child.
2. Another unconvincing plot, why is Sarkar or Sankar not able to know the mole in their house. Don't they employ informers and spies for all their information and networks?

3. Aishwarya character could have been made stronger and more emotional.

Music is just normal but background scores are mind blowing.

Overall, the movie is great watch, any time, any day and any where. Definitely not to be missed.

Orkut offers new themes

I don't know if any one of you have noticed. Orkut for India is now orkut.co.in and besides adding new features like customized apps and option to invite friends from Hotmail, AOL and Rediff. They have made option of changing themes available to the Indian Users. In the initial phase, this will be available for selected Indian users and later extended for all Indian Users.

Here are some snapshots of the few of the new available themes

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Now this make me think whether orkut is trying to become similiar to facebook. May be or maybe not, but with added feature, its definitely delight for the users for orkut users, specially Indians for whom by large Orkut is the only social networking site.

BTW you can add me as a friend. My orkut link is <a href="http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=7969783907907728993" target="_blank">here.</a>