khayalon ki dakar!!

Watched this movie off late called Rajniti...what a big farce it turned out to be!! Nothing realistic, nothing even remotely likable and the most putting off factor of that movie was the way it started...I mean what a powerful start...I immediately had a bag full of respect for the dear director Mr. Prakash Jha (Mratyudand, Gangajal, Apahran fame) and as the movie progressed with a very TV serialish kinda storyline and incomplete performances from a lot of “hyped” and “much advertised” actors, or rather the younger lot from the cast, I slowly started replacing the respect in that bag with hatred, some guilt (for coming and watching the movie and bringing along my family too) and a lot of loath for three specific people...one for Prakach Jha (for completely messing up with the plot ) second for the fake show doll Katrina Kaif ...I mean why on was she required in that movie, just to provide some kind of distant resemblance to Sonia Gandhi and her political upsurge which the director so deftly portrayed by draping miss kaif in a simplistic looking saree and asking her to give a speech in a confused accent (imitating SG ofcource)..blah!! wtf...why do these directors keep insulting us by throwing such lame, dumbass characters and actors at us, why can’t they get over the commercial mentality of film making and add some sense to it??!! The third person that i completely hated in that movie was ranbir kapoor, yes the teary eyed chocolate hero who did a very poor job at doing an Al Pachino from the Godfather. He's not ready for the matured cinema i'd say!

I read some ravishing reviews about that joke of a movie where critics had done some spellbinding comparisons of it with the great epic Mahabharata, well to me it looked like that the director in his very artistic high-on-dope-and-liquor state decided to pen down his very pervert and mocking take on The Mahabharata, then the next morning, in a head crunching hangover he opened the Sonia Gandhi front (to make the movie sell-able or something...duh!) and brought the oh! so Barbie dollish Katrina kaif and then to make the movie more thrilling, revengeful and eet-ka-jawab-patthar-se types he decided to copy some intense scenes from The Godfather and paste them in the backdrop of Indian political and electoral system (so much for intelligent film making in Bollywood).

Why did anybody not see the resemblance of Rajniti with ‘The Godfather’ is beyond my imagination...I mean just look at it... the hospital scene, the killing of Babrao or Babulal or whatever the name of that dumbass gay politician was, the killing of arjun rampal…there are so many instances but there was no mention anywhere… no review, no report, nothing…strange :( . Sarkar was a film totally inspired by Godfather and RGV did justice to the story, the script, the flavour of the might of power which being a part of the political system still had the audacity to go beyond it and do what it wanted to… take revenge, kill drug lords...etc )well lated on RGV got carried away with sarkar raj and fell face first in shit...but that a different story)…but Rajniti…just aped the scenes and that too very poorly I must say…

Although there are some actors who have put in a wonderful effort, like Manoj Bajpai… flawless acting then Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan the veterans basically, then the art direction is also very good, not flawless but close to perfect but they cannot take the load of whole film on their shoulders because other vital characters that of Ranbir Kapoor and Arjun Rampal have done a pathetic job. Ranbir’s acting was so much hyped, people said it is a coming off age film for him and blah blah…but I found it very drab and highly expressionless, which forces me to believe that it was not his original attempt rather an unsuccessful try to ape Al Pachino’s classy act from Godfather (another stupid attempt to copy something from the masterpiece). There were a lot of unnecessary scenes like the one where the mother goes to woo Ajay Devgan to join the family and offer him the “gaddi”(read throne)… I mean how lame was that!! I couldn’t control my laughter, had to push a fist full of pop-corns down my throat on that scene and the constipated look on the face of that mother…it all looked like a stupid spoof of some old hindi movie I tell you! the MTv Fully Faltoo types :P

Anyways…all said and done…I ended up wasting my money, time and a big chunk of my mind thinking why God why on earth did dear Mr. Praksh Jha had to make that movie and why did I had to go to see it…I just wish that next time God gives me the eyes to see through the promos of such big-promise-heap-of-shit movies!!

Signing off

NB