Film Review: Sarkar Raj

Film: Sarkar Raj

Banner: K Sera Sera, Adlabs Films Ltd

Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Praveen Nischol

Star - Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govind Namdeo, Tanisha Mukherjee

Rating: 3/5

It is that time in the rule of Sarkar when Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) is taking a backseat, giving his son Shankar the leash for the ascendancy to his throne. Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan), idealistic, passionate and single-minded about the greater good is a rising star almost as-well loved by the people as his celebrated father. Except an aching memory of his elder son, now deceased, all looks rosy in Subash Nagre's world.

But the glory, the hope and the dream of a better tomorrow is soon taken over by treachery and manipulations of the corrupt turning an electrical power plant project into a cesspool of power-play. The paradise of Sarkar is shaken and the objective becomes the subjective. As Shankar says, 'everything is personal from now on'.

Ram Gopal Varma attempts to perniciously explore the dynamics of power with this film. Paced and measured, Sarkar Raj takes us through the political doings and un-doings of the Nagre family with the constant dialectic of good vs. greed. The film unashamedly explores the brazen limits the corrupted in the socio-political-corporate circuit will go to, for their own agendas.

Sarkar Raj remains true to the world and the characters it portrayed so vividly in part one. The impassioned loyalty of son to father, the staunch fervour of Sarkar to put his people first, the nexus of criminal, selfish minds holding seats of power around him, and the subsequent actions and reactions resulting from it still stays. This, the sequel recreates successfully from the prequel.

Successively, it etches distinct character growth to further its cause. Subhash Nagre's on-his-way-to-retirement, basking-in-his-son's-achievement's father is as much a development of changing times as his...

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