hemant_balz Review of Raajneeti

Raajneeti (2010)

Nothing much but a combination of Godfather & Mahabharatha.

[6/10 · 13 June 2010]

Rajneeti,the multi starer movie by Prakash Jha lives up to the expectation of people who have never seen Godfather & Mahabharatha.For the rest of the people who have seen both will never be satisfied with this film.Most of the relations & the concept is based on the epic Mahabharatha.Also political games played in Mahabharatha have been shown here as well.And a lot of scenes have been simply copied from the Godfather.The movie looks good in the beginning but then its the same old ending you can always make out.The movie prolongs or stretches in numerous occasions.The movie & a multi starer has overshadowed some great performances like that of Ajay Devgan.These kind of movies,he always lives up to the expectations but his role is not fairly that big enough.Nana Patekar again was good.Manoj Vajpayee was excellent.Arjun Rampal looked like a college politician,he never looked a chief minister.Also,Ranbir Kapoor looks very slow to react and hardly has any presence on the screen.Katrina Kaif is good but only in some parts.Overall the movie is a bit shabby & you can predict it from the beginning.Prakash Jha delivers but both Apaharan & Gangaajal were far better then this.In short,if you have not seen Mahabharatha & Godfather then you can go for this.But beware,after watching this first you might loose a lot from the suspense of Godfather & the epic Mahabharatha.