A man accepts a challenge by the chief minister of Maharashtra to run the state for one day, and makes such a success of it that soon he is embroiled in political intrigue.
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| Anil Kapoor | ... | Shivaji Rao Gaekwad | |
| Rani Mukerji | ... | Manjari | |
| Amrish Puri | ... | Balraj Chauhan (Chief Minister) | |
| Johnny Lever | ... | Topi | |
| Pooja Batra | ... | Laila | |
| Sushmita Sen | ... | Special Appearance | |
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Mukesh Ahuja | ||
| Babu Antony | ... | Sniper | |
| Rana Jung Bahadur | ... | Balraj Chauhan's support | |
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Neha Bam | ... | Mrs. Balraj Chauhan |
| Ravindra Berde | ... | Balraj Chauhan's party supporter | |
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Kanal Kannan | ... | Auto driver |
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Khyati Keshwani | ... | Girls who calls Shivaji to complain about molestation in college campus |
| Razak Khan | |||
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Raja Krishnamoorthy | ... | Shivaji's Father |
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Employed as a camera-man at a popular television station QTV; Shivaji Rao Gaekwad work his way up and is eventually promoted as a reporter. One of his job involve interviewing the Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. During the course of the interview he brings to light the true facts of Chauhan to the general public. Agrivated at this Chauhan decides that he will challenge him to become the Chief Minister for a day which he accepts. During his tenure Shivaji attempts to make the wrong right by punishing dishonest people while at the same time ensure that the masses get what they aspire for. But when his life return to normal he will find that nothing is the same anymore as he and his loved ones are made targets by Chauhan's goons this pushes Shivaji to enter politics and eventually elect as the Chief Minister - a Chief Minister who wants to continue the remaining of his day's work. Written by gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
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Written by Anand Bakshi
Composed by A.R. Rahman
Performed by Shankar Mahadevan and Alka Yagnik
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)
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Firstly don't grumble over the credibility in the storyline or else different cinema would not come in our way. Moreover director Shankar has much conviction in his direction to make the overall product fairly digestible.
So we have a journalist Mr. Shivaji Rao (Anil Kapoor) who in an interview with the CM (Amrish Puri), is challenged to work as a CM for 24 hours. Accepting the challenge he does everything in those 24 hours from clearing JHOPDI'S to suspending corrupt KHOPDI'S. In the second half, by public demand he is elected as the permanent CM , but ironically in this half he spends more time romancing with a village girl (Rani Mukherjee).
A well written script and a fast pace screenplay, successfully grab's the audiences attention. Rehman's music is not much hot this time but the song picturizations do have an artistic visual appeal. Lacks of bucks spent on those huge sunflowers , tall bhuttas, fat pumpkins and a thousand matkas ( though do not make much sense, but) are surely different than those usual running around trees or dancing in foreign locations.
Some scenes have been very well presented, like the conflict between the bus driver and the students, the interview with the CM and the assassination of the CM at the end. But the MUDDY MATRIX oriented fight sequence was overdone and could have been avoided.
In terms of performance, Anil Kapoor is extremely convincing and adds life to the portrayal of his character. Rani is charming. Amrish returns to a sensible negative role. Paresh Rawal lends excellent support.
Finally if you think hundreds of movies have been made on corrupt system theme, then this one is no new but a good example of old wine in the latest bottle.