A sharp political sagacity is miles apart from the wisdom of a PhD in Victorian literature and a transition from the latter to the former requires nothing less than a father, an uncle, a cousin and an elder brother thriving on the art, science and the civics of politics. So much so that they don’t even save neck of any relation beyond their own family. Ranbir Kapoor as Samar Pratap, though scared that politics might bring the evil out of him, gets transposed to a political champ from the pages of his thesis, trades emotions for money and life for power; hence, actualizing his worst fear.
The lust for power starts at home, within the Pratap family when Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bajpai) has to murder his own uncle in his quest to earn the chair of the Chief Minister of the state. The family separates into two political camps: one headed by Prithviraj Pratap (Arjun Rampal) but masterminded by Samar and honed to razor-sharp precision by Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar); and the once-ally-turned-opposition ideology presided by Veerendra and doctored by Suraj Kumar (Ajay Devgan), the dalit leader.
The storytellers, Prakash Jha and Anjum Rajabali, borrowed the key characters from Mahabharata, infused them into the contemporary political scenario and added the darker side of human mind in every character. When everything looked real, even after heavily borrowing from ‘Godfather’, they tried adding bare skin, w-cleavage peeping from white blouse and shower scenes to demystify what they messed up badly. Blame it on the editing skills of Santosh Mandal or the misfit that the scenes were or more practically the limitations of Indian cinema.
The screenplay shuttled the characters of ‘Raajneeti’ on a rapid journey of murders, lectures, corruption, wealth, love and deception. The story started, moved fast and left little room for the supporting characters like Darshan Jariwala or Vinay Apte to deliver anything less than brilliant performance. A deglam Katrina Kaif as Indu Pratap couldn’t shed her disabling lack of acting talent which stood awkwardly unique amidst the powerful performances.
While the movie gracefully and tactfully reminded us of the agelessness of Mahabharata in many of the scenes, it made a dead bomb of the famous scene where Kunti meets Karna which when viewed in context of the movie would be the scene between Samar’s mother (played by Nikhila Trikha) and Suraj.
The ‘mama’ of ‘Raajneeti’, Brij Gopal, combines the clear thinking of ‘Krishna’ and the brains of ‘Shakuni’ of Mahabharata. Nana Patekar acted more while he didn’t speak and clearly is a master of this art. Samar was version2.9/mature-yet-boyish of Ranbir Kapoor, with one more composed and marvelous performance and remarkably dissimilar to his earlier roles. Manoj Bajpai took moral responsibility of making politicians look evil and speak chaste Hindi while Ajay Devgan emoted in his trademark ‘sleepy eyes’ style. Arjun Rampal, tried serious acting, but couldn’t play all the shades with equal panache.
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