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Starring:
Ajay Devgan, Ranbir
Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpai, Sarah
Thompson, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Darshan
Jariwala, Shruti Seth
Director: Prakash Jha
Raajneeti is a story about Indian politics, the
democracy and the general elections. It depicts just a
few powerful people control the destiny of millions.
Master director Prakash Jha who gave us hard hitting
films like Apharan and Gangaajal has now come up with
the story of people who understand power - and know how
to wield it at will. He skillfully portrays their
unstoppable ambition, and their bitter and violent
battle to achieve it.
It is a contemporary adaptation of politics of power and
deriving its primary plot and central characters from
the epic. More somewhat like Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug
which had the character of Karna, here we have Sooraj
who is trapped terrible dilemma where his loyalty to his
friend threatens to destroy his own family. Sooraj (Ajay
Devgan) is a leader who rose from the backward classes
with anger in his heart and leadership on his mind. And
yet, his destiny could never overcome the tragedy of his
birth.
Here everything is fine with
Prithvi leading the party elections and he is visited by
younger brother Samar (Ranbir Kapoor). A top businessman
who funds the party elections has a daughter Indu
(Katrina Kaif), who falls in love with Samar and wants
to settle down with him.
But Prithvi, the heir to a
powerful political legacy and impatient to seize the top
position. He is a man with a heart of gold but who is
all brawn. A man whose uncontrollable passions bring his
family to the brink of political extinction.
The desperate Veerendra teams up with Suraj the leader
of oppressed classes and how he manipulates him into
everything including assassination of the current
favourite leader.
So we have Prithvi contesting the elections in the place
of his father. His younger brother Samar is a cool and a
very calculative younger dude who plays his cards well
and the set out to win the election. Nevertheless, this
cool dude, a master of the craft of political warfare
witnesses later - the bloodiest of final battles in a
war alien to his character.
Cast:
Ajay Devgan
Ranbir Kapoor
Katrina Kaif
Arjun Rampal
Manoj Bajpai
Sarah Thompson
Naseeruddin Shah
Nana Patekar
Darshan Jariwala
Shruti Seth
Nikhila Tirkha, Chetan Pandit, Vinay Apte, Kiran Karmarkar,
Dayashankar Pandey, Jahangir Khan, Ravi Khemu
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It begins with happy times with the current leader who has
a party at his house. But suddenly, he gets a paralytic
attack and is forced to appoint another head for the
political party. He chooses Prithvi (Arjun Rampal), the
eldest son of his younger brother, instead of his own son
Veerendra (Manoj Bajpai) and thus the whole game of
politics unfolds hereon.
Veerendra is shunted away from the core of the party and
he decides to revolt. A man who believes he was born to
rule, and who will now stop at absolutely nothing to claw
his way back to the top.
There is also Bhasker Sanyal (Naseeruddin Shah), the
fire-brand leftist leader, as feared for his
single-handed ability to challenge the most powerful of
leaders as he was respected for his political integrity.
Until one private mistake of his hurtled him into a
self-imposed exile and spawned a secret consequence that
shook the destiny of the political future of the state.
And Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar),
who shunned every political ambition even as he continued
to mentor and guide the younger generation of leaders
while the battle got bloodier by the day.
Rajneeti has an amazing screenplay, airtight script and
the array of talented actors has worked together to create
a delightful film. There is drama, action, romance and
even comedy put across with few memorable songs especially
the 'More piya’ number which is played twice in the film
Marvelous performance, especially from Ranbir Kapoor who
apparently has a tailor stitched role for him and he is so
impressive as the innocent young boy who maneuvers through
the matter with sly connivance. Ajay Devgan speaks a lot
through his eyes and has yet delivered a memorable
performance.
Katrina Kaif, Nikhila Trikha and Shruti Sheth are fine,
though Nikhila, as the aristocratic lady has a grand
screen presence
Nana Patekar and Naseeruddin Shah, the veterans need no
praise at all and there is Arjun Rampal the ruggedly
handsome guy plays a passionate character and a fuming
young man with ease.
- PAW
Credits & Crew:
Produced & Directed By Prakash Jha
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali & Prakash Jha
Music: Wayne Sharpe
Director Of Photography: Sachin Krishn
Associate Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Editor: Santosh Mandal
Art Director: Jayant Deshmukh
Costumes: Priyanka Mundada
Action Director: Sham Kaushal
General Manager, Productions: K. L. Chhabra
Production Controller: Sudhirbhai Mishra
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