Raajneeti - Hindi

The movie Raajneeti is one of its kind in Bollywood as it “tries” to show a very different genre of movie which is usually followed in Bollywood, what is different about this movie is that it’s followed as family drama or rather just drama.

The movie takes its inspiration from the Oscar winning Hollywood movie “The Godfather” (rather some scene has been lifted directly from there….again) yet remained truly Bollywood with some highly unrealistic human “acts” and often getting so unreal that you couldn’t help but laugh at the irony and at the (pardon the lack of word) corniness the movie has that is often associated with “typical” Bollywood movies. Few of these instances include the women counter parts always compromising them self for the sake of their husband or male members of the family or lol in this case almost every women becoming pregnant in just one go (yes you read that correctly), and not to mention the old 80’s Bollywood style scene with a father mentioning at a very random go when his son is about to be killed that his so called son is not his rather that they found him floating isolated in a boat wearing “certain” clothes and locket, which by the way they still have and are able to get in a blink of an eye.

Raajneeti tries to justify all the heinous crimes committed in the movie by following the concept that “all is fair in love and war” or well in this case politics (the war for the political seat yet the acts done by people driven by human emotions or to put it in one word love, be it in this case for the love of family).

The media is calling this movie a modern Mahabharata with role of villain (Duryodhan) played by Veerander Pratap (Manoj Bajpai), and role of Karan played by Suraj (Ajay Devgan). Though I agree that too an extent it is Mahabharata (and yes a whole 5 minutes scene has even been copied from Mahabharata) but the story is not at all the same, its rather Mahabharata filled with loads of drama and every actor in this movie is more of a villain than a hero.

But in the end like any Prakash Jha’s movie it has also be given a moral meaning at the end of the movie that how people are not bad rather it is politics and situation you face in politics that brings out their inner demon while in your heart you still remain a human (well in my opinion that is no better coz u can be as bad as a demon, if not worse as a human).

Though I will advise Prakash Jha that to leave the concept of what the movie is to the audience, I will definitely say that Raajneeti is worth watching atleast once and forming their own opinion of what Raajneeti actually is.