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How it all began?
[Phone rings]
Sonam: Hey pappa! How’re you doin?
Anil: I’m gr8, don’t call me pappa. It sounds like I’m your father or something.
Sonam: But you’re my pappppa na!
Anil: Ok ok so what do you want now?
Sonam: Pappa I wanna do a movie with Abhay Deol and my gang.
Anil: What? You’re done with your contracts?
Sonam: Yes pappa!
Anil: Okay let me think. Okay we can rip off a novel and twist things around.
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I am not the authority on movie reviews around here. It’s just that lately I have been teased for being able to watch special preview shows of new Bollywood releases thanks to my so called contacts in the media industry and not posting any quick reviews. It appears that not everyone share my taste in movies but then what is the point of writing a review when your opinion isn’t truly yours. Enough of nonsense ranting let us talk about Rajneeti.
Rajneeti is one of Prakash Jha’s trademark reality based Bollywood films with a dash of masala. Rajneeti holds an impressive star cast of Bollywood actors including Nasiruddin Shah, Ranbir Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar and leggy Katrina I-can-speak-Hindi Kaif. Rajeeti is of course about the Indian political scene and the dark harsh realities underneath the sewerage.
Rajneeti is backed by a powerful script that is able to keep you glued for the entire period. The movie proceeds at a perfect pace and the story, even if you feel you know it, keeps you interested. The screenplay is excellently done and the characters have been sketched perfectly. All of a sudden I found myself loving Prakash Jha’s cinema. I remembered his Gangajal which was the last I had seen of him.
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