Sarkar Raj

Starring : Amitabh Bachan, Abishek Bachan and Aishwarya Rai Bachan

Story line: A plot to change the succesor to the Sarkar,

Story:

The Sarkar(Amitabh Bachan) is old. Its time to hand the reins to his successor, his son, Shankar(Abishek Bachan). But another man(revealed later) has different ideas.

A proposal is brought in front of the Sarkar by a MNC employee(Aishwarya Rai Bachan) to open a power plant in a specific region of Maharashtra. But his involves the movement of nearly 40000 people. The Sarkar initially rejects it but is convinced by his son to approach his mentor to discuss the proposal.

What follows is the meeting with the mentor, interupted by a comotion caused by the mentor’s grandson, Somji. The mentor gives the go ahead for the proposal, and the investment is begun. Shankar tries to win over the people by stating the benifits of the proposal, but he faces a rival in Somji, who begins to attract masses against Shankar and Sarkar.

Three people with a common objective to dethrone the Sarkar are introduced, and as the story progresses, they plan to kidnap Somji, thinking that such a strategy would induce anti Shankar feelings. The kidnap is comitted which is followed by the killing of the Sarkar’s daughter in law. Shankar takes the loss personally and immediately fires his bodyguard.

The bodyguard, being very close to the family, discovers the place of Somji’s captor. A battle ensues in which Shankar rescues Somji, and they settle their differences. In the battle one of the three villians dies.

The other two villians take drastic measures and hire a hitman to kill Shankar. Just when love seems to hit the air between Shankar and the power plant employee, the hitman strikes. Shankar is assasinated.

Now enters the Sarkar in full action. He immdiately finds out the second villian, who divulges the identity of the third villian. Both of them are finished. But the story does not end here.

The Sarkar narates the reason behind so many characters in the movie to the MNC employee(Ash), who seems to have officially entered the family on Shankar’s death. The real king maker is revealed in the very end. He is the mentor.

The mentor’s plan is to replace the successor of the Sarkar from Shankar to Somji. The plan doest not by pass Sarkar’s eye, and in the end both are killed.

Remarks:

The story is quite good. The start is fantastic, the middle is great, but the film slows down towards the end. It could have been finished sooner than the 2.15 Hrs. Worth watching.

Mere Baap Pehle Aap

Starring : Akshaye Khanna, Genilia , Paresh Rawal and Shobana. Oh ya and Om Puri

Story Line: A son tried to unite his widowed father with his true love

Story: The son(Akshaye Khanna) is an eligible bachelor, who seems to have a lot of love for his widowed father(Paresh Rawal). Soon we learn that, he has been quite naughty in his college days, driving a girl(Genilia) out of college. The girl wants revenge, and some silly scenes later, the girl realizes the enormity of her mistakes, reveals herself to the son, and thus starts a friendship.

The father’s friend(Om Puri) is also an eligible bachelor, whose role has been to create humorous situations . But they hardly move our lips. As the story progresses, we find that the love girl resides with her close friend’s mom(Shobana), who is a music teacher. This is followed by the revealation of the information that the father used to love the teacher. But he couldn’t marry her because of family constraints.

The son and his love find the facts and set about plans to reunite the couple. They succeed in doing so after every normal film drama. And after this they realize that their own friendship has turned into love.

So when the stage looks set for the finale with a double wedding, enters the father of the bride(Naseeruddin Shah). He prolongs the film by another half hour stating that either the son or his father can marry, not both. The loving son that he is, he reunites his father, forsaking his own love. Looking at the devotion of the son, the father of the bride agrees to a double wedding.

The End

Rating

Story : 6/10

Acting: 4/10

Remarks:

I really think that Genilia should consider another career. She is totally lost in this world, both in Tamil and in Hindi. Om Puri’s character is completely unnecessary(Plus that guy cannot do comedy). The audience could have saved half hour without the intervention of Naseeruddin Shah.