-Nimish Inamdar
July 1, 2005
The most awaited film of the year is here and I’m amongst the first people to see it, and I’m glad that I’m. Ram Gopal Verma’s ambitious project shot under the heavy schedule of 45 days incorporating heavy names like Abhishek (yeah that is a heavy name today) and Amitabh Bachhan under the banner of the prestigious K Sera Sera productions was released today.
Sarkar deals with a family practically ruling the norms of Mumbai where our big B is the numero uno enjoying the maximum support of the crowd. Subhash Nagare a.k.a, Sarkar played by Bachhan Sr is a messiah for people as he is the sole person capable of solving their problems or giving them justice of course by illegal meanings. He has his own philosophies. Neither him nor his principles can be sold to anyone. He is determined to do anything that he thinks is right irrespective of the system’s rules.
In this background comes Rashid from Dubai to take the permit from Sarkar about drug trafficking from the region where Sarkar rules, but returns empty handed. To bring down Sarkar he joins hands with the rest and turn all the allies of Sarkar his enemies. War breaks open between Rashid and Sarkar & Co with Sarkar going to jail on false accusations and then consecutively to the hospital as a victim of the war. In this scenario his own son Vishnu, played by K.K.Mennon, turns a traitor. Now the responsibility comes on Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan)
and he manages to kill all of his enemies and once
again restore the pride the Nagare family had in
the city, and becomes the next Sarkar.
This mafia story is an exact replica of ‘The Godfather”. We had Don Vito Corleone then as The Godfather, and now we have Subhash Nagare as Sarkar. Michael Corleone’s image is seen in Shankar Nagare. We can even find images of Pete Clemanza, Tom Hagen and Tessio. Clearly Rashid plays the role of Virgil Sollozo. And now we need a family traitor, in the year 1972, we had Carlo Rizzi to do the job and here we have Vishnu Nagare. The conceptual difference that I see is that Subhash Nagare gets arrested here. Those who have read The Godfather know that it’s impossible for Don Vito Corleone to get arrested.
So those who have seen or read The Godfather, don’t watch the movie with high expectations as in every scene you find yourself saying, “Godfather.” This especially happens in the second half and thus it is more predictable. The first half, dominated by Bachchan Sr., rocks. In second half you get to see Abhishek in mainframe. We get to see some good performances in the movie with K.K.Mennon as a special mention. Undoubtedly both the son and father steal your attention throughout the movie, and as expected both of them are fantastic on screen. I can say this is one of the best pieces by Ram Gopal Verma ever.
On the whole the movie rocks. Whether or not you have read The Godfather, do go and see the Indian version of The Godfather.
4 comments:
It was a well written review. The movie Sarkar is one of Ram Gopal Varma's best ones and i guess among the few sensible ones this year. Nimish, your review is very convincing and persuades people who haven't seen the movie, to go watch it. i must say, that you truely watch the movies. you know as others like me just watch for the sake of watching and when asked to write a review, "Man its really difficult. Can you write it for me?"lol. good job!! keep it up:-)
hey thnx.. tht was the best compliment i could ever get.
hiii it was not so bad u shld print abook so else can no you r the best critics ... of the flim writtin good reviews tat ehita one of your frd told. any waz dont keep it up bcoz my mom ask me 2 read loudly all the tale tha u hav written .i think u shld do on favour 2 me by writin my biograpical sketch so that every ppl on theeeearth will no how the gr8 mi????????????????????lol
thanks unmesh for ur valuable comments... i'll surely write something for u if it is within my reach. ;)
-NIMISH
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