Rating-3/5 Stars
It all began with controversies- “Jana Gana Mana Rann…” a song that was obviously not retained; RGV returning after disasters like RGV Ki Aag and Amitabh Bachchan in a Media-centric movie. Potent mixture and the promos… awesome. Starcast- Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh and Mohnish Behl; sounds interesting. So, I woke up early, grabbed the tickets and entered the cinema hall… with great expectations but mentally ready to be disappointed.
It all began with controversies- “Jana Gana Mana Rann…” a song that was obviously not retained; RGV returning after disasters like RGV Ki Aag and Amitabh Bachchan in a Media-centric movie. Potent mixture and the promos… awesome. Starcast- Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh and Mohnish Behl; sounds interesting. So, I woke up early, grabbed the tickets and entered the cinema hall… with great expectations but mentally ready to be disappointed.
Plot was simple. Vijay Harshwardhan Mallik (AB) plays a media baron who is losing TRPs. His son and son-in-law takes over and shakes hands with ‘bad’ politicians (Rawal). They do typical things we see every day on TV (read sting operations) and finally achieve the number. Honest and ethical, Vijay is easily duped by his son and he presents the news. However, cub-reporter Purab (Ritesh) finds the truth. He tries to bring the truth to fore and initially fails. Finally, Vijay turns against his own son and truth prevails. Uff… seems like old stale story we saw zillion times; may be in some different frame and media. However, the treatment of the story was good; if not brilliant.
Amitabh was apt. He had a medium sized role and he played it gracefully. Rajat Kapoor as his son-in-law was as usual fine. Paresh Rawal was a bit loud. His character was more a caricature. Ritesh did his job and soon will establish himself as a good actor. He is improving. The man who surprised me was Sudeep. Frankly, I didn’t knew him, but playing the role of Jai (son of Vijay; what else) he simply rocked. He was really good. Ladies had no significant role.
Overall, performances were good but the thing that lacked was strength in script. It was not that strong and was interesting in bits. Research about content lacked as too much typecasting was there. Cliché were overdone. Few dialogues were good but most of it was average. Background score was good.
Verdict: Watch it. May be its not in the league of Satya, Company or Sarkar but is as good as Sarkar Raj and far better than PI or CPD (Do you remember them?).
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