Sucessful Satyagrah

                               

Director Prakash Jha hits the bull's eye in terms of showcasing the political cesspool and the strong need and the  current situation of eradicating the venom of Corruption. After a spate of flops like "Aarakshan" and "Chakravyuh" (the latter being a well crafted film), Jha comes up with the film that showcases the worse C's of the Contemporary India: Corruption, Capitalism and Consumerism, having shades of few real life events such as the Chauri Chaura case, Tiannemen Square Massacre, the Self Immolation events and the Anna Hazare movement including films like "Yuva" (Mani Ratnam/2004), "Rang De Basanti" (Rakeysh Mehra/2006) and "Raajneeti"(Jha/2010) . The film is quite slick, but it's few unnecessary songs and even the over duration of few scenes, that hampers the pace of the film, despite having warm and energetic moments. It has a well layered screenplay (Anjum Rajabali and Jha) which has a brilliant development in terms of an internal anger turning into a mass agitation, with an excellent character establishment and the development of characters played by Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal, loaded with great dialogues. The editing by Santosh Mandal is good and some of the moments are brilliantly edited. The cinematography by Sachin Krishn captures the best of the protests and warm moments in the film. The background music score (Salim Sulaiman) brilliantly graces the film's narration. The Sound Design work by Rakesh Ranjan and the Costume Design work by Priyanka Mundada matches well with the political scenario. In the performances, Indraneil Sengupta, Girish Sahdev , Vipin Sharma and the rest supporting cast are good and they do proper justice to their respective roles. Arjun Rampal and Amrita Rao are great and bring the best of their political rage through their performances. Kareena Kapoor Khan is good, but somewhere she continues her same melodramatic tone in her performance. Manoj Bajpayee is chilling and killing in his performance. Ajay Devgn returns with his deep intense performance and leaves a great impact with his awesome performance and "Bhaashanbaazi" too. Amitabh Bachchan is simply great and his act will make sure of making you sympathize with every moment having his presence on screen, making you smile and cry with every expression that he gives. Overall, the narration by Jha, despite the song and the over duration track in between, makes the film a must watch for every Indian and to make aware about the need and the cause depicted in the film. 

My rating would be: 4/ 5.

Review By - Yash Mishra