Rajneeti

Finally i was able to watch the most successfull movie of the year till i.e. Rajneeti..The movie is good but nor great...Unlike other PJ's movies it comes with too many commercial cliches especially the whole 'Step Son Ajay Devgan' angle...In the 2nd half the movie transforms from an intense poitical drama to an action oriented revenge film...I think Prakash Jha could have made the movie more powerful by sticking the storyline strictly to Political Drama....One thing i noticed in the movie which i find unbelievable is the professionalism that was shown in the way meetings are conducted/data being analysed/Conference Room always has an AV running on the screen in the background....I wonder how far in UP/Bihar political parties are run professionally....Katrina Kaif got overpublicity compared to the role that she had in the movie...She hardly had any role...I do not why the entire crew was going gaga about 'Katrina's' eforts in the movie...when there wasn't anything to write home about....Clearly the promotional strategy of the movie centred around Ranbir & Katrina was injustice to other stars like Nana/Manoj/Ajay & Arjun who had equal roles in the movie...

So honestly Rajneeti is a good movie in the 1st half but the story derails in the 2nd half and becomes as good or bad as any typical Hindi commercial movie...

Its not a true Prakash Jha movie...I would give the movie 2 stars out of 5...

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