Bollywood's Rajneeti

Production: Prakash Jha
Star cast: Katrina Kaif, Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Ajay Devgan
Rating: * * * *

As the title itself suggests that the movie deals with the dark politics whose concept is similar to Mahabharata, produced and directed by ten times National Award winner Prakash Jha.
The story revolves around those powerful people in the third-world countries, who corrupt the politics to fulfill their dirty ambitions. However with the increase in evils it became impossible to differentiate between the heroes and villains.
The movie is about owing political power between the opponent claimants of the Pratap family. After the elder brother suffered a paralytic stroke, the leadership shifts to his younger brother. Veerendra (Manoj Bajpayee), son of the elder brother hopes to get the thrown, but the younger brother gets the control. Prithvi (Arjun Rampal), son of younger brother inherits the powerful political legacy, but his cousin, Veerendra, proves his biggest political opponent.

Veerendra plays a new game: He picks up Sooraj (Ajay Devgan), a young leader whose identity’s secret is revealed much later. Prithvi’s brother Samar (Ranbir Kapoor), least interested in politics, had been pursuing PhD and was settled with his girlfriend abroad, slips into his family’s dirty politics after his father passed away. Indu (Katrina Kaif), daughter of a wealthy industrialist loves Samar but gets married to Prithvi, is also caught in this web. Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar), plays the role of mentor and guide to Prithvi and Samar in the battle.

Rajneeti is all about fought elections in which money, corruption and power are the instruments, cheating and deception are commonly used to defeat the opponent. Sacrifice of love and friendship for political benefits makes it an emotional flick.
Every actor gave a sparkling performance. Though Katrina has not played much but she has performed well her scenes. Manoj Bajpayee did his negative act superbly. Ajay Devgan is remarkable. Arjun gives best performance of his career. Nana Patekar justifies his act and utters the cruelest lines positively. Ranbir Kapoor’s performance is speechless. Musically, the movie has rich pleasing variety.

Rajneeti is emotional, entertaining and the real face of politics