Sarkar': Strictly for Vijay's fans (Movie Review)
"Sarkar"
has no relevance to Ram Gopal Varma's Hindi film of the same title where
Amitabh Bachchan played a wily politician modelled on Maharashtra's iconic
Balasaheb Thackeray.
The
wannabe, nattily attired 'neta' that Vijay
plays in the new "Sarkar" seems modelled on no Indian politician,
living or dead, that I've come across. Although the opening credits have shots
of Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose, I am pretty sure they would be as
baffled by Vijay's brand of brain-dead politics as I was.
The
film is ostensibly a comment on the Indian citizen's right to vote. But the
democratic right to freedom is denied by "Sarkar", which smothers us
in hero-worship of the most fawning variety.
Let's
just say this is the superstar Vijay's brand of politicking where Tamil Nadu's
Chief Minister and his brother (nepotism reloaded) are shown as glorified
goons. Or maybe not even glorified. The first time the political brothers are
shown on-screen, they have three large suitcases in front of them. One of them
contains the writhing half-dead head of an enemy. At this point, the head is
presumably attached to the torso although we see only the bloodied head peeping
out of the suitcase. Read
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