Sarkar': Strictly for Vijay's fans (Movie Review)
Film: " Sarkar "; Language: Tamil; Director: A.R. Murugadoss; Cast: Vijay, Keerthy Suresh and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar; Rating: *1/2 " 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 th...