Sarkar Raj : Hindi Film Details & Trailer
Sarkar Raj is a 2008 Bollywood political crime thriller Movie directer is Ram Gopal Varma The Movie released on 6 June 2008. This film is a sequel of Sarkar -1 Film.
The film was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library. The original cast Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan (who reprise their roles from the original) and while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan replace Katrina kaif. Supriya Pathak, Tanisha Mukherjee and Ravi Kale also reappeared in their respective roles from Sarkar. The film released on 6 June 2008 and was critically and commercially successful. The continuation and third installment Sarkar 3 was released on 12 May 2017.
- Directer : Ram Gopal Varma
- Producer : Ram Gopal Varma,Praveen Nischol
- Writer : Prashant Pandey
- Screenplay : Ram Gopal Varma
- Starring : Amitabh Bachchan,Abhishek Bachchan,Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,Dilip Prabhavalkar,Supriya Pathak
- Music : Amar Mohile
- Songs : Bapi-Tutul
- Cinematography : Amit Roy
- Editor : Nipun Ashok Gupta,Amit Parmar
- Distributor : Showman Pictures,Balaji Motion Pictures
- Genres : Action, Crime, Drama
- Release date : 6 June 2008
- Running time : 125 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Sarkar Raj movie : Hindi Film Trailer
Sarkar Raj : Hindi Film story :
The film start two years after the original film. Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), is the CEO of Shepard Power Plant based in London, holds a meeting with Mike Rajan (Victor Banerjee), her chairman father, and Hassan Qazi (Govind Namdeo), as a seemingly shady business adviser and facilitator; regarding an ambitious proposal to set up a multimillion-dollar power plant in rural parts of the state of Maharashtra in India.
Qazi said that this project will be impossible due to possible political entanglements. When Anita asks him for a solution, Qazi states that enlisting the support of Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) (commonly referred to by his title of Sarkar), who he describes as a criminal in the garb of a popular and influential political leader, might help their cause. Along with the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shinde (Shishir Sharma), they approach Sarkar with the idea of this project, who refutes the idea, due to the fact that the power plant will be built in various villages, affecting the livelihood of 40,000 people.
When Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan) convinces him of the benefits of the project to the state, Sarkar agrees to the proposal. Shankar advises Anita to stay away from Qazi, as he is not trustworthy. Qazi joins hands with Kaanga (Sayaji Shinde), who wants to become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra but could not as Sarkar is the overlord for Shinde’s political party. Shankar and Anita begin campaigning in Thackerwadi to gain support of local public for the project. During their chat Shankar mentions that his toughest decision of life was to kill his own elder brother Vishnu, Anita tells that her father never saw her as a daughter and was her boss.
Sanjay Somji (Rajesh Shringarpure), leader of farmer’s association is shown to be protesting the Nagre’s. Meanwhile, Avanti, now Shankar’s wife reveals to him that she is two months pregnant, Shankar also has growing friction in relationship with old family aid Chander (Ravi Kale). On the other hand, Shankar’s wife Avanti’s car is bombed within the premises of Sarkar’s villa, and Avanti is killed, Sarkar who is shaken suffers a shock and is admitted to a hospital. Shankar replaces Bala (Sumit Nijhawan) as head over Chander (Ravi Kale), and asks him to quickly find out who was behind this brutal attack. Kantilal Vohra (Upendra Limaye) come to Sarkar requesting him to shift the project to Gujarat.
Sarkar refusing , Vohra, Kaanga, Qazi, are shown together making a plan. Chander calls up Shankar telling Qazi was behind the blast, Shankar shoots Qazi in his house. Mike comes to India and is seen to be meeting Vohra discussing about eliminating Shankar as, they both want only profit and Shankar aims for development for 40,000 villagers living in Thackerwadi also.
Star Cast of the film :
- Amitabh Bachchan as a Subhash Nagre
- Abhishek Bachchan as a Shankar Nagre
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as a Anita Rajan
- Govind Namdeo as a Hassan Qazi
- Tanisha Mukherjee as a Avantika, Shankar’s wife
- Victor Banerjee as a Mike Rajan, Anita’s father
- Supriya Pathak as a Pushpa Nagre
- Sayaji Shinde as a Karunesh Kaanga
- Dilip Prabhavalkar as a Rao Saab
- Sumeet Nijhawan as a Bala
- Kay Kay Menon as a Vishnu Nagare (Cameo from the original film Sarkar)
- Upendra Limaye as a Kantilal Vohra
- Rajesh Shringarpure as a Sanjay Somji
- Shishir Sharma as a Sunil Shinde
- Ravi Kale as a Chander
- Javed Ansari as a The Hitman
Review of the film :
Review are mostly positive to average and Become Hit film of that Years.
- Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India rated the film with three and a half stars and applauded the lead performances saying “This film carries the sequel forward without losing out on the gritty feel and retains the charisma of the central characters”.
- The Economic Times gave a three star rating out of five and said “Sarkar Raj clearly gains major marks for its clever culmination, which was so much lacking from recent RGV products. The considerately and crisply penned dialogues by Prashant Pandey add a lot of insight to the scenes and depth to the characterizations.”
- Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave the film four stars out of five and noted “Besides its strong content, Sarkar Raj has been filmed exceptionally well with superb performances. Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, comes up with a terrific performance. He’s as ferocious as a wounded tiger in the finale and takes the film to great heights. Abhishek Bachchan is cast opposite the finest actor of this country, yet he sparkles in every sequence. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is fabulous and delivers her career-best performance.”
- Anupama Chopra from NDTV stated “What works here are the performances. The Bachchans-all three of them are in fine form. Despite wonderful performances and nicely done dramatic moments, Sarkar Raj doesn’t pack the visceral punch of Sarkar”.
- Sify gave a two-star rating and said, “The only reason you might want to catch this is the performance level and the relatively good ending. Amitabh Bachchan is dependably good. Abhishek holds his own, though with a more filled-out character, he could have taken it to another level. Aishwarya is superb in the emotional scenes, but again, is let down by the unforgivably simplistic character sketching.”
- Rediff which also gave a two-star rating noted “This is a watchable”.
Sarkar Raj Movie Song / Music :
The music is composer is Bapi and Tutul while Lyricist are Sandeep Nath and Prashant Pandey.
- “Chaah Bhanwar Trishna”………………………Sunayana Sarkar Dasgupta
- “Jalte Rawan”…………………………………………Abhishek Nailwal
- “Jalwa Re Jalwa”……………………………Kailash Kher, Sunayana Sarkar Dasgupta
- “Jhini Jhini”…………………………………….Roop Kumar Rathod, Shweta Pandit
- “Saam Daam”…………………………………Kailash Kher
- “Saher Saher Ke Hajharon Sawal”……………………….Arun Ingle, Bapi, Tutul
- “Subah”………………………………………………Pamela Jain
- “The Govinda – Chant”………………………………..Kailash Kher, Bapi, Tutul
- “The Govinda – Groove”…………………………Bapi, Tutul, Jankee Parikh
- “The Govinda – Theme”…………………………Bapi, Tutul
- “The Govinda – Trance”……………………..Bapi, Tutul, Jankee Parikh
- “The Jalwa – Club Mix”………………………Kailash Kher, Sunayana Sarkar Dasgupta
Lyricist : Prashant Pandey
Box office collection of the film :
Sarkar Raj earned almost rs. 340 million in India and over $1 million in the USA. The Filmfare Magazine (August 2008 issue) and other Indian media declared hits of 2008.
The producers reported that the movie had earned more than the entire grossings of its hit prequel in its first two weeks itself. According to the year end report of The Free Trade Journal, Sarkar Raj was the seventh highest all-India grosser of the year.The trade magazine also reported high international collections. It was declared a super hit grosser at the box office.
- First Day : Rs. 4.97 crores
- First Week : Rs. 23.83 crores
- Second Week : Rs. 7 crores
- Third Week : Rs. 3 crores
- Lifetime India (net) : Rs. 35 crores
- Worldwide Gross : Rs.60 crores
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