NEW DELHI: He left the cinegoers spell bound with his intense story about Maharashtra’s biggest political family in ‘Sarkar’. The second in the series called ‘Sarkar Raj’, however, failed to create much of an impact despite a powerful act by Amitabh Bachchan.
‘Sarkar 3’, the third in the famed Sarkar series, comes across as disappointing. The film, releasing with a lot of expectations coming as it does from the filmmaker who gave us films like ‘Shiva’, ‘Satya’ and ‘Company’, seems to be a poor imitation of ‘Sarkar’. It lacks the intensity of ‘Sarkar’ and ‘Sarkar Raj’.
‘Sarkar 3’ begins from where ‘Sarkar Raj’ left off. Subhash Nagre or Sarkar (Amitabh Bachchan) is still ruling in Maharashtra’s political scene. After losing both his sons Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan) and Vishnu (Kay Kay Menon), he has now found a trusted aide in Gokul (Ronit Roy).
His grandson Shivaji Vishnu’s son (Amit Sadh) dreams of becoming the next Sarkar. He also holds lot of anger inside him regarding his uncle, Shankar killing his own brother( Shivaji’s father).
Shivaji is romantically involved with Anu (Yami Gautam) who plans to seek revenge from Sarkar for killing her father. Even as Vishnu’s son dreams of becoming the next Sarkar, Subhash Nagre has to contend with villains like politician Govind Deshpande (Manoj), a Dubai-based businessman, Michael Vallya(Jackie) and a power-broker Gandhi(Bajrangbali), making their own attempts to destroy Sarkar.
Vallya wants to overthrow Sarkar’s stronghold, controlling things from Dubai. The story shows Sarkar’s struggle to fend off challenge from Govind Deshpande and Vallya who want to bring his rule to an end.
Though the film begins on a promising note with Subhash Nagre’s powerful presence marking the beginning of the film, the proceedings become drab as the film progresses.
The story of the film is predictable with the viewers being able to predict the happenings in the film. In fact, much of what one sees in ‘Sarkar 3’ is a repeat of happenings in ‘Sarkar’. The novelty element is missing.
The film fails to rise above the Big B’s powerful presence, which is the only thing that keeps the viewer’s interest alive. In terms of performances, it is Amitabh who holds the film together with his power packed act.
His strong baritone and his overwhelming presence is what lifts the film from its mediocrity and keeps interest of viewers alive. Like the previous two films in the series, it is Amitabh who is the focus of the film. Ronit Roy impresses with his measured and underrated performance as Gokul who does what he thinks is best in a given situation. Manoj Bajpayee also impresses as Govind. He is especially good in a confrontation scene with Sarkar.
Amit Sadh is ordinary as Sarkar’s grandson, Shivaji. Though he is shown to aspire to be the next Sarkar, he fails to come out of shadow of Subhash Nagre. Yami Gautam as Anu also fails to impress. As a director, Ramgopal Verma seems to have lost his touch.
The music of the film is also not much to talk about. Though the background score is good, the chant of ‘Govinda Govinda’ tends to get on one’s nerves after a point. In short, ‘Sarkar 3’ is a poor remake of Sarkar, lifted only by the power packed act by Amitabh and his larger than life presence.
Rating: 2.5/5: one for Amitabh’s powerful act, one for the impressive performance by Ronit Roy and Manoj Bajpayee and 0.5 for the bacground score. (AGENCIES)
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