Satyagraha – An Effort Wasted!

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Arjun Rampal, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amrita Rao & Manoj Bajapi
Director: Prakash Jha
Producer: Prakash Jha, Siddharth Roy Kapur and Ronnie Screwvala.

Duration: 152 Minutes

Shot at the backdrop of Anna Hazare’s movement Satyagraha is totally an effort wasted. The film revolves around the events that led to Satyagraha, similar to the one done by Mr.Anna Hazare of course with lot of melodrama, emotional atyachar and politics in it !

Dwaraka Anand (Amitabh Bachchan) an upright man who lost his son in the ugly game of politics takes a stand. A stand, to get the corruption out of the system and making people get what their right is.

His movement is joined in by Ajay Devgn, Arjun & Kareena Kapoor who becomes his supporting pillars. How these events finally lead to the good winning over bad is Satyagraha.

The Good: The good thing about Satyagraha is, Prakash Jha has kept the coin transparent which shows the pros and cons of a moment like this. He made sure he got the best cast available who have done a splendid job, especially performance by Mr.Big B …..just a phenomenon. Prakash Jha perfectly depicted how movements like this are socially hyped so as to make an issue vibrant.

The Bad: Satyagraha is an encyclopedia of errors. Right from the script which keeps falling apart in the name of emotions, to many loose ends that just needed a perfect knot. Too many technical errors just makes this movie fall flat, How come a man owning 6500 crores just gave up his entire property in a days time and still doesn’t get prosecuted. A reporter who should be unbiased becomes a member in the movement stays in the same house with Mr.Anand but yet continues to report news? Ajay Devgn no matters, what drives the News channel car as his personnel property. Adding to all the above flaws bad music and awful lip synching by actors just makes this boring.

Satyagraha would have been better had the director has taken up a stand to show what is real rather than giving up the plot to current political situation. .

Watch Satyagraha only for Mr.Big B you would be happy with him……!

Rating: 2.5/5