Movie Review : Raajneeti - Hindi

Loosely based on the story of Mahabharatha, Raajneeti is a story about a family in Politics. A senior member of a nationalized party gets paralyzed during a party campaign. He decides his brother to be his successor rather than in own son. This angers his son Veerendra Pratap. Sooraj Kumar (illicit son born to Bharti Rai, who is also mother of Samar Pratap and Prithvi Pratap), a local dalit leader will be supported and given a good position in the party by Veerendra Pratap. Both will kill his uncle Chandra. Now, Samar Pratap and Prithvi Pratap joins the party and Prithvi Pratap will be nominated as a chief minister candidate.

This even angers Veerendra Pratap and he plots a sexual harassment and physical abuse case against Prithvi Pratap with the help of Sub inspect of police and a lady politician who will be trying to get into politics by contesting in a constituency. Veerendra Pratap and Samar Pratap play game so that they with draw the case and he would be released from the jail. This would lead into more bloody battle between two of them and Veerendra Pratap and Samar Pratap will be thrown out of the party. They eventually form their own party and stands for the election with the help of Brij Gopal who will be a mastemind politician. Prithvi Pratap and Sarah Thompson (Samar's wife) will be killed in a car bomb blast. Indu Pratap (ex-girlfriend of Samar Pratap and wife of Prithvi pratap) finally stands for the election. Samar pratap and Brij Gopal plots a murder plan for Veerendra Pratap and eventually he will be killed. Sooraj Kumar in an attempt to save his friend, will be killed by Samar pratap.

As a storyline goes you can just compare the character mapping with the characters in Mahabharatha.

Overall it’s an average movie to watch. Raajneeti is just a rip of Mahabharatha story transforming it to political story. So, the story is more predictable and its climax is very predictable.