Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2

[Capt M Kumar]

Why Raajneeti seems to have drawn people and audiences of all ilk and held them there for the entire length of the film is also about how the 1990s and 2000s stereotype of the one-dimensional, evil and grimy politician has been replaced by a multifaceted set of politicos, deeply ambitious of course, but portrayed in all kinds of colour and with much more texture than what we even got to see in Prakash Jha's earlier "political" offers (Apaharan and Gangajal). Perhaps a part of the answer lies in Jha's closer understanding of the electoral system after his stint as a Lok Janshakti Party candidate in Bihar in 2009. The anger and the regional stereotypes that limited the imagination to the venal Uttar Pradesh-Bihar, somewhat BIMARU thug are missing from Raajneeti's landscape. Shot in Bhopal, a mix of sets and actual backdrops, it could be any state and any city -Vidhana Soudha in Bangalore, Mantralaya in Mumbai or even Sansad Marg in Delhi. http://news.in.msn.com/national/article....122&page=7