Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Suman Shakya As mentioned in the credits, the film is inspired from "The Godfather" and is Indianized in the setting of a gangster family. Well, it's not really the gangster family, but the head of the family is above the police or government and rules the whole Mumbai. The focus here isn't very sharp whether the story is on patronizing a mafia family or the conspiracies between different gangs. The work or the income of the family also appears unclear. The whole film runs in a tension, and is very hard to keep on watching it. Despite this, the film is directed very well; and has few good performances. Amitabh Bachchan, in the tile role, performs and gives a dynamic screen presence with minimal dialogues. Abhishek Bachchan too appears calm and suites as a devoted son of a gang leader. All in all both have relived the powerful performances given by Marlon Brando or Al Pacino in "The Godfather." As a whole, the film sets a different genre, plays with a conviction, and is greatly performed. Due to lacking entertainment values and its slow pace, the film unfortunately didn't get much absorbed by the viewers.Rating: 2 stars out of 4

silvan-desouza Godfather is one of the known Hollywood films, several times inspired by Indian filmmakers, be it Aathank Hi Athank or several films. RGV was a quality name those days SARKAR also was the second film bringing BIG B and Small B together after Bunty Aur Babli released just few weeks from this film. The film is set in Mumbai The first half is more on establishing the characters, the sequence at the start when Raju Kale attacks the goons is superb while the spat at the dining table is awesome, Till the interval except the romance angle the film keeps you involved. The second half gets more intense though the culmination of some characters does get filmy, yet the culmination of Zakir is brilliant. One problem with the fim is it's excessive usage of background music and extreme close ups and technical wizadry which became a norm in most RGV films.Direction by RGV is good Background Music is good in parts but overall too muchAmitabh Bachchan is restrained in his role and performs it brilliantly Abhishek Bachchan is good in his part though he reminds of Big B a lot. Tanisha is okay in a brief role, Katrina Kaif made her comeback after disastrous BOOM and she had no takers those days, she is okay here Her dubbing was done by Mona Ghosh Shetty who did her dubbing in most other films. Kaykay is simply outstanding in his role, Supriya Pathak is good too Zakir Hussain is perfect, Ishrat Ali, Deepak Shirke, Kota Srinivasa Rao and others are all good, Ruksar is okay

diligentdrool_14 First of all..I begin by saying that I AM A HUGE FAN OG "THE GODFATHER"-Novel. But Sarkar is not a complete adaptation of Gofather. Only the basic undercurrent of a mafia Don has been taken from it. I feel Sarkar is a great film. RGV proves himself a wonderful director who is truly different from most of the contemporary directors of today who make films for mass appeal. For a film like 'Sarkar' to get mass success, it should be surprising. But go see the film and you will know why! IT is truly the best film of 2005 with 'Black'.The sets are wonderful...Dark and intense...and so is the look given to all characters. They were all very apt to the theme. The background score especially 'Govinda' one is truly intense and helps make you spellbound to this film. The editing is cool and thumbs to everyone behind this genius of a film.The most important thing here is the standout performances! Abhishek Bachchan handles his role very well and we see the rising superstar of tomorrow here. Great job by AB junior. Same goes for Kay Kay...he was superb as the bad son Vishnu. I don't actually agree where some people say he stole away the show...Because...it truly belonged to the Bachchans alone!!! The new meanie in town Rashid rocks!!! Truly what a performance man!!! Standing ovations to him...But if you are pitched against the actor-Amitabh Bachchan in any film, then he is sure to be too bhaari on you. He just excels like anything in this role. This is surely one of his finest performances and goes on par with that of Black. He truly beats Marlon Brando in the role. He makes you go spellbound with those piercing and intense eyes and stands tall and strong as the best actor ever born in Indian Cinema. He excels as Gofather/Subhash Nagre and you get to feel the pulse of his power!!! Had Black not released the same year, Bachchan needn't have worried...Because he would get all the awards and accolades for this performance in Sarkar. He proves himself the 'SARKAR' of bollywood...still going strong in an unbeaten 64!!! He is the ultimate actor without doubt.TWO THUMBS UP TO THE BACHCHAN, ALL THE OTHER ACTOR AND RGV for such a great film!!!

umairali01 when i saw the trailer of this movie, i though it would be an outstanding movie. excellent plot, excellent direction, but what stopped this movie from being an outstanding movie is, i am afraid AMITABH. the great actor raj kumar said one'' i do not consider amitabh even a good actor'' how truth full was he. from an angry man, he has turned into an ''angry old man'' in this movie. would any one compare this performance to say kamal hassan's nayagan or nana patekar's tabrez alam? i am afraid not. don't take me wrong, good entertainment, however, even though i am a big fan of his....he is limited to what he can bring to a movie like this, i couldn't help thinking would any one else had done more justice to this role. i cant even imagine him as the new GABBAR SINGH. i am just hoping he comes out with something different, other wise amjad khan would be turning in his grave............