Sarkar 3: A tires Nagre and RGV

Cast:  Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy

Rated: 5/10

You are almost scared that Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) is back because he has been throwing howlers at you of late, cringe worthy howlers and you do not want Sarkar to join that side of the RGV bandwagon. Of course, you have the weight of an Amitabh Bachchan to take care of that but even Bachchan has erred massively in films like Boom. Remember?

Sarkar 3 is not freakishly offtrack, irreverent or nonsensical but it is familiar, lazy and meandering in the corridors that have long back closed to public imagination. Even RGV seems to have gotten bored with the franchise, or so it appears when the thinned down storyline starts unravelling. There are no wow moments, no screechy violence, no startling acoustics that RGV is known to have heightened to unsafe limits. There is no conspiracy or dirty politics either.

Now, a Sarkar without much murkiness is like chalk being named cheese. And even Amitabh Bachchan comes across as an aged victim of this inherent languidness of the third edition of a franchise that was stunning in its opener, matured and engrossing in the sequel, but somewhat needless in, hopefully, the last of the shows.

The good thing about Sarkar3 is that RGV spares you the balking at his insane imagination. He is measured, to an extent that he introduces boredom into the proceedings, with some flashes of interest here and there.

Amit Sadh as Sarkar’s returnee grandson renders a good cameo as does TV star Ronit Roy whose character is needlessly underfed by RGV. Yami Gautam merely stares everyone down with her kohled eyes and Jackie Shroff has been made to look like a mockery of everything, what with his stupidest and most un-funny one-liners around his mostly semi-dressed boobs-oriented mall.

On the whole, Sarkar 3 is un-menacing, uninteresting and unduly boring.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 14 May, 2017