Satyagraha

SATYAGRAHA is an all-engrossing, compelling drama that mirrors the reality around us. In fact, it's yet another brilliant addition to Prakash Jha's credible repertoire, who has created some of the most politically momentous motion pictures. For the splendid drama and the electrifying dramatic highs, I suggest you must watch this hard-hitting fare. Absolutely recommended!

"Satygraha" conveys the uncontrollable anger and energy of a nation on the brink. For telling it like it is and for creating a compelling film out of the raw material of present-day corruption, the film deserves a standing ovation.

While the movie does invoke in you some feelings, you do feel cheated that it does not attempt to answer the bigger question.

Prakash Jha's films tend to be didactic but the unnecessary inclusion of a romantic track just dilutes the essence of the film instead of providing some much-needed respite. The director needs to realize that playing to the gallery isn't always possible. 'Satyagraha' is well intentioned but the effect remains superfluous.

... a weightless film that leaves by a transitory impact on its audiences. Wasting the enigma of such talented bunch of actors, the film with its overbearing story and its erratically structured plot lacks the much needed blaze. Emerging as a warped product of political correctness with an unconvincing climax, somehow the entire product had the stench of unbearable staleness. It wasn't a terrible film, just not the promising Prakash Jha venture you might have wanted to watch.

Satyagraha solely documents and offers fleeting wisdom. It succeeds at highlighting the problem but fails at achieving poignancy.

Satyagraha is neither compelling, nor gripping. Unlike Jha's other hard-hitting political dramas, this one is too light and monotonous. The movie goes on and on with a poor script, at times testing your patience. Nothing can spare you in Satyagraha, until it concludes and you get a breather finally!

Getting out of the hole that you dig can become very difficult when you mix real life events and fiction and the film flounders in the climax. While there are a few poignant points and moments on the face of it but if you dig deeper there are plenty of flaws in the screenplay.

Though Prakash Jha has his heart in the right place when it comes to politically-themed films, it's not enough to reward this Satyagraha with anything but 2 stars.

More whimpering than a roar, this movie unfortunately induced yawns instead of any feeling of rebellion.

Producer-director Prakash Jha has his heart in the right place as he once again chooses a topic -- in this film's case corruption -- that is singeing the country more than anything else today but delivers a potion that is but a terrible hodgepodge of Arakshan, Rajneeti and Gangaajal.

If one focuses on the overall making of the film, it is looks to be a dramatized version taken frame-to-frame from reality and painted on a canvas with a hope that the system will change and the citizens will be instrumental in bringing about this change.

Unfortunately, Jha's revolution this time round ends up unforgivably long, inadequately scripted and way too superficial to merit applause. Yes, there are moments of optimism, but those are far too few to evoke any real passion.

Satyagraha is an exercise in extreme self obsession. Because Prakash Jha just doesn't want the film to end! It goes on and on till you start hallucinating Ajay Devgn's moustache as a sinister, blood sucking alien and Amitabh Bachchan starts looking like a mummified pharaoh.