Sarkar: Promo Watch 
By Gaurav Malani, March 15, 2005 - 03:01 IST
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Supriya Pathak, Rukhsar, Katrina Kaif, Tanisha Mukherjee, Virendra Saxena and Carran Kapur.
Trailer duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
The introductory teaser of Sarkar opens with a quote by Mahatma Gandhi “Live Rightly, Think Rightly, Act Rightly'. Amitabh Bachchan's authoritative, bass-effect enhanced, heavy voiceover takes over and gives a gist of his title role character of Sarkar in the film, offering his own definition of righteousness.
Sarkar does what he feels is right, then let it be against God, against society, against law or against the entire system. The black and white frames of the trailer subsequently translate into color with a close up shot of Amitabh Bachchan sipping tea in the typical parish fashion. Bachchan just speaks through the intensity of his eyes. “There are no rights and wrongs, only power” is what Sarkar has to say.
Sarkar is another author-backed role, tailor-made for Big B. For the character Amitabh appears clad in a black kurta, a south Indian lungi known as the mundoo, heavy beads of rudraksha maala around his neck and a commanding tilak on his forehead. His character of a mafia don has an unrefined touch to it but at the same time exudes a sophisticated feel.
Sarkar brings together the charismatic combination of Amitabh Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma for the first time. Also Sarkar is the first film that brings together the real-life father-son duo of Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan onscreen (the duo have subsequently also shot for Bunty Aur Babli that will release later this year).
Sarkar is a desi adaptation of the Marlon Brando - Al Pacino starrer Hollywood classic The Godfather (1972). The Godfather has been a reference point since ages for many Hindi films right from Dharmatma to Virasat. However its RGV's treatment to the theme and the interesting characterizations that should make the film worth watching.
Amitabh plays an influential and powerful character in the film where everybody addresses him as Sarkar. Supriya Pathak plays Bachchan's wife in Sarkar who is married to him for almost three decades and remains unperturbed at the gory happenings in their house. Kay Kay Menon plays their elder son who endorses his father in his crime business. Rukhsar plays Kay Kay's wife.
Abhishek Bachchan plays the younger son, who is initially shown studying abroad and is in love with Katrina Kaif. But when he returns to India, his mother wants him to get married to Tanisha who has been in their home from her childhood.
On an ending note, though the trailer entirely focuses on Amitabh Bachchan, the sharp-eyed can even catch a glimpse of Abhishek Bachchan walking out of the room behind Big B, in between.
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