Jha took 5 long years to make this movie. I am sure, during that time, he must have watched both Mahabharata and Godfather many many times. And it is apparent from this movie. Let me give a categorical review of few aspects
Storyline - This Raajneeti pizza had Mahabharata for base, Godfather for toppings and UP, MP's political scenarios for condiments. Good job, not the best though.
Cast - When you take intense actors like Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai; they push your cart, you don't have to do much and they justified well-shed money on them. Katrina and Arjun Rampal were refreshing, but Ranbeer took the cake with best role of Samar Pratap (Arjun from Mahabharata and Michael from Godfather).
Script - Rating first and second half separately, 8 for fast paced story development till interval. All the best dialogs and scenes are in first half only. 3 for boring and predictable second half. Almost all of the scenes post-interval are dragged.
Script - Delivered both best and worst in the same movie. Thumb up for Nana Patekar's party candidate nomination scene in slum. Even after ignoring many technical flaws in many parts; a total boo for Kunti-Karan meeting scene from Mahabharata, where Jha completely forgot to re-write it and just copy pasted whole scene including dialogs.
Editing - This could have been a nice power packed 2 hour movie, no idea why dragged to 3 hours.
Take away - In case you decide to leave in interval, you won't miss a thing!
Storyline - This Raajneeti pizza had Mahabharata for base, Godfather for toppings and UP, MP's political scenarios for condiments. Good job, not the best though.
Cast - When you take intense actors like Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai; they push your cart, you don't have to do much and they justified well-shed money on them. Katrina and Arjun Rampal were refreshing, but Ranbeer took the cake with best role of Samar Pratap (Arjun from Mahabharata and Michael from Godfather).
Script - Rating first and second half separately, 8 for fast paced story development till interval. All the best dialogs and scenes are in first half only. 3 for boring and predictable second half. Almost all of the scenes post-interval are dragged.
Script - Delivered both best and worst in the same movie. Thumb up for Nana Patekar's party candidate nomination scene in slum. Even after ignoring many technical flaws in many parts; a total boo for Kunti-Karan meeting scene from Mahabharata, where Jha completely forgot to re-write it and just copy pasted whole scene including dialogs.
Editing - This could have been a nice power packed 2 hour movie, no idea why dragged to 3 hours.
Take away - In case you decide to leave in interval, you won't miss a thing!