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Satyagraha
Critic reviews and ratings
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Showing true Satyagraha has no short-cuts, it also shows solutions glimmering ahead, as ephemeral, yet powerful as a rainbow cleansing the dust.
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...is an all-engrossing, compelling drama that mirrors the reality around us.
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The film has its flaws but it is successful in capturing the disgruntled, restless and enraged mood of the country, and in fact the world.
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While the movie does invoke in you some feelings, you do feel cheated that it does not attempt to answer the bigger question.
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It's predictable, preachy and over-simplified yet, it engages because it's close to home.
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Despite the terribly staged chaos in the climax, Satyagraha is a film to watch not because it is relevant but also because it is a responsible review. Of passion. Of paths we choose. And the politics around.
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...for all its well-meaning bluster, neither stings nor scalds. It fails to hit the core of the truth that it seeks.
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You can't make a film about what is wrong with the system, while surrendering to the system. It is a cop-out. Satyagraha could have been so much more had it taken the Madras Cafe route and made an honest, hard-hitting film. The bollywood-isation of the film is what ruins it.
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...is nothing but a superficial and half-baked attempt at putting forth a volatile socio-political issue.
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The film is well-intentioned film, its message relevant. Unfortunately, not every well-intentioned film with relevant message leaves an impact.
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There are places where Satyagraha is truly compelling, heart-wrenching and unpredictable, but too much of the time, it defies probability and is just too painful to the ears.
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...solely documents and offers fleeting wisdom. It succeeds at highlighting the problem but fails at achieving poignancy.
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...offers nothing new either by way of content or style.
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More whimpering than a roar, this movie unfortunately induced yawns instead of any feeling of rebellion.
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Sadly, the director's storytelling has become so hackneyed that his cinema now merely pays lip service to issues instead of making a stronger comment.
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If good intentions were enough to make good movies, Satyagraha would be a masterpiece.
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This is a film whose anthem is 'Janta Rocks'. Which sort of goes with 'Politics Lite', doesn't it?
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Ho-hum political drama that does disservice to the efforts of its actors.
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...one comes out with a feeling that Jha might have outsourced his job to somebody who was under no compulsion to do justice to his audience as well as to the film's superstar-cast.
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...a missed opportunity. By translating a phenomenon that captured the national imagination even fleetingly, it could have humanized the Anna brigade. Jha dumbs down, and does it artlessly.
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...ends up looking like a parody of the real-life agitations it so solemnly restages.
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...wonder why Jha insists on following the commercial Hindi-film model when his heart is so clearly not in it.
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