Sarkar (2005)

Sarkar Movie Trailer 2005

Crew

Directed by     Ram Gopal Varma
Produced by     Parag Sanghavi ,Ram Gopal Varma
Story by     Manish Gupta
Music by     Background
Score: Amar Mohile
Songs: Bapi-Tutul
Cinematography     Amit Roy
Editing by     Nitin Gupta ,Amit Parmar
Distributed by     K Sera Sera ,Sahara One

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Subhash Nagre (Sarkar)
    Abhishek Bachchan as Shankar Nagre
    Kay Kay Menon as Vishnu Nagre
    Katrina Kaif as Pooja (Mona Ghosh Shetty as the dubbing voice)
    Tanisha Mukherjee as Avantika
    Anupam Kher as Motilal Khurana
    Supriya Pathak as Pushpa Nagre
    Rukhsar as Amrita (Vishnu's wife)
    Ishrat Ali as Khansaab
    Raju Mavani as Vishram Bhagat
    Zakir Hussain as Rashid
    Kota Srinivasa Rao as Selvar Mani
    Ravi Kale as Chander
    Virendra Saxena as Girl's Father
    Anant Jog as Police Commissioner
    Deepak Shirke as Madan Rathod
    Carran Kapoor as a Hero in Vishnu's film
    Nisha Kothari as a Heroine in Vishnu's film
    Jeeva as Virendra Swami
    Mangal Kenkre as Shoba
    Saurabh Dubey as Pooja's Father
    Dinesh Lamba
    Rushad Rana
    Anil Yadav

Story

Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan), who is known by his followers as Sarkar, lives in Mumbai. The opening scenes show a rape victim's father (Veerendra Saxena) approaching Sarkar (which is parallel to Amerigo Bonasera visiting Don Corleone in The Godfather for same reason) for justice (which the corrupt law and order system has failed to deliver) which Sarkar promptly establishes by having the rapist beaten up by his henchmen. His son, Vishnu (Kay Kay Menon), plays a foul-mouthed producer who is more interested in the film actress Sapna (Nisha Kothari) than his wife Amrita (Rukhsar). Sarkar's other, more upright son, Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan), returns from the United States with his love Pooja (Katrina Kaif) after completing his education there. Pooja's doubts about Sarkar's image cause Shankar, who firmly believes in his father's righteousness, to break up with her later in the movie.

One day, a Dubai-based don, Rasheed (Zakir Hussain) tries to strike a deal with Sarkar; he promptly refuses on moral grounds and also forbids him from doing it himself. Rasheed tries to eliminate Sarkar's supremacy with the help of Selvar Mani (Kota Srinivasa Rao), Sarkar's former associate and Swami Virendra (Jeeva). Meanwhile, they trap Sarkar by assassinating a righteous, upright, Ahimsa political leader and an outspoken critic of Sarkar, Motilal Khurana (Anupam Kher). Everyone, including Vishnu believe that Sarkar is guilty but Shankar has deep faith in his father. Sarkar gets arrested. Shankar now takes over the position of Sarkar temporarily. On learning of a plot to murder his father in prison, he approaches the police commissioner (Anant Jog) who mocks him and his father besides not providing protection. By the time he reaches the prison and appropriate action is taken, the attempt on Sarkar's life is already made. Sarkar is later acquitted. He remains bedridden as Shankar takes on Sarkar's enemies. Meanwhile, Selva Mani, Swami and Rasheed try to convince Vishnu to murder Sarkar. Vishnu was previously thrown out of Sarkar's house because he had murdered the actor who was having an affair with Sapna. Vishnu returns home pretending to have repented. When he approaches Sarkar in the dark of the night with the intent of murdering him, Shankar foils his plan and later kills him (establishing justice by the way of his father). Shankar eliminates Rasheed and Selva Mani. He also succeeds in making Swami his puppet. Shankar has also realized that Chief Minister Madan Rathore (Deepak Shirke) also has a part in the attempt to end Sarkar and his rule. This results in legal action against the Chief Minister. The closing scenes show people approaching Shankar for justice and his father apparently retired.

Did you know?

1. 'Ram Gopal Verma' had signed Amitabh Bachchan for another movie "Ek", he decided to scrap that script and decided to cast both father and son together for the first time in this movie.
2. The term "Sarkar" (pronounced "sur-kaar") is a title, used in Hindi, to address someone of authority. It is also the Hindi word for government.
3. Many directors have been trying to get both the real life father and son together in the same movie, finally 'Ram Gopal Verma' managed to rope them in together for the first time, even though Bunty Aur Babli (to which the father and son signed much later) was released earlier.