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Sarkar Raj is quietly dignified

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If you can stand the often obsessive close-ups, generally accompanied by thumpingly obvious music, there is a quietly dignified and always watchable actor, Amitabh Bachchan, in this Indian drama.

It is about the attempted building, by a shady international company, of a huge power plant in rural Maharashtra which will dispossess 40,000 of their homes and land. It’s the usual good versus evil Bollywood plot, with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan in prominent roles. No songs and dances, just melodrama with copious pregnant pauses.

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