RGV's Department !!!

DEPARTMENT : A 'juggle' by Ram Gopal Varma. The very first thing Ramu needs to know is 'only' playing with the cameras is not actually considered as filmmaking, you need to have a strong (or maybe decent) storyline to showcase. Mahadev Bhosale (Sanjay Dutt) is asked to form and lead a separate department to take on the Mumbai underworld, he appoints Shiv (Rana Daggubati) an honest police officer and other officers to form a department which works under-cover. Sarjerao Gaekwad (Amitabh Bachhan) is a mafia-turned-politician who somehow is involved under this and runs his own department which makes a "department under department under department" (it seems RGV has taken the title too seriously and juggled with the whole script, literally). The characterisation is good (Vijay Raaz, Abhimanyu Singh) but the reality-touch that RGV is famous for is very much missing (remember his cult films like Satya and Company). Amitabh Bachhan has the most ugly dialogues and looks as if he's spoofing his own very famous 'Subhash Nagre's character in Sarkar. Sanjay Dutt is good as always but what his character wanted throughout the film is not clear till the end. Rana Daggubati outshines even being casted with an ensemble cast. The music of the film as well as its dialogues (Vijay Raaz and Abhimanyu Singh got the best ones though) are below average and action is cheap. The (rouge) cinematography by the FXS Team (which was the main USP of the film) is freaky with unnecessary camera angles (camera becomes a ball and bounces, it becomes a glass or a cup of tea, it even becomes a steering wheel, a person is talking with a shoe in the frame) which eventually becomes irritating and you start loosing interest in the film. Though the film successfully adopts the latest digital technology but it is far more important to entertain the audience than just playing with the '5Ds' like a kid.