Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti telecast on Colors channel 4 weeks after release

Guess what’s coming to your television screen soon? Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti, one of the most awaited films of 2010.

Rajneeti poster: The movie has an ensemble cast

Rajneeti, which features an impressive ensemble cast with actors such as Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Nana Patekar, Manoj Bajpai, Arjun Rampal, Naseeruddin Shah and Ajay Devgn, is set to release  on 4 June 2010.

Now that Jha has sold the rights of his movie to Colors channel – for more than Rs 5 crore – fans can catch Rajneeti on TV barely four weeks after its release.

Photo: Katrina Kaif and Nana Patekar from the sets of Rajneeti

This is not the first time that Colors has bagged the rights of a much-hyped movie. Colors aired Blue (the movie was a flop in theaters, by the way!) just 45 days after the movie was released and has also telecast movies like Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (paying Rs 4.5 crore for the first screening) and Kurbaan soon after their release. According to Mid-Day, Colors paid Rs 5 crores for telecast rights of the movie.

Colors has relied on new movies to earn it good revenues and to race ahead in the TRP rankings.
With Rajneeti, Prakash Jha hopes to take the “dirty” out of “dirty politics”. He says the film is a family drama with plenty of the politics that members of families play.

“Rajneeti has been a long journey. It is a film about politics and tries to cover most aspects involved in politics – personal, family, social, state, national. Basically, the film tries to showcase what happens in politics. And I would say this is my most complete film,” Jha said to Hindustan Times.

The filmmaker, who contested the Lok Sabha elections from West Champaran in Bihar last year, says he has had a fulfilling experience working with each and every member of the cast, including Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif.

Ranbir Kapoor, who seems quite kicked about his part in Rajneeti, said he was not apprehensive in the least about the fact that he was working with actors who had for so long been part of realistic cinema. He claimed the film was a huge learning experience for him.

Though Katrina Kaif’s simple and sari-clad look in Rajneeti has drawn comparisons about the resemblance of her character with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Jha said that the movie was not based on any political party or ideology, and that it was based on the reality of politics. Katrina Kaif, who plays the female lead, has also strongly denied that her role in Rajneeti had anything to do with Sonia Gandhi.

Prakash Jha is known for his highly political films such as Damul, Mrityudand, Gangaajal and Apaharan and is the recepient of multiple National Film Awards and Filmfare awards.