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Sarkar 3: Third time unlucky

There is almost nothing that saves Sarkar 3 from being a poorly written, directed and executed film

Third time unlucky
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Manavi Kapur
The toughest part of writing about a film is keeping it spoiler-free. With Sarkar 3, I am almost tempted to give out the plot so that no one would go through the torture of over two hours of an unbelievably mindless film. The previous two Sarkar films had signature Ram Gopal Varma shoddiness written all over them, but they still qualified as one-time-watch movies. The third instalment takes the shoddy direction, screenplay and cinematography to an entirely different level.
 
Sarkar 3 entails a time leap of about 20 years, though neither Subhash Nagre (Amitabh Bachchan) or his wife (Supriya