Prakash Jha, The name itself attract you to watch the movie. Well the movie has something very interesting to watch and think on it, because issue raised by Director its burning our Country on the name of Reservation and Coaching. Big B, Manoj Vajpayee and Saif performance are par excellent, dialog delivery are fiery and well delivered by all the characters. Over all its much watch movie and worth to give your time.It's a daring, heroic, commanding and an engaging film that shouldn't be missed!  The Principal's role is tailor-made for Amitabh Bachchan. Though the actor has portrayed an unsympathetic Principal of an educational institution in MOHABBATEIN earlier, his role is different this time around  Manoj Bajpayee was remarkable in RAAJNEETI; he played a devious and manipulative politician with gusto. In AARAKSHAN, his character is negative as well; he treats education as a business. And Manoj is incredible this time as well. Prateik is impassive in a few scenes. Also, he needs to loosen up a bit.   Tanvi Azmi is first-rate. Mukesh Tiwari is, as always, top notch. Yashpal Sharma is exceptional. Darshan Jariwala is very good. Saurabh Shukla is wonderful. Chetan Pandit is adequate. Vinay Apte is perfect. Anita Kanwar and S.M. Zaheer are alright. Hema Malini appears towards the end of the film.   An issue-based film rarely has scope for music [Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy] and AARAKSHAN is no different. Nonetheless, Jha weaves the songs smartly in the narrative, which doesn't really hamper the flow of the story  Aarakshan started off with Rs. 4.75 crore on Friday (August 12). Collections improved over the next two days with the film raking in Rs. 6.25 to AM3Rs. 6.5 crores on Saturday and Rs. 7 to Rs. 7.25 crore on Sunday --www.platform47.com