Sony Pictures have announced release of Rajneeti blu-ray on Aug 3. MRP will be INR 799.
Also Dvd is to be out for INR 299
Special Edition Dvd ( with Bonus content ) for INR 399.

great! I hate to watch it on Std dvd first, esp movie with no repeat value!

its amazing........since sony is releasing it and i had missed the movie beacuse of my examss goin on.......watching it on blu ray will surely be a treat..............and iam quite sure abt its pq and aq........being the best.............

I hate to be the one to rain on every one's parade, but I personally do not have very high hopes for a good, let alone 'as great as Saawariya', BD of Rajneeti. My reasons for this our two fold. First of all, supposedly 'Sony DADC' are the ones who are authoring this Blu-ray and the fact is that they do not have a very good track record as far as their DVD releases in India are concerned. The few Hollywood movie DVDs, released by Sony in India and presumably authored by Sony DADC, that I have seen, have all been pathetic. Thus, even an average release from them would be out of the ordinary and not the norm. Secondly, although I am not too sure what impact this will have on the Blu-ray, but I saw this film on a 2K digital projection at one of the premiere theaters and the picture quality was absolutely pathetic. Believe you me, it was almost like watching a bad DVD. The colors were totally wacked out, the contrast was like watching on a cheap LCD display, the picture was very dull and it seemed like the picture had been put through some really excessive DNR, thus washing away any signs of film grain and totally robbing the picture of any sharpness whatsoever. In short the picture was absolutely and shockingly strocious, specially considering that I was watching a brand new release in a theater during the movie's first run and that too at the flagship theater of India's No. 1 mutiplex chain. I have not seen the movie in a regular theater with standard film projection, thus cannot be sure of where exactly the problem begins. But, since I watched a digital print, my guess is that it is the film to digital transfer that is to blame or maybe some further processing done on the digital print. Based on my experience in the theater, my concern is, that if the original theatrical DPs are so pathetic, what shape will the digital master provided to the Blu-ray authorer be in. Maybe someone else (Sunny) here with more experience in these matters can shed some more light on the whole process and if the original masters used for the theatrical digital prints are the same as the one used for the Blu-ray.

In the meantime, I am keeping my fingers crossed and I sure hope that my fears are proven wrong and Sony does put out a fantastic BD.

PS: 'Saaawariya' was a Sony Pictures production and was also distributed by them worldwide. Thus the 'Saawariya' Blu-ray was not authored or manufactured in India and it was entirely handled by whoever handles and with the same production standards as Sony's hollywood blu-ray releases.

I understand your point Sanjay.

Sony India has a crappy track record like every one else re their dvd quality.

but for viewing BLURAY should be marginally better than , SD I guess!