‘Rakta Charitra’ Review-2: Who Likes This?

Film: Rakta Charitra
Rating: 3.25/5
Banner: Cinergy productions
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Abhimanyu Singh, Shatrughan Sinha, Kota, Radhika Apte, Zareena Wahab, Sushant Singh, Tanikella, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Rajendra Gupta, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kitty and others
Dialogues: Nageswara Rao
Music: Dharam- Sandeep
DOP: Amol Rathod
Editing: Bhanodaya, Nipun Ashok Gupta
Story, screenplay, direction: Ram Gopal Varma
Producers: Madhu Mantena, Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Chinna Vasudeva Reddy, Rajkumar
Release Date: 22/10/2010
 
‘Rakta Charitra’, the most hyped movie of the season is finally released. Let’s see the impression after the first day first show.
 
Who Like This?
Paritala fans
The people those know about Anantapur politics
The audience those love action and gaction story lines
Ram Gopal Varma Fans
 
Who Cannot Like This?
NTR Fans
People those hate Paritala Ravi
 
What’s There In Story:
MLA Narasimha Reddy (Kitty) is a big man in his place, Anandapuram. His close aide Veerabhadriah (Rajendra Gupta) brings envy in the eyes of Nagmani Reddy (Kota), a relative of Narasimha Reddy. 
 
Nagmani conspires to divide Narasimha Reddy and Veerabhadriah playing caste cards and bringing suspicions. Eventually Veerabhadriah becomes prey for Nagmani Reddy’s conspiracy. Veerabhadriah is killed.
 
This brings anger in Veerabhadriah’s elder son Shankar Ravi (Sushant) and he gets into murdering the men of Narasimha Reddy by operating from forests.
 
Veerabhadriah’s younger son Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberoi) who lives in a city comes to know about his father death. Eventually his brother Shankar also gets killed in police station. That makes Pratap enraged and he takes the place of his brother in killing men with revenge.
 
Pratap puts an end to Narasimha Reddy, Nagmani Reddy and other allies. Nagamani Reddy’s son Bukka Reddy (Abhimanyu), a hardcore rapist and murderer becomes Pratap’s main enemy.
 
The rise of Pratap as a powerful killer against Bukka Reddy is noticed by Shivaji Rao (Shatrughan) who sets a new party. Shivaji Rao encourages Pratap to make him politically strong in order to put and end to Bukka Reddy who troubles the growth of his party in Anandapuram area.
 
What happens from then can be watched on screen.
 
Who Performed Well?
No compromise. All the artistes performed up to their mark.
 
Vivek Oberoi is at his best as Pratap Ravi.
 
Shatrughan Sinha steals the show. He emulated the mannerisms of NTR in his own style.
 
Abhimanyu Singh is the eye turner. His villainy deserves a great mention. He will be known as cruel Bukka Reddy from now to Telugu audiences.
 
Radhika Apte is good but she has got nothing big to perform than throwing two smiles and shedding 3 tears.
 
Kota, Tanikella Bharani, Rajendra Kapoor, Ashish Vidyrathi and others are all good.
 
Analysis:
Almost all the incidents in the movie are realistic and not far from facts. The intensity shown in Bukka Reddy’s (Obul Reddy in real life) character, killing him in Maheshwari chambers Room-102 are shown perfectly in tune with reality.
 
Except Bukka Reddy’s character nothing is strongly carved. The typical Rayalaseema faction chases and murder plots are not perfectly shaped. There couldhave beenmore breath taking intensity.
 
The biggest flaw in narration is that the intensity of reason for Manda (Asish Vidyarthi) to kill Veerabhadriah (the labor leader) is not established properly. The conviction is not strongly felt when Pratap Ravi’s people keep on killing opponents and their supporters.
 
The facts and fiction in this movie are well knitted but the picturization part is not impressive. Poor lighting and poor quality of picture are clearly evident. Probably ‘Digital Cameras’ are not capable enough to impress the Telugu audiences at present.
This is Ram Gopal Varma’s film but no shades of that sort were seen either in technical values or dialogue power. Except a couple of dialogues here and there, the typical Varma trade mark is shown little.
 
The first half is completely political with a little confusion in characters for the audiences those do not know the current affairs. The drama starts in second half and that is impressive.
 
But on a whole, the movie gives a different feel and fills senses with contentment. Rakta Charitra will certainly pull great chunk of audiences to Rakta Charitra-2.
 
Bottom-line: It is impressive-That’s all- Topic is over!!!
 
Venkat Arikatla ([email protected])