RGV Ki Revenge….. RAKTA CHARITRA-1 (Hindi, 2010)

As far back as I can remember I’ve always been a Ram Gopal Varma fan. He’s the kind of maverick who has the ability to ALWAYS bounce back, and a certain section of the audience have faith and expectations in him. I’ve always said….RGV is either a mad man…or a genius, and there’s a very thin line between the two. RAKTA CHARITRA sounded like Varma’s most ambitious film in a while, a 2-part revenge drama soaked in blood, based on a true story, with a consistently interesting cast RAKTA CHARITRA is indeed Varma’s best efforts in a long time. If one has been following Varma closely enough, you’ll know he’s always said there’s no such thing as originality and that all his films were remakes of each other. SHIVA was Varma’s debut film, a violent, gritty thriller about street violence, heroism and power. Since then Varma has defined a genre entirely to himself consisting of a number of terrific moments from SATYA, COMPANY, SARKAR, SARKAR RAJ and not to forget some of his marvellous productions like AB TAK CHAPPAN and D. It would be fair to say right from the start that RAKTA CHARITRA is a double shot cocktail mix of homage (to himself and countless others), violence in style (to perhaps even get a nod from Sergio Leone), drama and dialogue-baazi (taking an obvious inspiration from the SARKAR series) as well as his own all time favourite THE GODFATHER.

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