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Surya looks explosive. The trailer is par for the course with Varma in some ways but with a cast that actually seem interesting (Surya ferociously in the center of the action) this is instantly much more of a sell than many of his recent efforts.
The thing with Vivek, who otherwise looks fine here, is that compared to Surya he comes off as plastic. It’s not just for the obvious reason that Surya is ‘better’ or doing an intense role here. Most Bombay actors looks hopelessly superficial when juxtaposed with major stars from Tamil cinema. Having said that Oberoi might not be a bad foil for Surya’s intensity.
vivek is lookin much better than he looked in his last flick prince.!! (if dat means anything..i dont know)..lookin very much like suresh oberoi nd certainly has a presence!! surya is lookin like any other rgv film actor..all brooding nd intense.!!.doesn’t matter who it is..abhishek,,surya,,sudeep,,ajay..all rgv actors look d same to me!! brooding,,intense nd frowning all d time!
Don’t know exactly. Apparently Vivek and Surya have almost equal screen time but I would assume condensing a 5 hour film will mean heavy editing and since this is for TN audience it would focus more on Surya’s role.
I don’t think Vivek attended the Press meet in Chennai either so probably selling this version as a Surya movie.
Surya is explosive!! Vivek manages to retain impact with his silence…this could be a winner for RGV with the Southern connection. Between this and RAAVAN im PUMPED….though RAAVAN looks like it’s in a league of it’s own
In Telugu of course both versions are releasing.. each preview has a number at the end.. the ghost of Soderbergh’s Che (for all the distinctions stylistically) might be hovering over this one.
Superb double trailers and even if nothing can quite impress as much after the Raavan(an) shots and also for the simple reason that this sort of ‘scene’ is something we’ve seen many times from RGV before the one thing this does is make Rajneeti look rather inferior (though I otherwise enjoyed some of the previews here).
RGV meanwhile in some ways has always been the guy remaking Shiva. The idea of street violence is something that he’s always returned to even if some of his Hindi efforts, most notably with the Sarkar films offered a ‘sublimation’ of this instinct. SR though marked a return to roots in some sense because here you had the Sarkar really experiencing ‘street politics’.
Abhishek and Surya would have been a dazzling combo for this film though again the Hindi market here is more or less non-existent.
But I get back to my older RGV point again. Despite all the promise of theme and style RGV has never made a genuinely great film. It’s not about having misfires and so forth but about ultimately lacking the comprehensive vision to achieve this. I think he came closest to such a film in SR where there is a strong critique of the concerns that dominate that world. Of course eventually the man in him who also loves to shock took over and there was the twist et al which really moved the franchise away from what it was meant to be. It’s also not about being the eternal ‘experimenter’ because RGV isn’t really experimenting! And when he does they’re not very interesting experiments. I might seem too critical on him but he’s really wasted his gifts in rather remarkable fashion and even on a strong day these days he is simply ‘repeating’ himself. These trailers make an impact but not for ‘newness’. It’s not just about the shots or the crowd scenes and so forth but also about the characters etc. We’ve seen a lot of this before. The thing is that RGV is essentially interested in creating suspense (there is an inner link between his gangland films and the horror ones). But to achieve this he has to keep derailing the more interesting implications of his narratives. This worked perfectly in Shiva where there was nothing more to the tale than the basic element of one person taking on the goons and the politicos and so on. Satya too was fine because the narrative was extremely even here, really the best of RGV’s career but everywhere else there are problems. Sarkar was at least an attempt to produce ‘effect’ more than anything else, chronicle gesturality as it were, and again SR tried to inject a greater sense of narrative in this universe but there were many ‘incomplete’ ends here. I like many of his films for all this, I still await Rakta Charitra to some degree. But I don’t expect anything special. It’s like if Rathnam kept remaking Nayagan he would still be an impressive director but a much lesser one. Does RGV have anything interesting to say about Indian politics or a leader like Paritala Ravi? I doubt it. Again a Leone comparison is handy for that great director, and examining just his Westerns, always had a very profound sense of narrative and was really a master at combining his own unique sense of gesturality with the demands of his narrative. RGV has seldom done this. I have examined his strengths at many points in the past but these have never coalesced into something greater than the sum of their parts. RGV perennially disappoints me precisely because he is capable of greater things.
Incidentally when I use a word like ‘narrative’ I really mean ‘narrativity’ and not something hopelessly old-fashioned like ‘story’.
Seriously, though, I actually continue to find Company the most watchable of all RGV’s films, with Satya a close second. I think it was with this film that he achieved everything he possibly could achieve in the sense of striking the best balance between a gripping narrative (even if the ending and Devgan’s turn is less than believable) and an auteurist aesthetic that he began here and stuck with ever since. Essentially the balance between “gesturality” and “narrativity”.
Incidentally if this casting is meant to be a subtextual showdown between “North” and “South”, RGV really should have picked a star with some more “weight” than Oberoi from the Hindi film industry to go toe-to-toe with Surya. This isn’t a matter of talent or anything lacking on Vivek’s part but a basic sense of “stature” and presence in one’s industry. Vivek is no where close, with respect to his industry, to where Surya is perched in Tamil filmdom.
Actually this has been the most obvious problem with this film for me from the beginning, though I’m looking forward to it at a basic level. Casting an actor-star of Surya’s stature suddenly made the film bigger than what it was earlier.
Ram Gopal VermaMaverick film maker Ram Gopal Verma`s much-hyped movie Rakta Charitra, which is loosely based on the unmitigated violence and factional killings in Rayalaseema region in Andhra Pradesh, has got into trouble, barely a month before its planned release.
The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission(APSHRC) called for a report from the regional film censor board following complaints from several organizations including Stree Shakti Sanghathana that the movie sought to promote violence and factionalism.
Even a Naxalite group (which believes in violence), CPI(ML) New Democracy, also filed a complaint with the APSHRC, opposing its release.
There were also objections to the use of a quote from epic Mahabharata in the promos and defaming the name of Anantapur (which produced great people like former president Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy and Godman Satya Sai Baba).
The APSHRC has given time till May 28 for the censor board to reply.
Rakta Charitra, which is simultaneously being made in Telugu Tamil and Hindi is Verma`s most ambitious venture so far. The story is said to portray the never-ending war between Paritala Ravi and Maddelacheruvu Suri, two well known factionists-turned-politicians.
Hyderabad-born Vivek Oberoi plays the role of the former, while Tamil superstar Surya is playing the role of the latter.
Rakta Charitra is a movie for men. Women, children can stay at home: Ramu
Ram Gopal Varma ‘Revenge is the purest form of emotion’ read the posters of Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Rakta Charitra’. The first look of the movie was unveiled today in Mumbai, with Vivek Oberoi, Suriya, Priyamani, Anubhav Singh and Ram Gopal Verma taking the dais.
The movie, which is based on a true life story of factionists Paritala Ravi and Maddela Cheruvu Suri is touted to be the most violent film in Hindi cinema. Ramu, however, blames hard reality for the blood and gore. Much research has gone into the project. “There was enough and more media coverage – newspaper articles, television interviews, even books that were referred to,” said the director.
Vivek Oberoi, who worked with Ramu after a gap of eight years, claims, “It’s like a debut all over again. It’s always fascinating to work with a director like Ram Gopal Verma and it’s seldom that actors stumble upon roles like the one I’ve played in ‘Rakta Charitra’. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I’m fortunate to have got it.” Vivek will be seen in a new avatar this time round with moustache
South actor Suriya makes a Hindi film debut with ‘Rakta Charitra’. Humbly he said, “I owe it all to Ramu sir. We have wanted to work together since five years, and at last ‘Rakta Charitra’ happened.” Suriya was also quick to thank the Mumbai media for all the support he received even before his first film had hit the screens. ‘Rakta Charitra’ will release in three languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. “Speaking Hindi was a task, but I have dubbed for all three versions, and can fluently say ‘Main marne se darta nahin, usey maarne ke pehle marne ka darr hai.’ This dialogue delivery got much applause, and so did his welcome to Bollywood!
South actress Priyamani, who showcased her acting skills in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’, is a part of the ensemble, too. “I was shooting in Lankavi for ‘Raavan’ when I got a call and was informed that Ramu sir wanted me to be a part of Rakta Charitra. I remember I immediately agreed to be a part of this movie. Before I knew it, I was in Mumbai and shooting for it,” she said. Her favourite moment whilst the shooting of this film was when the real life Suri came to the sets. “He’s such an unassuming guy, and one can’t imagine the misfortune he has gone through. It was truly a memorable moment.”
‘Rakta Charitra’ is set to hit the screens in October, while ‘Rakta Charitra – Part II’ will release a couple of weeks post the release of Part I. Hailed to be bloody and gory, Ramu proudly stated, “The women and children can stay home. This is a movie for men!” And as an afterthought added, “But I honestly feel that women love violence more than men.”
When asked about the possibility of Ramu and team being dragged to court, just like many films based on true incidents/people are, he quickly said, “With the kind of people we are dealing with, there’ll be no court. They’ll just gather in hundreds with sickles and axes in their hands!” Thus came to an end another eventful day in the world of Bollywood.
Ram Gopal Varma gets death threats, won’t accept security
By Subhash K. Jha, September 1, 2010 – 11:03 IST
Ram Gopal Varma In spite of the security threat, Ram Gopal Varma is at this very moment moving around in Hyderabad unescorted. He is visiting his mother in the city. And won’t stay away because of the threat.
He isn’t being brave, just practical. “This is not the first time I’m under threat. It has happened to me on several occasions. When in the history of assassinations have security guards been able to save anyone? The one who is determined to kill you will do.”
Supporters of an alleged outlaw Ubala Reddy who figures prominently in Rakta Charitra are not amused by the way they think their leader must have be portrayed in Varma’s film.
But Ramu is more amused than frightened by these threats. “They’ve sent a long legal notice in which they express their misgivings about Ubala Reddy. But I want to know how they know how I’ve portrayed the character (played by Abhimanyu Singh) when they haven’t seen a single frame?”
Ramu refuses to surrender to such arm-twisting tactics “They’re welcome to do what they like. My film remains unchanged.”
While Rakta Charitra is being released on October 22, the release date for the sequel which is ready, is not decided.
Says Ramu, “We decided on doing the sequel simultaneously to save costs. It doesn’t matter how Rakta Charitra fares. We’ll release the sequel. So far whoever has seen the film has loved it. The best compliment came from a rival actor who said he was sad about it, but this film would bring Vivek back into the reckoning.”
RGV revels in gore, ghosts and gangsters. Surya is cut out for gentle roles. Vivek. I cant say much. This movie will be average or a flop in North. In South too, it wont be a blockbuster inspite of all the hype. South audience are mainly undereducated women and underemployed youth. The women wont like this type of movie. This is also one of RGV’s Don type movies and this time he took andhra gangsters’ lifestyle. Nothing pathbreaking.
from movie freak/ng.. a wonderful write up on Rakt charitra! AND build up to movie by him.
The first poster of Rakth Charitra showed a henchman – waist down – washing his bloodied sickle infront of a bore pump. It generated an immediate craze among audiences. This craze might be restricted to AP, where the audience is aware of the people the movie is based on. For the members who are interested in watching this film and are unaware of the faction wars in southern AP, here is a breakdown of the characters and the story (comparing with trailors). It is lengthy.. so skip it if you have no interest in the film. The events in the movie occurred in one particular district – Anantapur. Due to censor objections, I believe they changed it to ‘Anandpur’ or something similar.
Vivek Oberoi: Based on real life character Paritala Ravindra (or Ravi) – screen name changed to Pratap Ravi. Ravi is the one who is primarily identified with faction politics in AP. His father was a communist who fought against post independence feudal system in that region and seized lands from others, thus creating several rivals, two of which murdered him. In trailor, we see Ashish Vidhyardhi killing someone with a boulder, next to a bus. I believe that is Ravi’s father being killed. Ravi’s brother was later killed in a police ‘encounter’. Since he was the next target, he fled and joined the naxalite movement and started planning the murders of those two rivals. We see Vidyardhi being killed in the streets…that’s the first – Narayana Reddy. Then we see Vivek, dressed as a policeman shooting someone, that’s the second rival – Chenna Reddy. After these murders, he came into the open and became a feared landlord in that region. He did a lot of good for the poor but was ruthless to his enemies. He had a constant fear that someone is planning his murder and kept killing anyone he had suspicion on, turning south AP into a region of bloodshed. Land grabbing, abductions, illegal contacts he did them all. Telugu movie legend/former CM, N.T.RamaRao got him into politics and there was no looking back. Within 8 months of Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy coming to power, Ravi was murdered. His wife is currently an MLA.
Surya: Based on G.Suryanarayana Reddy (or Suri) – screen name changed to Surya Bhanureddy. The first rival, Narayana, that Ravi killed was Suri’s father. Suri was sent somewhere in Bangalore by his followers to protect him. But the murder of the second rival, Chenna, brought Suri back. He joined hands with Chenna’s sons to fight against Ravi. Later Ravi planned a bomb blast that killed Suri’s mother, brother, sister and her husband. This started intense blood battle, where several associates and henchmen on both sides were killed. Suri lived like a mad man with the only aim in life to kill Ravi. Surya’s intensity in the trailors seem to show this very well. After Chenna’s sons were murdered by Ravi.. Suri tried a bomb blast attempt at a movie shooting, but Ravi escaped with injuries. Suri was the accused and sent to jail on a life term. That’s why you see Surya in prison clothes. Even while in jail, he kept plotting Ravi’s murder. Just like in ‘company’, cell phone was a big aid to him. Jagan (YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s son) helped Suri get whatever he needs and within 8 months of Congress coming into power, Suri was able to plot Ravi’s murder which was executed by a rowdy named Moddu Seenu. If you watched ‘Wanted’, there is a guy who gives an interview and says that he is a hero and then later gets killed by Salman during a don meeting. That characted is molded after seenu. He killed Ravi and boasted about it in a private tv interview in delhi. Suri was released from jail early this year and he says he left faction wars behind and wants to serve people as a politician …:)
Shatrughan Sinha: Based on N.T.Rama Rao – screen name changed to Shivaji Rao. NTR was the sole opposition to Congress in AP. He wanted to wrest south AP from Congress and he saw Ravi as the opportunity. One reason was that Ravi’s rivals were all affiliated with Congress and second was that NTR and Ravi belonged to the same caste. During his reign, he indirectly helped Ravi, by turning a blind eye to whatever he was doing. He encouraged Ravi to join politics and gave his party ticket. After NTR’s death, though Ravi remained with the party, Chandrababu Naidu could neither control him nor expel him.
Abhimanyu Singh: Based on Obul Reddy- screen name changed to Bukka Reddy. Obul was Chenna’s son. Suri joined hands with him to fight Ravi. Obul is the kind of villian character you might have seen in several hindi and south movies. A few accounts of him told to me by a friend from the town of dharmavaram – that Obul was a serial rapist and sadist , that he burnt a village sarpanch alive, that he forcibly kept a govt employee’s wife with him for a week, that a women’s college near Chenna’s house had to be closed fearing rapes. These accounts seem to be confirmed by the photos released by RGV. We see Abhimanyu in his bedroom with a woman on his lap, her hands tied behind ber back, another photo where he is sitting in a van and two young girls look at him terrified, a man being burnt tied to a pole. Knowing RGV’s tendencies, don’t be surprised if extra attention is paid to this character. He was murdered by Ravi (or his goons) in a hotel where they came in burqua’s (again seen in trailor).
RGV has had several death threats and yet he is planning to watch the movie first day in Anantapur. If there is no stoppage/ban of the movie, it would do very well in AP. If the first part is good, then without doubt the second part (involving Surya) will be HUGE as people are very excited about his look from the trailors. Hope the hindi movie turns out be atleast below average, as this might be way too violent to be a hit.
The latest clip here with the statue of the Mahatma looking over the scene of violence is pretty cheap stuff. AAA used this staging with the statue decades earlier of course with far less fetishistic violence and far more resonance. Even Raavan had the Mahatma frame over the police station where Beera’s sister sits, accosted by policeman, but Ratnam merely has the image work with the rest of the set and camerawork and doesn’t call attention to the irony of its presence as pornographically as RGV does here.
The filmmaker has been ordered to remove a ‘quote’, supposedly from the Mahabharata, from the posters of his next
Kunal.M.Shah
Posted On Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 02:59:56 AM
Ram Gopal Varma is embroiled in a brand new controversy. The posters of his upcoming film, Rakht Charitra, have encountered censor issues in Hyderabad, because they mention the Mahabharata.
The censor board has objected to a ‘quote’ used from the epic. Now, Ramu has no option but to remove it from all the posters of his film.
Our source said, “The posters of Ramu’s film have a catch line that reads, `Revenge is the purest emotion’ Mahabharata’.
The censor board in Hyderabad objected to this and asked the producers of the film, Cinergy and Ram Gopal Varma, to remove this supposed reference to the Mahabharata.
The censor board told them that there is no proof that the quote in question, ‘Revenge is the purest emotion’, is indeed from the Mahabharata. They have asked for it to be removed. However, all the poster designs have already been made and distributed. Now, the producers have no option but to change each one of them, which involves a huge cost.”
The producer of the film, Sheetal Talwar, said, “Yes, they have asked us to remove it. We believe that the sentiments of the people are important and if this hurts them then we will remove it.”
When asked about the extra expenditure due to this last-minute change, he shrugged, “That’s not important at all. The censor has raised something from a regional perspective and there is an issue. We are ready to remove it.”
And through this, Ramu has remained nonchalant. He said, “The censor board questioned me on how I could quote the Mahabharata.
However, the epic predominantly deals with revenge, betrayal and friction between families, which is exactly what my film is about. I therefore felt that it is the right quote to use. But the censor board felt otherwise and we had to remove it now.”
A quote is used verbatim Ramu, never as an interpretation! Un-khot!
This movie should be banned from release as there is too much violence without any strategy just for the sake of ….how people can watch this type of movie…everyone should oppose this kind of violent stories..
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, known for his controversial comments, again spoke his mind when he said that his forthcoming film Rakta Charitra was not for people who are fond of Karan Johar’s family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.
Varma and Johar have often locked horns on various subjects on social networking sites and in front of the media and Varma didn’t lose an opportunity to do the same at an event organised here, where the director showed 30 minutes of footage of Rakta Charitra to the media.
“I wanted to give a small introduction to the film and that was the purpose of showing this footage to a certain section of the people,” Varma told reporters here.
“I have done films of this genre before. But the difference in Rakta Charitra or let’s say in Company is that first, the latter has a urban setup and the second Company is different in terms of the characters and the way it has been shot.
“Rakta Charitra deals with very emotionally volatile people and is set in a rural atmosphere. It is a violent film. Having said that, violence doesn’t come from a psychopath. It comes from a certain necessity. It comes from a struggle, certain have nots between communities, families and probably a struggle for power,” he added.
The film is a trilingual made in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil. It is based on the life of Paritala Ravi, a slain factionist and political leader from Andhra Pradesh. The film stars Vivek Oberoi, Surya and Shatrughan Sinha in pivotal roles and is scheduled to be released on Oct 22.
“In terms of the pitch of the film. I just want to quote an incident that happened with Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
“When he showed his first film Pulp Fiction to people, he apparently went on stage and asked the people that did any one of them like the Rain Man. About 30-40 people raised their hands. He told those people to leave because he said that this film was not for them,” said Varma.
“So this film Rakta Charitra is not for the people who like Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham.”
no way will “rakht charitra” work with its graphic, animalistic violence. and i thought “barbarr” was violent. whew!. it looks very tame in comparison to this film. the trailers of RC is an orgy of bloodletting.
I have to agree.. though I am still looking forward to the film my enthusiasm has waned to the degree that RGV as you rightly point out really seems to be in the orgy business here! It’s still an ambitious double film and hopefully should be worthwhile (ideally I’d like to watch both back to back.. another example of how these things are handled poorly in India.. it should be a limited release thing with the possibility of buying a ticket for both shows back to back or simply watching them on separate days..) but RGV somehow seems to want to outdo his previous levels of violence in every film! The problem is twofold.. for one I think he’d make better films if he just relaxed a bit! But secondly one is so desensitized to violence having seen so much from Hollywood and elsewhere that nothing quite seems that violent. of course there are two kinds of violence in RGV. The obvious kind but then also the one that emanates from on the one hand the oppressive atmosphere of his films and on the other hand his editing and/or his extreme angles. But all of this we’ve seen previously and certainly I think he took this mode to a logical extreme in the two Sarkar films. I am still hoping against hope that he can build on his previous work with this double film. Finally there’s the political problem with his work, the amorality can be very disturbing. Not that I have a problem with the latter in itself but you need a more convincing framework or you’re again left with an ‘orgy’. That kind of violence with that sort of tone can only be forgiven if it’s Blood Meridian!
On the merit of some of these trailers, it’s as if he’s making one of his horror films…
Honestly, I’m going to wait on the reports once this releases before I watch it…these trailers are very poor for the most part and unless the reports are encouraging, I’m going to save my money here.
the problem is that RGV is highlighting the violence so much that forget getting the family audience (which he never would anyway) he’s probably going to scare off many of the younger viewers as well. I always dislike this sort of strategy. Once one attempts an ambitious film one should at least try and get as many people as one can in the initial round. Now RGV has also said this is his most violent movie but not in a literal sense. So it’s even more regrettable that he’s chosen to focus so much on the violence.
There are those in every artistic endeavor who always find being a gadfly more interesting than anything else.
i know and completely agreed on ur point of youngster.. as I myself wont be seeing it now.. looking at the promos!! earlier i was interesterd.. now m satisfied by promos only
This is starting to look like all of his other movies…weird angles, loud bg score, etc. It would be ok to have a similar style in all your movies, if you didn’t release a movie every couple of months. RGV needs a new style and a new crew.
I’m still interested in watching this movie, might be decent…I wish it had someone other than Vivek.
RGV to delete NTR scenes in Raktha Charitra
2010-10-23 12:24:50
Controversial film-maker Ram Gopal Varma has agreed to delete scenes featuring a character similar to N.T. Rama Rao from his latest movie Rakta Charitra, after the former chief minister’s family and the Telugu Desam created uproar about his being portrayed as a person who endorsed murders.
Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu objected to the portrayal of NTR in the movie and others threatened to move court. Following this, RGV made a climb down and the co-producer of the movie, C.Kalyan, declared that the scenes to which the TD objected will be taken off immediately. The movie that hit the screens in three
languages on Friday features Shatrughan Sinha, a thinly veiled portrait of NTR. It may be recalled that ever since the shooting of the film started, there were fears that it would lead to a renewed bout of violence between the two factions involved – one that was led by the slain Telugu Desam legislator from Penukonda, Paritala Ravindra and the other by G. Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddalacheruvu Suri. Meanwhile, protests by the Telugu Desam cadres marred all over the state, as they resorted to burning and tearing of the flexes and wall-posters of Raktha Charitra, though the screening was not stalled anywhere.
I wonder if this is for every version or just the Telugu. A shame. I don’t think Sinha’s particularly great in this but his character is an important one..
Yeah frankly the second half would make no sense if these scenes were simply “delted”….I imagine what RGV would do in place is a voice-over and montage describing Ravi’s ascent but it would really cripple the work. Imagine if Iruvar didn’t have the Jayalalitha character in the second half!
These new snippets with Surya look good but one wishes to see a bit more substance given the first one resulted in more “story” than I think many of us imagined.
May 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Surya looks explosive. The trailer is par for the course with Varma in some ways but with a cast that actually seem interesting (Surya ferociously in the center of the action) this is instantly much more of a sell than many of his recent efforts.
May 4, 2010 at 4:53 PM
agreed completely…
May 4, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Actually its Vivek who strikes more of a presence even in just a few scenes.
May 4, 2010 at 5:14 PM
Vivek has some presence but Varma was smart not to allow him to speak very much here.
May 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM
The thing with Vivek, who otherwise looks fine here, is that compared to Surya he comes off as plastic. It’s not just for the obvious reason that Surya is ‘better’ or doing an intense role here. Most Bombay actors looks hopelessly superficial when juxtaposed with major stars from Tamil cinema. Having said that Oberoi might not be a bad foil for Surya’s intensity.
May 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM
vivek is lookin much better than he looked in his last flick prince.!! (if dat means anything..i dont know)..lookin very much like suresh oberoi nd certainly has a presence!! surya is lookin like any other rgv film actor..all brooding nd intense.!!.doesn’t matter who it is..abhishek,,surya,,sudeep,,ajay..all rgv actors look d same to me!! brooding,,intense nd frowning all d time!
May 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM
p.s. even d crows nd d ghosts in his movies have similar expressions..!!
May 4, 2010 at 6:28 PM
quite like Sudeep though he deserves more than the Phoonk affairs he gets from RGV! Did think he was the show stealer in Rann.
May 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM
Fantastic trailer here! Vivek seems like such a poser next to “real deal” surya…
May 4, 2010 at 7:40 PM
looks violent…trailers is good, but i will not be conned by a rgv trailer yet again.
May 4, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Telugu trailer a bit different at points..
May 4, 2010 at 11:32 PM
This is a two part film incidentally..so is just the part with Surya releasing in TN? That would be odd.. not to get the background..
May 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM
satyam need help.. i cant see the trailer!!
May 4, 2010 at 11:40 PM
there was a problem with youtube, they’ve just resolved it..
May 5, 2010 at 4:26 AM
ok i saw the trailer.. but they are in some south language.. is something available for hindi??
May 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM
The tamil version is single film (not in 2 parts) so I would assume it will release only In TN.
May 5, 2010 at 8:54 AM
oh ok.. didn’t know this.. but how is it being done? Is it mostly the Surya portions from both parts?
May 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Don’t know exactly. Apparently Vivek and Surya have almost equal screen time but I would assume condensing a 5 hour film will mean heavy editing and since this is for TN audience it would focus more on Surya’s role.
I don’t think Vivek attended the Press meet in Chennai either so probably selling this version as a Surya movie.
May 5, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Surya is explosive!! Vivek manages to retain impact with his silence…this could be a winner for RGV with the Southern connection. Between this and RAAVAN im PUMPED….though RAAVAN looks like it’s in a league of it’s own
May 5, 2010 at 1:46 PM
Wonder why RGV isn’t releasing any Hindi previews yet..
May 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM
In Telugu of course both versions are releasing.. each preview has a number at the end.. the ghost of Soderbergh’s Che (for all the distinctions stylistically) might be hovering over this one.
May 5, 2010 at 8:55 PM
I’d thought exactly this (re: Che) when I first heard about this.
Surya is the reason to see this film for me. Am dying to get a Hindi trailer just out of sheer curiosity at this point.
May 5, 2010 at 1:56 PM
Superb double trailers and even if nothing can quite impress as much after the Raavan(an) shots and also for the simple reason that this sort of ‘scene’ is something we’ve seen many times from RGV before the one thing this does is make Rajneeti look rather inferior (though I otherwise enjoyed some of the previews here).
RGV meanwhile in some ways has always been the guy remaking Shiva. The idea of street violence is something that he’s always returned to even if some of his Hindi efforts, most notably with the Sarkar films offered a ‘sublimation’ of this instinct. SR though marked a return to roots in some sense because here you had the Sarkar really experiencing ‘street politics’.
Abhishek and Surya would have been a dazzling combo for this film though again the Hindi market here is more or less non-existent.
May 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM
But I get back to my older RGV point again. Despite all the promise of theme and style RGV has never made a genuinely great film. It’s not about having misfires and so forth but about ultimately lacking the comprehensive vision to achieve this. I think he came closest to such a film in SR where there is a strong critique of the concerns that dominate that world. Of course eventually the man in him who also loves to shock took over and there was the twist et al which really moved the franchise away from what it was meant to be. It’s also not about being the eternal ‘experimenter’ because RGV isn’t really experimenting! And when he does they’re not very interesting experiments. I might seem too critical on him but he’s really wasted his gifts in rather remarkable fashion and even on a strong day these days he is simply ‘repeating’ himself. These trailers make an impact but not for ‘newness’. It’s not just about the shots or the crowd scenes and so forth but also about the characters etc. We’ve seen a lot of this before. The thing is that RGV is essentially interested in creating suspense (there is an inner link between his gangland films and the horror ones). But to achieve this he has to keep derailing the more interesting implications of his narratives. This worked perfectly in Shiva where there was nothing more to the tale than the basic element of one person taking on the goons and the politicos and so on. Satya too was fine because the narrative was extremely even here, really the best of RGV’s career but everywhere else there are problems. Sarkar was at least an attempt to produce ‘effect’ more than anything else, chronicle gesturality as it were, and again SR tried to inject a greater sense of narrative in this universe but there were many ‘incomplete’ ends here. I like many of his films for all this, I still await Rakta Charitra to some degree. But I don’t expect anything special. It’s like if Rathnam kept remaking Nayagan he would still be an impressive director but a much lesser one. Does RGV have anything interesting to say about Indian politics or a leader like Paritala Ravi? I doubt it. Again a Leone comparison is handy for that great director, and examining just his Westerns, always had a very profound sense of narrative and was really a master at combining his own unique sense of gesturality with the demands of his narrative. RGV has seldom done this. I have examined his strengths at many points in the past but these have never coalesced into something greater than the sum of their parts. RGV perennially disappoints me precisely because he is capable of greater things.
Incidentally when I use a word like ‘narrative’ I really mean ‘narrativity’ and not something hopelessly old-fashioned like ‘story’.
May 5, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Why must you needle TS?
May 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Seriously, though, I actually continue to find Company the most watchable of all RGV’s films, with Satya a close second. I think it was with this film that he achieved everything he possibly could achieve in the sense of striking the best balance between a gripping narrative (even if the ending and Devgan’s turn is less than believable) and an auteurist aesthetic that he began here and stuck with ever since. Essentially the balance between “gesturality” and “narrativity”.
May 5, 2010 at 9:20 PM
I prefer Satya but I certainly see the case for Company.
May 5, 2010 at 11:39 PM
For me, COMPANY is more watchable, though it’s arguable which is the better film.
May 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Incidentally if this casting is meant to be a subtextual showdown between “North” and “South”, RGV really should have picked a star with some more “weight” than Oberoi from the Hindi film industry to go toe-to-toe with Surya. This isn’t a matter of talent or anything lacking on Vivek’s part but a basic sense of “stature” and presence in one’s industry. Vivek is no where close, with respect to his industry, to where Surya is perched in Tamil filmdom.
May 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM
completely valid point..
May 5, 2010 at 11:42 PM
good calll, I actually would’ve like to see Devgan or Abhishek here…
May 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM
Actually this has been the most obvious problem with this film for me from the beginning, though I’m looking forward to it at a basic level. Casting an actor-star of Surya’s stature suddenly made the film bigger than what it was earlier.
May 7, 2010 at 7:36 AM
RGV’s Rakta Charitra in trouble
Ram Gopal VermaMaverick film maker Ram Gopal Verma`s much-hyped movie Rakta Charitra, which is loosely based on the unmitigated violence and factional killings in Rayalaseema region in Andhra Pradesh, has got into trouble, barely a month before its planned release.
The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission(APSHRC) called for a report from the regional film censor board following complaints from several organizations including Stree Shakti Sanghathana that the movie sought to promote violence and factionalism.
Even a Naxalite group (which believes in violence), CPI(ML) New Democracy, also filed a complaint with the APSHRC, opposing its release.
There were also objections to the use of a quote from epic Mahabharata in the promos and defaming the name of Anantapur (which produced great people like former president Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy and Godman Satya Sai Baba).
The APSHRC has given time till May 28 for the censor board to reply.
Rakta Charitra, which is simultaneously being made in Telugu Tamil and Hindi is Verma`s most ambitious venture so far. The story is said to portray the never-ending war between Paritala Ravi and Maddelacheruvu Suri, two well known factionists-turned-politicians.
Hyderabad-born Vivek Oberoi plays the role of the former, while Tamil superstar Surya is playing the role of the latter.
May 7, 2010 at 7:37 AM
“…that the movie sought to promote violence and factionalism.”
this is hilarious!
May 7, 2010 at 7:58 AM
July 7, 2010 at 12:25 AM
Kassam, that trailer you posted is already available here..
August 14, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Rakta Charitra is a movie for men. Women, children can stay at home: Ramu
Ram Gopal Varma ‘Revenge is the purest form of emotion’ read the posters of Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Rakta Charitra’. The first look of the movie was unveiled today in Mumbai, with Vivek Oberoi, Suriya, Priyamani, Anubhav Singh and Ram Gopal Verma taking the dais.
The movie, which is based on a true life story of factionists Paritala Ravi and Maddela Cheruvu Suri is touted to be the most violent film in Hindi cinema. Ramu, however, blames hard reality for the blood and gore. Much research has gone into the project. “There was enough and more media coverage – newspaper articles, television interviews, even books that were referred to,” said the director.
Vivek Oberoi, who worked with Ramu after a gap of eight years, claims, “It’s like a debut all over again. It’s always fascinating to work with a director like Ram Gopal Verma and it’s seldom that actors stumble upon roles like the one I’ve played in ‘Rakta Charitra’. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I’m fortunate to have got it.” Vivek will be seen in a new avatar this time round with moustache
South actor Suriya makes a Hindi film debut with ‘Rakta Charitra’. Humbly he said, “I owe it all to Ramu sir. We have wanted to work together since five years, and at last ‘Rakta Charitra’ happened.” Suriya was also quick to thank the Mumbai media for all the support he received even before his first film had hit the screens. ‘Rakta Charitra’ will release in three languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. “Speaking Hindi was a task, but I have dubbed for all three versions, and can fluently say ‘Main marne se darta nahin, usey maarne ke pehle marne ka darr hai.’ This dialogue delivery got much applause, and so did his welcome to Bollywood!
South actress Priyamani, who showcased her acting skills in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’, is a part of the ensemble, too. “I was shooting in Lankavi for ‘Raavan’ when I got a call and was informed that Ramu sir wanted me to be a part of Rakta Charitra. I remember I immediately agreed to be a part of this movie. Before I knew it, I was in Mumbai and shooting for it,” she said. Her favourite moment whilst the shooting of this film was when the real life Suri came to the sets. “He’s such an unassuming guy, and one can’t imagine the misfortune he has gone through. It was truly a memorable moment.”
‘Rakta Charitra’ is set to hit the screens in October, while ‘Rakta Charitra – Part II’ will release a couple of weeks post the release of Part I. Hailed to be bloody and gory, Ramu proudly stated, “The women and children can stay home. This is a movie for men!” And as an afterthought added, “But I honestly feel that women love violence more than men.”
When asked about the possibility of Ramu and team being dragged to court, just like many films based on true incidents/people are, he quickly said, “With the kind of people we are dealing with, there’ll be no court. They’ll just gather in hundreds with sickles and axes in their hands!” Thus came to an end another eventful day in the world of Bollywood.
August 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM
this looks epic, i guess they decided to go with suryas real voice here
August 31, 2010 at 8:37 PM
shatrughan is looking good here, thats a neat line at the end of the first trailer
September 1, 2010 at 8:25 AM
Ram Gopal Varma gets death threats, won’t accept security
By Subhash K. Jha, September 1, 2010 – 11:03 IST
Ram Gopal Varma In spite of the security threat, Ram Gopal Varma is at this very moment moving around in Hyderabad unescorted. He is visiting his mother in the city. And won’t stay away because of the threat.
He isn’t being brave, just practical. “This is not the first time I’m under threat. It has happened to me on several occasions. When in the history of assassinations have security guards been able to save anyone? The one who is determined to kill you will do.”
Supporters of an alleged outlaw Ubala Reddy who figures prominently in Rakta Charitra are not amused by the way they think their leader must have be portrayed in Varma’s film.
But Ramu is more amused than frightened by these threats. “They’ve sent a long legal notice in which they express their misgivings about Ubala Reddy. But I want to know how they know how I’ve portrayed the character (played by Abhimanyu Singh) when they haven’t seen a single frame?”
Ramu refuses to surrender to such arm-twisting tactics “They’re welcome to do what they like. My film remains unchanged.”
While Rakta Charitra is being released on October 22, the release date for the sequel which is ready, is not decided.
Says Ramu, “We decided on doing the sequel simultaneously to save costs. It doesn’t matter how Rakta Charitra fares. We’ll release the sequel. So far whoever has seen the film has loved it. The best compliment came from a rival actor who said he was sad about it, but this film would bring Vivek back into the reckoning.”
September 14, 2010 at 12:24 PM
National awards will be announced tomorrow
http://bit.ly/bE82bN
September 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM
September 28, 2010 at 3:22 PM
RGV knows how to sing!
September 29, 2010 at 1:15 AM
RGV revels in gore, ghosts and gangsters. Surya is cut out for gentle roles. Vivek. I cant say much. This movie will be average or a flop in North. In South too, it wont be a blockbuster inspite of all the hype. South audience are mainly undereducated women and underemployed youth. The women wont like this type of movie. This is also one of RGV’s Don type movies and this time he took andhra gangsters’ lifestyle. Nothing pathbreaking.
September 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Only if the background music was better, it could have been more impactful.
September 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM
sounds like they are no longer using suryas real voice here. these new trailers are really looking terrific though
October 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Mani and RGV
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4604/91350349.jpg
October 1, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Good to see them together.. Doesn’t Oberoi need a bigger mustache?
October 3, 2010 at 8:27 AM
October 12, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Rooney:
Rakth Charitra (build up/character sketch of act
from movie freak/ng.. a wonderful write up on Rakt charitra! AND build up to movie by him.
The first poster of Rakth Charitra showed a henchman – waist down – washing his bloodied sickle infront of a bore pump. It generated an immediate craze among audiences. This craze might be restricted to AP, where the audience is aware of the people the movie is based on. For the members who are interested in watching this film and are unaware of the faction wars in southern AP, here is a breakdown of the characters and the story (comparing with trailors). It is lengthy.. so skip it if you have no interest in the film. The events in the movie occurred in one particular district – Anantapur. Due to censor objections, I believe they changed it to ‘Anandpur’ or something similar.
Vivek Oberoi: Based on real life character Paritala Ravindra (or Ravi) – screen name changed to Pratap Ravi. Ravi is the one who is primarily identified with faction politics in AP. His father was a communist who fought against post independence feudal system in that region and seized lands from others, thus creating several rivals, two of which murdered him. In trailor, we see Ashish Vidhyardhi killing someone with a boulder, next to a bus. I believe that is Ravi’s father being killed. Ravi’s brother was later killed in a police ‘encounter’. Since he was the next target, he fled and joined the naxalite movement and started planning the murders of those two rivals. We see Vidyardhi being killed in the streets…that’s the first – Narayana Reddy. Then we see Vivek, dressed as a policeman shooting someone, that’s the second rival – Chenna Reddy. After these murders, he came into the open and became a feared landlord in that region. He did a lot of good for the poor but was ruthless to his enemies. He had a constant fear that someone is planning his murder and kept killing anyone he had suspicion on, turning south AP into a region of bloodshed. Land grabbing, abductions, illegal contacts he did them all. Telugu movie legend/former CM, N.T.RamaRao got him into politics and there was no looking back. Within 8 months of Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy coming to power, Ravi was murdered. His wife is currently an MLA.
Surya: Based on G.Suryanarayana Reddy (or Suri) – screen name changed to Surya Bhanureddy. The first rival, Narayana, that Ravi killed was Suri’s father. Suri was sent somewhere in Bangalore by his followers to protect him. But the murder of the second rival, Chenna, brought Suri back. He joined hands with Chenna’s sons to fight against Ravi. Later Ravi planned a bomb blast that killed Suri’s mother, brother, sister and her husband. This started intense blood battle, where several associates and henchmen on both sides were killed. Suri lived like a mad man with the only aim in life to kill Ravi. Surya’s intensity in the trailors seem to show this very well. After Chenna’s sons were murdered by Ravi.. Suri tried a bomb blast attempt at a movie shooting, but Ravi escaped with injuries. Suri was the accused and sent to jail on a life term. That’s why you see Surya in prison clothes. Even while in jail, he kept plotting Ravi’s murder. Just like in ‘company’, cell phone was a big aid to him. Jagan (YS Rajasekhar Reddy’s son) helped Suri get whatever he needs and within 8 months of Congress coming into power, Suri was able to plot Ravi’s murder which was executed by a rowdy named Moddu Seenu. If you watched ‘Wanted’, there is a guy who gives an interview and says that he is a hero and then later gets killed by Salman during a don meeting. That characted is molded after seenu. He killed Ravi and boasted about it in a private tv interview in delhi. Suri was released from jail early this year and he says he left faction wars behind and wants to serve people as a politician …:)
Shatrughan Sinha: Based on N.T.Rama Rao – screen name changed to Shivaji Rao. NTR was the sole opposition to Congress in AP. He wanted to wrest south AP from Congress and he saw Ravi as the opportunity. One reason was that Ravi’s rivals were all affiliated with Congress and second was that NTR and Ravi belonged to the same caste. During his reign, he indirectly helped Ravi, by turning a blind eye to whatever he was doing. He encouraged Ravi to join politics and gave his party ticket. After NTR’s death, though Ravi remained with the party, Chandrababu Naidu could neither control him nor expel him.
Abhimanyu Singh: Based on Obul Reddy- screen name changed to Bukka Reddy. Obul was Chenna’s son. Suri joined hands with him to fight Ravi. Obul is the kind of villian character you might have seen in several hindi and south movies. A few accounts of him told to me by a friend from the town of dharmavaram – that Obul was a serial rapist and sadist , that he burnt a village sarpanch alive, that he forcibly kept a govt employee’s wife with him for a week, that a women’s college near Chenna’s house had to be closed fearing rapes. These accounts seem to be confirmed by the photos released by RGV. We see Abhimanyu in his bedroom with a woman on his lap, her hands tied behind ber back, another photo where he is sitting in a van and two young girls look at him terrified, a man being burnt tied to a pole. Knowing RGV’s tendencies, don’t be surprised if extra attention is paid to this character. He was murdered by Ravi (or his goons) in a hotel where they came in burqua’s (again seen in trailor).
RGV has had several death threats and yet he is planning to watch the movie first day in Anantapur. If there is no stoppage/ban of the movie, it would do very well in AP. If the first part is good, then without doubt the second part (involving Surya) will be HUGE as people are very excited about his look from the trailors. Hope the hindi movie turns out be atleast below average, as this might be way too violent to be a hit.
http://www.naachgaana.com/2010/10/12/rakth-charitra/
October 13, 2010 at 8:50 AM
The latest clip here with the statue of the Mahatma looking over the scene of violence is pretty cheap stuff. AAA used this staging with the statue decades earlier of course with far less fetishistic violence and far more resonance. Even Raavan had the Mahatma frame over the police station where Beera’s sister sits, accosted by policeman, but Ratnam merely has the image work with the rest of the set and camerawork and doesn’t call attention to the irony of its presence as pornographically as RGV does here.
October 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM
RGV’s epic censor debacle
The filmmaker has been ordered to remove a ‘quote’, supposedly from the Mahabharata, from the posters of his next
Kunal.M.Shah
Posted On Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 02:59:56 AM
Ram Gopal Varma is embroiled in a brand new controversy. The posters of his upcoming film, Rakht Charitra, have encountered censor issues in Hyderabad, because they mention the Mahabharata.
The censor board has objected to a ‘quote’ used from the epic. Now, Ramu has no option but to remove it from all the posters of his film.
Our source said, “The posters of Ramu’s film have a catch line that reads, `Revenge is the purest emotion’ Mahabharata’.
The censor board in Hyderabad objected to this and asked the producers of the film, Cinergy and Ram Gopal Varma, to remove this supposed reference to the Mahabharata.
The censor board told them that there is no proof that the quote in question, ‘Revenge is the purest emotion’, is indeed from the Mahabharata. They have asked for it to be removed. However, all the poster designs have already been made and distributed. Now, the producers have no option but to change each one of them, which involves a huge cost.”
The producer of the film, Sheetal Talwar, said, “Yes, they have asked us to remove it. We believe that the sentiments of the people are important and if this hurts them then we will remove it.”
When asked about the extra expenditure due to this last-minute change, he shrugged, “That’s not important at all. The censor has raised something from a regional perspective and there is an issue. We are ready to remove it.”
And through this, Ramu has remained nonchalant. He said, “The censor board questioned me on how I could quote the Mahabharata.
However, the epic predominantly deals with revenge, betrayal and friction between families, which is exactly what my film is about. I therefore felt that it is the right quote to use. But the censor board felt otherwise and we had to remove it now.”
A quote is used verbatim Ramu, never as an interpretation! Un-khot!
October 14, 2010 at 2:45 PM
This movie should be banned from release as there is too much violence without any strategy just for the sake of ….how people can watch this type of movie…everyone should oppose this kind of violent stories..
October 14, 2010 at 9:05 PM
‘Rakta Charitra not for people who like K3G’
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, known for his controversial comments, again spoke his mind when he said that his forthcoming film Rakta Charitra was not for people who are fond of Karan Johar’s family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.
Varma and Johar have often locked horns on various subjects on social networking sites and in front of the media and Varma didn’t lose an opportunity to do the same at an event organised here, where the director showed 30 minutes of footage of Rakta Charitra to the media.
“I wanted to give a small introduction to the film and that was the purpose of showing this footage to a certain section of the people,” Varma told reporters here.
“I have done films of this genre before. But the difference in Rakta Charitra or let’s say in Company is that first, the latter has a urban setup and the second Company is different in terms of the characters and the way it has been shot.
“Rakta Charitra deals with very emotionally volatile people and is set in a rural atmosphere. It is a violent film. Having said that, violence doesn’t come from a psychopath. It comes from a certain necessity. It comes from a struggle, certain have nots between communities, families and probably a struggle for power,” he added.
The film is a trilingual made in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil. It is based on the life of Paritala Ravi, a slain factionist and political leader from Andhra Pradesh. The film stars Vivek Oberoi, Surya and Shatrughan Sinha in pivotal roles and is scheduled to be released on Oct 22.
“In terms of the pitch of the film. I just want to quote an incident that happened with Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
“When he showed his first film Pulp Fiction to people, he apparently went on stage and asked the people that did any one of them like the Rain Man. About 30-40 people raised their hands. He told those people to leave because he said that this film was not for them,” said Varma.
“So this film Rakta Charitra is not for the people who like Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham.”
October 15, 2010 at 5:30 PM
no way will “rakht charitra” work with its graphic, animalistic violence. and i thought “barbarr” was violent. whew!. it looks very tame in comparison to this film. the trailers of RC is an orgy of bloodletting.
October 15, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I have to agree.. though I am still looking forward to the film my enthusiasm has waned to the degree that RGV as you rightly point out really seems to be in the orgy business here! It’s still an ambitious double film and hopefully should be worthwhile (ideally I’d like to watch both back to back.. another example of how these things are handled poorly in India.. it should be a limited release thing with the possibility of buying a ticket for both shows back to back or simply watching them on separate days..) but RGV somehow seems to want to outdo his previous levels of violence in every film! The problem is twofold.. for one I think he’d make better films if he just relaxed a bit! But secondly one is so desensitized to violence having seen so much from Hollywood and elsewhere that nothing quite seems that violent. of course there are two kinds of violence in RGV. The obvious kind but then also the one that emanates from on the one hand the oppressive atmosphere of his films and on the other hand his editing and/or his extreme angles. But all of this we’ve seen previously and certainly I think he took this mode to a logical extreme in the two Sarkar films. I am still hoping against hope that he can build on his previous work with this double film. Finally there’s the political problem with his work, the amorality can be very disturbing. Not that I have a problem with the latter in itself but you need a more convincing framework or you’re again left with an ‘orgy’. That kind of violence with that sort of tone can only be forgiven if it’s Blood Meridian!
October 16, 2010 at 10:49 AM
On the merit of some of these trailers, it’s as if he’s making one of his horror films…
Honestly, I’m going to wait on the reports once this releases before I watch it…these trailers are very poor for the most part and unless the reports are encouraging, I’m going to save my money here.
October 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM
October 18, 2010 at 8:32 AM
they’ve really gone into high gear with the advertising! It’s a new clip every other day practically!
October 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM
lol true.. and i feel they might leak the movie like this only.. for those who might not wish to come and see!!!!!
October 18, 2010 at 9:07 AM
the problem is that RGV is highlighting the violence so much that forget getting the family audience (which he never would anyway) he’s probably going to scare off many of the younger viewers as well. I always dislike this sort of strategy. Once one attempts an ambitious film one should at least try and get as many people as one can in the initial round. Now RGV has also said this is his most violent movie but not in a literal sense. So it’s even more regrettable that he’s chosen to focus so much on the violence.
There are those in every artistic endeavor who always find being a gadfly more interesting than anything else.
October 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM
i know and completely agreed on ur point of youngster.. as I myself wont be seeing it now.. looking at the promos!! earlier i was interesterd.. now m satisfied by promos only
October 19, 2010 at 6:49 AM
i suspect that many who’ll show up to watch this film in the theater—especially women—will get up at some point and walk out.
November 30, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Aditya, many women will not go to the theatre in the first place to see this movie!
October 18, 2010 at 8:50 AM
RGV interview..
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Interviews/kKHwYY82/3/Ram-Gopal-Varma-Speaks-About-Rakht-Charitra-1.html
lots of fun quotes here!
October 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Incidentally Prakshraj is also on twitter..
http://twitter.com/prakashraaj
liked this nostalgic picture he put up..
http://twitpic.com/2yemsw
October 19, 2010 at 5:05 AM
In all the Hindi promos released so far, Surya is missing. I wonder why ?
RGV seems to be keen on promoting Vivek even in the press!
October 19, 2010 at 7:10 AM
nope latha surya has small role or no role in part 1.
1. surya character comes after vivvek character completes his journey of transformation.
2. and this movie is rise of Vivek, rather than surya character.
3. sequel deals with vivek-surya dispute
October 19, 2010 at 9:47 AM
thanks.
October 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM
Surya is Only in the 2nd part.
Thats why only the majority of the 2nd part with some edited parts of first one are put together and released down south.
October 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM
This is starting to look like all of his other movies…weird angles, loud bg score, etc. It would be ok to have a similar style in all your movies, if you didn’t release a movie every couple of months. RGV needs a new style and a new crew.
I’m still interested in watching this movie, might be decent…I wish it had someone other than Vivek.
October 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM
by the way left this comment for you yesterday:
http://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/carlos-trailer/#comment-70297
October 20, 2010 at 4:33 PM
RGV is now unintentionally or otherwise parodying himself! Check out the latest clip I’ve put up called ‘the Super Sarkar’!
October 21, 2010 at 6:53 AM
lol i felt the same! as now sarkar has become chief minister
October 21, 2010 at 7:40 AM
And you know Sinha just wallows in saying those words…
October 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM
Mahesh Babu on twitter:
Saw Raktacharitra…can’t get my mind of it..spinechilling..Ramu at his best..
October 21, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Review 3.5
http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=24371&cat=1&scat=12
October 22, 2010 at 8:32 AM
Taran:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/review/14096/index.html
October 27, 2010 at 8:14 AM
RGV to delete NTR scenes in Raktha Charitra
2010-10-23 12:24:50
Controversial film-maker Ram Gopal Varma has agreed to delete scenes featuring a character similar to N.T. Rama Rao from his latest movie Rakta Charitra, after the former chief minister’s family and the Telugu Desam created uproar about his being portrayed as a person who endorsed murders.
Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu objected to the portrayal of NTR in the movie and others threatened to move court. Following this, RGV made a climb down and the co-producer of the movie, C.Kalyan, declared that the scenes to which the TD objected will be taken off immediately. The movie that hit the screens in three
languages on Friday features Shatrughan Sinha, a thinly veiled portrait of NTR. It may be recalled that ever since the shooting of the film started, there were fears that it would lead to a renewed bout of violence between the two factions involved – one that was led by the slain Telugu Desam legislator from Penukonda, Paritala Ravindra and the other by G. Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddalacheruvu Suri. Meanwhile, protests by the Telugu Desam cadres marred all over the state, as they resorted to burning and tearing of the flexes and wall-posters of Raktha Charitra, though the screening was not stalled anywhere.
October 27, 2010 at 8:29 AM
I wonder if this is for every version or just the Telugu. A shame. I don’t think Sinha’s particularly great in this but his character is an important one..
October 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Just the Telugu I think but it’s an even greater shame there because of the story’s immediate resonance..
October 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Yeah frankly the second half would make no sense if these scenes were simply “delted”….I imagine what RGV would do in place is a voice-over and montage describing Ravi’s ascent but it would really cripple the work. Imagine if Iruvar didn’t have the Jayalalitha character in the second half!
November 5, 2010 at 7:54 AM
Now we’re talking (with this Surya trailer)!
November 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM
These new snippets with Surya look good but one wishes to see a bit more substance given the first one resulted in more “story” than I think many of us imagined.
November 29, 2010 at 9:30 AM