GF on Rakht Charitra (1 & 2)

The first part of Ram Gopal Varma’s grim, ambitious, schizoid Rakht Charitra is easily the filmmaker’s most interesting, viscerally gripping film since Company in 2002. As a standalone film there is enough in Varma’s sordid, messy, blood-spattered opener to mull over. There is also enough violence here to give Mel Gibson a complex. The blood-lettings … Continue reading GF on Rakht Charitra (1 & 2)