Shiva: The very first scene sets the tone for the rest of the movie. First couple of minutes of the movie: No dialogue, unique camera-work, exceptional background score, rugged looking thugs, a victim and smoke from the exhaust of an ambassador car. The thug Ganesh is still remembered for his spine-chilling character. Trendsetter in Indian cinema.
Kshana Kshanam: Bank robbery scene grabs your attention from the very beginning. Another scene, even the bearded rowdies have enough intelligence to wait for Sridevi's elevator to stop at a certain floor so they know which floor she lives in, instead of just running up the stairs blindly like they are shown in other movies.
Company: The scene in which Malik and Chandu murder Saeed and his brother Anees in their car on a rainy day, and the very next scene with amazing soundtrack in the background while they drive away from the spot. Coldblooded to the core.
Its scenes like these and countless others in Kaun, Bhoot, Antham, Ratri among others that make me want to watch Ram Gopal Varma's movies. The actors in his movies don't have to say a word but still look every bit the characters they play. Audiences don't need vast narrations of scenes and explanations with voiceovers in a RGV movie. Because he is brilliant at visuals. He always says in his interviews that he makes movies for himself. And I have liked 90% of his movies. The other 10% are only bad because of him choosing the wrong plot or subject matter for those movies. Even his bad movies are exceptionally good in technical aspects. The actors in his movies are very natural and look every bit like the characters they portray in the movies.
Unfortunately, Rakhta Charitra is nothing like his earlier movies. Some say it's different and I agree with that. But the problem is its below RGV's standard of film-making. Its different because the actors are caricatures of the characters they play. The overdose of low quality dialogues is to a large extent laughable. The characterization is poor. All the actors in the movie are fine actors who look plain stupid in this movie with misplaced dubbing and directionless roles. Most of the movie just doesn't make sense. The screenplay is horrid. The background score is unusually loud and jarring and simply put senseless.
How could someone go wrong with an extraordinary story like this one? What's up with the shaking camera in the 1st half of the movie? Why would you make such great actors "act" when they can be their best just being natural? The 3 stars are for Vivek Oberoi trying very hard to stay in the skin of the character, Abhimanyu Singh for his excellent screen presence and the RGV's guts to make a daring movie about something so dreadful to most normal humans.
I am disappointed because I know RGV has a great potential and he could have done a much better job with this movie. Respect!!! I just hope that Part 2 delivers...and it has to with RGV, Surya and Priyamani in it..it better.
Kshana Kshanam: Bank robbery scene grabs your attention from the very beginning. Another scene, even the bearded rowdies have enough intelligence to wait for Sridevi's elevator to stop at a certain floor so they know which floor she lives in, instead of just running up the stairs blindly like they are shown in other movies.
Company: The scene in which Malik and Chandu murder Saeed and his brother Anees in their car on a rainy day, and the very next scene with amazing soundtrack in the background while they drive away from the spot. Coldblooded to the core.
Its scenes like these and countless others in Kaun, Bhoot, Antham, Ratri among others that make me want to watch Ram Gopal Varma's movies. The actors in his movies don't have to say a word but still look every bit the characters they play. Audiences don't need vast narrations of scenes and explanations with voiceovers in a RGV movie. Because he is brilliant at visuals. He always says in his interviews that he makes movies for himself. And I have liked 90% of his movies. The other 10% are only bad because of him choosing the wrong plot or subject matter for those movies. Even his bad movies are exceptionally good in technical aspects. The actors in his movies are very natural and look every bit like the characters they portray in the movies.
Unfortunately, Rakhta Charitra is nothing like his earlier movies. Some say it's different and I agree with that. But the problem is its below RGV's standard of film-making. Its different because the actors are caricatures of the characters they play. The overdose of low quality dialogues is to a large extent laughable. The characterization is poor. All the actors in the movie are fine actors who look plain stupid in this movie with misplaced dubbing and directionless roles. Most of the movie just doesn't make sense. The screenplay is horrid. The background score is unusually loud and jarring and simply put senseless.
How could someone go wrong with an extraordinary story like this one? What's up with the shaking camera in the 1st half of the movie? Why would you make such great actors "act" when they can be their best just being natural? The 3 stars are for Vivek Oberoi trying very hard to stay in the skin of the character, Abhimanyu Singh for his excellent screen presence and the RGV's guts to make a daring movie about something so dreadful to most normal humans.
I am disappointed because I know RGV has a great potential and he could have done a much better job with this movie. Respect!!! I just hope that Part 2 delivers...and it has to with RGV, Surya and Priyamani in it..it better.