'Revenge is the purest emotion' that is the tag the film carries and so truly the film follows the tag line. As Ram Gopal Varma, from hereon RGV, in his blogs last year gave a verdict that this movie will be the best works of his career, which raised curiosity in me as to how can a filmmaker claim that this is his/her best works, even before it is conceived to a form.
The film Rakhtha Charithra -I, RC -I from hereon, as the name suggest it's history of blood everywhere throughout the duration of the movie, claiming it to be the most violent movie in Indian Cinema.I agree to that. Is it horrifying, I would say NO. As I have seen few recent Tamil movies Parutheeveeran, Subramaniapooram wherein the violence were portrayed in a shocking way which worked very effectively to me than RC -I . Although RC -I dealts with the subject honestly but the effect seems to be simmer when in comparison.
After seeing the movie, I would not claim that RGV has returned with a masterpiece, instead I would put it this way, RGV played safe. He sticked to the basics of story telling, didn't experimented much. Also used his now truning to be 'BANAL' style of visualizing a scene through weird angles, dusky frames and loud background music. To add to that, some of the scenes from RC -I reminded me of the past cult classics movies like Satya, Company and Sarkar. Nevertheless, it seems to be one of the recent film of his where his honesty can be seen throughout the move.
Technically the film didn't worked for me much, the visuals were dull maybe due to the color composition of the frames which are being used since the Sarkar days. Also the background music which is so loud that instead of lifting a scene to the next level, most of the times turned out to be noise. The only savior of the film to me was the editing, wherein I hardly felt the focus getting shifted to other emotions except Revenge. Also the events were so tightly weaved it leaves no room for boredom, as things keep happening every now and then.
Actors steal the entire show from the action packed plot. RGV needs to be saluted for the cast he has ensembled. For me it's Abhimanyu Singh as Bukka Reddy who is a relevation when it comes to portray the anagonist. He lived like Bukka Reddy portraying the emotions of anger, lust and weirdo so easily that there would be tendency for one to hate him throughout the journey of RC- I. For me he is the ideal candidate for a national recognition this year. Vivek Oberoi, Zarina Waahab, Shatrughan Sinha and the rest do justice to their roles.
RGV sticks to the story providing less scope to the audience to divert their attention. There are some scenes where in I felt the RGV still has the stupendous intensity, control over the emotions and supreme sensitivity towards the emotion. Also to mention, his forte in selecting the right cast, as it worked well in RC- I. The film which is a complete action packed where blood oozes out every other minute is ONE Timer for me. As my expectation from a RGV film over this genre was too high, which might be one of the reason. Having said that it's time for RGV to brainstorm his technical team especially the cameraman and the BGM team to match atleast to the level of his own work in Satya, Kaun, Company!
Rating: 3/5
P.S. The rating gets equally divided between the entire team and Abhimanyu Singh.
The film Rakhtha Charithra -I, RC -I from hereon, as the name suggest it's history of blood everywhere throughout the duration of the movie, claiming it to be the most violent movie in Indian Cinema.I agree to that. Is it horrifying, I would say NO. As I have seen few recent Tamil movies Parutheeveeran, Subramaniapooram wherein the violence were portrayed in a shocking way which worked very effectively to me than RC -I . Although RC -I dealts with the subject honestly but the effect seems to be simmer when in comparison.
After seeing the movie, I would not claim that RGV has returned with a masterpiece, instead I would put it this way, RGV played safe. He sticked to the basics of story telling, didn't experimented much. Also used his now truning to be 'BANAL' style of visualizing a scene through weird angles, dusky frames and loud background music. To add to that, some of the scenes from RC -I reminded me of the past cult classics movies like Satya, Company and Sarkar. Nevertheless, it seems to be one of the recent film of his where his honesty can be seen throughout the move.
Technically the film didn't worked for me much, the visuals were dull maybe due to the color composition of the frames which are being used since the Sarkar days. Also the background music which is so loud that instead of lifting a scene to the next level, most of the times turned out to be noise. The only savior of the film to me was the editing, wherein I hardly felt the focus getting shifted to other emotions except Revenge. Also the events were so tightly weaved it leaves no room for boredom, as things keep happening every now and then.
Actors steal the entire show from the action packed plot. RGV needs to be saluted for the cast he has ensembled. For me it's Abhimanyu Singh as Bukka Reddy who is a relevation when it comes to portray the anagonist. He lived like Bukka Reddy portraying the emotions of anger, lust and weirdo so easily that there would be tendency for one to hate him throughout the journey of RC- I. For me he is the ideal candidate for a national recognition this year. Vivek Oberoi, Zarina Waahab, Shatrughan Sinha and the rest do justice to their roles.
RGV sticks to the story providing less scope to the audience to divert their attention. There are some scenes where in I felt the RGV still has the stupendous intensity, control over the emotions and supreme sensitivity towards the emotion. Also to mention, his forte in selecting the right cast, as it worked well in RC- I. The film which is a complete action packed where blood oozes out every other minute is ONE Timer for me. As my expectation from a RGV film over this genre was too high, which might be one of the reason. Having said that it's time for RGV to brainstorm his technical team especially the cameraman and the BGM team to match atleast to the level of his own work in Satya, Kaun, Company!
Rating: 3/5
P.S. The rating gets equally divided between the entire team and Abhimanyu Singh.
