Rakta Charitra 2 Finally to Release on Nov 26th

Rakta Charitra 2 that is scheduled for November 19th release has been postponed to November 26th. With Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai starrer Guzaarish releasing on November 19th, the Hindi distributors asked the director Ram Gopal Varma to postpone it. Remember Rakta Charitra 1 didn’t get good openings in North India despite winning rave reviews. So if Rakta Charitra 2 competes with Hrithik Roshan’s film, it will have hardly any takers in the Hindi belt. Hence RGV has succumbed to distributor’s plea.

The film will now hit the screens in Telugu and in Hindi on November 26 while in Tamilnadu Rakta Saritram , the single version of both the parts together, hits on the same day.

Rakta Charitra Review

Rakta Charitra Review: When a proverbial maverick like Ram Gopal Varma sets out to make a film and titles it Rakta Charitra, it’s a foregone conclusion that an unrestrained celebration of blood and gore is on the platter. So is the case with this utterly violent film, starring Vivek Oberoi, Abhimanyu Singh and Shatrughan Sinha in major roles.

Now, the bloody question is - how far is Rakta Charitra different from Ramu’s previous films of the same genre.

The film’s plotline, inspired by the story of the Andhra politician Paritala Ravi, is definitely farm-fresh, but the theme of revenge and counter revenge and the bloodbath that follows is something we have seen in lesser degree in Ramu’s own films before. What’s different is that instead of being gunned down, people here are hacked. Weapons like sickles, crop-cutters, pickaxes and even heavy boulders come handy in this revenge saga with a political angle.

Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberoi) is a simple collegian who turns into a killing machine to avenge the gruesome killing of his idealist father (Rajendra Gupta) and brother (Sushant Singh). As he slays one rival after another, Pratap becomes a figure of dread and awe in the rural hamlet, sparking a wave of counter revenge from his arch foe Buka (Abhimanyu Singh).

Pratap is taken out from rakta neeti and introduced to rajneeti by a powerful politician Shivajirao (Shatrughan Sinha). Thereby begins an altogether new journey of rise to power of this killer-turned-neta.

Ram Gopal Varma cuts to the chase with a bloodbath right at the onset, making clear to the flummoxed viewers in theatres that he intends to shock and awe them with unapologetic depiction of violence, killing, abductions and rape. To be fair to him, some sequences do hit you like sledgehammer, particularly the scene when Vivek guises as a police officer to do the killing. Even the scenes between Vivek and his mentor Shatrughan Sinha are gripping.

Is this Vivek Oberoi’s best performance. Nah! Not really. As a youth seething with rage, Vivek can play a character like this even in half sleep. But there’s no denying that the actor does shine in certain sequences (like the slaying of the minister) and does bring out a laudable transformation in his character, as the hot-headed and vengeful Pratap turns into a somewhat calculated politician.

Abhimanyu Singh comes up with the most powerful performance in the film; his portrayal of an unforgiving villain is chilling to the bone. Shatrughan Sinha too pitches in a riveting act. In supporting roles, Radhika Apte (as Vivek’s ladylove), Zarina Wahab and Ashwini Kalsekar come up with fine performances.

Rakta Charitra bears a Ram Gopal Varma stamp from start to end. The unconventional camera angles, the sepia tone, the sharp close-ups, and, not to forget, the deafening background score, which Ramu seems to be obsessed with. Amol Rathod’s cinematography is doubtlessly marvellous, though the Jayesh Dhakkan’s sound lacks any restraint.

What’s particularly off-putting is the glorification of violence in the film. Ramu seems intent on making a point here and he appears to have gone overboard. The scenes of people getting pummelled, slain, gunned down become revolting after a point. However, the film ends on a curious note - with the introduction of Suriya - leaving Ramu with something further to build on for the second part, Rakta Charitra II which will come soon.

Before that you need to get over this blood-and-gore fest and brace up for the next one.

Rattha Charitram – the Most Violent Film

The countdown has already taken its places amongst the Suriya fans, not alone in Tamil Nadu, but across Bollywood and Telugu film industry as well. In fact, the film’s release being postponed to a month later as deliberately disappointed them. But all they say is ‘the wait will be worth it’.

With the first part of Raktha Charithra scheduled to hit screens on September 17, the second part featuring Suriya in the main lead will be released only after 3-4weeks.

Meanwhile, Ram Gopal Varma has opted for the viral marketing mode to publicize his movie. Recently he had mentioned that Rattha Charitram will be ever most violent film. But behind every violent act, there lies the deepest of human emotions.

Rakta Charitra in its final leg of Shooting!

Although all the big movies like Robot, Komaram Puli and Khaleja are hitting in few weeks, Ram  Gopal Varma is coming up with his faction film, Rakta Charitra in September. He finished the entire shooting part of the film to be released in two parts for the first time in India. Ram Gopal Varma says this is very important film in his career and also a film that he enjoyed filming it the most.

RGV said: “Never in my career I felt such an exhilaration and a strange sense of a mixture of both a release and a relief through any film I have done so far in my career. It’s not so much for the film but for the fact that I traveled all this time with each of all the various characters of Rakta Charitra and their emotions and now I feel that with the last shot I have reached them to their destinations or atleast to their destinations as conceived and perceived by me.

More than the audience I am actually dying to see, know and feel the reactions of the real people from whom its characters are inspired from. I feel this attempt of mine will be hugely worth while if they even think, feel, realize, and learn a little something from Rakta Charitra about themselves and more importantly about their adversaries.”
Source:Telugucinema

Raktha Charitra Telugu rights for Rs 12 crs

Ram Gopal Varma’s upcoming movie ‘Raktha Charitra’ is being So made simultaneously in three languages – Hindi, Telugu and Tamil respectively. The interesting news is that the distribution and satellite rights of the Telugu version have been purchased by none other than the President of South Indian Film Chamber, C Kalyan for the sum lum sum amount of Rs 12 crores. Yes! We all know that South Indian Film Employees Federation has boycotted the films of those celebrities who attended the IIFA Awards function at Sir Lanka recently. At this juncture Vivek Oberoi, the hero of ‘Raktha Charitra’, not only attended the IIFA Awards but also praised Sri Lanka. Hence there was buzz in the industry that Ramu is going to face the tough time to release the film in South India. But since both distribution as well as satellite rights were now sold to C Kalyan, the film will be on safe bet without any obstacles.