“Raktha Charitra”..the name itself gave me goose bumps. Did
RGV meet his expectations and I would absolutely say yes!!
This is a movie that is not to be seen as another masala pic
with an entertaining director or quotient.
As the director already reiterated (countless number of times) this is a
movie without a commercial factor. I would say this is a movie that tells a
gruesome tale of reality. Reality is gripping and more gripping is this tale.
Background music is out of the world and takes the movie to a new level.
“New level” and when I say that, that’s nothing but the edge
of your seat. Paritala Ravi or Pratap Ravi was a name to mention in history and
a name definitely to be mentioned in this movie. For as long as history
remembers there was always a hero and the same had a shade of negativity. Ravi
(Pratap) had his circumstances set and few people have it. The movie depicts
the exact same thing, i.e. you feel like Ravi and you understand him. Everyone
who picks up a sword, sickle or a gun in this saga is first for revenge and
next for power. The most I liked about this movie is this point of reality.
Performance of each actor is implacable. Let’s start with
someone who I did not expect, Shatrugan Sinha. My generation never saw his
prime, but prime we did see in his gripping acting as a character that
resembles NTR. There is no negative shade to the character that I found (and
that’s been propagated), but just a positive character that does what is needed
and needed by the common man. You can’t run a system without controlling it and
that’s what the character (NTR) was shown to do!
When it comes to Vivek Oberoi, he gave the performance of
his life time and man he was good. He was intense in all the necessary scenes,
he was calm when needed and he was living the character. His intro was
something different and fresh.
“Bukka” is a character that we will never forget even in our
best dreams. Abhimanyu Singh (Bukka) gave a true effect of a sadistic power
hungry bad man. RGV introduced an amazing actor to telugu audience. As a matter
of fact, this character along with the sentiments being played in the movie is
attracting loads of female audience to the theaters. Gabbar Singh is the past
and Bukka Reddy is the present.
Kota Srinivas Rao, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Radhika Apte and
others performed fine. The voice over of RGV is a little out of touch with the
pace and subject matter of the movie.
This movie is as close to realism as it can get with amazing
background score, performances, photography and screenplay. Being based on a
true story takes it up a notch. All in all, this is a thriller genre movie for
theater viewing and a must watch! Go, watch and enjoy on a big screen with a
good sound system!!
