Revenge is the purest emotion!. Review on Rakht Charitra 2

As the war-epic Mahabharata depicted that "Revenge is the purest emotion", so is this movie by Ramgopal Verma, and last friday he releases the second edition this bloody revenge story. This movie introduces the Tamil superstar Sarvanan Sivakumar alias Surya into mainstream Hindi cinema, but this may be the wrong step RGV have taken. This 2nd part carries the plot forward towards the end, but some loopholes were there and it's certainly not better than part 1.

The plot carries forward on the life of Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberoi), where one of his action teams has killed the politicians Narsimha Deva Reddy's (Raja krishnamoorthy) family which includes his wife Gomathi (Sushmita Mukherjee), his younger son Chandu and his daughter by planting a TV Bomb in their house, and left only with the lead character, Narsimha's elder son Surya (Surya) and his wife Bhawani (Priyamani) to take revenge of the deaths. And by using all methods, taking help of opposition ministry, he was able to kill Pratap, by coming out of Jail. The opposition was handled by Swamy (Subhalekha Sudhakar, the look-alike of Farooque Sheikh) and their is an investigation officer DCP Mohan Prasad (Sudeep, Javed Jaffrey look-alike) chipping in between.

Now, the question arises, as why to watch this movie, the biggest answer is to remain in continuity with the story which was started in part 1, and since it is based on a true story so it makes you interested in watching till the end. Then there are other reasons as well, the brilliant performances by Vivek Oberoi, Radhika Apte (wife of Pratap), Surya, Sudeep and other characters. They all were brilliant in action department. Surya looks great with his 8 packs, and a man who is full of revenge. In the first half, he looks nice as an enthusiastic builder, and in the second half he totally changed to the man seeking revenge. Vivek is awesome in his anti-hero image here, well supported by his team members, and other characters. This movie is less loud and have less violence as compared to first part. The background music is perfectly matched with the scenes, where the musician brilliantly used the movie's songs in background. The movie is more on photographic angles, many scenes are shot brilliantly using some special effects and some camera arts. Even first part also capture the red bloody thing beautifully, but here there are more of slow motions, and special effects to count for. Some weird camera angles (Amol Rathod) are there, which is a characteristic mark of RGV.

But yes, there are more loopholes there, biggest one is it didn't have the same pace of the first one. It slows down, since there is not much story remains to cover here. You didn't get time to even move your eyelids in the first edition, but here the movie took time to build the revenge plot. Plus (I didn't know why!), the director has shown the first part's story in a fast forward manner in the initial 20 minutes of the movie, that was really not required. Although it helps a new person to watch this movie, even if he missed the first one. Surya's dialogue delievery was a bit let-down too. He was not able to deliever the Hindi dialogues properly, and in some scenes, his dubbing is not as crisp, you can see the lack of synchronization between the dialogues said and lips movement. He acted well though but he is neither a star in Bollywood cinema nor he can speak Hindi too well.

But I still proposes this movie to watch as one of the artistic product from RGV's factory, and he certainly made it brilliantly. More on biographical part, this movie remains, but as Rakht Charitra doesn't faded with the ongoing slaughter of man vs man, and so is the magic of this movie as well.

GRuchirG.