Vampire Diaries

Don't be confused by the title of the post. I am not going to talk about the recent craze love struck vampires of hollywood, neither it is about the more traditional blood sucking ones. However it is closer to the later, since it is about not a fictional creature, but a very real vampire of our time i.e. Ram Gopal Verma. After sucking audiences' blood for last few years, he has gone sanskritified and ab wo logon ka rakhta chuste hain.

What expectations one would have from a movie, which is being aired on TV exactly 3 weeks after it's release? That's how excited I was while watching this master piece, Rakhta Charitra, from master story teller, RGV, starring master actor, Vivek Oberoi. (Or is it Viveik? Someone please tell him mandir jaane se, naam badalne se ya fir jagah jagah logon se mafi mangne se accha actor nahi bante. Uske liye actually thodi si acting karni padti hai.)

The movie started with a very irritating voice narrating the story of Veerbhadra, who happens to be the right hand man of local MLA or MP or some political leader in some capacity Narasimha Reddy. Narasimha Reddy is somehow made to believe that Veerbhadra is actually using this closeness to build his own ploitical career and without waiting for a second both Veerbhadra and Narasimha are political rivals wanting to kill each other. Nagmani, who was responsible for this conflict plans for Veerbhadra's Murder by the help of one of Veerbhadra's aide Munda. What then starts is Rakhta Charitra, someone is killed in every 30 seconds by either Pratap Ravi or by Bukka Reddy or some random character. They make killing look such a simple and easy task. Matlab chai peete hue decide kiya ki Naagmani (who happens to have an army of people protecting him) ko maarte hain aur lunch me Naagmani ko hi kha gaye.

After all this blood bath our hero decides to join politics and wins the election just like that by help from actor turned politician Shivaji Rao.

We are then told that there is more about the movie, which we will come to know on 3rd of Dec, when the second part of the movie releases. By this time mere shareer me rakhta ki kami se I start feeling weak.

We are told that it is a true story and our creative geniuses have conveniently picked up all the killings and only killings in that story and made a movie out of it and subtly named it Rakhta Charitra. Very few details are offered and whatever is offered is offered in that irritating voice of the narrator. You so much want to mute your TV, while the narration is going on. The only expression of the entire movie is anger. So all the leading characters of the movie look angry in all the scenes, hence no need for a second expression. Every leading character has a dedicated irritating back ground score, which is used to suppress the dialogs spoken by these characters saving useless expense of dialog writer and leaving the audience wonder what the hell these guys would be saying to each other leading them to take drastic decisions. OR may be there was a dialog writer who would have quit because of not being able to handle the challenging task of using word Rakhta in all the dialogs.

RGV must get rid of his obsession for zooming on to the faces of his actors so often. You can even count the hair inside the nostrils of all the actors. Gross, isn't it? Exactly.

I am sure none of you would be interested in how much I rate this movie out of 10 after what I have written above. So I would not go through that exercise. I watched it on a lazy and boring Saturday, when I had absolutely nothing to do and nothing better on TV either. That is the only situation this movie can be seen.