review by idle brain 3/5
review by teluguone 3/5
review by 123telugu 3.5/5
review by andhravilas 3/5
What’s it about: Rakta Charitra Part 1 narrates us about how Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberori), an average guy, becomes a blood chasing killer and how he rises in stature – from being a leader of a group to a popular politician. Rakta Charitra 2 starts off exactly where Rakta Charitra part 1 ended. At a time when no one questions the power, wisdom and influence of Pratap, Surya (played by Tamil actor Surya) plots and attempts to kill Pratap with a bomb blast. For the first time Pratap and his men are beaten by an ordinary man. They are also beaten by the police as they trace who the plotter is! In fact the police lead by Officer Mohan Prasad (Kannada actor Sudeep), first capture Surya’s wife Bhavani (Priyamani) and use her as a bait to arrest Surya.
It is in the jail that Surya tells why he wants to kill Pratap and keeps hoping to kill him one day! It is having an enemy in the comfort zone of a jail that bothers Pratap! It is Pratap who has become a spot of bother for State’s politicians. Rakta Charitra 2 is a complex mixture of how a person’s thirst for revenge breaks a tough man’s defenses and how political parties benefit from this war!
f this film were made in one part, I would have written first half of the movie is good (Rakta Charitra part 1) and second half should have been better (Rakta Charitra part 2). The orientation of these two parts is different. Part 1 was played to galleries and Part 2 is dwelled more on emotional content. The plus points of the movie are Surya and a few intense scenes. On the flip side, narration is slow and story is highly fictional. We have to wait and see how part 2 of the successful Rakta Charitra fares at the box office.
What is Good: It isn’t always that you’d say almost ‘everything works’ for a Telugu movie, but it does for Rakta Charitra 2. The first half is as amazing as any Telugu movie can get. The graph of the story goes up, stays up, and merges with how humans are conditioned by situations toward the end. It is a journey into one man’s revenge story, and how other things like personal relationships, social responsibilities and intrinsic belief systems are stirred and shaken!
What is bad: The second part gets touch slower, as the director tries to bring in all the complex sides on one to stage. One problem is the expectations set by audience themselves after watching the first part. They expect violence, and a character like Bukka Reddy. Nevertheless the second part is an emotional affair, and manages to intrigue. Yes the climax could have been better, but it is the post climax that gives the movie its high. What might disappoint people is that the movie doesn’t side with any of the real life characters it has been inspired from. It never showcases either Paritala Ravi or Maddelacheruvu Suri as heroes or victims or villains. Instead it portrays them as men who rose and fell. This is hard for typical Telugu audiences to understand.
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