Shatrughan Sinha’s makeover in RGV’s Rakta Charitra
Shatru-saab and RGV!!! But it will all depend on RGV’s writing team. As is being seen in his last few products, RGV without good writers is no RGV. Fingers crossed
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1. Wow… Shatrughan Sinha looks real powerful… saw this pic on MidDay and was like taken aback… finally another veteran actor with a new fresh look apart from what AB did in 2000…
2. anybody close to RGV… would seriously like to know… were Darling and Go actually made by RGV or were these movies started off by other directors who might have left half way (or made to leave halfway) while RGV picked these and completed them off? They somehow fail to convince me that a. they are made by RGV, b. They mean the end of RGV … (Aag, I’d still put an equal blame on all the external factors that can keep a creative person involved in his work …. PILs, court hearings, media noises, actors walking in walking out… a lot of things that can frustrate anybody to deviate away from work)
3. any trailers of Rann?
Dunno about Darling, but GO was a reworking of RGV’s own Telugu flick Anaganaga Oka Roju( Once Upon a Day), that starred the Satya pair of Urmi-Chakravarty. The Telugu version was one of the best comedies i have ever seen though, it became a rage all over, the dialogues, Brahmanandam’s character.
One thing GO, came when RGV was at his lowest point, after Aag,so it was like “This is an RGV movie, lets tear it apart”. Add to it, both Nisha Kothari and the hero, were non actors.
GO was produced by RGV and directed by Manish Shrivastava.While Darling was directed by RGV but produced by Bhushan Kumar and Kishan Kumar ( T.Series ).Interestingly there’s a Tamil/Telugu bilingual version of Darling thats lying in the cans.Its called Naan Aval Adhu ( Nenu Tanu Aame ) with Madhavan,Sada and Shamita Shetty.They’ve made some changes to the plotline though.
Sans moustache, Shotgun Bhai, resembles Mohan Joshi, the bad guy of umpteen Mithun Da starrers.
he is playing NTR… and he actually looks a lot like the local politicians that we ve got… the ’son of soil’ agenda wale… actually reminds me… I am unable to recollect any other movie apart from Nayakan, which has walked in phases and shows how a person’s rise to fall in a single movie…. ay recommendations, re collections?
guru, sarkar and sarkar raj, infact when i named them almost all movies are story of rise and fall of the protagonist, in a way
hey Kushal… thanks for the list.. and I guess I should ve been more elaborate on what I have in my mind… movies with a strong protaginist …. not shown as good or bad but a pretty huge figure, and how he makes it all the way there kinds… more like how did Amitabh Bachachan become Sarkaar…. not how Abhishek Bachchan is forced by circumstances to inherit the legacy created by AB Sr… and not movies which have like a few scene flashbacks like why Aamir Khan became inspector Rathod in Sarfarosh or why Sunny Deol became Narasimha in Narasimha… but more of a biographical nature… like yeah Guru definately counts in …
dayawan.. vindo khanna
Agneepath.. Agneepath..Agneepath
Iruvar, MGR’s rise and fall. But honestly i don’t think our movie makers are still at that stage, where they are bold enough to show some one falling down, that too a real life person.
Iruvar of course.. how did I forget that… maybe purely because of the story, but the movie unfolds 2 characters at the same time, of their struggle and the meterorical rise… and somehow both of them got equal importance in terms of the character development…
Now when ur referring to “Fall of a Person”, is it like you are referring to his death, or fall from grace. For in Nayakan, Kamal merely dies at end of movie, but he still remains a hero to all, even his inspector son-in-law who grows to admire him. Guru could have showcased the fall from grace of the protagonist, but with Mani putting in all that Gandhi comparison, the climax, ended up a damp squib.
Fall from grace or death, however… but the movie has this character as the central point, and it moves on from how he or she has evolved from the postion they start from, reach till the end of it… even if that is close to the ending of Godfather 3, where AL Pacino is not dead but is not longer in the position of glory or cares for it… but the movie has to be a lil biographical… havent seen Raveena Tandon’s satta, but heard its about the rise and fall kind of story as well.. how unintentionally she gets into the power mode and then how she moves along…
I liked Satta, in fact one thing i do like in Madhur Bhandarkar’s movies, he does not shy away from showing the protagonist’s darker side.
Vastav can get counted in this category….
and yep, guru the disappointing mode is definately the end…. took all what the movie had built up in 10 minutes…
@oz bhai .. plz post trailers of ‘Rann’ & ‘ ‘Hisssssssss’
Both look amazing prospects …
Hisss trailer has already been posted. Just search for it.
@jahapanah – tx. yeah i did miss it . .while vacationing ..i guess ..
here it is http://passionforcinema.com/mallika-sherawat-in-jennifer-lynchs-hissss/
Youtube yaar!!!
@rajvir
yeah i knew tht…
but …. we could be having different views from the ‘buddhi-jeevi’ members of PFC on PFC only, rite ?
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Probably you want to discuss the trailers.
Is it?
Sorry I got it wrong and gave the most obvious answer…tsk tsk
Shotgun Shatru and Mohanbabu are ideal to play NTR in the Hindi and Telugu versions of Raktacharitra.lets hope RGV gets it right now.
@ Sethu…. I dont have too high hopes from this man .. when RGV was at the peak point (I mean literally as the yang alternate of ying of KJ YRF while White Feather was still coming up) he could have done some more experiments…. but releasing a movie in 2 parts… a 5 hour long movie… with the recent public memory being not so great (thats the key in marketing anyways na.. get a good image, either to the movie, or to the makers or to the cast) … an RGV VO SS Surya and a 5 hour long movie in 2 parts may not be the best scenario for consumers to spend money ….. though it also depends on how ‘Rann’ works out….
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eagerly waiting for both… and hoping to get the jab in ribs feel again !
What was the last good movie by RGV? Sarkar? or it was Company way back in 2002. 7 years it has been since he has delivered and people still have hopes from him.
“each of his flop looks like the movies his proteges made like Prawal Raman with Gayab or Shimit Amin with Ab Tak Chappan”.
Ab Tak Chappan and Gayab in the same breath
Arre sir, I am talking in the production value sense.. low budget.. smaller stars.. one of them worked the other failed miserably… thus the 2 movies in the same breath…
I actually like Daud, it was wacky, bizarre, i guess it was found a bit too weird for that time, but every moment of the movie gripped me.
In fact Road itself was a pretty good movie,IMO, though the climax was off kilter.
But then i quite often end up liking weird stuff, making other folks bang their heads in frustration.
personally a huge fan of Daud and Road as well…. thats why all the hopes still pinned on RGV and even VO… RGV gave us quite a few cults… over and over… which had this dedicated fan base… always… there was one point where I even thought ARR had lost it in daud, now I humm the song alongside…
Aah..Daud is one of those films which most of the people dislike but I love to watch evrytime… and more so for Chaako and my lovely PINKI…
Pinki was too good and his expressions..aae..uu.. by God ki kasam..super..one of the best comic negative character…
I think Daud was inspired to a larger extent by his very own Kshana Kshanam(dubbed as Hairaan in Hindi)…Wish he could have made the same with Daud and songs coming at a proper placement…Paresh Rawal in that movie was a killer too…RGV could and should have remade it unlike this mess..But then too a decent time pass…Unfortunately Gupt..Pardes..released around same time & people had better options..
I think RGV is working with a complete script now and I am excited about this one. His mother appeared in one of the rare interviews and told that he used to get good marks in one exam and utterly poor marks in the very next. Folks never change..do they?
Consistency has never been one oif RGV’s virtues,even at his peak. It was like a Tango Dance, one step forward, 2 steps backward. So one brilliant movie, followed by 2 or more Dud flicks. Nowadays though it seems to be too many steps backward.
First Look : Fired (poster & trailer) by Sajit Warrier (Remember the plagiarism case on Ramu’s Agyaat!)
Checked this at
http://moifightclub.wordpress.com
Remember Sajit Warrier ? The writer who claimed Agyaat was his script and even FWA (Film Writers Association) gave their verdict in his favour. Ramu dismissed it completely and you can read his response here . What we didnt get is why ask for claims on such disaster and awful film! We wrote about the Agyaat plagiarism news here (point no. 2) but lost track of it. Anyone got any updates ?
Now Sajit is ready with his directorial debut Fired starring Rahul Bose and produced by IDream Independent Pictures. And yes, it looks better than Ramu’s Agyaat! Finally recession gets a horror face! Take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxAT7xGtijA
‘Fired’ Concept looks to be based on “drag me to hell”. Loan officer has to suffer from a daemon because of her tough business decisions. And many shots in the trailer seem to be lifted from japnese horror movies like eye/ring/audution etc.
Rakhta Charitra, might work well in Andhra Pradesh, but not sure about the other places. That’s coz the Rayalaseema factionalism, relation with politics, rise and fall of Paritala Ravi, is something more localized. People outside Andhra, have literally no clue about it. And honestly speaking, we really have not reached that phase, where we are interested in knowing about another place, apart from our own backyard.
Not necessarily. Thevar Magan, I thought would never work anywhere outside Tamilnadu as it was tightly coupled with the local caste system and their hierarchies and it was beautifully adapted as Viraasat closely sticking to the original plot. I am sure that RGV would have taken away any regional relevance out of the plot and made a universally likable saga of violence and bloodshed :-) :-) However, the title has a very south Indian flavor to it and that might work against it. I am excited by the posters and getups.
RGV needs two things, 1) Good Script Writers 2) Good actors.
I honestly don’t understand what he sees in Nisha Kothari, Mohit Ahlawat & Co. I mean side roles or item numbers is fine, but full fledged roles.
Rann has a good ensemble cast, AB, Sudeep, Riteish, Gul Panag, and also the topic is contemporary, the 24/7 TV News Channels, so it should strike a chord. I only hope it does not turn out like Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, which started off well spoofing the media, but second half went haywire.
Shotgun brings his own baggage to the movie, he has acute mannerisms which over ride the character’s portrayal, I would rather have Mohanlal portray something like this.
Yeah. I think Shatru, SRK can never do justice to a role, having regional inclinations. Lets see, maybe Shatru need not have accent in the movie, the way Mohanlal needed to in Company
RGV is a exceedingly frustating director for poeple who expect good things from him. HE on the one hand comes out absolute gems like Company, Sarkar & Satya & in the same breath will make junk like Aag, Aygaat & Poonk!!! However like a lot of other fans at PFC I always have a warmth for his movies. I mean look at it this way – When we were awash with Sugary junk of YRF & Karan Johar RGV stood out like a beacon & today atlernate movies are a way of life even to these absolutely in tolerable movie houses. That is not to say that RGV is the Neo father of realistic cinema but he certainly is one of the poineers in the last decade or so. I hope Rakth Chairta & Raan brings us the RGV of the past & if they dont I still will keep waiting for a movie maker who stood on his own when rest were carpping!!!
hey u missed ‘naach’
the movie i went to watch with most expectations till date was ‘naach’ ….
the entire country was rushing for veer-zaaraa that day.
never after that did i expect only brilliance from RGV. ;)
I think all is not lost for RGV… agree its been long time to see some good work by him..bt I hope Rann will bring him back and Rakta Charita…very much hopeful for both RGV and Vivek…the only concern is ego clash between Shot Gun and RGV.. as they both are known for…
RGV should also change his team of technicians pronto…where there are dark set ups etc etc…A director who brilliantly used colours in Rangeela and previous movies too, nowadays has too many dark visions…The same is the case with Sanjay Gupta too, we can always expect his movies in Sepia tone…For God’s sake even if one is making dark thrillers at least you can use some more colors and flash one’s own brilliance..
Just after SATYA happened:
Interviewer: How are you going to match the expectations after SATYA???
RGV: I’ll make another DAUD.
He will give many more Agyaat’s & Contract’s till the end of his life….This man will always make movies as per a thought which excites him…Even if he wins an Oscar, expect 10 films for trash material after that…Thats the way he is, love him hate him but his followers will watch it and give one view..if not all in Cinema halls but at least in home entertainment..
What about the animosity that Shatru ji and Amit ji share? Will there be any rift between RGV and Amit ji for RGV casting Shatru ji in?
Hi Oz… just saw the stills and some clips of Shotgun on TV and chanced upon to see it posted by you here.
As notices and also read in the comments, Shotgun in this getup looks so very much like Mohan Joshi, the bad guy. Hopefully, Shatru will be seen in a good light in the film. Of course, and how !!!
I think Shatrughan Sinha will be at so much of ease while playing the politician. For, he himself is a veteran politician and also had a ministerial stint during NDA days. Just hope that he actually dips into NTR’s character and doesn’t get into his personal histrionics as a politician… as the differences between the reel and real life thin in this. RGV’s script and direction will be something to watch. RGV is also highly vulnerable these days. God bless.
But, just for reference, mann… you must have a look at the Big B.. Amitabh Bachchan in ‘PAA’, playing Abhishek Bachchan’s son in the film, and suffering from a rare disease.
Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Paa’ is the mother of all looks, make-ups and characterization.
You’ll forget Darsheel in Taare Zameen Par or Rani in Black. Here comes ‘Paa’.
Guessing these are the pics where RGV must be playing with the various looks of Shatrughan Sinha (as NTR) that is why different pics have different kind of specs.
RGV may be using NTR of late 80s or early 90s in his film and he and his team may definitely be knowing what kind of eyeglass frames were used in those years. Moreover NTR mostly used big framed eyeglasses which completely covered his eye brows.
There is not much difference between the way of talking of NTR and SS. Looks trial pics show him with bit tougher faced than NTR but in moving frames he can opt right kind of facial expressions and looks.
If SS decides to do it in best effective manner then he can do it. He is a determined person and a competitive actor. All his contemporaries have already jumped into the acting arena again and this is his turn. In any case film’s BO performance is not going to ride on his shoulders so he is free from any kind of BO pressure and he again can do what he has done with his off beat films.
RGV continues to live in denial, the brickbats notwithstanding. One look at the promos of Rann, and u know he has not come out of his rut – the same style of shot-taking, color tones, characters bordering on caricatures, abbass-mustan style plot….Keeping my fingers crossed for Rakta-Charita.