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Al Pacino a name that immediately brings into mind intense roles and a crackling screen presence that can chew up the scenery. Ask Keanu Reeves, who ended up as a glorified extra in The Devil’s Advocate. And yes those wonderful monologues, which basically comes from Pacino’s penchant for Shakespearan Theater.

In his long career, Pacino has portrayed crooks, gangsters, cops, lawyers, football coaches, blind colonels, crusading journalists, city mayors and even the Devil himself. But a common thread in most of the roles is that Pacino has made a career out of playing neurotic, edgy, restless characters. Even as a cop either he is an outcaste hated by his colleagues( Serpico), or a workaholic with a messed up family life(Heat) or an insomniac( Insomnia).

While doing some work on my article about Scarface, i was basically trying to do a run down on some …

Recently Sarkar Raj got released. Historically, the Hindi film-goers community were divided into the one’s who think Gunda is an epic and other’s who think Gunda is a larger than life classic. But now a new division has crept into the ranks. People are now divided on whether Sarkar Raj will be the last torture to inflicted by RGV and others who think that RGV’s worst is yet to come. To clear the air, PFC TV (People Featured in Colour TeleVision) cornered Ramu for an interview. If you’ve never heard of PFC TV don’t fret. The number of people who have heard of the said channel is less than or equal to the number of people who loved Jimmy. Here is the transcript of the interview:
PFC TV: To start off with, how did you get the idea of Sarkar Raj. What was the genesis …