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I have hearing problem. Left side is almost dead, some medical complication. And now I feel so lucky that after watching Contract, right side is still working. Or I would have no option but to sue the filmmaker.

Had a hard time convincing myself to watch Sarkar Raj. Recently saw it on the net and concluded that “the man has lost his craft”. And I can’t figure out how. I understand if your art doesn’t connect with your fans and audiences or fans and audiences are dumb enough not to understand your art but how do you lose your craft ? Like VVC’s Eklavya, SLB’s Saawariya or AK’s No Smoking. All these films are well crafted, brilliantly mounted. Anyway, being an old Ramu fan, I could not stop myself from watching Contract. Third film of his underworld triology.

Since it was a special screening, when we entered the …

a larger perspective on Sarkar Raj that brings Ramu’s kind of film-making and the latest syndrome ofthe Bachchans into focus

Recently I have revelled in the close encounters with the forgotten art of close-ups in couple of movies.

Before I talk of these movies up close let me just share some masala and trivia with you on these close-ups..

The old cameramen who have gone to seed or become inactive don’t leave an opportunity to narrate how they used to relish lighting up for a close-up especially the heroine’s..And how they used to take hours together to light it up..And few of them brag that heroines literally used to lagao maska to them to light up their faces in close-ups..Have you ever heard of close-up couch..Well few of the cameramen boasted of laying the heroines for giving them a close-up that lighted up the marquee..It was like fulfilling their wish to be a diva or a Cleopetra whose face is supposed to have launched thousand ships!

The modern technology is …

Those of us who have loved Ramu for Rangeela, Satya, and Company will recall our regret on how film after film the brand RGV’s coffin was getting nailed (Naach, James, Shiva-II, Nishabd, Darling, Aag). With Sarkar Raj he saves himself from certain destruction. But then with Ramu you can never be too sure; he might have this formula working for him: get to produce & direct half-a-dozen odd films, and even if one works, the financiers will commission another adha dozen films. Sarkar Raj is that one ‘hit’ after the ‘six’ misses.

Sarkar Raj is sequel to a Sarkar (2005); the latter was a daft remix of Coppola’s Godfather film series and imagined power politics in Shiv Sena’s Bal Thackeray’s household (nonetheless, Sarkar managed a general positive response from the critics and the audience). Presently, in the sequel, Shankar Nagare (Abhishek Bachchan) finds himself drawn to an NRI-funded power generation project …

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 …

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Krishna
(Hyderabad, India)
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RGV’s filmography

Sarkar Raj which is going be released on 6th June 2008 has attracted a lot of attention by the media and by the movie lovers due to RGV’s previous box office failure ‘Ramu ki AAG’.Let us look back into his works ,as i hail from Hyderabad i had the opportunity to watch his works from the very beginning of his career.

SHIVA(1989):
Ramu Gopal Verma made his debut with SHIVA.It was the time when TOLLYWOOD(Telugu Film Industry) was fully loaded with masala and entertaining films with big figures like Chiranjeevi,Balakrishna were ruling the Tollywood then comes a young talented guy with a powerful script based upon Student Politics and Rowdyism.The simple …