| Rakta Charitra 2 | |
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 Theatrical release poster in Telugu | |
| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Written by | Prashant Pandey |
| Produced by | Madhu Mantena Chinna Vasudeva Reddy Sheetal Vinod Talwar |
| Starring | Vivek Oberoi Suriya Shatrughan Sinha Priyamani Sudeepa Radhika Apte Kota Srinivasa Rao Sushant Singh |
| Cinematography | Amol Rathod |
| Edited by | Nipun Ashok Gupta |
| Music by | Dharam-Sandeep |
Production companies | RGV Film factory Cinergy |
| Distributed by | Vistaar Religare Film Fund |
Release date |
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Running time | 130 minutes (Hindi) |
| Country | India |
| Languages | Telugu Hindi Tamil |
Rakta Charitra 2 (transl. History of Blood 2) is a 2010 Indianpoliticalaction thriller film based on the life ofParitala Ravindra. The film was directed byRam Gopal Varma and written byPrashant Pandey. Shot simultaneously inTelugu andHindi, with the latter titled Rakht Charitra 2, the film is a sequel toRakta Charitra, which released two months earlier.[1] The film stars anensemble cast includingVivek Oberoi,Suriya,Sudeep,Shatrughan Sinha,Radhika Apte,Priyamani,Zarina Wahab,Kitty,Vishwajeet Pradhan,Ajaz Khan,Kota Srinivasa Rao andSubhalekha Sudhakar. The film was released inTamil asRaththa Sarithiram in March 2011, with some scenes being simultaneously reshot in Tamil to suit Tamil nativity.
This film marks the debut of Tamil actorSuriya in the Telugu and Hindi film industries[2]. Despite of its controversies for portrayal of extreme violence and political content, the film met with huge critical acclaim, with critics praising the screenplay, story, direction, cinematography, dialogues, and realistic approach. However, due to extreme violence, the film's some scenes are removed and some dialogues are muted. The film was abox-office failure at that time, but over the years, it was deemed one of the best films of Ram Gopal Varma in his filmography by critics and audiences.
There is a recap of part I, such as the events of how Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberoi) takes revenge for the murder of his father and brother, as well as how he comes to power with the help ofChief minister Shivaji Rao (Shatrughan Sinha). When no one in Andhra has the courage to stand up against Pratap Ravi, a man comes into the light to seek revenge on him. Narasimha Reddy (Kitty)'s son Yeturi Suryanarayana Reddy, a.k.a. Surya (Suriya) is seen waiting in the woods near the main road, waiting for Pratap Ravi and hurls a bomb at his convoy. Unfortunately for Surya, Pratap Ravi escapes the bomb blast. Pratap Ravi's henchmen attempt to kill Surya, but he manages to escape.
Surya informs his wife Bhavani (Priyamani) that he missed the chance of killing Pratap Ravi. Meanwhile, the media asks Pratap Ravi if this attempt is Surya's revenge for the TV bomb placed in Surya's home by Pratap Ravi himself. Pratap Ravi denies the charge. Shivaji Rao asks Pratap Ravi to stop this vengeance for a while until they win the election, but the latter insists on killing Surya. Pratap Ravi orders his action team to kill anyone who opposes him. DCP Dasari Mohan Prasad (Sudeep) starts to chase Pratap Ravi to investigate the case. He finds Bhavani and demands that Surya to surrender or else he would harm his wife and baby son Arya. Surya thinks that he has missed a great chance and another chance will not come so easily, and so he decides to surrender for protection plots to kill Pratap Ravi. Mohan Prasad produces Surya in court to face his trial. Pratap Ravi sends an assassin to kill Surya in the court, but Surya manages to fight the assassin and kills him in front of the judge. Surya is sent to prison.
Pratap Ravi decides to kill Surya inside the jail, he plans carefully and decides that someone from outside their camp should accomplish the task so that the police will not suspect them. In prison, Surya befriends Muddu Krishna (Ajaz Khan) by telling him his story. The flashback shows that after Pratap Ravi attempts to kill his father, Surya's brother wants to take revenge. Surya, on the other hand, does not want to take revenge straight away and tells him to be patient and to leave the matter as it is, as he does not want to put his mother and sister in any danger. Within a few months, Surya's entire family is killed in the TV bomb blast. After hearing the story, Muddu Krishna decides to help Surya to kill Pratap Ravi. The henchmen in prison try to kill Surya, but Surya fights them back. After this failure, Shivaji Rao call Pratap to his mansion and try to calm to Pratap and asks him to move peacefully. As a result, Pratap Ravi decides that he wants to stop this revenge, and he meets Surya in jail for a truce. Pratap Ravi tells Surya to stop this bloodshed, to which Surya promptly replies that he will stop this bloodshed after killing the Pratap Ravi and challenges him. Pratap Ravi thinks he cannot do anything because he is in jail, which makes him defenseless.
At this time, Krishnaswamy (Subhalekha Sudhakar), the opposition party leader, decides to meet Surya to knock down Pratap Ravi. He says that to kill Pratap Ravi, Surya has to become a bigger name in Anantapur than Pratap Ravi. Krishnaswamy requests Surya to ask his wife Bhavani to stand in the election, to which he does. This makes Ravi to fear for his life and also for his ministerial post; consequently, his henchmen want to eliminate Bhavani, but Nandini (Radhika Apte) pleads with Pratap Ravi not to kill Bhavani, causing Ravi to abort the plan. However, when Pratap Ravi's uncle Omkar (Anupam Shyam), is already on his way to kill Bhavani, Muddu Krishna kills Omkar and saves Bhavani, which made Nandini to let Pratap Ravi do whatever he want. Krishnaswamy comes to the prison to thank Surya, and Surya thanks him in return.
A scared Pratap Ravi organises a meeting involving the leaders of all the districts in Andhra Pradesh. Knowing this, Surya plots to kill Pratap Ravi. He realises that in the meeting, all the leaders will participate with their bodyguards. He orders Muddu Krishna to dress like a bodyguard since no one would be able to identify whose bodyguard belongs to whoever. Using this ambiguity, Surya's henchmen can kill Pratap Ravi. After the meeting comes to an end, Pratap Ravi plans to leave. As he was leaving, Surya's henchmen creates an attack there and throw smoke grenades. While at this time, Pratap Ravi saw a familiar, which is Surya, who is standing in front of him with his pistol and was struck. Surya fires at Pratap Ravi multiple times until he dies in a pool of blood, and under the cover of smoke, Surya escapes from the scene and returns to the prison with the help of a prison warden, who is also involved in this plan.
Muddu Krishna takes the blame for killing Pratap Ravi for Surya, which delights Krishnaswamy, who laughs in a devilish laugh. Mohan Prasad comes to meet Surya in jail and justifies why Pratap Ravi became a factionist: it was the circumstances that made him do so. He tells Surya that the same circumstances will change him into a Ravi. Surya thanks Mohan Prasad but assures him that he will not become a Ravi. The movie ends with Nandini holding Pratap Ravi's child and watching Surya's election speech in TV.
Narrated byRam Gopal Varma in Telugu and Hindi.
| Rakta Charitra 2 | |
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| Soundtrack album by Imran-Vikram, Dharam-Sandeep,Sukhwinder Singh, and Amar Desai | |
| Released | 2010 |
| Recorded | 2010 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Length | 23:11 |
| Label | T-Series |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Patthar Ko" | Sandeep Singh | Sukhwinder Singh | Sukhwinder Singh | 3:09 |
| 2. | "Khel Shuroo" | Vayu | Dharam-Sandeep | Armaan Malik, Shreekumar Vakkiyil | 4:03 |
| 3. | "Nagendra Haraya" | Prashant Pandey | Sukhwinder Singh | Sukhwinder Singh, Viveka | 4:02 |
| 4. | "Maar De" (Remix) | Shabeer Ahmed | Imran-Vikram | Jojo | 6:04 |
| 5. | "Mila Toh" (Electro Mix) | Shyamraj Dutta | Dharam-Sandeep | Sandeep Patil, Ravindra Upadhay,Vishvesh Parmar | 3:48 |
| 6. | "Patthar Ko" (Theme Music) | Sukhwinder Singh | Instrumental | 2:05 | |
| Total length: | 23:11 | ||||
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sathathin Soodhattam" | Tippu | 4:29 |
| 2. | "Thuninju Vettiven" | Abishek Nailwal | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Manidham Yendra" | Ravi | 4:20 |
| 4. | "Kollada" | Tippu | 5:48 |
| 5. | "Kathigalin" | Krishnaraj | 4:17 |
| 6. | "Karma Dharma" | Vardhan,Aditi Paul | 3:08 |
| 7. | "Aattam Arrambam" | Armaan Malik, Sreekumar | 3:33 |
| 8. | "Nagendra Haraya" | Manikka Vinayagam | 4:00 |
| 9. | "Thottale Unnai" | Manikka Vinayagam | 2:09 |
| 10. | "Kollada" (Remix) | Tippu | 6:02 |
| 11. | "Thuninju Vettuven" (Remix) | Tippu | 6:02 |
| Total length: | 46:10 | ||
Taran Adarsh ofBollywood Hungama rated 3.5 out of 5 and said that "On the whole, RAKHT CHARITRA 2 highlights the emotion called vengeance most convincingly. It is chilling, raw, revolting, crass and ghastly, the kind that is meant to repulse you. But let's face it: It's a true depiction of human emotions."[4] Renuka Rao ofDNA India gave the movie 3 stars in a scale of 5, concluding that "Watch it if you had watched the first part, but don't be surprised if you don't like this as much."[5] Nikhat Kazmi ofTimes of India gave the movie 3 stars out of 5, stating that "Rakht Charitra doesn't break new ground like Satya and Company, nevertheless it remains a must-see film for Ramu fans."[6] Shubhra Gupta ofIndian Express gave the movie 2.5 stars out of 5, and wrote that "Like in the first part, RGV's intention is not so much to delve into the complexities of Andhra politics, which stay firmly in the backdrop, but to create sequences where death is choreographed in varying ways. After a point, you are oblivious to the gore. But you cannot, at any point, bypass Suriya : he has eyes that speak. Bollywood is ready for him."[7]
Rajeev Masand ofCNN-IBN gave the movie 2.5 out of 5 stars, noting that "I’m going with two out of five for 'Rakht Charitra 2'. More blood and more killings leave you numb your seat.".[8]NDTV rated 2 out of 5 stars vstating "Suriya saves the film from being a total loss. His expressive eyes have a quiet strength and his presence sears the screen."[9]The Economic Times rated 3 out of 5 stars stating "The sequel carries forward the tale of power and revenge which exploded in Rakht Charitra 1."[10]Rediff rated 1.5 out of 5 stars stating "RGV doesn't have anything new to offer in Rakht Charitra 2. The film does have some high points but they are too few to keep you engaged."[11] Rakta Charitra 2 was simultaneously released in Telugu in Andhra Pradesh. 123telugu.com rated the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, praising the story, but noting the second half slows down and that, "Yes the climax could have been better".[12]Greatandhra.com rated the film 3.25 out of 5 and credited the film as "A Technical Masterpiece" and said that "This is an Charitra that haunts for a decade".[13]
| Year | Award | Award category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Screen Awards | Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male | Suriya[14] |
| 2011 | Stardust Awards | Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow – Male | Suriya[15] |
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