Just when you let your guard down, a movie suddenly comes cast in a script.
By usual Telugu film standards, Chatrapati is almost a classic. Based in the dredging dockyards of Vizag, the film reminds you of a pot-pourri of heyday Bachchan films like Deewar, Hum and Agneepath, and is the story of the rise from the working classes of a fury that is nourished by the monstrous atrocities of the ruling Big Bad Man and that becomes omnipotent – a story of the quiet seething of a man who knows only to look in the eye, a man who inspires awe and fear among both those he protects an....