James (Telugu)

Slivery visuals, crackerjack editing, pithy dialogue, spilling skin, ravaging music, a background score written in thundering hooves… James has all the key deliverables of a Ram Gopal Varma film. Indeed, RGV has shown how it’s possible to roll high-quality films off the assembly line by sticking to some basic ingredients – he actually calls his films factory products. Proving that presentation is everything, he makes you look forward to those special Fridays even when you know exactly what to expect.

James is no true-life story, of course. Nobody who has six-pa....