Rakta Charitra (Hindi)

While we fully acknowledge Ram Gopal Varma's knack of turning real-life crime into dramatic cinema, and his flair for slickness in presentation, it's his irreverence for sunshine that is disturbing. In Rakta Charitra, Indian cinema's enfant terrible may just have peaked in his perennial quest to portray the worst in man.

Based on the factionism in Anantapur that served as Paritala Ravi's rise to power, the film is essentially a dissection of - not crime, not the "system" - a dark, dark, dark world. We're sure this is how it is in reality out there. We'll believe you if you tell us i....