Sarkar 3

If you were coming of age around the mid-1990s, there were fewer things as difficult to process as characters in a Ram Gopal Varma film. That, though, is meant as a compliment. Whether it be Munna (Aamir Khan) from Rangeela or Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Bajpayee) from Satya, RGV's characters looked debonair and felt fresh during a decade of insipid romances. But like a lot of self-made directors, Varma too was afflicted by cinematic hubris, as his tweets and his interviews over the years have amply shown.

Varma was the architect of the abominable Darling, the dreadful Phoonk and, worst....