The Business Man

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The first thing I noticed after coming out of the theater is the movie run time, its only a little over 2 hours. Director didn’t fall into the trap of making a two and half hour movie especially when last two Mahesh’s movie were well over 150 mins. Instead he concentrated in making every moment interesting without deviating from the central point. This gives me hope that we will soon be doing away with packaged movies.
Businessman is a story of an ordinary guy becoming a gangster and running a parallel system. Only a star like Mahesh could have made such a story, which is so far off from reality, look convincing. He was at ease doing the role. The highlight of the movie is its dialogues. Though the dialogues seem to be like a philosophical argument, director created some very interesting situations to deliver them. In a couple of scenes you wouldn’t find a need for dialogue but they were so well-written and equally well delivered that instead of finding it odd you find it entertaining. Director through his dialogues wanted to expose the shallow thinking of a normal human being in an entertaining way.
Another master stroke by the director is the note he carried out at the start of the movie. Instead of falling into the trap to infuse telugu characters in a mumbai based movie and there by making it look odd, this note
‘Though the movie is set in mumbai, characters talk in telugu for our convinence’ helps both the director and viewer to concentrate on the story. I never knew how a small note can completely alter how you view a movie.
The only drawback i can think of in the movie is, the hero was hardly challenged, everything seemed under his control. A couple of surprises could have taken this to another level. I didn’t find anything odd in the movie except for the dubbing of the girl who acted as heroine’s friend. So it is safe to say all other departments were adequate.

On the whole, very well spent two-hours.
Tail Piece: I have recently watched a movie where in I was concentrating on a very important scene but the censor board found a wine glass somewhere in the background and suddenly a disclaimer ‘alcohol consumption is injurious to health’ came up and I started searching for the wine bottle. It completely disturbed my viewing experience. Censor board should understand that their duty is to issue censor certificate and not alter the content. I cant understand the rationale behind giving an A certificate to the movie and still beeping and blurring some parts of it? Thats exactly what they did for businessman. Insane.

The real charitra

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There is a hero. There is a villain. Villain destroy hero’s family. Hero sets out to kill the villain. Now, this is the most used up plot. But what makes viewing RC different is the question.Lets see.
RGV intentionally or unintentionally tried to play a psychological game with the viewer. Since everyone knew that the movie was based on a true story, it becomes impossible for anyone to isolate the movie from reality and watch it as any other movie. Thats why even though things happen as expected what excites the viewer is, did this happen really? did it happen so brutally? or is it just a dramatized version of what really happened. At almost every point in the movie , these questions come up and makes you more interested in knowing about the true story. Though there are couple of spine-chilling moments, the loud background score which continues through out the movie makes the viewer used to violence and after sometime no amount of violence is anymore violent.
Artists performance mixed with camera angles/frames and background score intensifies the screen and makes you glued to it. Even though RGV is known for this type of intense narration, in his last flick Rann he over used camera angles and was seen as pain in the neck but he used those angles more judiciously in this one.
At the end of the movie, no one sees the end. Viewer feel a sense of incompleteness. I am sure not a single person would have complained if the part-2 was shown right away. I don’t know if this is an expected thing or not but no one who watched RC-1 could miss RC-2. I think that speaks for the story as much as for movie.
No one can pass a judgement on this movie as no one watched any movie in the first place. All one watched was reality or claimed reality. So, all anyone can judge is whether those incidents really happened the way they were shown or not. Perhaps the hindi viewers can pass a better judgement on the movie as they are disconnected from the true story.
I can’t rate this movie, all i can say is it won’t disappoint you except when it ends.
PS: One straight away plus point of making a Biopic is reviewers can’t complain about the plot 😛