The 2001 supernatural thriller AKS by ROM portrays the story of two characters, one elite cop, and one psychotic terrorist, one good face and one bad face of the coin. Later it shows the good face tends to approach the bad face. But here the idea, the obsession of the bad face is actually shown to get transmitted from one person to another by the means of some supernatural entity, may be metaphoric.
Anurag's RR 2.0 is about a psychotic serial killer Raman and the drug addict Raghav, a cop hunting and chasing for Ramana. The film opens up with the depiction of Raghav's misogynous attraction for Simmy (Sobhita) and his addiction to the skag which actually happens to be dodged or unnoticed by us. Then it shows Raman's surrender in an attempt to fool the cops around his act of killing 8 of his victims which actually was hinted by Phantom through their series of teasers (though never shown who the killers were). Here We want to believe Raman (Why?). Then a series of killings by Raman and a series of unsuccessful attempts of hunting by the cops and their boss. Ramana's torturous killing of his own sister and her family, the account of his relation with the sister, his hiding in the filthy sewer, his hunting for the prey around the streets, his incapability or refusal to understand the basic addition is enough to accept his being of psychotic nature. On the other hand there is this guy with a gun and a designation of ACP violently convincing his so called girlfriend to kill the unborn baby appears to be not so pathetic by our damn sensitive and highly educated society. Though both of them bears a commonality in their upbringings. The dark bloodshed killing of victims by Ramana has not explicitly been displayed on the screen but the conversation, the real location and the background music is haunting. Nawaz is at his convincingly best showing his depth for this layered character of Ramana. Vicky is power packed at his depiction of Raghav, though I still think there could have been a more mature actor complementing Nawaz. Story is an eight chapter division, each one linked to each other still independent and complete enough to tell a brief story showing a psychotic criminal with or without a mask. And so the editing needed to be tricky and sharp which actually is smart enough. Cinematography is required brilliant.
So where does this story is leading us, is it showing a mirror to us, a mirror which reflects the second face of ourselves? As RR 2.0 progresses we start realizing that though we don't like Raghav as a person but we still want him to chase down Raman, obviously we never develop any sympathy for him. So we still want the Rat to get killed by the Cat, aren't we?
Raman and Raghav both of us are approaching each other, so whom we want to win?
Anurag's RR 2.0 is about a psychotic serial killer Raman and the drug addict Raghav, a cop hunting and chasing for Ramana. The film opens up with the depiction of Raghav's misogynous attraction for Simmy (Sobhita) and his addiction to the skag which actually happens to be dodged or unnoticed by us. Then it shows Raman's surrender in an attempt to fool the cops around his act of killing 8 of his victims which actually was hinted by Phantom through their series of teasers (though never shown who the killers were). Here We want to believe Raman (Why?). Then a series of killings by Raman and a series of unsuccessful attempts of hunting by the cops and their boss. Ramana's torturous killing of his own sister and her family, the account of his relation with the sister, his hiding in the filthy sewer, his hunting for the prey around the streets, his incapability or refusal to understand the basic addition is enough to accept his being of psychotic nature. On the other hand there is this guy with a gun and a designation of ACP violently convincing his so called girlfriend to kill the unborn baby appears to be not so pathetic by our damn sensitive and highly educated society. Though both of them bears a commonality in their upbringings. The dark bloodshed killing of victims by Ramana has not explicitly been displayed on the screen but the conversation, the real location and the background music is haunting. Nawaz is at his convincingly best showing his depth for this layered character of Ramana. Vicky is power packed at his depiction of Raghav, though I still think there could have been a more mature actor complementing Nawaz. Story is an eight chapter division, each one linked to each other still independent and complete enough to tell a brief story showing a psychotic criminal with or without a mask. And so the editing needed to be tricky and sharp which actually is smart enough. Cinematography is required brilliant.
So where does this story is leading us, is it showing a mirror to us, a mirror which reflects the second face of ourselves? As RR 2.0 progresses we start realizing that though we don't like Raghav as a person but we still want him to chase down Raman, obviously we never develop any sympathy for him. So we still want the Rat to get killed by the Cat, aren't we?
Raman and Raghav both of us are approaching each other, so whom we want to win?