UPDATE: REVIEW ADDED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!
It’s like a toxic relationship. We all love Ram Gopal Varma movies. In fact, we even spent a lot of money to bring a selection of them to the New York Asian Film Festival a few years ago. But not only did those movies bomb at the festival, Ram Gopal Varma himself has fallen apart. Going from being the most exciting director in Bollywood, and the most white-knuckled crime film director in the world, he has now become – in a few short years – a hack, pooping out one crummy, smelly turd of a movie after another. And yet, we all remember his glory days of yesteryear and every time a new RGV flick hits theaters we all rush out and buy tickets, sit in our seats full of hope and leave three hours later, crushed.
This is the last chance. This weekend, at the ImaginAsian Theater, his latest movie, SARKAR RAJ, is opening. It’s a big Bollywood film about the criminal shenanigans Enron got up to in India and it stars the holy trinity of Bollywood: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and his wife, Aishwarya Rai. This is it. This is the last chance we’re giving him. If RGV lets us down this weekend we’re never making a movie date with him again. Expect a review over the weekend.
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