Rakta Charitra

Rakta Charitra English Blood History is a 2010 twopart Indian bilingual biographical crime film based on the life of Paritala Ravindra , and Maddela Cheruvu Suri. Directed by Ram Gopal Varma, and written by Prashant Pandey, the film was simultaneously shot in Hindi and Telugu. The film was nominated for Stardust Readers Choice Award for Best Direction ActionThriller.

The film starts with a narration about politics and gangs in Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh. The opening scene of a murder in broad daylight, which the narrator calls rakta politics, sets the tone of the movie. Narasimha Reddy, a local politician, is a powerful man in the area. His close associate Veera Bhadra Rajendra Gupta is his trustwothy ally for his political work, to the extent that Narasimha Reddy gives him freedom to contest Jilla Parishad polls with his men. Veera Bhadra champions the causes of the poor and oppressed and they look up to him like their leader.Nagamuni Reddy Kota Srinivasa Rao, who is the local MLA of the district and close to Narasimha Reddy, becomes jealous of the budding trust between Veera Bhadra and Narasimha Reddy, and starts poisoning Narasimha Reddy against Veera Bhadra. Narasimha summons Veera Bhadra and asks him not to contest the polls with his contestants, but rather support Nagamuni Reddys. Veera Bhadra lashes out at Narasimha Reddy for being unfair to the lower castes and storms out. Nagamuni Reddy calls for Manda Ashish Vidyarthi, a close follower of Veera Bhadra, and manipulates him into killing Veera Bhadra, giving him the assurance that if he does it, people will suspect the policies of Veera Bhadra as his own follower killed him and he will be the next in line as the leader of the poor people, else take his life. Manda reluctantly agrees to it. Veera Bhadra and his wife Zarina Wahab travel in a bus withpeople to a wedding. Manda and Nagamunis men stop the bus, kill Veera Bhadras guards, and tell him to step out of the bus or else he will be killed along with the other innocents on the bus. Veera Bhadra comes out, looking at Manda, and dares him to kill. Nagamunis henchman Durga shoots at Veera Bhadra, making it look like Manda shot at him prompting Manda about the deal he made with Nagamuni, he tells him to kill him in front of everyone. Manda takes a boulder and crushes Veera Bhadras skull and kills him. ........

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