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2009/5/27 My reactions to reactions1. I think you lack a filter between your thoughts and words.
Ans: I prefer not having a filter than having a clogged filter like yours. 2. You are a con artiste and not even a good one. Only Rangeela and Satya are the 2 good movies you made and the rest are crap. In 2 years your luck will run out.
Ans: Okey dokey. Text after 2 years. 3. How did you do the sound design for Shiva? It was so effective.
Ans: For any film whether it is sound design or background music or camera work, all of them depend on how effective the scene content and the edit is, apart from how seriously the Director is taking the film. There is no such thing as a specific sound design. 4. I will see “Rifle” first day first show.
Ans: Done and if you look around in the theatre you might find me too. 5. My girlfriend is so jealous that she shut my laptop when I was reading about ‘Rifle’.
Ans: Too bad that she can’t shut your mind from thinking about ‘Rifle’. 6. Your grammar is wrong in saying most sexiest. Either it should be most sexy or sexiest woman.
Ans: Teacher, you need to understand that an enlightened soul like me places more importance on the psychological aspect than on grammatical correctness. Like for example; there’s a much higher chance of a girl falling for me by me telling her “You are the most fantabulously mindblowable awesomic sexualistic creature I have ever seen” than you telling her “I think you are the most sexy woman”. 7. Have you ever heard of ‘meaningful cinema’?
Ans: Ya, I know that it’s quite a dangerous disease. Lots of film institute guys get infected by it. 8. Ramu, I think your tough guy image is just a pretence.
Ans: Shalini, most girls who know me say the same about me and they seem to love me for that. Now my question is why would a girl love a guy who is not tough? You see, I developed my tough guy image on the basis of a million year old belief of mine that men should be tough and women should be sexy. 9. When it comes to entertaining nothing can beat your blog.
Ans: Ahhhh! Finally one unadulterated compliment! Thanks. 10. In ‘Deyyam’ how did you do that scene when the man’s feet are facing backward?
Ans: I got his feet buried in the sand and placed an artificial feet facing backward around his ankle. 11. How did you come up with the cycle chase scene in Shiva?
Ans: I copied it from Rahul Rawail’s and Sunny Deol’s “Arjun”. 12. What happens at the end of Agyaat and don’t give me crap answer?
Ans: “The end” comes at the end of Agyaat and don’t ask me crap questions. 13. Does Agyaat have elements of Gumnaam?
Ans: Yes and also elements of Predator, Alien, Blairwitch Project, Raat, Bhoot, Phoonk and 5 Ramsay Brother’s films and 7 Zee Horror Show episodes. 14. I think the reason you are fascinated with criminals is because of their ability to break the social taboo of not being scared to be selfish.
Ans: Not really. My understanding of a criminal is that he is a child who refuses to grow up. This is in the sense that when we are born we all pretty much think that we are the centre of the universe because of the attention everyone gives us. In time we slowly realize that we are just one among millions and kind of adapt to our designated place in society and revolve along with the world, whereas a criminal still wants the world to revolve around him. It is this psychological aspect I am fascinated with. 15. Do you really have the guts to say “I lust you” to a woman rather than “I love you’?
Ans: Many a time I told a woman ‘I lust you” with more intensity than most men would have said “I love you” and the women fell in love with me for the honesty behind my lust. 16. Make a movie only if you have something interesting to tell.
Ans: I always do that, my friend. But the problem is that many times the audience is not interested to listen. 17. I have a story which can be a potential Hollywood movie. Are you interested?
Ans: I think you got the wrong blog. Try Spielberg’s. 18. You are a crazy man… ultimately crazy.
Ans: When did I say no? 19. I think you enjoyed life a lott… Isn’t it?
Ans: Yes. Much more than any of you can ever imagine. I did, I am and I will. 20. Why don’t you try to find Rifle now?
Ans: Hello! She will be above 40 now. At that time I was in a danger of being beaten up by her husband and now I probably would be beaten up by her sons. Thanks! 2009/5/23 “RIFLE”That was what we used to call her. Rifle was a name someone gave her at College and it stuck. She was the most sexiest woman I have ever seen in my life. When I was studying in Siddhartha Engineering College Vijayawada, there used to be lot of construction activity going on there and she was one of the construction labourers. Me and many of my classmates used to watch her through our classroom window while a boring soil mechanics lecture droned on. It didn’t make a difference to us that her thighs were caked with cement dust and her hair was uncombed, she used to walk bare feet with her chest thrust out and used to look straight in our eye. She had more sex in her little finger than most women in their whole bodies. To us she was just sex personified. Our imagination of how she would look naked under her clothes drove us insane. Agreed that our ages were such that even a telephone pole wrapped in a saree would look sexual, but there really was something truly amazingly electrifyingly sexual about Rifle. It’s not that there were no other women on the campus. There were plenty both in the engineering and the medical college but Rifle was Rifle. I always felt there is a fundamental difference between beauty and sexuality. Beauty pleases your senses whereas sexuality controls your senses, or even more correctly makes your senses go berserk. Your rational thinking gets lost and the animal instinct takes over. Rifle used to draw out the animal in all of us. She in her non-caring demeanour and in the way she used to clothe and behave epitomized the word ‘sex’. We all used to sit in the nights with textbooks on our laps and have endless discussions on the shapes and sizes of Rifles various attributes. It took us the tremendous strength of our combined will of all our upbringing, education, social programming, morality, religious strictures and fear of law which just about managed to control us from pouncing upon her. If ever in my life I respected God, it was for creating Rifle. Now why was she so sexual compared to the crystal clean girls who used to come in swanky dresses, their lips red with lipstick? I think it’s because no man wants to taste lipstick when he kisses a girl. I strongly feel that sexuality works more when it is ultra real rather than when it is enhanced by cosmetics. Aesthetics kind of undermine the rawness of sex. For example I think the difference between an erotic film and a porn film is the backlight. If it’s back-lit it’s erotic and if it’s front-lit it’s porn. In both cases the content is the same. All said and done, for me Rifle was the ultimate epitome of what God really intended a woman to be like, before the cosmetic industry, the costume designers, the make-up people and the jewelry merchants came in and started backlighting that wonderful species called women. P.S:
2009/5/21 My reactions to reactions1. Is it your impatience that makes you work so fast?
Ans: No, it’s my fear that I will not have enough time to be able to make all the films I want to make before I die. 2. I think you are using your blog to publicize yourself and your films?
Ans: Of course yes! You thought I was here for my love for you or what? 3. I give you 3.5/5.
Ans: And I give 0/5 for your opinions. 4. Why don’t you open a film school?
Ans: The concept of film schools in today’s time is a big sham. In the olden days there was no access to film tools like camera, etc. Today anybody with a digicamera and a laptop can make a film. And as per the institute having film archives, every corner dvd store has more films than them. Further more filmmaking is an expressionist art and I don’t believe that it can be taught. 5. What school did you attend?
Ans: St.Marys High School, Secunderabad. 6. How much was your remuneration for Shiva?
Ans: The sum total of whatever I earned till today and whatever I will ever earn. 7. You have won my respect with Jana Gana Mana Rann song. After 17 years I will step into the theatre to watch this film.
Ans: Oh great, I will arrange a band for your welcome. 8. I liked that scene in Shiva where the mother of the dead friend slaps the Police Inspector. How did you conceive that great scene?
Ans: I copied it from “JAWS”. The mother of the boy killed slaps the Police Chief for not forewarning the tourists about the shark. 9. I think during your early stages your movies had sensible music.
Ans: And I think during your late stages you lost your sensibility of music. 10. I want to make a film on you.
Ans: Just remove “Ki Aag” from “Ramgopalvarma Ki Aag”. P.S: Ok… Ok… Ok… I know that this was a dumb answer but I could not think of something better. 11. You don’t comment from your heart, you just want to make them interesting and you want to show off.
Ans: Yes. Yes. Yes. So? 12. People who are close to you and bear your attitude must be either thick-skinned or blissfully ignorant of your sarcasm. Ans: Or they could be smarter than you. 13. How do you differentiate between right and wrong?
Ans: Very simple. What I do is right and what others do is wrong. 14. You think you are extra smart, don’t you?
Ans: Yyyyyeesssssss! 15. Someone told me that Rakta Charitra’s script is someone else’s.
Ans: I don’t have a copyright ownership of Paritala Ravi’s story. Anyone is welcome to make a film on him from their own interpretation. 16. What is the best compliment for your blog?
Ans: Someone here said that the only thing he does in office is to watch a yummy girl in there or read my blog, which basically means he is saying that my blog is the next best thing after sex. Ahhhhh! 17. Surya fits the bill, but still not convinced about Vivek.
Ans: Sleep on it. 18. What’s your take on violence v/s non-violence?
Ans: Well, violence for sure is more entertaining. 19. Is Agyaat inspired from Predator?
Ans: Yes and from many more in that genre. 20. What is sad is that you think that you are Gail Wynand fighting Toohey’s like me.
Ans: What is even more sad is your half-baked understanding of Ayn Rand. 21. I think you are the most sensitive guy than anyone.
Ans: Well, my mom and my girl friend think the same. They think I just hide my sensitivity under my seemingly tough guy image. But I think they think that because they are too scared to think otherwise. 22. A person like you cannot be as soul less as in your reactions to reactions.
Ans: Did you ever hear of something called sense of humour? 2009/5/13 My reactions to reactions1. Since when have you become patriotic and so concerned about the Nation’s people? Ans: Hello! The piece I have written was in the context of the film I am making and with reference to a certain character’s thinking in it and I wanted to give an explanation regarding the same to be clear about the intent behind it. I personally don’t believe in anything except my own beliefs which keep changing all the time depending on my mood and the situation I am in. If I am telling the viewpoint of a gangster in a film I am making that does not mean I myself think like a gangster. 2. There are very few sane people out there.
Ans: Ahhhhh! You are telling me! All you need to do is to go through the comments section on my blog and you will see how many! 3. Try to clean your body of toxins like liquor and women and eat simple food.
Ans: Ok Doc, and I suggest that you clean your holier than thou attitude with a bar of dettol. 4. Don’t you have dirt within yourself?
Ans: I am full of it and I love it. 5. I would say you are not even a kid… you are an animal.
Ans: Ooooh! I am so proud of the dawn of your wisdom. I believe that an animal is the purest form of a living being and I thank you so very much for the compliment. 6. How can you start RAKTA CHARITRA and still be firmly focused on RANN and AGYAAT?
Ans: Eashwar, Allah and Jesus have been kind enough to give me a mind which can multi-task at an unimaginable rate. Only me and Satan battle with those Godly forces and manage to screw up most of those tasks. 7. It was first RANN, then INDIA 24/7 and then again RANN. Why change the title so frequently?
Ans: My wish. 8. I have lost all respect for you and Big B.
Ans: Ha Ha. 9. Do you trust in love?
Ans: Yes, but love does not trust in me. 10. You have two contrasting characters Ram and Krishna in your name.
Ans: I guess that explains my confused screwed up state of mind. Hey guys (all my haters), how about blaming it on those Gods and leave me alone. 11. I am with you Ramu.
Ans: I don’t need anybody to be with me Jai. You keep yourself with yourself where you will do most good to yourself. 12. What would have been your reaction if Jana Gana was made by someone else?
Ans: I would have been extremely jealous that I didn’t get the Idea first. 13. Don’t you have any conscience?
Ans: No. 14. I think you lost your sensibility on love and emotions.
Ans: Ya, that’s because I graduated to sex and intelligence. 15. Could truth be told in RANN as effectively as it was written by Ayn Rand?
Ans: Terribly. 16. “Truth can be terrible” would have been better than “Truth is terrible”.
Ans: “Truth is terrible” sounds like a strong statement and the line “Truth can be terrible” albeit more truthful is known to everyone which will make it sound preachy. A strong statement startles people for a moment before they burst out with their venom or praise. I don’t believe in gentle head-nods and gentle head-shakes as then I can’t pounce on them with my loud background music. 2009/5/8 Bharat Ko Bachaa Le Vidhaata!When was the last time a SONG stirred us to realize the reality of our current state?
When I was writing this song, I wanted to capture the emotions of a situation in the film where the citizens of India are asked to wake up; To wake up and realize that we are not being fair to the country by letting anti-national powers flourish for their personal gains, that we are surrendering the very freedom that we fought for, that we are dividing the country when we should actually stand up united for it’s progress.
Now, if we had used lines like “Jaag jao… Bhaarat ko bachaao’ or ‘Humari jaan Hindustaan’, maximum reaction would have been a yawn or a raise of an eyebrow. Or both, if somebody really liked it and were generous.
It would NOT have made people sit up and think about the current state.
Diverting from the song for a moment, the Election Commission started many campaigns this year to urge Indians to come out and vote yet the turnout was only around 50%
It’s not like we don’t care. It’s just that we don’t care enough to make an effort to even elect the best men to decide the future and fate of our country. We are comfortably numb and almost sleepy to what is happening to us.
And how do we wake up a person who is asleep? Do we sing lullaby to him? Or do we shrug him and shake him out of sleep?
As the script demanded it, with this song the characters want to shrug and shake people out of their slumber; make them realize that India is wounded. It needs us, the citizens to come forward and help it.
By now, we were clear that we wanted the song to be intense and hard-hitting; an eye-opener!! Any ‘Jaag jao… Bhaarat ko bachaao’ wouldn’t have served the purpose.
Since the film RANN is not about a battle fought on the borders of India but it is about the battle that all of us fight within ourselves, the words were meant to express “There is a battle in the minds of all people” and literally they translated into ‘Jana Gann Mana Rann hai’. This was the birth of this song.
Yes, there is a reference to the respected National Anthem of our country but this song is NOT our National Anthem nor is it demeaning or insulting it in any way. While the National Anthem speaks about India and Victory, this song talks about the ‘need’ to achieve that victory by keeping India united today. Infact it reaffirms all the goodness that the National Anthem stands for. But at the end of the day, it is just a song by itself pertaining to the script and the scenes of the film.
How can you call it National Anthem when there are 100 different words used in it? (Yes I counted, 100 words!!)
Kindly go through the lyrics once and decide for yourself if there is any insult to India… Kindly understand the intent before blindly judging the content… Kindly ask yourself if you don’t really want India to be free from all corruption, bloodshed and destruction… Kindly be honest…
And yes, you can count the 100 different words here too (They are the ones not bold)
Jana Gann Mana Rann hai …is Rann mein Zakhmi Bhaarat ka Bhaagya Vidhaata
Punjab Sindh Gujrat Maratha Ek doosre se ladd ke mar rahein hai Is desh ne humko ek kiya Aur hum desh ke tukde kar rahein Dravid Utkal Banga
Khoon bahaa ker, ek rang ka …kar diya humne tiranga Sarhadon pe jung aur …Galiyon mein fasaad danga
Vindh Himachal Yamuna Ganga Mein tezaab ubal raha hai Mein tezaab ubal raha hai
Mar gaya sab ka zameer Jaane kab zinda ho aagey Phir bhi Tava shubh naame jaage Tava shubh aashish maange
Aag mein jal kar cheekh raha hai Phir bhi koi nahi bachaata Gaahe tava jaya gaatha
Desh ka aisa haal hai lekin Aapas mein ladd rahein Neta Jana Gann Mangal daayak jaya hai Bhaarat ko bacha le Vidhaata!!!
Jaya hai – Ya yeh – Marann hai Jana – Gann – Mana – Rann hai
This song reinforces and urges citizens to respect India, its greatness and it’s National Anthem.
If anyone thinks that it is a crime to ask Indians to stand up and help India be the glorious Country that it was, then I have only one thing to say… “BHAARAT KO BACHAA LE VIDHAATA”
- Sarim Momin (Lyricist of Jana Gana Mana RANN) Why Jana Gana Mana RANN?Apparently some people are saying that I have done this for publicity. Of course, I have done it for publicity. Without exception, any material that goes out of a filmmaker’s office be it by way of interviews, or by way of audio-visual, or music pieces, or anything else is to garner publicity for his film. I have made a film, and I want as many people out there as possible to know that this film will soon come to their theatres and I also want them to know what my film is going to be all about. With RANN I want to bring to people’s attention the battle that they are fighting with the powers-that-be of our so-called civilized society. But now it is claimed that some people have got upset over the promo because of the usage of the song. If I had known that before, as the conspiracy theories are alleging, my question to them is why would I deliberately want to turn them off against my own film when they too are my audience? To start with, the ’Rann’ song is not the national anthem. It’s just an inspiration from what the national anthem stands for. The national anthem in totality has a completely different meaning compared to that of the ‘Rann’ song. However the ‘Rann’ song stands for exactly what the national anthem stands for albeit in today’s time and in consideration of what we as a people of the country are going through. There was no attempt on my part to ridicule or demean or show the national anthem in a bad or comic light for it to offend people. In a soulful voice and with heart-touching lyrics it seeks to draw attention of all concerned to the problems that the country has. If the question “Why Jana Gana Mana Rann?” is pertinent, the answer too is pertinent. All one needs to do is to very seriously listen to the ‘Rann’ lyrics carefully and attempt to dispute the truth in them. We keep screaming “Incredible India”, “Mera Bharat Mahaan” etc with a halo of well-intended but truly misplaced self-praise. While it may fool the eyes of some tourists etc, the hard cold facts concerning the reality about India is not unknown to the people of the country. Terrorism, poverty, riots, debt-ridden farmers suicides, dowry deaths, rapes, murders, drought, famine, flood have become mere symbols that are highlighted as conscious awakeners for vote banks, while people’s hearts are bent on their own self preservation. The nation is in a danger of becoming impotent by choice of not reacting and it’s this sad state of affairs that I wanted to decry in the emotions behind the song Jana Gana Mana Ran, by exercising my fundamental right for freedom of speech and expression which is guaranteed to me by the Constitution of India under Article 19. And now my question to the detractors is, what better instrument could I have had to highlight this cause, than an inspiration from the National Anthem itself that we as a nation so often proudly give lip to but always forget to honour?
– Ram Gopal Varma
“Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free, Where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls, Where words come out from the depth of truth, Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection, Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action, Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake” – Rabindranath Tagore 2009/5/6 RANN2009/5/4 My reactions to reactions1. My girl friend says you are a softie at heart. Ans: Hmmm! Well! Err! Am blushing… please tell her not to tell this to anyone and let my secret out please… 2. The Agyaat song has just 2 layers. It needs atleast 3 layers to complete it. Ans: Pardon me Sir but I have no knowledge of the layeral aspect of songs and neither do I wish to know, so I please request you to not jump forward to educate me on the same now. 3. I started enjoying you ridiculing even my own comments. Ans: Attaboy. That’s the point of life. My gyan to you is not to take anything seriously especially yourself. 4. Why do you keep tough faces for all your characters? Ans: Because I love tough guys. 5. The line you attributed to Bruce Lee in “Enter the Dragon” was from Zen Buddha’s scriptures. Ans: The point was not about the origin but about where I heard it. For all I know the Zen guy could have got it from his cook. 6. You are still a kid. Ans: If you say so, Uncle. 7. Do you find it paradoxical that sex which can be such a pleasure requires a woman who can be such a torture? Ans: Ahhhhh! You are telling meeeeeeee maaaaaaaaaan! 8. Why is it that you keep coming back to the same genre of movies? Ans: Atleast I keep returning to my roots. Most other filmmakers don’t even leave their roots. 9. Do write a scary story. Ans: Ok, here goes my one line scary story…. I am remaking Aag. 10. If you are happy about the movies you are making, you are making a fool of yourself. Ans: And if you think you are happy about you thinking I am happy about thinking what you are thinking of what I am thinking then you are making a double fool of yourself. 11. Your arrogance is revolting. Someone should beat you with a stick to tame you. Ans: My mom, my sister and my girlfriend think the same. 12. How do you manage time? Ans: By not wearing a watch. 13. The title of Rakta Charitra is not good. It does not have shock value. People won’t come to watch a movie with that title. Ans: Ok, Mr.Expert, how about blessing us with your creative genius and gift a title. 14. How do you balance between existentialist philosophies and material life which you are enjoying in a full fledge style? Ans: Like I said somewhere on this blog, I believe that we are born in the morning and die in the night. So thinking beyond the moment we are living, I think is a futile exercise. Vodka and sex are realities for me, and films and philosophies are dreams. 2009/5/1 My reactions to reactions1. When will you take me out for dinner?
Ans: If you are man I would rather have a vodka with you, and if you are a woman I would rather stay in with you. 2. How about casting Nana as Ravi?
Ans: How about keeping your suggestions to yourself? 3. Did you ever go to a temple?
Ans: Many times when I was kid along with my grandma. She used to give me 100 Rupees each time. 4. I am searching for an answer to this question. Who am I?
Ans: You already answered yourself, because only nobodies can have questions like that. 5. I am fed up of your lame background scores.
Ans: Stop listening. 6. I think Rakta Charitra will be successful.
Ans: Oh! Ok, Mr.Thinker. 7. This song sounds like Kahin Deep Jale.
Ans: That was the intent, Sir. 8. Why don’t you write a scary story for your blog?
Ans: I already did. It was titled “The Making of Aag”. 9. You should have come up with something more original than this song.
Ans: Waaaaah! What an original idea! Maan gaye Sir! Mind blowing. 10. Sorry but the song is bad. Ans: Thanks. 11. Awesome song.
Ans: Thanks. 12. I bet 2000$ this movie will not be a hit.
Ans: Then why not bet 2 million$? Why be so cheap even in your wishes? 13. I decided to watch Agyaat.
Ans: Can you please post your feet to my office so that I can touch them? 14. Use the words philosophize and philosophy correctly.
Ans: Where do I send the cheque for the English lesson, Sir? 15. I think you did not understand Satyendra. Ans: If this is how you think, you better think about yourself.
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