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06/04/2009 My reactions on reactions1. Do you keep changing your directorial approach like for instance, post Naach till Sarkar Raj I see a difference?
Ans: Directorial approach largely depends on the theme of the film and the characters I am dealing with. 2. In Sarkar how were the killings of Selvar Mani, Vishram and Rashid countsructed?
Ans: In real life death comes as unexpected and as random as that. 3. I just hope youngsters don’t start believing in your theories and get carried away.
Ans: I hope they will as then they will get carried over. Anyway I think nobody believes in anything or anyone. They will just hold on to one belief system or the other at different stages and phases of their lives very much like a ship anchoring at different places in the course of its travel. “You say you found me, but until you find yourself you can’t find me, and the day you truly find yourself you will remain yourself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
4. How did Satya an engg student become a doctor?
Ans: I never said we were classmates or college mates in engineering. We were both in Siddhartha College at Vijayawada. She a student in Siddhartha Medical College and me in Siddhartha Engg. College and those days they both operated from the same compound. 5. Why do you think getting rid of conscience is godly?
Ans: I believe that our life is nothing but a conflict between wanting to and having to and in between lies the conscience. So if you get rid of your conscience you can live a life as pure as that of an animal. 6. Can you elaborate on the “dog dying in South Africa” (referring to Mohan Krishna’s mail on your blog)?
Ans: I will soon write a piece on that. 7. I have an idea for Sarkar III; how Subash Nagre started his life as an immigrant labourer and then became a union leader and then a political power. Abhishek can play the young Sarkar. What say? Ans: Nothing. 8. Do you look down on people who oppose your thoughts?
Ans: On the contrary I enjoy them as I am fascinated with the amazingly different point of views. 9. You said “I had a fear of rejection from Satya”. Did you have the same fear of rejection from the audience about your first film?
Ans: I never feared the audience as they are just nameless and faceless individuals whereas Satya is an individual I loved and hence feared. 10. Dumbo, if it’s just to impress Satya why didn’t you just write a cute love story?
Ans: Double dumbo, it’s because at that time love stories were around plenty and I thought this article will be unique. I just didn’t realize that there are people like you and Satya also in this world, and yes, that was my triple dumbness. 22/12/2008 My reactions to reactions
1. What is your reaction to Shobha De’s comments on your Taj visit? 2. I would like to have a coffee with you. 3. Your Taj visit was a true judgment of error. 4. You can’t stop being an idiot. 5. If you live for wine and women what are movies for? 6. You had a collection of ideas. Now you don’t. 7. I can’t believe you can write a script in 20 minutes. P.S. I read Godfather 20 years back. 8. What’s the difference between love and lust? 9. How do you get away from guilt? 10. Comment – Dagny Taggart is a bitch. 11. Have you ever taken anything seriously? 12. I respect you because you believe in yourself. 13. Don’t keep giving smart answers. 14. Be sympathetic towards human beings. 15. Do something towards the crazzzzzy footage hungry media. 16. I want you to give a good thought to my comments. 17. I always felt your forte is not story but screenplay. 18. Why do you need to be always busy? 19. I want to work with you. 20. How do you manage to keep your personal life so private? 21. How do you describe yourself? 11/12/2008 My reactions to reactions1. My mother thinks that I am becoming madder and madder for reading your blog.
Ans: And my mother thinks that your mother is becoming madder and madder for thinking so. 2. How come you are not offended when people call you Ramu which is usually the name of a gardener or a dog.
Ans: Well I am mighty happy that I have reached this stage from being a dog and am managing to make the various concerned admit that by them still calling me by that name. 3. (Note: This is just one line from a long piece written by Mr.MG. Those of you with nothing to do please check it.)
Take time to read what I have written and introspect where you are heading as a filmmaker. Ans: Dear Mr.MG just take a chill pill or better still watch Katarina’s legs in “Just Chill”. 4. What do you need to become a director?
Ans: A passion to tell a story and a fool with money to believe in it. That is the truth in 99% of the cases but in the 1% where I figure… Ahem!... It is my passion and a passionate producer who believes in it.
Just kidding Boss. If you don’t like my joke please go visit MG. His super-serious piece on me in this blog is sure to make you laugh more than mine.
5. You look like a chimpanzee.
Ans: Oh! I didn’t know I was that good looking. 6. How much time do you spend on a script?
Ans: Around 20 minutes give or take a few minutes. 7. I hope “Rann” will tell how terrible media is.
Ans:… And I hope the media won’t tell how terrible ‘Rann’ is. 8. What are the similarities between great dictator Hitler and great director RGV?
Ans: Well he had his concentration camps and I have my theatres. 9. Does any politician ever tell the truth?
Ans: Well…. only when he calls the other politician a liar. 10. Do you believe that the best things in life are for free like sex for instance?
Ans: Of course. It is only what can lead to it which is expensive. 11. What do you live for?
Ans: Wine and women. It is just that the order changes from time to time and yes, you do need some wealth to get them. 08/12/2008 My Reactions to Reactions1. You are psycho.
Ans: Grrrr! 2. I think you are hurt.
Ans: Boo hoo! 3. Your blog entry is silly
Ans: Sillier is to read and reply. 4. Why is that you are not having meaty scripts and Mukul Anand’s visuals?
Ans: Watch Mukul’s films and read your own scripts. 5. You don’t have to explain.
Ans: You don’t have to advise. 6. Watch ‘Thank you for smoking’. It will bring some confidence in you.
Ans: Watch RGV ki Aag. It will make you loose your confidence in giving me confidence.
7. Don’t make Agyaat right now.
Ans: When should I make it Sir? 8. I hope these events corrected your ego and arrogance.
Ans: Yes they have become bigger.
9. Stick to your vodka.
Ans: Stick to your barista. 10. You said you had a ball or two.
Ans: I have balls… and Many. 11. What happened to your philosophy?
Ans: My philosophy is not to have a philosophy. 12. You are worse than a terrorist. Media is full of assholes. The officials who let you in were also incompetent.
Ans: Ok Sir except for you all of us are whatever you think we are. Happy now? 13. What is your opinion on platonic love?
Ans: Err… is it some disease? 13. Howard Roark embraces better thoughts than you.
Ans: I embrace far better and softer things than Howard Roark. 14. This is my last visit to your blog.
Ans: Bye. 15. Don’t enter our world and be in your world.
Ans: Look at who is in whose world. 16. You and Riteish should not have put Vilas Rao in this spot.
Ans: Both of us will seek your advise next time Sir. 17. Were you like this since your birth?
Ans: No… only since my mom dropped me on my head. 18. Which of the two traits do you like between Ram and Gopal?
Ans: I am basically Ravan pretending to be Ram to get the obvious benefits of Gopal. 29/11/2008 My reactions to reactions1. Why is sex more exciting onscreen than between the sheets?
Ans: It’s because onscreen women come edited and in real life you can’t edit them. 2. Most call you Ramu or RGV. How come your friend addressed you as Ramgopal?
Ans: All my college mates used to call me Ramgopal. 3. Why are you against censorship?
Ans: If we are supposed to have enough wisdom to even chose and vote for who should govern us, I think it’s fair that we should also be credited with enough wisdom to decide what we want to see in our films. 4. You have nothing original. You keep quoting Schopenhaver, Ayan Rand etc.
Ans: Arey mere baap. Apart from my umpteen interviews over the years even on this blog I keep screaming that everything I do is a copy. So? 5. You are living in a fool’s paradise.
Ans: That is far better than your intellectual hell. 6. If there is no power, sex and vodka in the world what will you do then?
Ans: Die. 7. Everyone has an opinion on how a film should have been made.
Ans: You are telling me! After Aag I was given 1 lakh 34 thousand seven hundred and twenty nine opinions and after that I stopped counting. 8. I can’t imagine a world full of RGV’s.
Ans: It will be F…......... 9. If you don’t have anything interesting to write, no need to write. It’s really ok. It’s fine.
Ans: If you don’t have anything else to read, no need to come to my blog. It’s really ok. It’s fine. 10. Every breath we take is a gift from God.
Ans: But he takes it out too. What about that sir? 11. What is the need to do both Rann and Agyaat?
Ans: Coz I can think and work faster than you. Least I will do is to make 2 bad films while you will do nothing. 12. Your attitude is simply spoiling your body of work.
Ans: I have a fabulous suggestion for you. Why don’t you think for yourself for a little time in all the time you are wasting on me? 13. You will be insignificant when you die, maybe just remembered by a silly Guinness /Limca book.
Ans: Thanks for that much credit at least. With you I don’t think that anybody will know that you existed. 14. I feel you are spiritual.
Ans: Quite a few people want me to become a spirit. 15. I can’t believe your rudeness. What do you think of yourself?
Ans: Too much. 15/11/2008 My Reactions to Reactions
1. Your comment on men in two words? 2. When you admire highly intellectual women like Ayn Rand how can you be obsessed with voluptuous women? 3. Is there anyone you are jealous of? Case in point: My biggest regret about AAG is that by being the butt of it I didn’t get to fuck it. 4. Are atheist’s people who want to be their own Gods? 5. After I told you to keep working with Bachchan you cast him in RANN. Looks like my prayers got answered. 6. Do you go with your editor and cut the scene or do you cut him from your team? 7. What is right and what is wrong? 8. Do you believe in destiny? 9. Instead of using ‘Truth is Terrible’, use ‘Truth can be Terrible’. 10. Would you ever remake the Good, Bad and Ugly? 11. If every one thinks like you in this world do you think it will be better? 12. You think like this because you are successful. 13. Why do your fans like you even when you are so frank and rude to them? 14. What is that you find most sexually attractive in women? 15. Do you reveal your naked soul in every movie of yours? 16. Is wealth the product of man’s capacity to think? 17. Fuck all the media people in ‘RANN’. 18. Can anyone invite death without a moment of rejection? 19. Does the word compassion mean anything to you? 20. Your hits lead to flops and the flops lead to hits. 21. We hear the background score and feel the intensity. How do you feel it while shooting? 22. Is publicity and marketing essential irrespective of director’s belief? 23. What is the logic behind sequels? 24. Do you fear death? 25. How many projects have you shelved? 26. Why are your male extras horrible and female extras sexy? 27. If Satya was an atheist and intelligent how come he gets attracted to something like marriage? 28. Are you a psycho? 29. People say you are a bad paymaster. 30. Your line “I want money to make movies and I don’t make movies for money” is similar to Sarkar Raj line “Plant ke liye paisa chahiye, paise ke liye plant nahin”. 31. How can a clever person like you fare badly in studies? 32. Though most of us admire Howard Roark we end up as Peter Keatings. 33. I don’t think you are eccentric, just emotionally intense and complex. 34. I think you are a true atheist. Will you write something for my book? 35. I find your post of “Point of Money” boring.
del.icio.us Tags: Ram Gopal Varma,My Reaction to Reaction 04/11/2008 My reactions to reactions1. After the duds I have seen of yours I wouldn’t mind giving your movies a miss. Ans: Oh Noooooo! I beg you with tears in my eyes not to do that. Please forgive me for the films you did not like. I swear on you and your family that I will try not to disappoint you next time. Please please please don’t deprive me of my livelihood.
2. Why don’t you take Nagarujuna for one character in Rann? Ans: Why don’t you keep your casting genius for yourself when you make your own film?
3. Technical stuff is fine but the correct criteria for a film is the story. Ans: Oh My! What wisdom.
4. I think there are a few influences of Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead in the characters of Rann. Ans: Some of them you are bang on. Anyway I am truly impressed with your observations.
5. What are your favourite books apart from Ayn Rand and Nietzsche? Ans: Apart from Ayn Rand, Nietzsche and James Hadley Chase my most favourite books are Mario Puzo’s Godfather, quite a few of Fredrick Forsyth’s, the bitchy parts of Jackie Collins books and the sexiest excerpts from Harrold Robbins novels. But what influenced me the most is the Mad magazine.
6. Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. – Henry Kissinger. Ans: Whatever people think should happen immediately make them think that it will happen ultimately. – RAMGOPAL VARMA.
P.S: It’s on this con I managed to run my career so far. (Mujhe pata hai ki mujhe foren hit film banana hai, lekin main kabhi na kabhie zaroor bana doonga).
7. Is there any significance for the red colour in the poster of Rann? I liked that the best. Ans: Nothing except that it looked the best from the designers 3 options of red, green and black.
8. Something cannot emerge from nothing. Ans: On the contrary if anything emerges with enough impact, people will imagine that there is something to it. That is the birth of all conspiracy theories.
9. Why does the Tantrik in Phoonk say “ghatia sawal mat poonch” instead of explaining? Ans: Because I didn’t know the explanation.
10. Would you have been as nasty to someone who gives you Diwali greetings if he happened to be Big B? Ans: As he knows me too well Big B won’t be dumb enough to give me such inane greetings.
11. Your comment on women in two words? Ans: Two words are too many.
12. Will you show women nude if censor permits? Ans: Ahhhhhhh!
13. You seem to be doing what you enjoy! Ans: Yyyessssssss!
14. Do you pay Income Tax? Ans: I will tell you only if you swear on your mother that you are not from the Tax department.
15. What was the first reaction of Amitji to you, 2nd and then nth reaction? Ans: I think the first reaction was of intrigue, the 2nd time he suspected that I am a crackpot and now he is convinced that I am raving lunatic.
16. Can a pair of nice legs, heaving bosoms, slim waist and voluptuous butt make up for a bad scene? Ans: I don’t know about a scene, but if your sexuality is in the right place it sure can greatly spice up your life.
17. I swear on your and my mother I will never wish you happy birthday. Ans: Ha Ha.
18. You need to cater to an audience at the end of the day and the investors have to profit. Ans: Let the audience worry about what they want to see. Let me worry about what I want to make. Let the investors worry about their profit. And you worry about yourself.
19. Why do you think we get entertained when two parties fight? Ans: It sure breaks the monotony of life.
20. What do you like in a James Bond movie? Ans: Guns and butts.
21. Are you gay? Ans: Do you read gossip?
22. Do you know you have given people like me the courage to face a life-time. Ans: I am truly happy to know that but just remember it’s not about facing life but it’s about flowing with it. Life, time and destiny do not stop for anybody. It’s up to you to understand it and use its strength as an addition to your own individual strength.
23. Your poster designs and promos are always good. It’s the movie which sucks. Ans: Aw! Come on! 2 out of 3 ain’t that bad.
24. What do you think of Swami Vivekananda? Ans: Who is he?
25. What is your philosophy of life and your idea of a perfect life? Ans: Not to think too much and to do what you think.
26. You are basically a brilliant educated goonda. Ans: Superb. I am thrilled with your insight and for a change I truly mean it.
27. You are a rebel without a cause. Ans: I have a very clear-cut cause namely my own gratification or in more simpler words to just have one hell of a ball of a life.
01/11/2008 My Reactions to Reactions1. At best you are an imitator.
Ans: Ahhh! For figuring this out you are definitely a creator. 2. Do you think 2 people living in two different parts of the country will react differently to the same movie/scene?
Ans: I think many times the same person will react differently if he happens to see the same movie/scene twice. 3. In Sarkar when Chander instructs his people to beat up the guy, it feels like a carpenter is instructing his workers.
Ans: That is precisely the brief I gave to the actor who played Chander. 4. The audience does not care about shot divisions, camera angles and other technical stuff. It’s only the narration they connect to.
Ans: You are absolutely right in a certain sense. But then it can’t be as simple as the writer sitting in the theatre and narrating the story to the people. Technique in cinema when done right should be inseparable from narration. 5. Do you copy Hitchcock?
Ans: Among many others. 6. Is it ok to say sorry when we do something wrong.
Ans: Yes. But it’s even better to stubbornly insist that we were right so that the person you said sorry to won’t sit on your head. 7. Every time negative tactics don’t work.
Ans: Okay Mr.Socrates. 8. Is it my problem if I have higher expectations from you?
Ans: It will be a problem for you if you have expectations from anyone including your family, your government and also God. The secret of a happy life is not to have expectations from anybody except yourself. 9. How many times do you pause a movie and think of how that scene/dialogue will be useful for you?
Ans: All the time. 10. Did you hear of Philanthropy?
Ans: Ya I did. It is some disease of the head. 11. What do you think of after-life?
Ans: I don’t have the time to think of tomorrow. I take life one minute at a time. 12. What do you call a guy who wants to marry again after once divorcing? Ans: Double dumb. 13. Why did you choose Nietzsche to be influenced?
Ans: Because his quotes are vague enough so that I can use them to twist my philosophy around at my will and convenience. 14. Nice songs, few comedy scenes, few emotional scenes, make a film perfect for all types of audiences.
Ans: I make for my type. 15. Very interesting cast. The hard work should start now. I have the following suggestions.
Ans: I read all your inputs and suggestions and I had a great idea. I think you only should come and direct.
16. Hope the plot of Rann is as great as the cast.
Ans: And I hope that you are not as worse as your hope. 17. Someone should make something like Mackenna’s Gold.
Ans: That’s my dream. 18. Your Rann’s topic won’t be appealing to most Indians.
Ans: Oh Mr.Representative of India I didn’t think of that. Thank you very much for this slice of wisdom. 19. I hope you will recover your money on Rann.
Ans: Better you worry about your own money, if you have any in the first place. 20. Try to keep away from crazy camera angles extreme close-ups etc. If you tell me who will give BGM and D.O.P for your movie I will tell you whether it will work or not.
Ans: If you tell me who is the worst BGM guy and D.O.P I will go ahead and sign only them. 21. I wish you a very very happy and prosperous Diwali. Ans: Am just curious about if you really think that any of the forces out there who can give me happiness and prosperity will give a fuck about your wishes. 04/10/2008 My Reaction to Reactions1. In ‘Sarkar Raj’ Sarkar’s wife is shown serving tea. Sarkar doesn’t have servants or what?
Ans: Oh that’s such a fantastically mind-blowing awesome observation. I am humbled and will be grateful to you forever for bringing this absolutely brilliant insight into my purview. 2. You need an audience for the movie and not the other way around.
Ans: Hmmm… interestingly put. 3. I wonder how you extracted that action from a python in front of Sridevi in ‘Kshanam Kshanam’.
Ans: That is a russels viper and there was a glass sheet between them. 4. Where did you copy the first song of ‘Govinda Govinda’ from?
Ans: From my heart full of feelings for Sridevi. 5. What do you say about your assistants saying that RGV is a school?
Ans: Well, their non-education says it all. 6. Are we copycats for calling our industry Bollywood?
Ans: It’s one of the blatant examples of our hypocrisy. On one hand we keep claiming ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’ and at the drop of a hat we want to ape everything from America from Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood to 9/11 attack becoming 7/11, 6/10, 26/12 etc attacks. 7. What made you cast Jiah in ‘Nishabd’?
Ans: Her legs. 8. I am working with the Greyhounds and I have a story.
Ans: Please give me your contact. 9. It’s very hard to find a good movie.
Ans: And it’s even more harder to find a good viewer. 10. What are your views on marriage?
Ans: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! 11. Why does Manoj Bajpai call you the greatest liar ever?
Ans: Because I am. 12. Can we take out a part of the film and will it still be success?
Ans: Let me tell you an instance. When Mani Ratnam’s ‘Geetanjali’ released it had a very bad talk in the first few days in the trade circles. The story as per Mani’s intent was about the protagonist and the audience knowing that he will die and then he falls in love. A panicky distributor of Guntur removed that scene where it is revealed that the hero will die, thinking it will make it more dramatic. Subsequently the film became a super hit in all areas as well as the one where that all important scene was cut. 13. By praying to God we get relief in certain situations. Since you are an atheist how do you cope with the same?
Ans: By playing God. 14. Why are you so stubborn, arrogant and intelligent?
Ans: Because I am stubborn, arrogant and intelligent. You can be too if you were just a little more smarter. 15/09/2008 My reactions to reactions1. What drives you?
Ans: Most times my Land cruiser and sometime my Honda. 2. What can people do when it’s too late?
Ans: There’s no such thing as too late if you truly decide what you really want to do. Right from our birth we are taken forward to get into a trap of expectations and commitments towards our family or society or God or country etc. Fair enough. Many of us have no choice but to heed them because of our physical or emotional obligations. The only alternative we have is to make the choice and psyche ourselves to make the best of it but one thing you should not ever do is to crib or complain or feel frustrated as then the whole point of living itself is lost. 3. Overlooking heart and feelings is a disease Ayn Rand and many of her followers suffer from.
Ans: I don’t know about her followers but through her writings I believe that Ayn Rand has more heart and feelings than anyone else I have know, heard or have read of. 4. Kids speak the truth because of lack of understanding the consequences and very old people speak the truth because it no longer matters.
Ans: Beautifully said. But then there is also a cracked guy like me who speaks the truth because of an obsessive desire to project myself plain pure and dirty. 5. Why was Tom Hagen kicked out in Godfather? I didn’t buy the logic of him not being a war-time consigliore.
Ans: Corporates (of which underworld companies are one) by nature operate on result. If an employee is given authority, funds etc towards a project and if he fails in delivering the expected result he will be kicked out. If Hagen couldn’t see the attack of Solozzo coming or couldn’t prevent the death of Sonny, he had to go. He was given a position to deliver results and not explanations. You and me as readers might feel it’s too harsh a thing for what we feel is not Hagen’s fault, but being in the shoes of the Don and Mike I think it’s highly understandable. 6. How do I break my monotonous boring job and be you?
Ans: By taking a decision. 7. Featuring a character derived from the various nuances of your personality might make a compelling film.
Ans: I don’t know about compelling but it will surely make a madcap film full of contradictions. 8. I could not go past Ayn Rand.
Ans: Reading a book is like visiting another person’s world. The more worlds you visit the more richer you become in your insights. By sticking only to Ayn Rand you are just carrying forward what you learnt only from her, thereby defeating the very purpose of knowledge. The knowledge you get from a book or any other source should be just a stepping stone for the next level. You should not ever carry what should carry you. 9. How did you react when Aag was a flop and Phoonk was a hit? Ans: I Aagghed and I phoonked! 13/06/2008 Aishwarya's Response to a question asked on My BlogQuestion: Shankar looks like an emotional fool when he opens his heart to a girl from America whom he met yesterday?
Ans: May be he has a weakness for worldly beauties. Comments from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on above question: "When you have two people 'confide' in each other, it's such a personal experience, it underlines a deep connection between the two on various levels and makes this obvious to the observer. Here the audience. Given the realistic space in which the characters express themselves which is very much clear in the language of the film (Realistic in acting, dialogue, camera etc.) we chose CONFIDING IN as hugely intimate an experience to convey this deep connection, rather than 'fans blowing hair and clothes, background aalaaps or song, round trolley movements, or rain out of nowhere and waltzing etc' to convey this. It's all in the Eyes of the Characters and in the intense intimacy of confiding!!! That's SARKAR RAJ!" |
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