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on 2008/7/1 0:14:23
Ram Gopal Varma is in mood for closure. First, he says that contrary to media reports, there will not be another film in the Sarkar series. Varma feels he is done with the Nagre family saga and would like to move on to other stories.
However, he is willing to loan the Sarkar series to another director with a fresh perspective. “As a filmmaker I’ve reached a certain fatigue with the Sarkar series. There is only that much fresh ground that I can achieve with the Nagres. I would not want to take the series for granted so if another director wants to make a third part, he or she is most welcome,” says Varma.
The filmmaker is also keen to complete his gangster trilogy after Satya and Company. His latest offing, Contract, explores the nexus between the underworld and global terrorism. The genesis of Contract is from the police files.
Varma recalls that in 1998 when he made Satya , according to police statistics there were 108 shootouts related to the underworld and in 2006, the numbers decreased to just five. “This means that the underworld as we know it is almost finished and that it has morphed into something more dangerous as it has become a conduit for terrorist network,” says Varma.
Varma’s research leads him to believe that there are some similarities between both the worlds: “terrorists are ruled by ideology as are the underworld dons”. The basic difference is that “underworld has a more structured set-up”. “Since terrorists are the outsiders, they would require ground support, safe havens, local intelligence, sea routes and land routes to get in arms and explosives which the underworld can easily provide,” he says.
Varma has fashioned this hypothesis in an interesting one-upmanship contest between an underworld don and a terrorist in Contract. The tone of Contract is serious but not as serious as a docu drama. In Varma’s words, “Contract is a Bollywood masala film packaged in a gritty reality.”
Varma also rubbishes claims that the film has characters modelled on the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Chotta Rajan. “The film doesn’t deal with any real issue so it can’t be based on a real person. Contract is about the coming together of a terrorist and an underworld don for one particular event.”
Varma is full of praises for his protagonist, Adhvik Mahajan, who in his words “is a strong mix of innocence and intensity”. As to which of the three gangster films is his favourite, he shoots back with this quip, “I can’t choose between my films and that’s not because they are my babies but because in my mind, they become orphans once they are over.”
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