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 You say Nishabd is a new beginning for you. It is. I'm wiping my slate clean. Whatever came before was just fooling around. Only now have I become a serious filmmaker. My worst phase was between James and Shiva I rushed into several projects without scripts. I made films with people who were not able to deliver…though I take complete blame for all the failures. But now when there's so much responsibility on my shoulder I feel it was highly insensitive of me to take my job so lightly. It's easy to say, I'll do what I feel like. But a lot of finances are at stake. And it's high time I grew up. Are you saying you were immature in your films so far? Not in the quality of films. But certainly so in my approach to the financial and marketing side of the process of filmmaking. In fact this year onwards I'll be making films on themes that are even more radical. I've realized that doing something like repairing James to make Shiva was the height of self-indulgence. It was the nadir of my creative faculties. The fiasco that was Shiva was my high-alert for Sholay. You're softening as you grow older? (laughs) Do you think so? Ten years back I thought Rangeela was a very mature film. Today I may not think so. Then after making something as unconventional as Naach and Nishabd why did I go and do something as rusted and ancient as Shiva? Sign of self-destruction or arrogance…I don't know. The other day Prashant Raj (whom I'm introducing in Sholay) asked me whether he should do a film with a new director that was offered to him. I told him nothing can be predicted in this industry. After a Pehla Nasha, Ashutosh Gowariker can make Lagaan. After Aks Rakeysh Mehra can make Rang De Basanti. And after Sarkar Ram Gopal Varma can make Shiva. You've started owning up to your mistakes? Look, the purpose of making a film is to have people watch it. If a minimum number of people don't come to watch it, what's the point of making it ? I've spent enough time repairing other people's works. It's not about passing the buck. It's about getting more organized and making the films in the right way. I want to get mature now. Why were you immature for so long? Making a film out of every idea is immature. After Satya I went and made Kaun without a script. I don't know why I thought every idea of mine would make a fantastic film. Maybe I should re-make some of my flops. Have your protégés been disappointments? I've said this before….No one is here to do anyone a favour. I feel sorry for them for the way they behave. Whatever their reasons for feeling disappointed by me I did give them breaks. But they didn't understand the fundamentals and completely screwed up…Every humanbeing has his own sets of values and motivations. Who am I to question them? Very honestly I was the one who chose the script and decisions were made by me. In fact rather than them, it's me who let them down. And if I didn't understand their lack of capabilities it was my shortsightedness. What about people like Antara Mali who've said you've messed up their career? They may be right. I'm responsible for making them feel they were mavericks of cinema. Take Mohit Ahlawat. He left me. I heard he had fifteen producers waiting for him. I'm happy for him. And I'm happy to have found a perfect replacement in Prashant Raj for Sholay. I've made a lot of good bad and ugly films, and introduced several technicians who have achieved varying degrees of success. But if you ask me what I regret, I'd say my career's two biggest mistakes were Mohit Ahlawat and the Shiva that I made with him in the lead. Which discovery has given you maximum satisfaction as a producer and director and on a humane level? Rajpal Yadav. You're sounding like a martyr. I feel sad that they don't understand I haven't lost faith in their potential. To say that they backstab me is a very juvenile view of things. I really don't want to dwell on all this. I'm now going to be even more experimental than I was earlier. Nishabd is my most romantic film ever. If a romantic film from Ram Gopal Varma will shock people then wait till you see what I've in store in future.
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The film did not reach the expectations of the audience. The only USP of the film is the hero Nitin. RGV has exposed the heroine of the film Priyanka Kothari to the full. Priyanka is shown in the sexiest way possible and this has no gone down more Yes!-I-copy,-says-Ram-Gopal-Varma  His last two films may have been trashed for being poor imitations of 'Sholay' and 'What Lies Beneath', but Ram Gopal Varma confesses rather defiantly that he copies, 'from everywhere'! "I copy from Hollywood films. Not only from Hollywood, I also copy from Tollywood, Kollywood, in fact from everywhere. These days I am copying from news channels as I am zapped by their speed," said the man whose last two films 'Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag' and 'Darling' were super duds in the box office. "Wh more RGV-cheats The much touted horror and suspense film Adavi (Agyaat in Hindi) by controversial director Ram Gopal Varma hit the screens tod ay. 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The costumes bill for his films might be very less because no heroine of his film need to wear a saree or a full length of dress, except a two piece covers on top and bottom. Now, Ram Gopal Varma’s forthcoming bilingual film, “Adavi,’ in Telugu and ‘Agyath,” in Hindi are releasing on 7th of next month, in which Priyanka Kotari is revealing her beautiful assets. The stills released to the media, indicates that she is fully exposed by Varma’s camera. This is the debut film for young hero Nitin in Bollywood, in which he will pl more |
