Ram Gopal Varma Blog #172. My Reactions to Reactions

1. Can you explain how you create characters that suit a particular story?
Ans: Instead of creating characters to suit a story, you should create characters who will give rise to a story. The reason for this is different characters will react differently in different situations which will influence the subsequent sequences. So if you are fixed on the story and start tailoring the characters to suit the story there is a danger of the characters becoming inconsistent which in turn will make the story look false. It is for more advisable to have a general idea of where the story should be going and then create the characters and then let the characters guide you towards the end of the story. Satya is a prime example of this

2. Your movie Kshana Kshanam was a complete shit.
Ans: Ok Sir!

3. If you wanted to pull Sarkar on the mood alone, you should have choosen a different subject other than “Godfather”
Ans: OK again Sir.

4. You don’t think of anyone except yourself but you make everyone think of you.
Ans: If I can make someone else think the way i want them to think then there is no reason for me to think, Sir.

5. Define extramarital affair.
Ans: It gives extra pleasure outside an ordinary marriage in an extra ordinary way.


6. Why do most people suffer an identity crisis?
Ans: It is because they are completely and fully programmed by external forces and their own inner self gets completely lost and hence their life will be a constant conflict between what they instinctively want to do and by expectations what they have to do.

Instead of running around in circles trying to break away from the yoke to which they are tied to they should just calmly walk to the yoke and untie themselves.


7. Admiration for a quality or an art can be sometimes be so strong that it can deter us from striving to posses it.
Ans: Superb. On the other hand if you sit back and take your time to study the same it might give you the right understanding and direction towards the strive.

8. Whenever I read your article I feel as if I am talking to you.
Ans: Its nice hearing you

9. If you read a book on story of Avatar before you saw the film and if you imagined that world differently would you have still liked it as much?
Ans: Maybe not, as my imagination could have clashed with it but on the other hand I don’t think I have the capacity for such imagination.

10. Did you go to the alumni meet?
Ans: No it was cancelled due to the present situation in the State.

11. “Re. Felt a certain pain to see the state divided” Its very difficult to understand you.
Ans: I find it difficult myself.

12. How do you entertain yourself?
Ans: By reading those who bad mouth me.

13. Where do you find happiness?
Ans: In each and everything I do.

14. I feel you should get into politics for the betterment of society.
Ans: I am too busy bettering myself.

15. Slowly and gradually I am getting to reach your wavelength although it might take time for me to reach your intensity.
Ans: Ratnakar. It’s nothing to do with my intensity and my wavelength and its also nothing to do with time either. You should just look into within yourself find your own wavelength and intensify it towards a goal you have chosen for yourself.

“You say you believe in me and you want to find me. But did you find yourself? – The day you find yourself you will not need to find me” – Nietzsche

“The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which will help you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.” – Ayn Rand

16. How do you deal with your emotions.
Ans: Emotions primarily depend upon your own self worth of your own power. Like for instance you wont get angry with Dawood Ibrahim as fast as you will get angry with your servant. Similarly you won’t fall in love with Britney Spears as easily as with a girl who lives down the street. So emotions largely depend upon power and access.

17. Truth is absolutley absolute?
Ans: That is an absolutley absolute Lie.

18. If you think Sautya’s character in Sarkar had no screen presence why did you cast him?
Ans: Why did I make Aag?

19. Why do you give stupid replies to straight questions and straight replies to stupid questions?
Ans: That’s because I have no choice but to oscillate between being stupidly straight and straightly stupid to escape from the intellectualizations of supremely straighteous stupidiots like you.

20. How does your mother react when she reads your blog?
Ans: She’s too smart and knows me for too long to fall for my cons.

21. How do you handle critical situations?
Ans: I let the situations handle me first and going by the subsequent situations they put me in i twist and turn them with respect to my oncoming situations.

22 Vulgar people take great pleasure in finding little faults of great men –Schopenhauer.
Ans: Great Vaishakh. Its same as what Ayn Rand said about people concentrating on a pimple on a beautiful woman’s face

23. Raksha sounds too femine. Its not a good title
Ans: Raksha means “To protect” there is no such thing as a not good title  you will get used to any title after hearing it for a while also you should see it along with the art work and the poster design

24. Make Raksha as adventurous and as thrilling as possible.
Ans: Oh that didn’t occur to me! Thank you very much for your kind inputs Sir…

25. I found Rangeela boring and Sholay crap. But I find Mackennas gold and Magnificent Seven awesome. Do you think its their superior intelligence?
Ans: Yes and yours too Sir..

26. I suggest you hold on to your 3D film and first complete Rakta Charitra.
Ans: Ok Mom…

P.S.1 I am posting a link to download ‘Rann Times’ (PDF File)

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P.S 2. Since we never ever really learn anything from the old years that have gone by, and yet we stupidly keep on wishing each other a Happy New Year and this we keep on doing year after year inspite of knowing that every last year’s New Year wishes never gave us even one iota of extra happiness ever and also that none of us ever believed for even one second that neither our wishes nor anybody’s wishes never ever amounted to ours or anybody’s happiness ever, I hereby declare that I am not going to wish you a…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!