Ram Gopal Varma Blog #94. My Reactions to Reactions.

1. Rakta Charitra sounds interesting. Just take care that you don’t use your weird camera angles and eerie music.
Ans: I am going to use even more weirder angles and even more eerier music. Do yourself a favour and don’t watch it.

2. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
Ans: Depends on who I am with.

3. Don’t loose grip on the screenplay.
Ans: Ok Sir.

4. Who is Mr.Pandey?
Ans: He wrote Sarkar Raj and now he is writing Rakta Charitra.

5. Why don’t you concentrate on a single project?
Ans : Why don’t you keep your advises to yourself?

6. God is like air around us but we feel it only when we switch on the fan?
Ans: Wouldn’t be knowing that. I use an Air Condtioner.

7. I heard it was your thought to shoot “Chaiya Chaiya” song on the top of a train?
Ans: Not guilty.

8. I have a script and if you don’t make it I will move to Hollywood.
Ans: Bye.

9. How can you shoot films so fast?
Ans: I am not fast. The others are slow.

10. What’s new in the story of Rakta Charitra? It’s been told so many times before.
Ans: Movies are never about stories, they are about telling a story. If it’s only about the story why do people make best selling novels into films. A best seller by definition means most people read it and hence know the story. It’s the process what people come to watch. Coming to Paritala Ravi’s story you or others might know the key incidents of his life. What I intend to show is the in-betweens which led to them.

11. Where are you going to set the story of Rakta Charitra? Won’t it be authentic to do it in Telugu?
Ans: Authenticity is not about the region. It’s about characters, the way they think, the way they act. A Godfather kind of a story can happen in a New York, a Mumbai and in Rayalaseema also. Faction feuds like in Rayalaseema happen in many parts of the country and the circumstances which give rise to a Ravi can happen anywhere else too. The idea of Rakta Charitra is not to do an authentic portrayal of Ravi and the faction wars of the region but it is to capture the spirit, the drama and the psychology behind them and to take it to a widest range of audience.