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Can RGV turn Sita to Mandodari?
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Rana-Trisha Spotted Holding Hands And Walking!!
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Pawan Kalyan's New Movie "Saradaa"?
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Showing posts with label RGV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RGV. Show all posts
RGV's "Charithra" And Pavan's Tonsured Head!
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Tarun in RGV's Tutelage!
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As a lover boy of "Nuvve Kaavali", "Nuvvuleka Nenu Lenu" movies, Tarun had his own share of glory in Tollywood. Now Tarun is facing a very bad period of his career. His forthcoming movie is "Chukkalanti Ammayi.. Chakkanaina Abbayi". Going by its posters, one can make out that producers have banked more on its heroine Vimala Raman rather than hero Tarun. Perhaps producers might have thought of getting the flick through atleast with Vimala Raman's glamour. Sensing the peril in his career, Tarun is said to be getting himself under tutelage of Ram Gopal Varma. It is said that Tarun hasalready discussed the issue with RGV. Tarun's close associates say that once "Chukkalanti Ammayi... Chakkanaina Abbayi" results are out, Tarun will head for Mumbai. Tarun might be expecting that RGV will provide him with a new life, as he has done in case of J.D. Chakravarthy in the past. But Tarun should also be wary of what turn Nitin's career took after RGV's "Adavi".
"Awara" in RGV Style
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Producer K. E. Gnanavelu Raja entered Telugu field with a sensational movie like "Yuganiki Okkadu". Now he is coming out with another titled "Awara" on Studio Green banner. Linga Swami is directing this movie, who has previously directed movies "Run" and "Pandem Kodi". To give film's details, the unit arranged a press meet on 12-03-10. Speaking in the meet, producer said " the audience made "Yuganiki Okkadu" from our banner, a super hit and I hope, "Awara' will also become one." Director said " I hope that the audience will equally receive this movie also, as they have received my previous films Run and Pandem Kodi. In Tamil it is being released with the title "Paiya" and in Telugu as "Awara". The movie is made in Ramgopal Varma style." Later, hero Karthi said " Previously Telugu audince have well received my brother Surya's movies, in the same way the received my "Yuganiki Okkadu" movie. This is my second movie. I am confident that the audience will also like it." Heroine Tamanna said " I don't know Tamil. Since I heard its story, I started learning Tamil. It has been entirely filmed on roads. Most of the story takes place in a car. Yuvan Shankar Raja has eally provided a good music."
RGV Facing Life Threat For Rakta Charitra
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The film Rakta Charitra which RGV is directing is all about Rayalaseema factionism and the main characters in his film are Paritala Ravi and Suri. Now RGV is facing a new challenge in making this film. Paritala Ravi's supporters who exist in large numbers even today want RGV to show their leader in the correct light as a towering figure. On the other hand those who support Suri want their leader to be shown as the hero of the film. This entire tussle has RGV in a spot, so much so that he is facing life threats from these supports. RGV being a stubborn and adamant man is hell bent on doing what he is best at—making films the way he likes. His attitude even now has been one of saying two hoots even to these factionists.
Ramu to make Gayam sequel
After a horror flick Rashes, producer Ramgopal Varma and actor Jagapathi Babu are teaming up again for a sequel of the hit film Gayam, to be helmed by a debutant director. "I have decided to do it but we intend to dish out a perfect sequel," informs the actor who played a good-hearted don in the original edition, while pretty Revathi played his ladylove, more than a decade ago.
An authentic sequel carries elements of the original story, often with the same characters and settings. Similarly, if the protagonist died in the first work, a new character perhaps a son or daughter, or a supporting character may take up the role or the protagonist returns with some reasoning. In this case, Jagapathi will comeback to haunt his rivals and trust the heady actor-producer combo will recreate that magic
An authentic sequel carries elements of the original story, often with the same characters and settings. Similarly, if the protagonist died in the first work, a new character perhaps a son or daughter, or a supporting character may take up the role or the protagonist returns with some reasoning. In this case, Jagapathi will comeback to haunt his rivals and trust the heady actor-producer combo will recreate that magic
R G V says he got status of Nagarjuna's chamcha
In ‘Sarkar’ Selvar Mani says “Jiske paas power hai uska wrong bhi right ho jata hai”. I believe it’s not so much because of power alone but it can also be due to your own personal attitude towards life. Somewhere in this blog I mentioned that whenever life decides something for me, I immediately take a decision on top of that so that I always managed to make it work for me one way or the other.
Once I decided to start my video library “Movie House” at Ameerpet, with the Rs.20,000/- capital I got, I went about trying to buy quality types of video films and in the process I trusted a friend’s father who deals in it and he sold me faulty tapes worth Rs.10,000/- which either don’t play or get stuck in the video players, thereby reducing my capital to half even before I started. So by the time I started my shop I barely had a 100 workable tapes. Also every one concerned told me that it was a very bad idea to start a shop in the Ameerpet area as it’s predominantly a lower middle/middle class population who lives there who cannot afford a VCR. And also that it can’t compete with a library called “Fantasy” which used to be on the Punjagutta Road as the rich Banjara Hills crowd only patronize that library. Once it started my library became so successful within a month and Fantasy went out of business in a few months. Now the same theorists said that these days everybody owns a VCR. Also “Movie House” has a better parking space than ‘Fantasy’ etc.
So the point is we can have a theory for anything after the fact. If it didn’t work they would have said “we told you so” and if it works they give a new theory and also they will conveniently forget what they said earlier. Likewise even for my film decisions from the beginning till today I keep getting these expert opinions and advises of what I should do and not. They told me ‘Daud’ will be a blockbuster because it’s Sanjay Dutt after ‘Khalnayak’, Urmila and Rehman after ‘Rangeela’ and they advised me to shelve ‘Satya’ on the basis of who wants to see sweaty looking faces in dirty locations.
The same people advised me not to do ‘Aag’ and my other failures too and today they will all remember what they said about ‘Aag’ etc and conveniently forget about what they said about ‘Daud’ and ‘Satya’. It’s not that my beliefs went right either. Apart from my trust in my friend’s father I trusted on about 20 people I knew who had VCRs who I was sure will give me business. The business went to 100 cassettes per day but the 20 never came and if some did come they didn’t pay money on account of their closeness with me.
So eventually what worked is neither their belief nor mine. Random things keep happening completely out of your control but still your control can be in what you can do in an out of control situation. My real success I believe is in my ability to make decisions and implement them super fast.
Anyway coming back to the video library, I used to narrate the story of each and every film to my customers depending on what taste they have. In due course of time they became so addicted to the way I present a story, quite a few of them used to say that my narration was better than the film.
So I sat behind the counter of the shop for about 8 months doing a fantastic business financially, and with just one high point of being arrested and put in the Punjagutta Police station lock-up for pirating Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Aakhri Raasta’. That was my first stint with how the Police were up close and i made friends with them and studied their psychology and later put that understanding to use in my cop films. Incidentally if anyone who lives in the Ameerpet area is interested about my “Movie House” shop in Ameerpet center which I gave up when ‘Shiva’ started, now runs as ‘Rajdoot Sweet Home’.
Coming back to the ‘wrong is right’ story one day I overheard my father telling someone that Venket the brother of Nagarjuna is looking a for a story for a film as they have K.Raghvendra Rao (of ‘Himmatwala’ fame) signed. Surendra his brother-in-law was a customer at my shop and through him I managed to get an appointment with Venket. I told him the story of Raatri (Raat) which he said won’t work in the Telugu market and asked me if I can write a story for a hero to be told to Raghvendra Rao. So I went back and in about an hour I wrote a one-line order of ‘Shiva’ borrowing from my own experiences in college and also liberally from Govind Nihalani’s ‘Ardh Satya’, Rahul Rawail’s ‘Arjun’ and Dilip Shanker’s “Kaalchakra’.
Venkat liked the story very much and he took me to narrate it to Raghvendra Rao. Mr.Rao said it sounds like an experimental film with no drama in it. I thought maybe he knows what he is talking about since he is so highly successful and asked him if I can rework on it. As I was trying to rework it, I happened to see his film ‘Kaliyuga Pandavruh’ and I suddenly realized how he must be seeing ‘Shiva’. I immediately gave up the idea of being a story writer and went and told Venket the same. I also told him that I would like to assist some director if they all feel it is so important to do that to be able to direct. Surendra with whom I have become a little close by then was starting a film with director B.Gopal called ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’ starring Nagarjuna and his dad A.N.R. So I formally joined as a 5th Assistant to B.Gopal who was very very busy in another film which he was finishing. So I started attending script sessions with 2 writers Komannapalli Ganapati Rao and Suryadevara Rammohan Rao on the script of ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’.
In the course of overhearing their script discussions with Surendra I used to come up with ideas and suggestions which visibly had an effect on all three of them. Within a few days Surendra started sending a car to pick me up which was a huge jump from my bus and occasional rides on my father’s scooter life style.
By the time Gopal was ready to shoot the film I rose quite a lot in both Surendra’s and Venket’s eyes but I did not meet Nagarjune yet. Mr.Gopal and his assistants used to feel visibly uncomfortable with my proximity to the producers considering that I was merely a fifth assistant. Also in those days assistant directors were expected to be very subservient.
My attitude and my speaking in English used to understandably turn them off to the extent that when one day Surendra was having a discussion with Mr.Gopal to cut the budget, he suggested to removing me as one of the cuts. Also in just about a week I proved to be the worst assistant director ever by often loosing clapboards and continuity books. So Surendra asked me to lay off and just hang around the set without taking any responsibilities which worked out fantastically for me and because of me being free on the set I slowly started developing a rapport with Nagarjuna who started shooting by then. Nagarjuna used to be pretty impressed with my narrative skills and also my cinematic sense but he himself was not in a very strong position because after the success of his first film ‘Vikram’ which many attributed it to being because of A.N.R’s son’s first film, he had a string of flops and he was no position to make a decision to give me a film.
So in the film industry I managed to attain the status of Nagarjuna’s chamcha and the worst assistant director ever and also as a guy with a huge attitude problem with no hope for the future.
Meanwhile I left my video shop to my staff and they cheated me royally and the business went for a toss. All the “we told you so” guys appeared back and lectured me on how in chasing a foolish dream I went horribly wrong. Then I turned that wrong into right by making ‘Shiva’ happen. by R G V
Once I decided to start my video library “Movie House” at Ameerpet, with the Rs.20,000/- capital I got, I went about trying to buy quality types of video films and in the process I trusted a friend’s father who deals in it and he sold me faulty tapes worth Rs.10,000/- which either don’t play or get stuck in the video players, thereby reducing my capital to half even before I started. So by the time I started my shop I barely had a 100 workable tapes. Also every one concerned told me that it was a very bad idea to start a shop in the Ameerpet area as it’s predominantly a lower middle/middle class population who lives there who cannot afford a VCR. And also that it can’t compete with a library called “Fantasy” which used to be on the Punjagutta Road as the rich Banjara Hills crowd only patronize that library. Once it started my library became so successful within a month and Fantasy went out of business in a few months. Now the same theorists said that these days everybody owns a VCR. Also “Movie House” has a better parking space than ‘Fantasy’ etc.
So the point is we can have a theory for anything after the fact. If it didn’t work they would have said “we told you so” and if it works they give a new theory and also they will conveniently forget what they said earlier. Likewise even for my film decisions from the beginning till today I keep getting these expert opinions and advises of what I should do and not. They told me ‘Daud’ will be a blockbuster because it’s Sanjay Dutt after ‘Khalnayak’, Urmila and Rehman after ‘Rangeela’ and they advised me to shelve ‘Satya’ on the basis of who wants to see sweaty looking faces in dirty locations.
The same people advised me not to do ‘Aag’ and my other failures too and today they will all remember what they said about ‘Aag’ etc and conveniently forget about what they said about ‘Daud’ and ‘Satya’. It’s not that my beliefs went right either. Apart from my trust in my friend’s father I trusted on about 20 people I knew who had VCRs who I was sure will give me business. The business went to 100 cassettes per day but the 20 never came and if some did come they didn’t pay money on account of their closeness with me.
So eventually what worked is neither their belief nor mine. Random things keep happening completely out of your control but still your control can be in what you can do in an out of control situation. My real success I believe is in my ability to make decisions and implement them super fast.
Anyway coming back to the video library, I used to narrate the story of each and every film to my customers depending on what taste they have. In due course of time they became so addicted to the way I present a story, quite a few of them used to say that my narration was better than the film.
So I sat behind the counter of the shop for about 8 months doing a fantastic business financially, and with just one high point of being arrested and put in the Punjagutta Police station lock-up for pirating Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Aakhri Raasta’. That was my first stint with how the Police were up close and i made friends with them and studied their psychology and later put that understanding to use in my cop films. Incidentally if anyone who lives in the Ameerpet area is interested about my “Movie House” shop in Ameerpet center which I gave up when ‘Shiva’ started, now runs as ‘Rajdoot Sweet Home’.
Coming back to the ‘wrong is right’ story one day I overheard my father telling someone that Venket the brother of Nagarjuna is looking a for a story for a film as they have K.Raghvendra Rao (of ‘Himmatwala’ fame) signed. Surendra his brother-in-law was a customer at my shop and through him I managed to get an appointment with Venket. I told him the story of Raatri (Raat) which he said won’t work in the Telugu market and asked me if I can write a story for a hero to be told to Raghvendra Rao. So I went back and in about an hour I wrote a one-line order of ‘Shiva’ borrowing from my own experiences in college and also liberally from Govind Nihalani’s ‘Ardh Satya’, Rahul Rawail’s ‘Arjun’ and Dilip Shanker’s “Kaalchakra’.
Venkat liked the story very much and he took me to narrate it to Raghvendra Rao. Mr.Rao said it sounds like an experimental film with no drama in it. I thought maybe he knows what he is talking about since he is so highly successful and asked him if I can rework on it. As I was trying to rework it, I happened to see his film ‘Kaliyuga Pandavruh’ and I suddenly realized how he must be seeing ‘Shiva’. I immediately gave up the idea of being a story writer and went and told Venket the same. I also told him that I would like to assist some director if they all feel it is so important to do that to be able to direct. Surendra with whom I have become a little close by then was starting a film with director B.Gopal called ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’ starring Nagarjuna and his dad A.N.R. So I formally joined as a 5th Assistant to B.Gopal who was very very busy in another film which he was finishing. So I started attending script sessions with 2 writers Komannapalli Ganapati Rao and Suryadevara Rammohan Rao on the script of ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’.
In the course of overhearing their script discussions with Surendra I used to come up with ideas and suggestions which visibly had an effect on all three of them. Within a few days Surendra started sending a car to pick me up which was a huge jump from my bus and occasional rides on my father’s scooter life style.
By the time Gopal was ready to shoot the film I rose quite a lot in both Surendra’s and Venket’s eyes but I did not meet Nagarjune yet. Mr.Gopal and his assistants used to feel visibly uncomfortable with my proximity to the producers considering that I was merely a fifth assistant. Also in those days assistant directors were expected to be very subservient.
My attitude and my speaking in English used to understandably turn them off to the extent that when one day Surendra was having a discussion with Mr.Gopal to cut the budget, he suggested to removing me as one of the cuts. Also in just about a week I proved to be the worst assistant director ever by often loosing clapboards and continuity books. So Surendra asked me to lay off and just hang around the set without taking any responsibilities which worked out fantastically for me and because of me being free on the set I slowly started developing a rapport with Nagarjuna who started shooting by then. Nagarjuna used to be pretty impressed with my narrative skills and also my cinematic sense but he himself was not in a very strong position because after the success of his first film ‘Vikram’ which many attributed it to being because of A.N.R’s son’s first film, he had a string of flops and he was no position to make a decision to give me a film.
So in the film industry I managed to attain the status of Nagarjuna’s chamcha and the worst assistant director ever and also as a guy with a huge attitude problem with no hope for the future.
Meanwhile I left my video shop to my staff and they cheated me royally and the business went for a toss. All the “we told you so” guys appeared back and lectured me on how in chasing a foolish dream I went horribly wrong. Then I turned that wrong into right by making ‘Shiva’ happen. by R G V
Ramoji did not buy RGV idea
Ram Gopal Varma has written about his trials for becoming a director. Ramoji had started Usha Kiron Movies and made refreshing films like Srivariki Prema Lekha. To have access to him RGV wrote an article for Newstime titled “The Ideas that killed 30 million people” and it was published RGV got an appointment with Ramoji and he expressed his idea of directing a film to him. Ramoji outrightly rejected on the basis of Ramu having no practical experience at all.
Ramoji was not convinced with the argument of Ramu that a director does not need experience; he just needs clarity of vision and to have the skill to communicate. Ramoji did not buy it.
Love gives at least sex, hate gives nothing:RGV
The love guru Ram Gopal Varma says "Love at will sometimes give you good sex whereas hate will give you nothing". He writes in his blog, “I feel it’s truly wasteful to expend one’s energy in hating someone.” Ramu says his worst ever movie, “Drohi” inspired to make two best films that gave him standing in the industry.
When Ramu went to Mumbai to sign Madhuri Dixit for Drohi, he could not get her due to dates problem. On the advice of Boney Kapoor he signed Urmila. In the course of making Drohi, Mani Ratnam and Ramu together wrote a script for Gayam in which for a supporting role Mani suggested Urmila. Ramu got mesmerized with Urmila’s dance and inspired to make Rangeela.
Ramu was very much impressed with the story of a James Hadley Chase novel where a gangster falls in love with a girl and the girl does not know that he is a gangster. By the time he wants to get out it’s too late and he dies. Ramu made this story into Drohi and when it failed he changed the setting and backdrop and years later remade it as Satya.
Drohi in effect caused both Rangeela and Satya. If he did not meet Urmila, he would not have made Rangeela and if Drohi worked he wouldn’t have made Satya.
Ramuism:-
I identified a world of my own which is filled with my kind of music, my kind of films, my kind of people, gangsters, ghosts, girls with sexy bums etc. If anybody chooses to visit it, they might like some, dislike some or completely reject. It’s their choice, but I surely am not going to leave my world until I leave this world.
