Ram Gopal Varma Question And Answers #69
681. Which political party
do you support and why?
Ans: Never voted in my life nor do I intend to.
682. What does P stand for
in P.Ramgopal Varma?
Ans: My surname Penumatsa.
683. Some stories are great
to hear but they might be boring to see as a film.
Ans: Only if the Director fails to capture the essence of what you liked in
hearing it.
684. How do you define
intelligence?
Ans: Once I was talking to an actress who was heavily into spiritualism,
animal welfare etc, and she made a comment that whales are the most intelligent
beings in the world which has apparently something to do with their brain size.
I told her that I don’t know the technicalities but for me knowledge is an
accumulation of facts, intelligence is an ability to understand and analyze the
knowledge, and genius is to be able to apply and create.
For instance, if you are asked why droplets are formed outside a glass when
ice cold water is poured into it, you will say that it is due to condensation
of water vapour which is present in the atmosphere.
But to understand and analyze that you need to have the knowledge that
atmosphere contains water vapour and it condenses at lower temperatures and
then you need a genius to apply this principle and invent a refrigerator or an
air-conditioner.
More simplistically if you say 2+3=5, you need to know the individual
values of 2 and 3 and also 5 to come up with the answer.
So I told her that this was my understanding and asked her if she would
explain how whales have the best brains. She snapped back and said that she
read it in the “Time” magazine and asked me to shut up and not to think I am
some kind of a know-all. She was beautiful and sexy enough for me to pay heed
and I did just that. I shut up and she gave me a Ahhhhh great time thereby
proving that more than knowledge, intelligence and genius it is ignorance which
is bliss.
685. How did you conceive
the scene in Shiva when Amala gets up in the theatre and walks into the screen?
Ans: I copied it from a very old Janet Jackson music video called “Control”.
686. Can you write a piece
on how you became a director?
Ans: I already did on this blog somewhere. If interested make an effort to
search.
687. In Ayn Rand’s
philosophy there is a lot of “should”. Should destructs freedom and makes
individualism impossible.
Ans: That is a brilliant observation.
688. Mutating imagination is
a virtue only as long as the shoot does not start. It can become a vice once
shooting begins.
Ans: You couldn’t have put it more correctly. Most of my flops are a victim
of this disease you mentioned. To make an observation like this you will have
to be a director or working closely with a director who made flops. If I am
wrong on this count take it from me that there is a highly evolved directorial
understanding in you and I mean this from my heart.
689. Which of your films are
bad according to you?
Ans: All and none.
690. How come so many
neurotic and psychotic retards visit your blog?
Ans: Haven’t you heard that birds of the same feather flock together?