Ram Gopal Varma Question And Answers #76
751. Don’t loose grip on the
screenplay.
Ans: Ok Sir.
752. Who is Mr.Pandey?
Ans: He wrote Sarkar Raj and now he is writing Rakta Charitra.
753. Why don’t you
concentrate on a single project?
Ans : Why don’t you keep your advises to yourself?
754. 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.
755. I heard it was your
thought to shoot “Chaiya Chaiya” song on the top of a train?
Ans: Not guilty.
756. I have a script and if
you don’t make it I will move to Hollywood.
Ans: Bye.
757. How can you shoot films
so fast?
Ans: I am not fast. The others are slow.
758. 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 bestselling 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.
759. 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.
760. Satyendra reminds me of
a line from Friedrich Nietzsche “The higher you go, the smaller you look to the
people who are still on the ground level.”
Ans: Though brilliantly said I don’t think that line was said by Nietzsche
as it seems a little too tame by his normal standards of expression, though he
said about himself in his autobiography ‘Ecce Homo’
“The whole phenomenon of humanity lies at an incalculable distance beneath
me and my Zarathustra. What I say in one line others do not say in whole
books.”