Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma candidly addresses fan questions about his career, financial status, and creative choices in a recent Q&A, offering his signature witty and often controversial responses.
1. How true is that post Aag you went bankrupt and shifted from your office to a dilapidated building? Ans: Not true. Actually I have shifted to under a tree and I now operate from a footpath.
2. What on earth were you thinking when you made Naach? Ans: Thinking?
3. Who really manages your blog? Ans: My ghost.
4. Stop reacting and start responding. Ans:
5. Why don't you make a film as big as Shankar's film? Ans: Why don't you just go and watch Shankar's film?
6. You will die alone. Ans: I will prefer that to your company.
7. Do you decide to go on a floor on instinct or logic or something else? Ans: Instinct and logic and something else.
8. Did your engineering degree help you in filmmaking or is it just Ayan Rand? Ans: Ayan Rand among plenty others and also plenty other things but definitely not my degree.
9. Why does Swami in Sarkar have more brains than Rashid? Ans: The same reason why I have better than yours.
10. Why didn't you give another chance to Saurabh Narang of Vastu Shastra? Ans: I don't give chances. I take chances. I took mine. He does not want to take his.
11. How much of technical knowledge do you need to understand cinema? Ans: None.
12. '''in that sense you wasted Amitji in Aag. Ans: I accept.
13. Thanks in advance for reading. Ans: I agree with several of your points.
14. You are one of my favourite directors. Ans: Please don't tell the names of the others and spoil it for me.
15. Meeting you is in my control. Not yours. Ans: Superb.
16. Nishabd's scene of Jiah being drenched was better than in Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita' Ans: I disagree. Nobody can shoot a woman better than Adrian Lyne. Just check the introduction of Dominique Swain in 'Lolita'.
17. If there was no Fountainhead would there be 'Naach'? Ans: No.
18. Was the blog on Amitji to butter him? Ans: You are free to believe whatever will butter your happiness.