Maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who has worked with A-list actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in his career of over 25 years, says he doesn't cast actors because of their stardom and rather ropes them in as per the requirement of the characters."I have never worked with big stars. My stories have a raw and witty appeal to it, which the so-called stars don't like. When I did 'Rangeela' (in 1995), at that time Aamir Khan was not a big star."
"I take actors according to the requirement of the characters. I don't look at them through the stardom perspective," Varma said here at the press conference of his forthcoming biographical film 'Veerappan'. The film is based on the dreaded sandalwood smuggler Koose Muniswamy Veerappan. It features how a man-hunt was initiated to kill him. "I have always been known to make hard-hitting cinema. For me subject matters and characters are taken through or inspired from real life," said Varma, best known for helming films like 'Satya', 'Company' and 'Sarkar'.