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Ram Gopal Varma

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Ram Gopal Varma
Born	Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma April 7, 1962 (age 48) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Ramu
Occupation	Film director, producer andwriter
Years active	1989-present
Spouse	Ratna (divorced)
Website
http://rgvzoomin.com/

Ram Gopal Varma, better known as RGV (Telugu: రామ్ గోపాల్ వర్మ, born 7 April 1962) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres—psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, politician-criminal nexus, and musicals—and in multiple languages—Telugu and Hindi.

Shiva (1989) was his first film as director and Rakta Charitra (2010) is his most recent one. He gained recognition in Hindi cinema, with Shiva(1990) and Rangeela (film) (1995). The next film he directed was Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics Award for Best Film. Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed and which won seven Filmfare Awards) and 2005 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian Gangster Trilogy". Other successful films that Varma directed include Kshana Kshanam (1991), Gaayam (1993),Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Kaun (1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005) , Sarkar Raj new (2008) and Rakta Charitra (2010).^[1]

Contents  [hide] 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 3.1 Indian Gangster Trilogy 3.2 Experimental films 3.3 Later films 4 Controversy 5 Awards and nominations 6 Filmography 6.1 As director 6.2 As producer 6.3 As writer 7 References 8 External links

[edit]Early years

Ram Gopal varma Penmetsa was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to Krishnam Raju Penmetsa and Satyavathi.

In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about that phase of his life, his relationship with his parents, and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker-

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"From my parents’ perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their behaviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gangsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn’t— perhaps did not even want to do myself. But I’d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life people. I was always a loner — not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself — the way I am talking, behaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker."[2]

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Varma is a civil engineering college drop out and he studied in V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff. He would skip classes often and go and watch films instead - 8-10 films a week. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."^[3] According to him, that is how he learned film direction..

After college years, Varma tried entering the film industry, but couldn't manage it. He then put his dreams on the backburner and decided to go to Nigeria to make some money. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. He loved the idea and decided to start one of his own, all because of his craze for films.^[4]

[edit]Career in Telugu cinema

Before Varma started his film career in the Telugu film industry he lingered in the sets of the films Raogaarillu and Collectorgari Abbai. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nageswara Rao.Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna on the sets of a film and narrated a scene to the actor which impressed him so much that Varma's dream of becoming a director came true.^[5] The result of their collaboration was a film on the criminalization of student politics - Siva (1989 film). The film was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and story-telling skills. The success of the film in Telugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.^[6]

Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam, a Telugu film with Venkatesh & Sridevi which got him noticed by Bollywood critics. The film was also dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he came up with films such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu & Anaganaga Oka Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna &Sridevi proved to be moderate at the box-office.^[7] During this period, Varma also produced films such as Money and Money Money, and wrote the script for Mani Ratnam's Tamil filmThiruda Thiruda

[edit]Career in Hindi cinema

While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva, His next film was Drohi. The film that really put the spotlights on him was the blockbuster Rangeela. With great acting from the lead trio of Aamir Khan, Jackie Shroff and Urmila Matondkar, a fantastic soundtrack by composer A. R. Rahman (this being his first original score for a Hindi film), and with Varma at the helm, it was no surprise that this romantic musical drama was a runaway success. The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. The film, according to Varma, was dedicated to actress Sridevi. His next film Daud (1997), however, was a failure and sank without a trace.^[6]

In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se, directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NETPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two National Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.

[edit]Indian Gangster Trilogy

Main articles: Satya (film), Company (film), and D (film)

In 1998 came his masterpiece, the critically acclaimed Satya, a film based on the Mumbai underworld. A script written by Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla, music by Vishal Bharadwaj and Sandeep Chowta, acclaimed performances by J. D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpai and Urmila Matondkar, and Varma's directorial and technical brilliance, contributed to a film that was a landmark. The film won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics Award for Best Film.

In 2002 came his greatest commercial as well as critical success, Company, again set against the backdrop of the Mumbai underworld, in which he cut out song-and-dance sequences commonplace in Bollywood films at the time. It was based on the real-life underworld organization, the D-Company. The film won seven Filmfare Awards and earned him a Filmfare Best Director Award nomination.Mohanlal debuted in bollywood in this film.

A prequel to Company was made in 2005, entitled D, produced by Varma and directed by Sandeep Enugurthy. Varma's three films Satya, Company and D are together considered an "Indian Gangster Trilogy". Satya and Company in particular were cited by British director Danny Boyle as influences on his Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for their "slick, often mesmerizing portrayals of the Mumbai underworld", their display of "brutality and urban violence", and their gritty realism.^[8][9][10]

[edit]Experimental films

During the years between his "Indian Gangster Trilogy", from Satya in 1998 to D in 2005,^[11] Varma experimented with several different film genres in the intervening years. In 1999, he directed Kaun, a suspense thriller set entirely in one house and featuring only three actors, and Mast, a subversion of the HINDI CINEMA masala genre.^[12] In 2000, he directed Jungle, a film set entirely in a jungle, for which he was nominated for the Star Screen Award for Best Director.

Following the success of Company in 2002, Varma's next film as director was Bhoot (2003), a psychological horror film, which was a major success. It starred Ajay Devgan and Urmila Matondkar, who earned a number of awards for her performance. Varma himself was nominated for the Filmfare Best Director Award for the film.

Following the success of Bhoot, Varma was a producer for two other experimental films: Sriram Raghavan's Ek Hasina Thi (2003), a psychological thriller, and Shimit Amin's Ab Tak Chhappan (2004), a film about an inspector in the Mumbai Encounter Squad famous for having killed 56 people in police encounters.^[13] In 2005, Varma was nominated for the Zee Cine Award for Best Producer of the Year.

[edit]Later films

Varma's next film as director was Sarkar, released in June 2005, starring Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan. Amitabh played the character of Sarkar who is a self-righteous and powerful businessman cum social worker, while Abhishek played his son in the film. Sarkar was a loose adaptation of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather in a Mumbai underworld setting.^[14] Sarkar went on to become a critically acclaimed box office hit.

In 2006, his next film as director was Shiva, which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous films was also staged. AlongsideShiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan. While these three earlier films were praised,^[13] Shiva itself was a critical and commercial failure. In 2007, he directed the ambitious Sholay remake, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, as well as Darling, both of which were critical and box office disasters.

He was written off by the media and public until June 2008, when he reclaimed,to some extent,his lost reputation with his much hyped venture, Sarkar Raj, a sequel to Sarkar; it was an average and met with good reviews. The primary cast features three members of the Bachchan family, with Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan reprising their roles from the prequel alongside new entrant Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Supriya Pathak, Tanisha Mukherjee and Ravi Kale also reappeared in their respective roles from Sarkar. Unlike its prequel Sarkar, which was loosely adapted from The Godfather novel, the sequel Sarkar Raj had an original plot of its own. And though it was declared flop in India,it became a runaway hit overseas,thus faring semi-hit overall.

His latest film, Phoonk (2008), was of the horror film genre and met with mixed reviews, with more of them leaning to the negative side. However, the film was a major hit in comparison to its minuscule budget. Varma has now finished working on Agyaat which released on 7 August 2009, again a commercial as well as critical failure. Next Was Rann, a film about the media. It had a major star cast with Varma's favourite actor Amitabh Bachchan; Kannada actor Sudeep, who did the lead in Phoonk; Ritesh Deshmukh and Paresh Rawal. Released on 29 January 2010, the film was praised by some critics, but was a commercial disaster. Then he began the promotion works for Phoonk 2, a sequel of Phoonk, which was released on April 16, 2010.

At present, he is working on Rakta Charitra, a trilingual made simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. This movie is based upon the Faction backdrop of the rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh. As the entire film is said to last for about 5 hours, the film will be divided into two parts, which will be releasing within a gap of three months. The film is said to depict the life of the slain political leader Paritala Ravindra, played by Vivek Oberoi, with Tamil actor Surya Sivakumar, enacting the role of Maddelacheruvu Suri, Shatrughan Sinha, playing N. T. Rama Rao, Radhika Apte and Priyamani in other pivotal roles. The film has released to a good opening following Varma's clever pre-release marketing using the controversy surrounding the main characters to his advantage. A fortnight later The main protagonist in the second movie was shot and seriously injured. Though the movie could not get a good reputation in Hindi,it gained positive reviews in Telugu and the critics quoting "RGV is back".

Varma has also announced another horror film titled 'Warning'. This film will be the first 3D horror film made in India and is reported to have Ritesh Deshmukh in a significant role.

Ram gopal varma announced a movie to be directed by himself in his mother tongue Telugu with Comedian turned Hero Sunil Varma as lead titled Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (Story Screenplay Direction AppalRaju-When translated to English). The film was announced in July last week and shooting started in August 2010 last week, with the opening function attended by his favourite actor Sridevi. This would be his comeback film in Telugu after a long gap of 12 years. his last direction being Prema katha. the movie KSD Appalaraju is said to be a satire on Telugu Film Industry mainly targeting Directors. He already released a song "evaddabba sothu kadura talent" durin the launch of the film targeting almost all the Tollywood Directors. The song starts with a satire on himself "with luck he got shiva hit and he spoiled sholay" when translated into English. The song covered almost all the veteran Directors like Raghavendra rao, E.V.V, Kodi Ramakrishna, B.Gopal to the current star Directors S.S Rajamouli, Sreenu Vaitla, Puri Jagannadh, Vinayak, Boyapti Seenu and so forth. RGV has roped in legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan for the lead role in his yet to be filmed movie "Department" the plot of which shall revolve around the internal politics of a police department. He as been quoted saying that this film may be considered as "the other side of Company", Company being his earlier take on Mumbai Underworld. Actors Sanjay Dutt and Ritesh Deshmukh are reportedly going to play supporting roles. It is a much expected collaboration of Sanjay Dutt with the director after the actors earlier venture "Daud".

[edit]Controversy

Ram Gopal Varma, along with the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Deshmukh's son Ritesh Deshmukh visited the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel soon after theNovember 2008 Mumbai attacks.^[15]

[edit]Awards and nominations

Nandi Award for Best Director

• Won, Siva (1989)
• Won, Kshana Kshanam (1991)
• Won, Prema Katha (1999)

Bollywood Award for Best Director

• Won, Satya (1998)
• Won, Jungle (2000)
• Won, Company (2002)
• Won, Bhoot (2003)

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie

• Won, Satya (1998)

[edit]Filmography

[edit]As director

Year	Film	Language	Notes
1989	Shiva	Telugu
1991	Kshana Kshanam	Telugu
1992	Antham	Telugu
1992	Raathri	Telugu
1993	Gaayam	Telugu
1993	Govinda Govinda	Telugu
1995	Rangeela	Hindi
1996	Deyyam	Telugu
1997	Anaganaga Oka Roju	Telugu
1997	Daud	Hindi
1998	Satya	Hindi
1999	Prema Katha	Telugu
1999	Kaun	Hindi
1999	Mast	Hindi
2000	Jungle	Hindi
2002	Company	Hindi
2003	Bhoot	Hindi
2004	Naach	Hindi
2005	Sarkar	Hindi
2006	Shiva	Hindi
2007	Nishabd	Hindi
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag	Hindi
2007	Darling	Hindi
2008	Sarkar Raj	Hindi
2008	Contract	Hindi
2008	Phoonk - The Black Magic Story	Hindi
2009	Agyaat	Hindi
2010	Rann	Hindi
2010	Rakta Charitra-Part I	Telugu/Hindi
2010	Rakta Charitra-Part II	Telugu/Hindi/Tamil
2010	Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju	Telugu	Shooting
2011	Dongala Mutta	Telugu	Pre-Production ( Film will be shot in 5 days )
2011	Department	Hindi	Pre-Production
2011	Bejawada Rowdeelu	Telugu	Pre-Production
2011	Amma 3D	Telugu/Hindi/Tamil/English	Pre-Production

[edit]As producer

Year	Film	Language	Notes
1992	Raathri	Telugu
1993	Money	Telugu
1995	Money Money	Telugu
1996	Gulabi	Telugu
1996	W/O V varaprasad	Telugu
1997	Anaganaga Oka Roju	Telugu
1998	Dil Se	Hindi	Co- Produced along with Mani Ratnam and Shekhar Kapur.
2001	Love Ke Liye Kuchh Bhi Karega	Hindi
2002	Road	Hindi
2003	Ek Hasina Thi	Hindi
2003	Darna Mana Hai	Hindi
2004	Ab Tak Chhappan	Hindi
2004	Vaastu Shastra	Hindi
2004	Gayab	Hindi
2005	D	Hindi
2005	James	Hindi
2005	Sarkar	Hindi
2006	Darwaza Bandh Rakho	Hindi
2006	Shiva	Hindi
2006	Darna Zaroori Hai	Hindi
2007	Nishabd	Hindi
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag	Hindi
2007	Go	Hindi
2008	Sarkar Raj	Hindi
2009	Adavi	Telugu
2009	Agyaat	Hindi
2010	Phoonk 2	Hindi
2010	Department	Hindi	Pre-Production.
2010	God and Sex	Hindi	Pre-Production.

[edit]As writer

Year	Film
1989	Shiva
1990	Kshana Kshanam
1992	Antham / Drohi (1992 film)
1992	Raathri / Raat
1993	Gaayam / Desam
1993	Govinda Govinda
1994	Thiruda Thiruda / Donga Donga
1995	Rangeela
1996	Deyyam
1997	Daud
1999	Shool
2006	Shock
2006	Darna Zaroori Hai
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
2008	Sarkar Raj
2010	Na Ishtam