Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma at the promotion of Bhoot

Returns in September 2012
Born Ram Gopal Varma
7 April 1962
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Residence Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater V.R. Siddhartha Engineering
College, Vijayawada, Andhra
Pradesh
Occupation Film director, producer and writer
Years active 1989present
Spouse(s) Ratna Varma (estranged)
Children
Revathi Varma (Daughter)
[1][2]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film
director, screenwriter and producer, known for his maverick
works in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. Varma has directed,
written and produced films across multiple genres
psychological thrillers, crime films, road movies, horror
films, fictional films, experimental films, musical films,
parallel cinema, and docudrama.
[3][4][5]
Two of his films
Shiva (1989), and Satya (1998) were show cased among
CNN-IBN's 100 greatest Indian films of all time.
[6]
In 2005,
Indiatimes Movies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See
Bollywood Movies.
[7]
The film marked the introduction of a
new genre of film making, a variation of film noir
[8]
that has
been called Mumbai noir, of which Varma is the
acknowledged master.
[9]
Varma is also known as the master
of Horror films in India.
[10]
In 2004, He was featured in the
BBC World series Bollywood Bosses.
[11]
He is also
recognized as the intellectual fountain head of new age
Indian cinema.
[12]
He directed path breaking film's like Shiva (1989) and
Kshana Kshanam (1991) for which he has garnered Nandi
Awards for Best Direction. In 1993, he scripted Tamil, thriller
Thiruda Thiruda,
[13]

[14]
premired at Toronto International
Film Festival.
[15]
In 1999, He has garnered the National Film
Award for scripting, political drama, Shool - "For unveiling
the complete collapse of the socio-political system. A very
effective portrayal of the determined fight of a single citizen
in the centre of a facade of democracy", as cited by the
J ury.
[16]
In the same year He directed Prema Katha for which
he received his third Nandi Award for Best Director. He
garnered three Filmfare Awards, five Andhra Pradesh state
Nandi Awards, and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010,
He received critical acclaim at the International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospective
of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.
[17]
He gained recognition in Bollywood with the 1990 Hindi film, Shiva premiered at International Film Festival of
India, and the 1991 supernatural thriller, Raat.
[18]
In 1995 he directed another blockbuster, Rangeela which won
seven Filmfare Awards. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics
Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama section, at the 1998 International Film
Festival of India.
[19]
Varma received the Bimal Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.
[20]
Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, won three IIFA Awards, seven Filmfare
Awards, and a Bollywood Movie Award for best direction, and was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival)
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and the 2005 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re-made a new version
of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Festival, where a retrospective featuring several of
his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek
Hasina Thi, Ab Tak Chhappan, Shabri, and Sarkar.
[21]
In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, Sarkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures
library.
[22]
In 2013, he directed a docudrama, The Attacks of 26/11 showcased to critical acclaim at the Berlin
International Film Festival, in the Panorama as well as the Competition section,
[23]

[24]
and was premired at
Films Division of India.
[25][26]
Other Box office hits that Varma directed in Telugu and Hindi include Gaayam
(1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Kaun (1999), Mast (1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005),
Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Rowdy (2014).
[27]
1 Early years
2 Career in Telugu cinema
3 Career in Hindi cinema
4 Indian gangster trilogy
5 Experimental films
6 Later films
7 Influences
8 Awards
9 Filmography
10 Autobiography
11 Biography
12 References
13 External links
In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his
decision to become a filmmaker.
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 couldnt perhaps did not even want to do myself. But Id 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 walking, talking, behaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and
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Ram Gopal Varma in the
sets of a Telugu film
other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.
[28]
Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada. Even during
this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his uncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films
instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."
[29]
According to him, that is how he learned film direction.
After a brief stint as a site engineer for Krishna Oberoi hotel in Hyderabad, he put his dreams on the back
burner 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 at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, through
which he slowly developed connections with the film world.
[11]
Without being successful as a fourth assistant
director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989
Telugu film, Shiva.
[30]
Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets
of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father Krishnam
Raju Varma, was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, which was then owned
by thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna
Akkineni and narrated a scene to the actor which impressed him.
[31]
The result of
their collaboration was a film on the criminalisation of student politics Shiva. It
was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and
storytelling skills. The success of the film in Telugu led to a Hindi remake with
similar success.
[32]
Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him
noticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made
films such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with J agapathi Babu and
Anaganaga Oka Roju with J .D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda
with Nagarjuna and Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.
[33]
During this period, Varma
produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie
Thiruda Thiruda.
While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Shiva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the
spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.
[34]
The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff.
According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.
[35]
His next film Daud (1997), however, sank without a
trace.
[32]
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.
[36]
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In 1998 came his masterpiece, the critically acclaimed Satya, based on the Mumbai underworld. A script written
by Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla, music by Vishal Bhardwaj and Sandeep Chowta, acclaimed
performances by J . D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpai and Urmila Matondkar, and Anurag Kashyap's screenwriting
brilliance, contributed to a landmark. The film won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics Award for Best
Film.
In 2002 came his commercial as well as critical success, Company, again set against the backdrop of the
Mumbai underworld, in which he cut off the song-and-dance sequences, common in Bollywood films at the
time. It was based on the real-life underworld organisation, the D-Company. It won seven Filmfare Awards and
earned him a Filmfare Best Director Award nomination. Malayalam actor Mohanlal debuted in Bollywood
doing an extended cameo in this film.
A prequel to Company was made in 2005: D, produced by Varma and directed by Vishram Sawant. Satya,
Company and D are together considered an "Indian gangster trilogy".
[37]
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.
[38][39][40]
During the years between his trilogy, from Satya in 1998 to D in 2005,
[37]
Varma experimented with different
film genres. In 1999, he directed Kaun, a suspense thriller set entirely in one house and featuring only three
actors, and Mast, a subversion of Hindi cinema's masala genre.
[41]
In 2000, he directed Jungle, 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 produced 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.
[21]
Varma's next film as director was Sarkar, released in J une 2005, starring Amitabh Bachchan and his son
Abhishek. Amitabh played the character of Sarkar who is a self-righteous and powerful businessman and social
worker, while Abhishek played his son. Sarkar was a loose adaptation of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The
Godfather.
[42]
Sarkar went on to become a critically acclaimed venture.
In 2007, he directed Nishabd, followed by the ambitious Sholay remake, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, as well as
Darling. He was written off by the media and public until J une 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 featured Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan reprising their roles from the prequel
alongside Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Supriya Pathak, Tanisha Mukherjee and Ravi Kale reappeared in their
respective roles from Sarkar.
Phoonk (2008) was another horror film which was a success compared to its minuscule budget. Agyaat, which
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released on 7 August 2009, was again a commercial as well as critical failure. Next was Rann, a film about the
media. It had Amitabh Bachchan, Kannada actor Sudeep, Ritesh Deshmukh and Paresh Rawal. Released on 29
J anuary 2010, it 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 16 April 2010.
Next came Rakta Charitra, in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. The movie was based upon the faction
backdrop of the Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh. As it lasted about five hours, the film was released in two
parts, with a gap of three months. It depicts the life of slain political leader Paritala Ravindra, played by Vivek
Oberoi, with Tamil actor Surya Sivakumar, enacting the role of Maddelacheruvu Suri, Shatrughan Sinha,
Radhika Apte and Priyamani star in other pivotal roles. The film released to a good opening following Varma's
clever pre-release marketing using the controversy surrounding the main characters to his advantage.
Varma roped in Amitabh Bachchan for the lead role in his film Department, the plot of which revolved around
the internal politics of the police department. He was quoted saying that this film may be considered as "the
other side of Company." Sanjay Dutt and Rana Daggubati are reportedly going to play supporting roles,
nevertheless the entire film revolves around them. It was a much anticipated collaboration of Sanjay Dutt with
the director after their earlier venture Daud
Varma's recent flick The Attacks of 26/11 received huge critical acclaim for its brilliant portrayal of the real life
terrorist attack on Mumbai which happened on 26 November 2008.
Varma's film Satya has been referred to as a modern masterpiece and "perhaps" one of the best films of the
1990s.
[8]
Film critic Rajeev Masand has labelled it (along with its sequel Company) one of the "most influential
movies of the past ten years."
[43]
British director Danny Boyle has cited Satya as an inspiration for his 2008 Academy Award winning film
Slumdog Millionaire. Satya's "slick, often mesmerizing" portrayal of the Mumbai underworld, which included
gritty and realistic "brutality and urban violence," directly influenced the portrayal of the Mumbai underworld
in Slumdog Millionaire.
[44]
Satya has spawned countless imitations in Bollywood, some by Varma himself, but all are considered largely
inferior.
[43]
National Film Awards
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi (producer) Shool 1999
[16]
Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards
Nandi Award for Best Director Shiva (1989)
Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director - Shiva (1989)
[45]
Nandi Award for Best Director Kshana Kshanam (1991)
Nandi Award for Best Director Prema Katha (1999)
[46]
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Nandi Award for Third Best Film (director) Prema Katha (1999)
Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie Satya (1998)
Filmfare Best Story Award Rangeela (1995)
Bollywood Movie Awards
Bollywood Movie Award Best Director
Satya (1998)
Jungle (2000)
Company (2002)
Bhoot (2003)
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Year Film Language Director Producer Writer Notes
1989 Shiva Telugu Yes Yes
Nandi Award for Best
Director
Nandi Award for Best
First Film of a Director
Blockbuster
1991 Shiva Hindi Yes
Remake of Shiva
International Film
Festival of India
Blockbuster
1991 Kshana Kshanam Telugu Yes Yes
Nandi Award for Best
Director
Dubbed into Hindi as
Hairaan
Blockbuster
1992 Antham / Drohi
Hindi /
Telugu
Yes Yes Bilingual Film
1992 Raat Hindi Yes Yes Yes
Dubbed into Telugu as
Raatri
horror film
1993 Gaayam Telugu Yes Yes
Filmfare Award for Best
Director Telugu
Blockbuster
1993 Money Telugu Yes
Remade as Love Ke
Liye Kuch Bhi Karega
1994 Govinda Govinda Telugu Yes Yes
1994 Thiruda Thiruda Tamil Yes
Toronto International
Film Festival
1995 Rangeela Hindi Yes Yes Yes
Seven Filmfare Awards
Blockbuster
Filmfare Award for Best
Story
1995 Money Money Telugu Yes
1996 Deyyam Telugu Yes Yes horror film
1996 Gulabi Telugu Yes Blockbuster
1997 Anaganaga Oka Roju Telugu Yes Yes Yes Blockbuster
1997 Daud Hindi Yes Yes
1998 Satya Hindi Yes Yes
Six Filmfare awards
Dubbed into Telugu as
Satya
International Film
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Year Film Language Director Producer Writer Notes
Festival of India
Blockbuster
1998 Dil Se.. Hindi Yes
Co-Produced with Mani
Ratnam & Shekhar
Kapur
Seven Filmfare Awards
Overseas Blockbuster
Berlin Film Festival
1998 Wife of V. Varaprasad Telugu Yes
1999 Prema Katha Telugu Yes
Four Nandi Awards
Hit
1999 Kaun Hindi Yes Hit
1999 Mast Hindi Yes Hit
1999 Shool Hindi Yes Yes
National Film Award
for Best Feature Film in
Hindi
Blockbuster
2000 Jungle Hindi Yes Hit
2001
Love Ke Liye Kuchh
Bhi Karega
Hindi Yes Remake of Money
2001 Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya Hindi Yes
2002 Company Hindi Yes
Seven Filmfare Awards
Three IIFA Awards
Blockbuster
Austin Film Festival
New York Asian Film
Festival
2002 Road Hindi Yes
2003 Bhoot Hindi Yes
Blockbuster
horror film
2003 Ek Hasina Thi Hindi Yes Blockbuster
2003 Darna Mana Hai Hindi Yes
Blockbuster
horror film
2004 Ab Tak Chhappan Hindi Yes
Four Screen Weekly
Awards
Blockbuster
2004 Vaastu Shastra Hindi Yes
Dubbed into Telugu as
Marri Chettu
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Year Film Language Director Producer Writer Notes
horror film
2004 Gayab Hindi Yes
2004 Naach Hindi Yes Yes
2004 Madhyanam Hathya Telugu Yes
2005 Shabri Hindi Yes Rome Film Festival
2005 My Wife's Murder Hindi Yes
Remake of Madhyanam
Hathya
2005
Main Madhuri Dixit
Banna Chahti Hoon
Hindi Yes
2005 D Hindi Yes Hit
2005 James Hindi Yes
2005 Sarkar Hindi Yes Yes
Blockbuster
Academy of Motion
Pictures library
2005 Mr Ya Miss Hindi Yes
2006 Darwaza Bandh Rakho Hindi Yes
2006 Shock Telugu Yes Yes
2006 Shiva Hindi Yes Yes
New York Asian Film
Festival.
2006 Darna Zaroori Hai Hindi Yes Yes
Directed only Story 1
Blockbuster
horror film
2007 Nishabd Hindi Yes Yes
2007
Ram Gopal Varma Ki
Aag
Hindi Yes Yes Yes
2007 Darling Hindi Yes
2007 Go Telugu Yes
2008 Sarkar Raj Hindi Yes Yes Yes
Hit
Academy of Motion
Pictures library
2008 Contract Hindi Yes
2008 Phoonk Hindi Yes
Blockbuster
horror film
2009 Agyaat Hindi Yes Yes
2010 Rann Hindi Yes
2010 Rakta Charitra
Hindi,
Telugu
Yes
Average
Parallel cinema
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Year Film Language Director Producer Writer Notes
2010 Phoonk 2 Hindi Yes
Executive Producer
only
horror film
2011
Katha Screenplay
Darshakatvam
Appalaraju
Telugu Yes Yes
2011 Dongala Mutha Telugu Yes
2011 Bejawada Telugu Yes Yes
2011 Not a Love Story Hindi Yes
2012 Department Hindi Yes
2012 Bhoot Returns Hindi Yes horror film
2013 The Attacks of 26/11 Hindi Yes Yes
Premiered at Berlin
International Film
Festival
Films Division of India
Docudrama
Hit
2013 Psycho Telugu Yes Yes
2013 Satya 2 Telugu/Hindi Yes
2014 Rowdy Telugu Yes Hit
2014 Patta Pagalu Telugu Yes horror film
2014 Ab Tak Chhappan 2 Hindi Yes
2014 Ice Cream Telugu Yes
2014 XES Hindi Yes Erotic film
2014 Ice cream 2 Telugu Yes announced
Varma wrote an autobiography titled Na Ishtam, which discusses his thoughts, opinions and ramu style
philosophy.'Naa Ishtam' was released on December 2010 at Taj Banjara, Hyderabad. Vijayawada MP and
RGV's friend Lagadapati Rajagopal launched the book.
Sirasri poet, lyricist and writer wrote a book in biographical tone on the interactions he had with Ram Gopal
Varma with the title Vodka With Varma. Director Puri J agannath launched the book in December 2012 at Aros
Pub in Hyderabad.
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