Chitti’s Bar
The year I had the idea of making “RAAT” a cousin of mine called Chitti had an idea of opening a bar & restaurant on Mehdi Patnam Road in Hyderabad. He reasoned that there was a huge colony on that road and not a single bar was there 5kms either way of the location he has chosen for the bar. With just an investment of 20lakhs on paper he showed that he can make a Crore the very 1st year. It sounded fantastic and I wished him all the best. By the end of the year he lost even his investment and closed down the bar for lack of business. Then with a sad voice he reasoned that since it is a residential colony none of the residents wanted to drink in a bar nearer to their homes and they preferred to do it far off and that’s why nobody ever put a bar there in that locality.
Whether his reasoning was correct or not, the truth was that both “RAAT” and “Chitti’s Bar” flopped with the difference that me being a part of the spoilt film industry everyone knows about my failure but no one except me knew about Chitti’s failure.
In the run up to the Iraq war so many countries and people including Americans were against America attacking Iraq. They all questioned on the validity of the information of Saddam Hussain stock-piling weapons of mass destruction and they said that innocent women and children will die in the war. But nobody ever had a doubt that America might not be able to conquer Iraq.
After the attack happened, the war got over in a week, Saddam and sons ran and the US President gave a speech with the backdrop of a banner screaming “Mission accomplished” and now 6 years later the war is still continuing with no end in sight and US is not knowing how to get out of Iraq without making it worse than before. If less than 200 Americans died in the war before they over-threw Saddam’s regime, more than 12,000 Americans died since then and are continuing to die.
The interesting point here is that let alone a super power think tank like America, not even a single so-called super opponents of the war including statesmen and common people I remember hearing or reading who envisioned this post-war scenario. But now after the fact even a street corner paanshop guy sniggers at America’s flop. I call it “America ki Aag”.
Coming to films, over the years I meet so many people who ask me in surprise how I could have made a such and such flop. What these questioners don’t realize is that a film is made on a series of decisions taken over a long period of time and each and every one of those decisions will be taken on different days and different periods of time and also influenced by a set of certain very specific factors relevant to a particular context at that time.
Otherwise why would any filmmaker however good or bad he is, work for more than a year and some times for years together on a film which every tom, dick and harry viewer realizes in 2 hours is crap.
The reason for that is, there are a hell of a number of things which can go wrong between the intent of why one wanted to make the film to the execution of the said film to how the film is realized eventually to how the film is perceived by others namely the audience who again are coming from a different time period and a mindset and influenced by factors markedly different from the mindset of what the filmmaker thought in years ago.
I have always maintained that all my flops are by intent and all my hits are by accident. That is because any of us will only act upon anything in life if and only we are convinced on our intent but what comes out of it and what works in, what comes out of it and what does not is rarely in control.
I know of a friend who was dating this girl for 7 years and when they finally got married it was a big flop. When I asked him why, he said that they both discovered some things about ach other which they never knew on those 7 years of dating.
So the point I am trying to make is that apart from films lots of things in our lives flop continuously because a flop is nothing but a decision going wrong.
We are all experts on criticizing and commenting on others failures but very rarely can we be experts on our own failures but that does not stop us from jumping on to others flops.
Sunil Gavaskar once told someone that if he failed in a match and when he comes back to the pavilion even the attendant removing his knee pads will comment that he should not have hit a so and so ball. It is another matter that the attendant might not even know how to hold a bat but he will feel free to advise and give gyan to Gavaskar since he flopped.
Coming back to Chitti, believing in his reasons his family backed him financially. If the bar was a hit he would have been called a visionary and since it flopped now he is remembered as being blindly stupid by his family who could not afford the loss he got them into, whereas in my video library case my family thought I was being blindly stupid and hence they did not support me financially and I became a visionary since the video library became a hit. But with what reason I intended the library to be successful was not the reason why it worked and with what reason Chitti intended was not the reason why his bar failed. So Chitti failed on his intent and I succeeded by accident.
We all think that we live by intent and die by accident but whether any of us have the courage to accept it or not, whether to others or even to ourselves, the truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent.
Categorized as My Life
hello sir pls do comedy films ..experiment on genre also
hey
maaki kiri kiri bahut din ke baad apun ku mila first row ticket
So how is Chitti doing after this debacle. Did he try another venture and pick up from there
I’m the 5th to comment
@Seshu
I don’t know difference between Legend and Celebrity but a Legend should have following qualifications…
(1) M.P RajyaSabha
(2) PadmaSri
(3) Producing more than 15 films
(4) Should have serve poor people through any educational society..
(5) 6 ft. Height
(6) Should wear Hat
(7) 2 sons and One daughter
all the above should have sound voice —-
@Seshu
I don’t know difference between Legend and Celebrity but a Legend should have following qualifications…
(1) M.P RajyaSabha
(2) PadmaSri
(3) Producing more than 15 films
(4) Should have serve poor people through any educational society..
(5) 6 ft. Height
(6) Should wear Hat
(7) 2 sons and One daughter
all the above should have sound voice ….. try to become Legend
Nice to read ..
@Seshu
I don’t know difference between Legend and Celebrity but a Legend should have following qualifications…
(1) M.P RajyaSabha
(2) PadmaSri
(3) Producing more than 15 films
(4) Should have serve poor people through any educational society..
(5) 6 ft. Height
(6) Should wear Hat
(7) 2 sons and One daughter
all the above should have sound voice …This is the List one must have to become Legend. :)
how is Chiit Now? where he is?
I will accept it ramu
Finally I got some support for my thought “We eat by accident and shit by intent, or vise-versa, whichever u feel comfortable with”, thnks man
Need of the hour post for me…..
How come some people’s thought process connect so amazingly, that the hunger gets the food prepared by someone else for some other reason……
Like You write blogs that will equally work as a answer for someone like me searching for answer…..
However…I like you……hhhhhmmmmm
The take for me in this post is “THE TRUTH IS THAT WE ALL LIVE BY ACCIDENT AND DIE BY INTENT”
Yeah. But we need to keep doing what we intend to. Let things happen as a result, whichever way. Rather keep doing things than performing accidents on those who initiates something.
Hmmm .good one! Read the blog by accident and liked its intent:)
Hi Ramu,
Very god post! It reminds me of all the paradoxes of life which were beautifully explained in the books “tao te ching’ , ‘The book of mirdad’ and Sosan’s ‘Hsin hsin ming’.
Even after that… you need to clear one doubt of mine that (again which works a little controdictory to the whole conclusion of your article) See, After Pallavi anupallavi’s flop whatver films Mani ratnam had made were so different from each other (i mean only till Roja. After that whatever he has been making is only to bla bla bla. i respect that man for his atistic genius even though he was not an artist). And all of them successful even commercially.
In pure masala sense if you see, even k.Raghavendra rao was went on making all hits, i mean.. more of them were hits than fops. How do you analyse this phenomena as???
Ramu sir,
whats your opinion on a man who choose his path by taking his own decisions wheras his family is against him..
RGV,
Since you have quoted Raat to be flop I want to share a peace of information.
Five years ago when I was in the mindset of making it in to film industry(Iam still with it, but its just that my approach has become more matured), I used to meet lot of middle scale producers and directors. During the conversations when ever a thriller story or screen writing was invloved most of them used Raat as text book to refer. They were atleast 8 to 10 films being made on the lines of Raat and even continue to be made.
I personally think, it has rised the levels of fear in my mind. Prior to Raat, I watched Evil Dead and other english horror movies. But the reason it couldnt encapsulate fear in my mind was lack of ability to connect.
The idea watching of a white guy trying to fight the devil to save the universe looked more unrealistic to me than a college going girl(Revathi in Raat) who lives her routine life with family at the same time trying to fight an emotional outburst with in her for obvious reasons.
I along with my friends watched Raat together and still remember the way they reacted to the scene where Revathi sits idle with her face down on knees in out skirt arena, when Chinna goes near by to call her, she responds in wild manner with horrific expressions and makes Chinna fall out backwards out of the fear.
I think if you talk about just the element of horror specifically Raat is even better than Bhoot.
But Bhoot being a technical brilliance and remixed with lot of modern flavours adding to it made the difference at the box office.
But we still have Raat in our minds.
Ramu sir,
are you agree with this quote THERE IS ALWAYS A VACANCY AT THE TOP…
Ramu sir,
when will you back to mumbai…
Ramu sir,
once in life i want to meet you..and if i succeed than i will continue to meet you…
Ramu sir,
aap aajtak kisi award function me dikhai nahi diye..koi wajah..
I have tried to answer Autojani’s compilation of questions in the previous post. These are just for fun and no offecnce intended to any person or question
1. Have ever got depressed, if so on what issue and at what age? (asked by Fighter)
Ans: When I have to answer the same questions 14843 times and have to answer them again and again and again…
2. Your philosophy provides more freedom of expression and less guilt in pleasure (by dan4mla)
Ans: Your questions provide me more pleasure and less freedom of expression
3. you remind me of a frog in a well – you dont seem to understand how this universe functions (by Anon)
Ans: You remind me of virus infected bacteria on the frog’s skin
4. Why did Ayn Rand disliked Friedrich Nietzsche and said that he is Irrational? (by Sunil pawar)
Ans: Nietzche didn’t take her out for Aag night show and subsequent dinner
5. U got terrific screen presence…Why dont u act man (by crazy_kiran)
Ans: My direction scares audience, my action will scare producers
6. inventiveness makes you twist some truly good ideas and dismiss them as bad ones’ (by neosapien)
Ans: There are no good or bad ideas there are only twisted ideas. What matters is how good or bad you twist them
7. may be its high time that we mind our own work rather than waiting for ur next post (by sheshu)
Ans: Thank you. Dont bother to come here and bother me again.
8. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. This u have followed all through your lifr,will do for the remaining life,ah? (by mikeyiconiclast)
Ans: English please
9. I always wished that more and more women should take up direction in this highly male dominant profession (by Narendra Varma)
Ans: Then will you do the item songs in my movies
10. What did you gain from your blog and what did you loose from your blog? (by Srinivas)
Ans:Gain is knowing that there are more unimaginable wierdos than me and the fact that Iam not the biggest wierdo any more is a loss
11. Where does Amitabh get his Wigs done? any idea? (by judgemama)
Ans: In tirupati
12. it must be very difficult for you to PRETEND that you are not physically attracted to the actresses you direct in your movies (by Jonah)
Ans: I never pretend and they love it more than anything else when I say I am physically attracted to them
13.Have you ever read Osho’s books ? Do they have any impact on your thinking? Did you learn anything from him?” (by Pandurangam bariday)
Ans: No and will never because osho has not and will not read my blog
14. this blog is nothing but BDSM for brains (by madeinandhra….I dont know what is BDSM)
Ans: Shows that you dont have any brains
15. How do you define masturbation and sex in terms of happiness (by Ryan Varma)
Ans: Mastrubation is Pleasure in its purest form and sex comes with burden of convincing some one or some other animal
16. Its absolutely not possible to meet the expectation of a Hitchcock, a Spielberg or a Benegal at the same time. Please help me (by Abhishek Naini)
Ans: Sleep next to Hitchcock’s grave and wait till Benegal and Spielberg die, then you’ll meet there expectations
17. why you took Nitin as hero in Agyat, In my perspective, he don’t know how to act (by ckrisasa
Ans: Because I didn’t know you then
Ramu sir,
i think rakta charitra word sounds more powerful than jai bajrang bali…
Ramu sir,
i am always fascinated by your thoughts…i am in love with you..
Ramu sir,
i want to be a film maker..i want to direct a short film on ajab garh bhan garh a mysterious fort situated in rajasthan..sir can i meet you..
@asr369
ROFLMAO that was terrific mate
I understand that the films output depends on a series of decisions among which some can go wrong and also you might not be able to get whats in your mind 100 % on the screen. But how many of your films do you think have went wrong even from the moment of the first decision of making a movie on that thought occured?
@evryone
it was a good post but i didnt understand the conclusion? i mean how rgv arrived at that conclusion? can anyone xplain please?
I would like to rephrase – Success of any gut feeling is by accident whereas success of any proven thing (Ex. driving, cooking, education) is by intent.
@sheshu
YAHI RGV SIR KI ZINDAGI KA SHARMAYA HAI..THE INTENSION OF RGV SIR BEHIND THIS POST IS TO JUST ENLIGHT THE PERSONAL EXPIERENCE WHICH THEY GAIN DURING LAST 25 YEARS..
RGV SIR,
i am hanging around your office at millat nagar…when will you come back to mumbai..
WHAT IS YOUR ORIGIN?NORTH INDIAN (ARYAN) OR SOUTH INDIAN(DRAVIDIAN)?
ANSWER TO THE POINT BECAUSE VERMA I THINK IS NORTH INDIAN BUT I JUST WANNA CLARIFY……
Very well said Ramu, cant agree more….
By the way which colony was chitti thinking to start a bar in….was it Santosh Nagar?
@RGV
Want to see “America ki Aag” from u …..;)
RGV sir,
personally do you believe in ghost..
by the way my intension behind this question is that-
when i saw BHOOT…i was fascinated by the dialouge-
MANJIT VO TO MAR CHUKI HAI THAN REKHA REPLIES-WAPAS AA GAYI HAIN..
AND THE CAMERA IS SHOWING THE EXPRESSIONS OF AJAY DEVGAN..BEHIND REKHA THAT WAS A SUPERB SHOT..
MORE THAN DIALOUGE I WAS IMPRESSED BY THE EXPRESSIONS OF AJAY DEVGAN…NICE DIRECTION..
RAMU sir,
are you purely vegetarian..
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF GETTING OLDER
@ sheshu bhai…
I think RGV want to convey that most of the things we intent might became failures..and success comes by accident….
I think he intended and worked hard for Raat, Antham etc..but these are miserably failed at BO…
as he said earlier he made SHIVA just to make an entry in industry..(He wanted to make entry with Raat but it not happened)….and SHIVA is Huge hit…i think he didn’t expect that it would became such a big hit that even after 20 years people remember most of the scenes in SHIVA….
but i didn’t get what he tried to convey with America’s war on Iraq….
RAMU SIR,
THE dialouges from the movie COMPANY from which i am highly fascinates…still today..
AB YA TO MALIK YA HUM..
MAINE BHI YAHI SOCHA HAI PAR FARK ITNA HAI KI TUMSE PEHLE SOCHA HAI-AJAY DEVGAN..
MALIK BHAI JO ANDAR HUA ..VO..
BAAT ANDAR KI NAHI BAAT AAGE KI HAI-AJAY DEVGAN..
@RGV,
What if u are given a chance to direct DON Sequel with Sharukh?
What is your favorite sport?
i remember the quote “Everybody is wise after the event.”
Story of my life. I also just wrapped up a business venture, where I failed miserably. It was a foolproof business when I started it but you did’nt work.I like the way you summarize such very basic learnings of life.
Keep making movies and writing this blog. Good luck
Vivek
Ramu also would like to say as i always have been thinking….
If i will ever come out of my comfort shell and try something where my Passion lies ( i need a nitro i guess….i am still sticking my ass to my chair) …breaking the genre’s and taking the Risk….It will have to be for this blog…..I will owe it to you….Purely for the clarification you always provide and the purity of happiness and self satisfaction one can get by venturing into what one has been dreaming of all his/her life…..
thanks for this….:)
cheers
Sree
(Sridhar Aemalla)
intent…accident…intent…what the fuck? …gimme vodka…!!!
Ramu for an a earlier question of mine few months ago – ” which one do you prefer of Ramu, RGV, Ramgopal” Your answer was “Ramu” as it will be one a lighter note….then why is u r blog “rgvzoomin” instead of “ramuzoomin” ?
sorry i feel stupid asking this…but could nt help asking ;)
Cheers
Sree
hindsight 20-20
Perfect understanding of an event after it has happened; – a term usually used with sarcasm in response to criticism of one’s decision, implying that the critic is unfairly judging the wisdom of the decision in light of information that was not available when the decision was made.
but looks like this guy got 40-40 though…
Looking at the title of this topic i thought you gonna share your thoughts on -
1) Chitti’s bar was your hangout place in Vijayawada while in college
2) You and your gang ended up in a fight with the local goons
3) you learnt your philosophy class “101″
4) Your post analysis and nostalgia shared here…
Lol…..i watched movie marathon over the weekend…..thinking on the same filmi lines…;)
cheers
Sree
RGV
I FEEL JD CHAKRAVARTY IS THE BIGGEST MASOCHIST OF INDIA WHO HEARD ALL THIS TOM DICK HARRY AND CHITTI STORIES TOLD BY YOU
U INTEND TO VICTIMIZE PEOPLE OR THEY THEMSELVES BECOME VICTIMS LIKE ME(MORON) AND OTHER VICTIMS(MORONS) ON THIS BLOG
I DONT UNDERSTAND THE CORELATION BETWEEN US WAR AND UR COUSINS STORY AND UR VIDEO LIBRARYS STORY
U MAY CORELATE THEM WITH SUCCESS AND FAILURE AS AN INTENT AND ACCIDENT
BUT ANYWAY U HAVE GOT MORE MASOCHISTS HERE TO LISTEN TO UR STORIES
ALL THE BEST BECHARA JD CHAKRAVARTY
NA GHAR KA NA GHAT KA
DUSHYANT SHARMA TUM UP LOG SAMAJTE NAHIN
SIRF BHAYYE WAALI BAAT KARTE HAIN
VEGETARIAN HO YA NON VEGETARIAN KYA FARQ PADTA HAIN
MAIN ITNA KEH SAKTA HOON YE RGV NON VEGETARIAN KYUNKI YE RGV AAP KA DIMAG KHA SAKTA HAI
@dushyantSharma
kya yaaro kiaso ho aap….. Mumabai chatrapati Shivaji International airport mein ek bistar daalke wahi intajaar karo yaaro.. kaisaabi ek din un wah aajaayagana… pairam pakad ke matchodo tumaraku A.D chance detum bolke wada dene tak …. maaki kiri kiri..
My orkut profile is not well organised .. any how its” suraptheking”
@asr369
you rockkkk man… u have reacted such a way that even RGV should rethink about his way reacting…
Too good man.. Keep it up.
@Pradeep and Seshu… hi
that guy who invented eLeKtRiCiTy …i heard he tried it some few thousand ways or something. ppl were like – yo…what the fcuk man? whats wrong witchha? go have some fun or somethin…get laid or some shit like that..for all of them, he was kind of that creepy old man runnin around laboratory with all those funny colored liquids..( yea now we know its NaOH+ hcl…but back then, they didn’t giva a fcuk!…)…
but one day , when he came out screamin electricity, now they want everythin with that. now that creepy old man is a genius..i doubt if he knew that day that today we use his electricity even in our brain cells ( to cure that brain tumor shit…yea, true story!)
funny…how these lame-brainless-ppl couldn’t see it in him back then…freakin hindsight 10-10 or somethin…
(quarter vodka..fries..and bill please..!)
SURAP
how are you frnd…so u r nt on orkut…ok..
you are not gud in hindi..ha ha ha anyway surap i am in mumbai and searching for job and still waiting for rgv…
tk care
MADE in andhra
for your kind information i m nt bhaiya of up..i just curious to know wheter rgv is vegetarian or not ..
Hi
I think most of the people those who comment on someone’s failure for example movies, sport etc are themselves not professionals even though they might be doing some so called professional job but truly they have no sense what it takes. For example when ever i looked at GOLF i thought its easy and these idiots playing it professionally are making tons of money. Then few years back i started learning and playing and i don’t make those comments any more. There are 1000 things that could go wrong with your golf swing and your ball will not get where you want it to go.
So i think anyone who goes out and comment on someone’s failure should first look at the effort and intent.
Anyways its always nice reading your blog, and i like the style of it.
Regards
Rav
WAT IS GOING IN MUMBAI…ABU AJMI RECEIVED A SLAP JUST BECOZ OF HINDI SPEAKING..IS MARATHI IS SUPERIOR THAN HINDI..I DONT THINK SO..THIS IS INDIA AND EVERY PERSON HAVE A RIGHT TO USE HIS LANGUAGE ..AND AFTER ALL HINDI IS OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE..SO WHY MARATHI MANOOS ARE SHOWING THAT THEY ARE SUPERIOR..RAJ THACKEREY IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER BHINDRAWALA…
the above analysis suits only people who put on 100% effort but still fail to make profit.Thanks ramu
DUSHYANT SHARMAJI AAP RGV KE PEECHE CHAKKAR KAATNE SE KOI FAYDA NAHIN
RGV NE EK FILM BANAYA RGV KI AAG WO HAIN SHOLAY KI REMAKE
AAP EK KAAM KIJIYE RGV KI AAG KO RMAKE KIJIYE AUR WO BANJAYEGA
DUSHYANT SHARMAS” PHIR SE SHOLAY 2010″
DAAKU, BANDUK, TANGA , TANGE WALI , THAKUR , JAY , VEERU PHIR SE BANAIYE
UP AUR BIHAR MEIN SUPER HIT HOJAYEGA
RGV AAP KE PEECHE PADEGA SHARMAJI BASANTI KE SAATH
You have written a point what ’success’ or ’self help’ or ‘motivational’ literature has never told.
All ’success literature’ look at the successful people, study their traits, then write books and advice organizations about successful management. Most of these books look at successful companies and successful CEOs for inspiration.
They give example of Bill Gates. But what they fail to see is that there are 1000s of unsuccessful Bill Gates before and after him, who could not build a similar empire, but all had a similar intent. They did not fail, because of lack of attitude, will power, principles, etc etc…; they failed because Bill Gates succeeded by accident.
Thanks for bringing another interesting topic.
AUR ABU AJMI WAALI BAAT HAIN NA
YE SAB MAHARASHTRA ME NAHI CHALEGA
I do agree that you cannot comment on the hit or success of a film before it is made.I am guessing that you would discuss your concept or script with different people before you even before you start making it, they would express their thought…..Agreed that success is an accident, however I feel that lack of research might be a reason for a failure….
I know its stupid to compare two maverick directors but Mani Ratnam doesn’t make a bad movie…..I believe he does some intense research before he starts one and takes his own sweet time to craft it to perfection….!!!
Probably that is one thing which differs….However it is just my opinion…which you obviously wouldn’t care…but just a thought!
I started reading RGV’s blog by accident. I have been continuing it by intent :)
Hi surap..bhai…
@RGV
life is full accidents..so take it easy…
@RGV
After completing 10th ..I intended to join Graphics designing course…..
But I ended in Engineering….so…
“a chote zindagi mein aise bade bade haathse hojatha hai….”
Ramu Lets Fail to Fail..!!
@Dushyanth
bhai ye Hyderabadi deccan fully falthu bhasha hein… isku agar tum hidu bolna chahiyetho… bolo…. Its mixed with Half Cup Urdu, 1 Table spoon Hindi, 1/2 spoon telugu, 1/2 all mixer… but its spicy yaar….
ek hindi parody song usually sing by Hidarabadis goes like this (parody to one of the Govinda’s hit song)
mein bidar ku jaaraata…..
mein beer bottle peeraata….
mein bidar ku jaaraata…..mein beer bottle peeraata…. ladki ku leraata…
teri G..andu… jaleto mein kya karoom…
12,000 US soldiers were killed in Iraq? This is what the actual number is 4, 359….not that it is a trivial number. And yes, I agree with you that the war in Iraq is hardly a “Mission Accomplished”.
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359
By The Associated Press (AP) – 2 days ago
As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,475 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The AP count is one fewer than the Defense Department’s tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.
Hi Ramuji,
Am very surprised to learn that RAAT was actually a flop. Actually, it is the only horror movie from u that actually scared me..
And a minor quibble.. I agree with u that Iraq is indeed “America ki Aag” but the number of American personnel killed there is only around 4500 not 12,000(Refer http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/)..
RGV is too obsessed about his life to commit suicide
@pradeep
yeah i got it but i am unable to comprehend the line “we live by accident and die by intent”
@surap
salaam bhai
Sir, just one question:
You say a film flops coz it depends on a series of decisions involved in a span of over one year. But can’t it be avoided in the scripting level itself? Isn’t a film first made on paper then screen? For e.g. the way you infused songs in Agyaat (a whole bunch of dancers emerge from nowhere and start dancing against a lavish backdrop, while the film unit carried scant luggage with them while arriving the jungle) – such things can easily be avoided in the script. After all a director can see a film before it’s made, isn’t it?
Regards
Prakash Gowda
ramu what is the difference between a legend and a celebrity?
hey rgv
would u like to be remembered as darshakaratna / darshakendrudu / darshakadheera or just RGV ?
ramu
is it possible for a filmmaker to know what the audience wants?
actually does the audience themselves know what they want from a film?
Hey Ramu
First things first an excellent article boss…after a long time i got some really good to read stuff from your end completely agree on each and every word in this article apart from Raat being labelled a flop…I don’t the commercials it got back with but Raat by far is The Best Horror Flick every to come out on the Indian Cinema Screens…another thing is that i agree that we live by accident and die by intent but i truly believe that any intent that one has and is if the individual is really charged or sure that he wants to go with it…he should do it….the intent being a hit or a flop is not in any persons hand and that’s how Bradman ended with an average of 99.99 runs per innings…but if an RGV thinks that AAG should be made and is convinced that he wants to do it…he should go for it…’coz at the end of the day Winning and Losing ain’t our choices…playing hard is…Today I wanna be a filmmaker…I would give all i got to my intent from an entry into Agyaat Short Film Contest to making a short film in 0 budget….whether i end up being a filmmaker or not is not in my hands but yes trying with all i got is and i’ll just do that so that when i’m 60 and i look back i don’t have any Kaash… in ma life ki Kaash thoda yeh karta ya kaash thoda woh karta types…so good going RGV….BTW i kinda have the same thing for your films and blogs…I don’t like them all but i make it a point to go through all `coz i don’t wanna Miss the Good ones even if they are few just because i don’t wanna go through the bad ones…One You Digg For Gold u gotta dig tonnes of Mud but while digging ur not bothered about the Mud ‘coz ur Busy looking for the GOLD…..
Nikhil.
okay Ram :),
I shall assume u were targeting me (but am sure 100 others on this blog would have asked the similar question) as i just recently commented about govinda govinda !.
But my comment was more an attempt directed towards knowing the story and action involved in ur transition to hindi from telugu cinema.
dude !!. atleast u stand up and take responsibility for the decisions u make .. and that is indeed commendable.
cheers,
rehaman
I have always believed in “Success defies everything as does failure”. Its applicable to any thing and every thing that happens either by virtue of Intent or Accident.Failure often does defy the seriousness and sincerity in intent and Success often does defy the loftiness and callousness in the Intent.RGVKI AGG defied your intense desire to recreate the magic of Sholay in contemporary terms,where as a film like SATYA defied your loftiness in going ahead with out a script during the making of SATYA
When u do something be it by virtue of intent or very accidentally,It has to be by means of a decision.Success/Failure entails taking a chance making a decision but lot of people don’t make a decision attributing it to the uncertainty of the result being in their favor which meant they will end up no where.I greatly identify and connect with when u say” Its all about taking a decision”.
When every thing is result oriented who bothers about the motives behind,ah?
havent u conformed to others’ idea of success and failure in this post??? in my view one never fails by intent …by intent one only fails in others’ eyes. To me success is being convinced about something and doing it one’s way and if thats the intention wheres the question of failure.
I had a similar experience.I got selected in campus but was detained in my final semister.I wanted to join the company at any cost to which some of my fiends warned me of my going to behind the bars getting caught.I went ahead and joined and 2.5 years down the lane,i have seen lot of people praising my uncanny way of getting a job defying every single thing that one job seeker ought to have.Its not that i am proud of what i did.I could have ended up a disaster if i got caught but what made the difference is my ability to take a decision going by my instinct.
It all boils down to taking a decision and being well equipped to face the consequences despite one being aware of the consequences or not.
U are not as great as people make you out when u made shiva/rangeela/satya nor as worse as they make you out when u made RGVKI AGG,AGYATH,DARLING.Its only that the critics or media Wallas do not know ” We all live by accident and die by intent:)
I know you dont give a damn to what I write in the next few lines, but I aint able to resist-
I happened to chat/talk to Vidhu Vinod Chopra on the eve of 3 idiots’ audio launch ONLINE!
Bezawada: ” Do you think RGV is ahead of his time??”
Vidhu Vinod Chopra: no reply.
Bezawada: ” Do you think RGV is ahead of his time??”
Vidhu Vinod Chopra: no reply.
Bezawada: ” Do you think RGV is ahead of his time??”
VVC: ” Hmm, Ok, He used to be very good, but i think the fact that he’s good got into his head.”
I think people will talk about Nishabd for many years to come in the future as is the case with many of your films. Nishabd’s background music is AWESOME, as is the case with many other films of yours.
How do you decide on the background music, are you lucky to be surrounded by talented people or u have this taste for nice music?
Do u still say that ” My becoming the film maker the way i did is purely random,ah?”.To what extent your passion and intent helped you? I reckon the Journey in you becoming a film maker/bagging your first offer had lot of random thing happening in your favour(Ganesh pathro not opting to come to hyderbad,u getting a chance to impress A.N.R) but that cant take out the intensity with which u tried all possible ways.
Hmm, you can’t really compare Chitti’s failures with your FLOP movies ..
In Chitti’s case, it’s not the problem with the product(BAR), but other cultural matters lead to his fail.
Where as your movies, your products are BAAAAD, you are simply building stupid movies/products and end up being duds and you should have no excuses other than to accept the blame and say I am making stupid moives and will stop doing that. Iraq’s failures or Chitti’s failures or your Video parlour does not fit this scenario, they succeeded or failed for various reasons which are beyond their control, but they have GOOD product to begin with.
The problem with you, look at your all time classics, Satya, Company, Rangeela, Sarakaar ( 1 & 2), they are crisp movies. You are basically trying to do too many things at the same time and that’s killing the artist in you. Stop being a businessman forever, just be a RamGopal Verma an artist we all love and proud of !!
- Cheers
By the way, why don’t make a movie based on GetShorty, is somebody can handle that it would be you !!
AAAAEEEE punter log…kaise ho…i’m back :)
Why did you have to put fictional characters/story in Raktha charithra? You yourself mentioned that it is the most dramatic story you ever came across, in its original form itself!!!
@People who got confused by this post.
The moral of the post is that “THU SOCHTA EK OUUR AAGE HOTA EK”. KISIKE HATHME KUCHBHI NAHI HI KALIYA.
So do not worry about what is going to happen, if you do this or if you do that. JUST DO IT.
———– But don’t forget to think before DOING ANY THING.
@ DUPLICATE AUTOJAANI
duplicate autojaani saab, you wrote ” are you non-vegetarian or pure veggie”
dont spoil my name by asking such questions. I am least bothered about what RGV eats or drinks. I am here to learn more about movies and to understand some philosophy.
Hi RGV,
All my hits are by accident..
When is your next accident?
how different is a successful movie from that of a flop movie?
Very interesting article. Reminded me of Nassim Taleb’s books 1.The black swan 2. Fooled by Randomness.
Hey Ramu, I want to slap you real hard and will give you a Million for it, can this Indecent Proposal be worked out to reality :D
Ramu,
I have seen many Chitti and Video Library examples in my life. I could relate not only my own life, but also several others’, when you said we all live by accident.But, it didn’t make any sense when you said, we all die by intent.
@ asr369 (or aditya 369)
Bhai….your comments are really funny….i really enjoyed them….keep it up bhai….
I will compile some more questions and given below is one of the questions
1. Are you a non-vegetarian or pure-veggie (asked by Duplicate Auto Jaani)
Ramu bhai,
Long ago in this blog I wrote two articles (in fact comments) with similar titles
1. The five scenes that killed 30 million expectations on RAATHRI
2. The five scenes that killed 30 million expectations on ANTHAM
I accept that I dont even know how to handle a camera and I wrote these two articles. Now I see where I stand. However, the fact I wrote these two articles was due to great respect to you and greater expectations from you.
Although I wrote these two articles with one intent, now I realised that I failed in my intent after reading today’s post. Shukriyaa for the enlightenment
@ asr369
Bhaijaan….one small suggestion on your replies to the potential questions. Please add a couple of quotes from Nietszche or Ayn Rand related to a particluar question. This will make you a perfect dupe to Ramu bhai.
anyways I really enjoyed your answers and I am sure that even Ramu bhai might have had a good laugh after reading your replies.
KEEP IT UP bhai.
“I know of a friend who was dating this girl for 7 years and when they finally got married it was a big flop. When I asked him why, he said that they both discovered some things about each other which they never knew on those 7 years of dating”
THIS IS CALLED AS HEIGHT OF TRUST
RGV: It just seems like you are trying to find reasons for your failure. To be frank, there is no way a person who made “Company” or “Satya” or “Jungle” or “Kshana Kshanam” or “Nishabd” could have made so many bad movies in the recent time. I think your ego is getting the better of you in terms of making movies. I know you will come up with a “bad ass” response to this comment, but I am just looking for one more “kshana kshanam” from you.
FAMOUS RGV’S ANSWERS TO INTERVIEWERS:
1) Ippudu cinema anedi outcome of a series of decisions taken over a period of time
2) Audience anedi oka janthuvu kaadu. Vallandarki nachela cinema tiyadaniki. okkaliki naa cinema nachchu inkokalliki assalu nachakapovachu.. adi vaalla IQ levels, sensibilities meeda depend ayyi untundi.
3) Cinema flop avuthundani teliste enduku teestanu cinema
4) Heroines ni repeat cheste enti problem? when it is a woman it is more exciting to the media
5) eppudo raat teesanu.. madhyalo bhoot teesanu.. ippudu phoonk teesanu.. vaati intensity ekkuva undadam valla nenu horror filmse teestunnattu meeekanipistondi
6) Nenu teesinanni genres evaroo tiyyaledu.. shiva – student politics, kshana kshanam – thriller, satya – mafia, phoonk – horror, raktha charitra – faction, rann – media.. i never stick to one genre
7) I never gave chances, I took chances.. naaku sishyulevvaroo leru..nobody means it when they say that
8) I am not a social man.. cinema anedi oka conversation laantidi.. naaku nachina vishayanni share cheyyadam tappa message lu ivvanu
aa bokka le raa
Can i find any resemblances of “Atlas Shrugged” book in the movie “RANN”
the guy above typed all that while waiting for me to finish my business with his mom. looooong night obviously
That’s why accidental thoughts sounds different where as intent are bore
“”So the point I am trying to make is that apart from films lots of things in our lives flop continuously because a flop is nothing but a decision going wrong.”" -RGV
i think my decisions gone wrong for atleast 200 times in a day,every day
but iam still taking decisions and going on.
Flop is a lesson,study learn and write a exam ,if failed Rework again .
hi ramu sir
wer is my comment which i posted esterday i cant find it. But tel me sir can u give me a offer 2 direct a film plz sir i wil show my talent………….!
My opinion on Flop and Success
after few huge flops ,success does not tastes well.
so here my questions are
How can i apply the taste to my flop ?
How can i enjoy the taste of success ?
Ramu, Why did you stop making caper movies? dude, make one for the sake of sweet mother of god. The ones you directed in 90s are still the best ones in that genre in India.
“we die by intent” … The only few words I am still not convinced after ‘understanding’ the article. To me it looks like another misplaced statement in the whole context.
Me being alive this moment might be by accident as life and death have a equal 50-50 chance at any point of time. But yeah, no one dies by intent.
“Chitti failed on his intent and I succeeded by accident”
“the truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent.”
My Summary by joining the two above statements:: We are all living because of the ACCIDENTAL SUCCESS that death did not come to us yet. Death will anytime from anywhere, it is just by random chance or accident that it has not come yet. THEREFORE WE ARE LIVING BY ACCIDENT.
We all die because of FAILED INTENT because we all want to live by intention but our intent fails whenever death kisses us suddenly. No on intended for death.
Bewafaaa bar mein…. Beewafaaa bar mein…
” A film is made on a series of decisions taken over a long period of time……”
do u think the reason some directors like Alfred Hitchcock made great films at such a consistent rate is because of their approach to work which involves meticulous planning (and involves things like storyboards) which doesn’t leave scope for major changes later?
Incidentally it is quite contrast to your style of working…
hi rgv
your philosophies are very scary…they twist normal conventional logic in life….
hit autojaani….real one…
correction:
i meant ” hi autojaani “
I happened to watch “Satya” yesterday and i fell in love with the scene where bhiku mhatre and satya shoot down guru narayan..How did you conceive that scene? Did u enact and show Manoj Bajpai how to act in that scene or was that his own approach?
Funny Ramu.. He’s ignorant about Cricket so much so that he thought Dhoni was talking with him for acting chance and he quotes Sunil Gavaskar here and screams at the top of his lungs that critcs have no right to criticise his movies :) Idiot!
Kamal Hasan’s daughter in the film NAYAKUDU is seen in the first song of SHIVA. she is in the group of students who dance all around in the song. she is on the right side of the screen.
Few days back i went to a cafe in hyderabad and was having a cup of tea along with my friends, there were 2 people discussing some stuff, suddenly i heard from one guy saying that the cafe in which we were sitting was the same one in which SHIVA shooting took place. It was the warning scene between GANESH and NAGARJUNA. i knew that it was the cafe in which it happend. Surprise is that SHIVA released in 1989 and this is 2009. still people remember all those memories. It was the impact that film SHIVA made on everyones mind. The cafe name is HOTEL HYLITE located in VIVEKANAND NAGAR COLONY,KPHB just beside to the statue of VIVEKANANDA.
Kamal hasan’s daughter in the film NAYAKUDU is seen in the movie SHIVA. she is in the group of students who dance for the first song in the college canteen. she is to the right of the screen if you can observe the whole song video.
Why din’t you cast the guy named GANESH in your movie SHIVA in any other movies. i am asking this question since we saw many other actors in all or some of your movies??
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Now a days almost everyone on the blog started to make this blog a forum. It is becoming more and more idiocratic, people are talking within themselves, asking irrelevant questions and taking RGV for granted and trying to increase their comments in numbers
I humbly request you guys, please Ramu is not like any other indian filmmaker he is unique in his ways of thinking and expression. No other Indian filmmaker would spend time in allowing people to learn from his learning in the manner he does. Let us learn what we need to learn without having fuzz talk be it quenching philosophical fervor or film making or having fun with him
–K.rathnakar
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Now a days almost everyone on the blog started to make this blog a forum. It is becoming more and more idiocratic, people are talking within themselves, asking irrelevant questions and taking RGV for granted and trying to increase their comments in numbers
I humbly request you guys, please Ramu is not like any other indian filmmaker he is unique in his ways of thinking and expression. No other Indian filmmaker would spend time in allowing people to learn from his learning in the manner he does. Let us learn what we need to learn without having fuzz talk be it quenching philosophical fervor or film making or having fun with him
–K.rathnakar
Live by accident and Die by intent is 100% true b’coz comitting to suicide is calling death by intent and not by accident.
In AGAYAT movie the camera man in the gang of actors never smoke the cigarette, he just keeps it in his mouth in all the shots he was shown, is it a revenge on the message shown in the starting of the movies that “SMOKING CIGARETTE IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH”. keeping the cigarette in the mouth and not smoking will make the government pass a new rule. “KEEP THE CIGARETTE IN THE MOUTH BUT DONT SMOKE WHICH MAY CAUSE CANCER”.
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Could you write a piece on Lighting and related effects. The Lighting effects in your movies are unique compared to other movies may be it is because of the themes you choose to but it would be interesting if you could write a piece on it.
–k.rathnakar
this article reminded me of only one good dialogue / scene in CONTRACT.. where the hero says to the inspector: faisle ghalat nahi hote.. uske nateeje ghalat hote hain.. (decisions are never wrong.. their consequences are).. i remember.. we were so jaded by the performance in the cinema.. and after this only dialogue.. me and my friend saw each other.. and nodded in agreement.. and how we nodded to the rest of the movie and the heroin and the final dialogues of a muslim terrorist planning to bomb a school and hospital.. and killing women and children.. boy what a mistake that movie was..
Re: We all think that we live by intent and die by accident but whether any of us have the courage to accept it or not, whether to others or even to ourselves, the truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent.
ALREADY AM CONFUSED….OH MY GOOODDDDDDDD!! GIVE ME SOME IGNORANCE…SOME PPL ARE SO IGNORANT AND HAPPY
ramu,
suppose you are chosen as a nominee for an oscar award and people and media consider you to be the forerunner for receiving the award and you really have a 90% chance of receiving the award,then will u attend the awards function or will u remain in your home or office telling all the theories u have about awards
hello rgv how ru? by reading ur blogs, one can get plenty of concepts 2 write a full fledged story. just want 2 know that why aren’t u making any really horror movies like raat.
Ramu bhai,
nice article bhai.
It reminds me of SACHIN TENDULKAR s performance..when he score 100 people just say
WOW sachin icon of india, legend,god,master blaster… , he is doing very well , we r proud of sachin ….etc….
But in the case when sachin is not able to score atleast 10 runs for couple of matches then the same people..will say.. oh sachin carrer is over..he should retire now so that new guys can get a chance, sachin gone old..not able to bat properly…
So in the case of sachin people r not ready to bear his failure for a short time..as already there is a saying….WHERE CRICKET IS NOT JUST A GAME.. ITS A RELIGION ..thats called as INDIA.
RGV
yesterday before sleeping i saw rann photos…then night i got dream where the media company ceo tells celebrities in an arrogant manner in hindi the below line in capitals ..i dont remember the words exactly but the translation is
he shouts – “WE ARE LIKE HONEY BEES, FOR OUR BUSINESS WE STEAL HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS OF FAME.NOW BE AWARE OF OUR STINGS AND JUST LAY OFF……”
RGV, the topic you are talking about is really very interesting. However, the logic with which you are concluding things and representing it to your audience is really surprising. Let’s start from the beginning:
* the case with Chitti’s bar is one of the most common ones all around the world. There are so many reasons that might be the cause of failure, that from this single example you can not make any conclusion (it does not make sense to list them all here). This case does not tell much about topic of your essay.
* about US invasion in Iraq you are saying that “After the attack happened, the war got over in a week”, but in next paragraph you claim that “now 6 years later the war is still continuing with no end”. So … is war still going on, or is it not? Actually, it’s not that important what really happens there. Important is what you tell us and how you construct your logic to bring us to final conclusion. In addition, why you take as a fact that Americans made mistake? Maybe they’ve got what they wanted and planned?!
* you wrote: “I have always maintained that all MY flops are by intent and all MY hits are by accident”. It is your conclusion based on your life experience. In this sentence you are talking about YOURSELF. But in the next sentence you are generalizing your conclusion by writing: “That is because any of US will only act upon anything in life if ….”. In addition, you start sentence with the words THAT IS, so why is it so? Where is the logic behind. Where is the proof that your sentence is all known fact and not just your personal assumption?
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I can continue making bullets, but I think it is not necessary. Simply, let me ask one last thing. In your last sentence (conclusion), you say: “We all think that we live by intent and die by accident but whether any of us have the courage to accept it or not, whether to others or even to ourselves, the truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent”. So, why you think that WE ALL think like that? Is that your assumption, or is it some universal truth that personally I’ve never heard? All your essay is dedicated to prove the sentence ” we all live by accident and die by intent”, but instead of bringing the logic, references, etc, you just say “the truth is …”.
My personal conclusion is that either you did not have enough time to construct your logic, or you simply did not want to do that (I am not mentioning your capability to be able to do that. I hope you can do that). However, whatever it is, only FACT from your essay is that you do not respect your audience …
PS Sorry for my poor English. It is not my primary language.
Regards
Film making is also a business venture na ramu? one thing that you pointed out is perfect, all the decisions are taken at different points of time depending on the ‘truth of the moment’ which may or may not be true by the time the gestation period is over. there is this film maker in kannada, Mr.yograj bhatt, whose films were mediocre success stories till Mungaru Male happened. that does not mean that he was mediocre till then. It just means that viewers expectation and his product met at that point of time. A thought provoking article. We undertook a venture which just is not clicking right now and lo, even our driver has a theory about it!
Sandhya
For me, the name ‘Ramu’ (like a guy next door) is so simple.. but you are a person who is larger than life.. so the name ‘RGV’ is apt for you..
Hi Ram’s,
I am John(Not John Abraham). I am From Hyderabad.
Before Criticizing some one you have to see your face in your mirror.
My question is ARE SHOWING PAWAN KALYAN’S DISPUTE in your “Rakta charitra”……..?
Who is your favorite actor and actress in tollywood…….?
Plzzzz Do not make any film with Pawan kalyan because u both are different in mind, Character,
Do any telugu movie(in your direction) and prove your self…..
All The best………
Bye………….
hi ramu, great analysis of failures.sucess speaks of itself. only failures need postmortems.(by the way are u preparing urself/us for a major flop i the offing?rakta charitra:) just kidding. all the best
I like your passion for making films in different genres….
I will continue your style of film making in future…
Director Kancharla Anil
@kalyan _ Chakri
Live by accident and Die by intent is 100% true b’coz comitting to suicide is calling death by intent and not by accident.
My question: Is everyone commiting suicide??
So you mean to say ‘Karm karo, phal ka chintha mat karo’ as phal is not solely in our control ?
In the example of RAAT, isnt you intention of making it as u wished (or visualized) fulfilled or not ? It think it did. I felt as if this RAAT thing as a bad example.
@ Arun D Khilani,
Hello bhai.
@dilipmanthena
Are you any way related to Raktha Charithra’s producer Madhu Manthena?
@ Arun,
Hey have you forgotten me ;) ?
@ Sripal Sama,
Hello bhai……regarding your wuestion on RAAT
My opinion is: RGV realized what could have potentially went wrong with RAATHRI (or even ANTHAM). He rectifed those so called mistakes and modified those two movies and gave us movies like like BHOOTH and SATYA.
I Strongly feel that BHOOTH and SATYA are the modified versions of RAATHRI and ANTHAM, respectively
‘America ki aag’ hahaha Good one… Nice post
@ ruchi
no…hi..how you’ve been ?
@Autojaani
bhayya “Manthena” is sur name of few Bhimavaram surrounding people…
you know my wife’s sur name is Penmetsa …. RGV’S sur name… what to do that one.. hmm
@ArunDK
Hmm Say something Arun.. These days you are so boring…
@Sheshu @Surap @Autojaani
Thank you all mates.
@Surap
bhaijaan….I gaaaat it.
Shukriyaa
LANDMARK BOOKS !
Ramu,
When i first discovered Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra through Osho’s two books called ‘The laughing prophet Zarathustra’ and ‘The dancing prophet Zarathustra’ in the year 2001, you know, i faced major problems even in explaining book-sellers about the ‘book’ and the name ‘Friedrich Nietzcshe’ They really used to make me pronounce at least each for three times.
Now, after your Blog, you have done a great deal of favour to specially the Landmark (that’s recently opened up in Hyderabad). Since i happen to visit very often to this place and without fail i would check the rack where they keep all ‘western philosophy’ books. So, if I happen to find few books of Nietzsche to day, and when i go next time (sometimes as frequently as twice in a week) for sure i will not find Nietzcshe’s books on the racks. Except his books all other philosophers’ stuff will be there as they were :)
Without your knowledge, you have been really troubling guys by forcing them read the most difficult ones in the whole world of literature and philosophy. Where are taking us all ???
A girl, who I know well, today, said ” Abhishek is RGV ka Chamcha”.
How do you want me to deal with her?
RAMU GARU,
Many of your talks,replies and statements often remind me of OSHO…..
” ARE YOU EVER INSPIRED BY OSHO AND HIS BOOKS??????????”
RGV, how is it that some movie-makers and actors give more successful movies than the rest, when you look at their overall careers? Are they plain lucky apart from having talent, or hard working, committed and “intent” to have it?
Kindly, speak more about the decisions (intentional and unavoidable both) that finally decide the fate of any movie on box-office.Your blog is giving an interesting account of behind the camera headaches, and since I’ve briefly been associated with TV production in the past, I get the gist of your suggestions now.
There are quite few guys questioning the phrase ‘die by intent’…I guess it is the just the language thing…the intent of the last paragraph is – we live by accident and death is a sure shot intended (read as expected) happening…
Ramu –
I have heard you shout from worlds highest roof top, that a “film is made on a series of decisions taken over a long period of time and each and every one of those decisions will be taken on different days and different periods of time and also influenced by a set of certain very specific factors relevant to a particular context at that time…” to precisely comment, you have used the exact phrases to explain this process…this means as always, you are 100% clear in your mind about any phenomenon.
If I write anything, it will make me a white colored critic…but let me take that beating from you and go and ask this…
With such a clear attitude of yours – is it not that you would have each scene, dialogue, location, camera angle and whatever else is a variable…not documented prior to the shoot itself…? I understand there have to be involuntary and voluntary deviations; even then, you will shoot the prior planned as well as the improvised, so that later on the post production table, you will have an option of using either of the both.
But if you are saying…story as being witnessed by the story teller is completely his/ her baby and will grow up like any other child, how much ever you plan it will go ahead and become whatever it wants to become…then let me say this is the core truth of the matter. But I guess with so many stake holders and money involved, the father (story teller) has is forced to put the (story )child in a particular mould or groove (like we send of children to convent schools, etc, etc)
- mANNAr
do u believe that there is an end to this world some day or do u think that mankind will progress forever?
HI Ramuji
I want tooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOO meet you, pls letme know the ways to meet Sir.
ThanQQ
RAJU
How’s Raktha Charithra going??
In recent interview..Paritala Sunitha… said “We have faith in Ramu…if he degrade Ravi..we will not leave him..”
How would you take that ….as a WARNING?
Do you think stage actors are real actors?
Ramu,
Why you have showed very closeups and used very dark lighting in SARKAR RAJ?
Indeed Sarkar story is ok..but the way is presented is rocking….coming to Sarkar Raj….
Story is fabulous..with perfect twist in plot..but in some scenes ..you have shown very closeups…and some darkness…on a whole its good…..
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When does art become obscene?
And why do people censor words when they can be easily understood on censoring like the usage of various versions of fcuk
“We all think that we live by intent and die by accident but whether any of us have the courage to accept it or not, whether to others or even to ourselves, the truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent.”
The most impressive naked truth I had ever heard!!
What if Karan Johar offers you to direct in his production house with Sharukh as hero..would you do it?
@ ruchi
i have gotten boring ….i have been watching too much Bigg Boss…man! that guy vindu dara singh…he needs yoga or drugs or sex or something to keep his mouth shut…he suxx…i love shamita shetty…and aditi too..and that new guy…some idiot… is a typo and does everything scripted…hes come in to pataofy claudia…if he comes in front of rgv’s dashing personality…he will pee in his panties or pants whatever he wears…..and cladia is such a nice girl…never expected germans to be soo good after watching inglourious basterds…
@rgv
why do you have that stupid mustache ? why does your hair look like you’ve cut it yourself looking in the mirror ?…my gf says you look too old…and bored thinkng too much about life philosophy films…and what not…take a chill pill ..man….get some vodka,…like i have now….coollllll
@ rgv 2
fardeen khan in jungle ..in the climax scene where he hits verappan type villain ….he suddenly appears to have had a haircut…lol…what you employ people on set for dis-continuity or what ?
@autojanni
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.” -Thus Spake Zarathustra
“He who drives an auto might take care he doesn’t become an auto-driver.” – Thus Spake Arun DK.
hahaha…fuck man …am kinda drunk here…i love you rgv….wo hoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@Ramu,
Where is Shabari?
Many people say film making is an art….and what u say?.
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Why do people feel relieved when they release their anger in shouting or scolding or criticizing someone? Well you are often faced with such situations so you could reason it the best way isn’t it?
What’s the recent movie that you have watched?
on 16th june 2008
40. What happened to Shabari?
Ans: – It is ready and would be released by September
what the hell has happened to shabari….or is it released and didnt even get noticed by us?
Please write a piece on Govinda Govinda..movie pls..
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Why do people feel relieved when they release their anger in shouting or scolding or criticizing someone? Well you are often faced with such situations so you could reason it the best way isn’t it?
The point here is ” Its absolutely not possible to meet the expectation of a Hitchcock, a Spielberg, or a Benegal at the same time. I am seeking your feedback- you being an established Director- What is it that YOU’d really look in a 5 minute short film from first timers, to judge its effectiveness? Is it the content, technical values or the plot? Please help! I have been waiting for this moment and don’t want to miss is opportunity.
I am seeking your feedback- you being an established Director- What is it that YOU’d really look in a 5 minute short film from first timers, to judge its effectiveness? Is it the content, technical values or the plot? Please help! I have been waiting for this moment and don’t want to miss is opportunity.
You always add a commercial flavour to your films. Either the glamour content in the heroines or the kind of stars you rope in for your films, they had given your films the commercial touch, yet you liked films of Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihlani. What is your take on commercial and parallel cinema? Filmmakers like you, Maniratnam, Kamal Hassan, Vishal Bharadwaj and to some extent Rajkumar Santhoshi all make films which have songs and dance ( I mean the commercial content) but yet are painfully realistic in their own sense. Contradiction !!!!
My second question, while box office success is very important for any film, how important is a positive critical acclaim and winning an award means to a film ?
thanks
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there is an excellent documentary on internet, ‘The Origin of Fcuk’ . You would love to watch it, as it reasons where & how the word evolved in general usage and movies and In what different ways people use it in thier expressions. It is really funny to watch the clippings in it
HI RAMU
AFTER READING YOUR POSTS,I HAD A DOUBT ABOUT YOUR PASSING OUT OF SIDHARTHA
BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND MATH AND SCIENCE..DID YOU
WRITE THE EXAMS ETHICALLY OR BOUGHT QUESTION PAPERS ???
DO NOT SKIP THIS QUESTION…OKAY??????
@ r(uchi)gv
hi yaar..am just bored with watching big boss ..that vindhu guy is loser who talks too much…anyway am having hard time giving interviews man…some hr fucker today asked me at my technical interview..you know am engg so he was asking what if he put an autotransformer too close to a relay switch and all … i said i dint know…also his colleague hr was so cute…giving me all flirting signals….i knew she wanted me to wokr under her…yeah under her ….but his bastard hr wannabe boyfirend asked me all illogical questions so that i never get around with his girl….
fuc it….i didnt get the job…so am depressed and drunk with vodka..mt firend sunny got me drunk…i love him no matter what…he looks black as a crow…i used to tease him in school…put fevicol in his tiffin box and tell him we masturbated on his tiffin box’…ololol…..but even today he gets me drunk when am depressed…i love him as much as i hate kabhi kushi kabhi gum….
i had a bad day travelling too…stupid rainfall got me ..wait my girlfriend is calling………………ya..shes ok..bit depressed coz i have no job…his cousin brother too is a bastard…he says bcoz we belong to different communities. ..we cant get married…i want to give him ecce homo…or get him to blog here…that lazy bastard….he would not have jerked off as many times as i have told his cousin sister that i love her since the day i saw her eating and chewing apple in college and i even love the way she sneezes and says excuse me…
god damn rains are gods way to punish mumbai…i got so cold in my feet that i had to pee and ii was in bus and there was no where to do it…so to forget that i started thinking about something sexy …you know to get it up so i dont have to pee…so i started thing about nisha kothari in agaat…or madhuri in dhaK DHAk or katrina in boom…but then suddenly i had kal ho na ho song in my head..goddamn gay-an johar…so i had to get down and pee…
i went to a tapri ..asked paan chacha if i could pee there …he said ok but sala homo chacha he kept lookin at my dick…i hate these tapri wallas….those biharis are mumbai plague…as if i would let him give me a blow job…sorry boss this dick is for the most beautiful women in the world..and that is my gf…
liffe suxxxx…i hate life …i love sunny bhai..thanks for vodka…when you get divource..i ll get you a hooker…rgv you stop making aag…people make fun of you yaar…thwey say you stupid…..i feel bad…they dont know your genius..all they want is k3g and kambhakt ishq…no1 gives a fuck to naach…sala bekaar duniya…
gn logoon…am back on this blog…
@ autojanniii
one who kills the monster should takw care he doesnt become a monster….- thus spake xarathusrtrs
one who drives an suto should take care he doesnt become a autpo driver…. thus spake arun kd….
byeeeeeeeee logoon…gn all ….chaliye hum aur aap khelte hai kaun banega cropati tritiya…………………………………………..
@ r(uchi)gv
hi yaar..am just bored with watching big boss ..that vindhu guy is loser who talks too much…anyway am having hard time giving interviews man…some hr fucker today asked me at my technical interview..you know am engg so he was asking what if he put an autotransformer too close to a relay switch and all … i said i dint know…also his colleague hr was so cute…giving me all flirting signals….i knew she wanted me to wokr under her…yeah under her ….but his bastard hr wannabe boyfirend asked me all illogical questions so that i never get around with his girl….
fuc it….i didnt get the job…so am depressed and drunk with vodka..mt firend sunny got me drunk…i love him no matter what…he looks black as a crow…i used to tease him in school…put fevicol in his tiffin box and tell him we masturbated on his tiffin box’…ololol…..but even today he gets me drunk when am depressed…i love him as much as i hate kabhi kushi kabhi gum….
i had a bad day travelling too…stupid rainfall got me ..wait my girlfriend is calling………………ya..shes ok..bit depressed coz i have no job…his cousin brother too is a bastard…he says bcoz we belong to different communities. ..we cant get married…i want to give him ecce homo…or get him to blog here…that lazy bastard….he would not have jerked off as many times as i have told his cousin sister that i love her since the day i saw her eating and chewing apple in college and i even love the way she sneezes and says excuse me…
god damn rains are gods way to punish mumbai…i got so cold in my feet that i had to pee and ii was in bus and there was no where to do it…so to forget that i started thinking about something sexy …you know to get it up so i dont have to pee…so i started thing about nisha kothari in agaat…or madhuri in dhaK DHAk or katrina in boom…but then suddenly i had kal ho na ho song in my head..goddamn gay-an johar…so i had to get down and pee…
i went to a tapri ..asked paan chacha if i could pee there …he said ok but sala homo chacha he kept lookin at my dick…i hate these tapri wallas….those biharis are mumbai plague…as if i would let him give me a blow job…sorry boss this dick is for the most beautiful women in the world..and that is my gf…
liffe suxxxx…i hate life …i love sunny bhai..thanks for vodka…when you get divource..i ll get you a hooker…rgv you stop making aag…people make fun of you yaar…thwey say you stupid…..i feel bad…they dont know your genius..all they want is k3g and kambhakt ishq…no1 gives a fuck to naach…sala bekaar duniya…
gn logoon…am back on this blog…hurrayyyyyyyyyyyy
@ autojanniii
one who kills the monster should takw care he doesnt become a monster….- thus spake xarathusrtrs
one who drives an suto should take care he doesnt become a autpo driver…. thus spake arun kd….
byeeeeeeeee logoon…gn all ….chaliye hum aur aap khelte hai kaun banega cropati tritiya…………………………………………..
@ r(uchi)gv
hi yaar..am just bored with watching big boss ..that vindhu guy is loser who talks too much…anyway am having hard time giving interviews man…some hr fucker today asked me at my technical interview..you know am engg so he was asking what if he put an autotransformer too close to a relay switch and all … i said i dint know…also his colleague hr was so cute…giving me all flirting signals….i knew she wanted me to wokr under her…yeah under her ….but his bastard hr wannabe boyfirend asked me all illogical questions so that i never get around with his girl….
fuc it….i didnt get the job…so am depressed and drunk with vodka..mt firend sunny got me drunk…i love him no matter what…he looks black as a crow…i used to tease him in school…put fevicol in his tiffin box and tell him we masturbated on his tiffin box’…ololol…..but even today he gets me drunk when am depressed…i love him as much as i hate kabhi kushi kabhi gum….
i had a bad day travelling too…stupid rainfall got me ..wait my girlfriend is calling………………ya..shes ok..bit depressed coz i have no job…his cousin brother too is a bastard…he says bcoz we belong to different communities. ..we cant get married…i want to give him ecce homo…or get him to blog here…that lazy bastard….he would not have jerked off as many times as i have told his cousin sister that i love her since the day i saw her eating and chewing apple in college and i even love the way she sneezes and says excuse me…
god damn rains are gods way to punish mumbai…i got so cold in my feet that i had to pee and ii was in bus and there was no where to do it…so to forget that i started thinking about something sexy …you know to get it up so i dont have to pee…so i started thing about nisha kothari in agaat…or madhuri in dhaK DHAk or katrina in boom…but then suddenly i had kal ho na ho song in my head..goddamn gay-an johar…so i had to get down and pee…
i went to a tapri ..asked paan chacha if i could pee there …he said ok but sala homo chacha he kept lookin at my dick…i hate these tapri wallas….those biharis are mumbai plague…as if i would let him give me a blow job…sorry boss this dick is for the most beautiful women in the world..and that is my gf…
liffe suxxxx…i hate life …i love sunny bhai..thanks for vodka…when you get divource..i ll get you a hooker snd condoms……rgv you stop making aag…people make fun of you yaar…thwey say you stupid…..i feel bad…they dont know your genius..all they want is k3g and kambhakt ishq…no1 gives a fuck to naach…sala bekaar duniya…
gn logoon…am back on this blog…
@ autojanniii
one who kills the monster should takw care he doesnt become a monster….- thus spake xarathusrtrs
one who drives an suto should take care he doesnt become a autpo driver…. thus spake arun kd….
byeeeeeeeee logoon…gn all ….chaliye hum aur aap khelte hai kaun banega cropati tritiya…………………………………………..
@ r(uchi)gv
hi yaar..am just bored with watching big boss ..that vindhu guy is loser who talks too much…anyway am having hard time giving interviews man…some hr fucker today asked me at my technical interview..you know am engg so he was asking what if he put an autotransformer too close to a relay switch and all … i said i dint know…also his colleague hr was so cute…giving me all flirting signals….i knew she wanted me to wokr under her…yeah under her ….but his bastard hr wannabe boyfirend asked me all illogical questions so that i never get around with his girl….
fuc it….i didnt get the job…so am depressed and drunk with vodka..mt firend sunny got me drunk…i love him no matter what…he looks black as a crow…i used to tease him in school…put fevicol in his tiffin box and tell him we masturbated on his tiffin box’…ololol…..but even today he gets me drunk when am depressed…i love him as much as i hate kabhi kushi kabhi gum….
i had a bad day travelling too…stupid rainfall got me ..wait my girlfriend is calling………………ya..shes ok..bit depressed coz i have no job…his cousin brother too is a bastard…he says bcoz we belong to different communities. ..we cant get married…i want to give him ecce homo…or get him to blog here…that lazy bastard….he would not have jerked off as many times as i have told his cousin sister that i love her since the day i saw her eating and chewing apple in college and i even love the way she sneezes and says excuse me…
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The below link is to the documentary on FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE – HUMANS ALL TOO HUMAN by BBC. Good to watch, the interpretations of Nietzsche in his own words (performance by an actor)
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1429000020555879119
god damn rains are gods way to punish mumbai…i got so cold in my feet that i had to pee and ii was in bus and there was no where to do it…so to forget that i started thinking about something sexy …you know to get it up so i dont have to pee…so i started thing about nisha kothari in agaat…or madhuri in dhaK DHAk or katrina in boom…but then suddenly i had kal ho na ho song in my head..goddamn gay-an johar…so i had to get down and pee…
i went to a tapri ..asked paan chacha if i could pee there …he said ok but sala homo chacha he kept lookin at my dick…i hate these tapri wallas….those biharis are mumbai plague…as if i would let him give me a blow job…sorry boss this dick is for the most beautiful women in the world..and that is my gf…
liffe suxxxx…i hate life …i love sunny bhai..thanks for vodka…when you get divource..i ll get you a hooker…rgv you stop making aag…people make fun of you yaar…thwey say you stupid…..i feel bad…they dont know your genius..all they want is k3g and kambhakt ishq…no1 gives a fuck to naach…sala bekaar duniya…
gn logoon…am back on this blog…
@ autojanniii
one who kills the monster should takw care he doesnt become a monster….- thus spake xarathusrtrs
one who drives an suto should take care he doesnt become a autpo driver…. thus spake arun kd….
byeeeeeeeee logoon…gn all ….chaliye hum aur aap khelte hai kaun banega cropati tritiya…………………………………………..
i am not here to advice u or pass comments like other bloggers….
i dnt even inspire u but i admire u as a filmmaker and in that terms i really love u….
i am just here and typing all this thing to draw your attention towards me that’s it…..coz as a aspiring film maker i wanted to gain some knowledge from a person who is always trying to know something….i an not inspired my ayan ryand or any of your philosphers….i am only inspired to RGV as a film maker and one our diciple or student or learner or friend or dnt know wat to say but his name is JD Chakravarthi……the two guys whom i cant forget in my life for ever ever and ever….i am now blogging u by creating the account just to gain ur attention and meet u that’s it…..i am awaiting for a day when my so called RGV calls me or invites me…..this is the reason why iam blogging u rite now and let me tell u this is my first post ever since i came to knew about blogging……
P.S I first respect Don RGV attitude and next Don corleone attitude and more than these two fellas i respect myself
see u RGV.u can also knw dat my typing so bad dat its full mistakes and maximum i use SMS language
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE
UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH
LIKE A DIAMOND IN THE SKY
twinkle twinkle little AAG
how i wonder why you are
up above in the flops so high
like a rgv’s joke in the sky
RGV,
How do you justify that we intend to die. I do believe that life and death have 50/50 chance. We never know when, how we fall in either of these 50’s.
There are situations everything goes wrong and you still win the game like ‘PHOONK’. There is nothing I couldn’t find innovative or new in PHOONK but the movie is still hit. May be audience just want to see not so scary movie or they are happy that they didn’t get scared. Or it could be mouth talk that ‘it is not so scary you can go and watch’.
I think if you believe in accidents then you should also believe in LUCK. DO YOU?
Do you think people only with fame are living “the life” ? Did you ever think about the smart people out there who contributed to the electronics, communication, software industry to enable you to write a blog and connect with your fans using laptop, wi-fi, internet, smart phones….don’t you think they made your life simpler by putting their innovation in their respective fields like you do in movies?
@andhrabond.
That’s a thought provoking question. Accidental success vs. luck? same thing or different connotations of the same idea?
Gosh today I tried to read all the comments as I found Chitti’s entry a bit inconsistant but could not read all …tried to read till 120 comments…
Guys accident/intent comments by RGV is making you confused and RGV is having laughs….
Lagey raho….
@RGV
In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps and escapes.!
-Final destination.
life and death 50/50 chance?…no way…
more than 2 million sperms and u made it thru…now U do the math abt ‘chance’…
and death…
list out how many ways one can die…. ill give u a hint…start from the existence of humankind…30 million years ago ( until the neo-world-phenomenon-swine-flu)
when u r talking about 50/50 thing…u must be talking about the probability of that event to happen and not abt the chances of the probability itself…
Common RGV – what you are saying is convincing but not logical!
Now weather that is by intent or accident you should tell us. But going by your theory its surely by your intent ;)
By accident you perhaps mean – chance – and by that you perhaps mean that we cannot control all the factors that influence the outcome of acting on an intent. Fair.
But how can that mean that you succeed by accident and fail by intent? It only means the intent is always there, you succeed or fail by accident – the knife runs both the ways!
Or – my intention is to always stay live, if I fail, I die, I will live as long as I succeed. So in that sense, really, I am more successful than a failure, because I have kept myself alive for 32 years and even if I die now, it will only be one moment of failure!
This also means, that no decision in itself is wrong, but the execution and identification of the factors work against it could be wrong, unless you just got lucky. In other words you succeed by intent and fail by counter intent or lack of ability to control the factors working on the intent ;)
Alternatively you can ignore what I am saying and maintain that you die by intent and live by accident. However you will have to extend the same logic to your own happiness; You intend to stay happy by ignoring the rules of society or god or religion etc – but really, you are happy by accident – and nothing you did with the intention of being happy is the actual reason for your happiness! If you are happy that is.
RGV
chittis bar on mehdipatnam road
rgvs film raat
US war on iraq
sunil gavaskars batting and his attendants gyan and advice
success failure intent accident
the bloggers on this blog (with a confused mind and masochistic attitude)
conclusion : the above article is better than RGV’S AGYAAT
gendvai RGV..pasa tagguta undi ee madya mana blogs lo..
asr369..baga rasinav bhai..
Ramu bhai,
If Ayn Rand brand of philosophy is called as “Objectivism” what does Nietzsche’s brand of philosophy called as (Please dont say Nietzschism). Is there any term or is it mind thing? Just curious to know
a poignant article for all those concerned..for others it is timepass…
….a lot of things in our lives flop continuously….welcome to LIFE chapter no 1…
life is uncertain..and that is how it should be..otherwise if everything was happening as per our desires or wishes or whims..then this world will be a complete mess…LIFE has its own logic..the so called rationalists..and logical thinking guys..try to give meaning..to things happening around them..not knowing that…their meaning and their logical deductions..are simply a soothing balm to comfort themselves…they are just living in their own dreamland….
you have been trying to find meaning behind everything, the intent is good..but are you going in the right direction??? .
.we know something..the known,,,and then the unknown..what is known is called knowledge and what is unknown is ignorance…but there will be always something unknowable….noone knows why the fukk this existence is? what is the purpose? so the existentialists simply gave up and they said..LIFE IS ABSURD…!!!! to hell with LIFE..well if to hell with LIFE..then please die..commit suicide…what is point of living?? going on living for what? .
why a film flops!!!…ahh wrong decisions?? cant be that simple…Sir..RGV…arent you contradicting yourself when you say again a film became a hit..by accident..if it is an accident it cannot be wrong decision..aint it…??
The best way to look at LIFE is not have any expectations at all!!! None whatsoever…throw away all the windows and pigeonholes we have collected to look at things!!! go with the flow…not to swim against the current…..
CHANAKYA THE GREAT INDIAN philosopher,economist,minister,warrior.
FEW WESTERN MORONS(PHILOSOPHERS): aristotle,plato,socrates,leotolstoy,aynrand,neitzsche,alexander and the rest of the f—kers
We all know that RGV, Manirathnam and Shekkar Kapoor have no prior film making experience however they are top-rated directors.
Another common thing about the director trio is that they have “Biopic” movies to their credits.
Manirathnam:
Nayagan: Based on don Varadarajan Mudaliar
Iruvar: Based on MGR and Karunanidhi
Guru: Based on Dhirubbhai Ambani
Shekkar Kapoor:
Bandit Queen: Based on Phoolan Devi
Elizabeth: Based on queen Elizabeth
Ram Gopal Varma
Company: Based on Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan
Raktha Charitra: Based on Paritala Ravi and Suri
Another interesting common thing in the above mentioned movies is that Nayagan, Bandit Queen, Company (and most probably Raktha Charitra) are the biggest hits compared to Iruvar, Guru, Elizabeth. WHY?
Ans:: Because “Violence is always more entertaining”.
strange to compare Elizabeth with Company..
hi ramu sir who is playing role of pawan kalyan in raktha charithra.
This is in reference to someone’s comment above. “Top is always vacant”. So is Bottom.
Ramu’s popular answers to an interview
1) movie is like a conversation. A few may like it, a few may not like it. It depends on their sensibilities, IQs
2) Audience is not an animal that you can study its taste and make movies accordingly.
3) I don’t stick to one genre. In fact I jump across genres.. Take shiva – student politics, Raat – horror, Satya – mafia fight, Rann- media
4) Hit definition is subjective. If the gain is greater than the expenditure its a hit. Agyaat is a hit even before release
5) If I repeat male actors and technicians, nobody is bothered. When it comes to a heroine, media is all the more interested
6) I never give chances, I only take them. I don’t have any disciples, when someone says I am his guru he doesn’t mean it. Everyone feels he is the best in the world
7) You seem to take my movies more seriously than me
8) I don’t believe in ghosts. But if I hear a sound in darkness, it scares me. The uncertainity in the sudden occurrence of it scares me.
9) You don’t need prior experience to direct. If you can conceive an idea and express what you have conceived to the team, you can be a director.
10) No one makes movies with the intention of flopping them
I am not a postman to give a message thorugh my films. I am not a social person to begin with
Read your article again..on the contrary, if I link this to your profession, you make hit movies by accident and we watch it by intent…;-)
Maybe that’s how you coined the term “The Living Dead”
anaya
i am writing a script based on the cast feelings in andhra pradesh sooner i ll send you the script
Many-a-times going through your comments section, I remember this quote -
“Sometimes the surest sign that intelligent life does exist somewhere in another universe is that they haven’t tried to get in touch with us [humans]” -Calvin in Calvin & Hobbes..
PS: This is for the comments, for the people who make those comments and for people like me who go through them too :))
@ ruchi
hi…i ve gotten boring …have been watching too much bigg boss…vindhu bumps me out…i have to watch it coz my members says its cool…
i say naach is cool…they say when you moving out for further studies ?…lolzz…
@ autojaani
the one who kills the monster must take care that he doesn’t become a monster- thus spake zarathustra
the one who drives an auto should take care he doesn’t become an auto driver – thus spake arundk
the one who twist philosophies should NEVER take care he does become a philosophy- thus spake ramuism
lolzzzz
In between the intent and accident I miss the word ‘talent’. An untalented film-maker might spend years making a film, but it is not an accident that the film is not good. I think your point of saying every film-maker does it with intent of making a good film but it is just the viewers perception and mindset which makes or breaks the film is not correct. I think intent plus talent has a better chance of success and, failure in such case is an accident which is beyond control.
@ArunDK
Please let me know your email id..
@ ruchi
its khilnani_arun@hotmail.com
@187
@jaani bai
nietzshe philosophy is called “PERCEPTIVISM”
@ LamborghiniJANNI
nietszche’s philosophy is called NIHILISM
which means a person is devoid of all morality and in basic sense is an animal….
google this in your laptop-jaani….find it out on wikipedia-jaani
lolzz… bad jokes i know….but still its worth a try…jaani
i registered and logged into your blog just to say……….
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99) love you RGV…………….mmmmuaaaahhhhh
@ Arun
Oh my god, all previous comments on my name is by someone else, rather a fake Ruchi.
Neither did I ask for your email address nor did I say you’ve become boring. Only the first message was from me. Beware, I am sure this fake guy will send you emails on my name, just ignore!
” Sunil Gavaskar once told someone that if he failed in a match and when he comes back to the pavilion even the attendant removing his knee pads will comment that he should not have hit a so and so ball. It is another matter that the attendant might not even know how to hold a bat but he will feel free to advise and give gyan to Gavaskar since he flopped.”
The same applies to everything and every field in life where most of the people love to give advice free of cost irrespective of whether the seeker is willing to take it or not :)
Cheers!
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Porn-Zoomin
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America is a great country. It’s also a funny country.
You walk into one of the adult movie stores and realize what they’ve made out of sex.
In addition to porn movies these stores act as outlets for a variety of merchandise like erotic-lingerie, dildos, lotions, aphrodisiacs etc.
I’ve seen drunken party-groups enter adult stores and have a ball out of reading the titles aloud.
They have these porn(ed) versions such as Hairforce One, Blairbitch Project and so on.
There are genres such as orgies, gangbangs, reverse gangbangs, strap-ons, bondage, fishnets, college wild parties, cum-swappers, cum-guzzlers, swallowers, POVs etc. The list is long and ever-growing. Pardon me if the terms are not intuitive.
There are a variety of themes/fetishes. Ofiice-secretaries, school-girls, prison-bars, french-maids, nurses, milfs, pregnants, infidelity, wife-swapping, barely-legal, hookers, domination etc.
Most of the regular porn films use various elements such as blowjobs, fingering, spanking, three-some, four-some, double-penetration, triple-penetration, missionary, doggy, cowgirl, cum-shots etc. The common practice is to have these cumshots show the guy ejaculating in the girl’s face/mouth. Occassionally the orgasms are internal or on the genitals.
There is inter-racial stuff such as blacks with whites, blacks with latinos, asians, indians etc.
Various segments of audiences are catered to, such as straight, gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals, trans-sexuals etc.
I’ve observed that all the elements of a regular movie play an equally important (or even higher) role in porn-films. Costume, make-up, camera, editing, sets, direction etc.
It’s funny when the cameraman struggles to capture the faces as well as the area of intercourse and still wants a close-up. Eventually, he ends up panning up and down. He would occassionally get aroused himself and baits the actors with his own in the middle of the shoot.
I’ve seen the same girl look beautiful in one movie and ugly in another because of make-up. Especially the eye-liners and lip-stick which bring a healthy contrast to the shot. Some really glossy films make sure that the eye-lashes are groomed, masscara is used, hair straightened, stockings and heels are used, and pubic hair trimmed decoratively. You will regularly see piercings on breasts, clit, tongue and occassionally nose.
Lighting and color-grading is generously used to accentuate the redness of female erotic points as well as the male genitals.
Interestingly, to make it look indian, they just have american actors with a tanned skin and use the bindi and some ethnic outfit. The moaning is still american. Occassionally, they use some real indian actors who feel shy to moan.
Even though the moaning, begging, cursing and dirty-talk is make-believe, some good porn-actors make it quite believable.
Some really good porn-stars seem to have orgasm for every five minutes and can even squirt on-demand.
Once in a while you pick-up these DVDs which have pretty faces on the cover only to regret later because they are either all-alones or lesbians. I’ve managed to exclude trans-sexuals so far.
For the readers of this article who find it cryptic and puzzling, no need to worry or less panic.
For any directors or wannabes, if you find this greek and latin I feel really sorry as you have missed a secret link to realizing how to appeal to senses thru film.
Even for porn-films, the director needs to keep in mind presentation and perception.
I often hear the quote ‘Sex sells’. Agreed. But there are movie-makers in america who cannot even sell their sex-movies because they were badly made.
So long.
@ Arun
Just kidding man… all above comments posted by me only..LOL
@ ruchi
now i actually dont know if there is a fake ruchi here…if this goes on longer …i ll loose interest….simple as that…
hopefully there is no fake rgv here….lolzz
even life has background music
i mean the nature,traffic .
if we are characters,these act as background music.
@ Arun,
I should not bother anymore, cannot help it if this fake guy if full of petty and cheap thrills. Comment 210 is not mine.So have I lost interest, surely in this blog.
Hi Ramu,
This is my first visit to your blog. An had a great experience. I will remain as a frequent visitor, you can count me in.
I don’t know anything about film making, script writing. The only thing i have is a Kida(insect), where by i can bring the change. I know that , i am unbeatable.
I enjoyed your replies.
Regards,
Suru
@ Penmetsa and ArunDK,
shukriyaa bhai log for providing the terms to identidy Nietzsche’s philosophy
@ Ruchi (real one)
I very well know that there is a duplicate Jaani here who keeps on posting comments on my name.
@ Arun DK
He who fights monsters must take care lest he becomes a monster — Nietszche (This statement was also used in opening scene of AB TAK CHAPPAN)
He who quotes his girlfriend in this blog must take care lest his girlfriend might be stolen by RGV ——- Auto Jaani
He who watches Big Boss must take care lest the boss might fire him —- Auto Jaani
Ayn Rand’s philosophy :: Objectivism
Nietszche’s philosophy :: Nihilism
Ram Gopal Varma’s philosophy:: To have NO ism.
@ Arun DK
Don’t take it much serious my friend.. you should admit my adore….
Hey Ramu boy,are you a vegetarian?
A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought NOT to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of ‘in vain’ is the nihilists’ pathos — at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.
@autojaani
endanna idhi okka mukka bhi artham kaale jara samjhaayincharaade?
SIR,,,,I might have KILLED myself by now,,,,If hadn’t pleasantly stumbled upon your BLOG,,,,you gave me a lot of answers on so many things i needed answers for,,,,,,,now i have become literally “Die Hard” fan of yours,,,,plz keep providing me da dope needed to live my life my way in absolutely nonchalant manner,,,,Thanks a Billion,,thnx for giving me new perspective towards life!!!
@ Arun DK,
bhai….the above comments I posted for you are just for fun…dil pe math le yaar.
rgv,
there are fakes here…now i know you dont care whose telling what…but please when you need to quote someone…you need to amke sure its the real guy…please look into the matter
@ fake ruchi
@ fake auto-jaani
bore mat karo yaar
@ real ruchi
sorry to see you go…
THIS IS MY LAST POST SINCE I HAVE WRITTEN MY EMAIL ID HERE…
HWNCE ON ANY POST BY ARUN DK is FAKE
I LOVE YOU RGV….THIS BLOG IS GETTING CORRUPT…WANT TO BLOG HERE….BUT MY EMAIL SURE WILL BE HACKED AND IN A FEW DAYS THERE WILL BE A FAKE ARUN DK
I AM NOT POSTING ANYTHING HERE NOW…..THIS IS THE LAST POST UNDER NICK ‘ARUN DK’ AND WONT POST TILL THIS MATTER IS SORTED OUT OR MAYBE GET A NEW EMAIL ID AND DEVELOP A NEW NICK
RGV
u say that u work on a script for years together and with a series of decisions u make a film and u blame it on tom dick and harry for ur failure.
this tom dick and harry have every right to comment on ur film.
u might say that u r not pointing a gun towards any tom dick and harry requesting or demanding to watch ur film right.
but at the same time u r advertising and luring the people to watch ur fukin film.
at the same time u r not showing ur fukin film to the tom dick and harry free of cost right.
the same tom dick and harry are paying 100 fukin bucks to watch ur fukin film and the same tom dick and harry are not pointing a gun towards u to repay the fukin money for watching ur fukin film right.
and the same tom dick and harry are not pointing a gun towards u to reply to their comments.
any way i like all ur films but AGYAAT shud be critisised.
RAMU GAARU MEERU GAALI CHUPINCHI DABBULU DEN–EDDAMANI CHUSARU.
exact opposite of Ayn Rand’s objectivism which claims we should live by intent and reason.
RGV
u say that film industry shud be professionalised right.
u know rgv a candy producer who produces choromint and sells it at the rate of .50np has a professional marketing team to sell that fukin chloromint right.
if u take my advice i know u dont take any advices but take this and throw it back to me right.
if u have engaged a professional marketing team to sell 20 lakh tickets of agyyat and promised the ticket sellers that they wud get 5 to 8 percent profit margin ur agyaat wud have been a super hit
RGV
if the candy producer selling candys at .50np has a professional sales team y dont a film producer like u selling tickets at 100 rupees dont have a professioanl sales team
RGV
i know u would get angry with me my point is u always suk the cok of nietzsche and lik the cunt of ayn rand did u ever go through CHNAKYAS PROFILE
the whole world is behind CHANAKYAS pinciples
anyway i am on ur blog u may dictate me to fuk off and i’m ready to fuk off from prostituted minds like u
there are neither accidents, nor coincidences nor predictions according to Rand. Everything is based on reason and evolves on rationality.
a woman shud serve a husband like a mother in the morning and shud love like a sister in the day and shud please like a prostitue in the night
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there is self interest behind every friendship and there is no friendship without selfinterest this is a bitter truth ————————————-CHANAKYA
dont be too honest coz straight trees wud be cut first and the honest man wud be screwed first and the crooked ones stand for a long time ————————-CHANAKYA
seven ways to treat a neighbour (enemy)
- SANMAN: appeasement or to please
-DHANA – to bribe the enemy
-DANDA- punish the enemy
-BHEDA- to divide the enemy
-MAYA- illusion the enemy
-UPEKSHA- ignore the enemy
-INDRAJALA- faking the military and fukin the enemy
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a man who is confined to books and whos wealth is in the possesion of others can neither use the knowledge nor the wealth when the need arises
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Ramu sir when u r going to release trailer of RAKTHA CHARITRA
books to a stupid is as same as the mirror to a blind man
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the foremost thing to learn from a lion is a person who intends to do something shud do it by own with wholeheartedness and strenous effort
FUKIN NEITZSCHE AND AYN RAND ARE NOT EVEN 1 PERCENT OF CHANAKYA
@madeinandhra
who is this chankya?
AYN RAND WAS A WHORE FUKED BY RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS AND STRIP TEASED AND RAPED BY AMERICAN CAPITALISTS
AND NIETZSCHE WAS A REAL MORON DIED WITH SIPHLIS( A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE AND MENTAL RETARDATION)
AND CHANKYA WAS A GREAT PHILOSOPHER , ECONOMIST , MINISTER , WARRIOR WHO MADE THE MODERN INDIA
damn you bloggers and RGV..no excitement, entertainment these days..what the hell is going on with all of us..
surap..asr369..mvsp..aap tho kuch creative comments karte hain..ab waqt aa gaya ki aap kuch aisa likne ka..
do u think that uthanasia should be made legal?
Hi all
In this absence of Chief Vigilance Officer of this Blog.. Seems something going wrong…
Ruchi and Arun are Victims of this fake IDs as we were Autojaani and Me(surap). I am so pity of them and requesting not to quit this blog as they are so vital mates of this blog and any how RGV going to be take necessary action in this regard..
Good luck every body
“YOU SAY THAT YOU KNOW LESS ABOUT POLITICS AND CRICKET OTHER THAN MOVIES ,BUT YOU GAVE REFERENCES ABOUT IRAQ ISSUE AND SUNIL GAVASKAR”HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??????
I was fascinated when I read recently that James Cameron took 14 years to make the movie after conceiving the idea of “The Avatar”. Guys, Now the movie will be out in December , made with 1200 crores!!!
I was shocked knowing that a person can spend 14 years on a movie idea! (Rama’s Vanavasam was also for 14 years I think!!)
One of the fellow fans said that Manirathnam never makes a BAD movie..Be it a flop or a Hit or Average….I agree with that.
A great director should be able to have that much intent atleast!! Hit or flop may be an accident!
If the intent is pure, that should happen.
Now, Why do some of the movies go way off the mark for RGV??
Is it shooting in the darkness? Lagi tho lagi nahi to nahi!
Any Answer Ramu ji!?
@RGV
Did you ever meet a Girl who is like Dominique Francon(Fountainhead) in real life?
A man truly grows up when he learns to laugh at himself.
Well said “he truth is that we all live by accident and die by intent.”
Ramu,
For me RAAT is in top 5 of your movies and best Horror flick ever made in Bollywood.
Many years ago in one of your interviews in ‘times of india’ you had mentioned that RAAT one of the worst movies you had made. Is it true and if yes why do you think so?
who posted comment number 247 man? hey just make me the administrator of the website man within a day i’ll sort out the matter what the hell is this?
@ Krishna says:
November 9th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
hello sir pls do comedy films ..experiment on genre also
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Aren’t you satisfied with the comedy he is doing by blogging.
@RGV
You cover your mistakes by taking examples of others with some shit stories(though interesting).
Also, I heard you making Rakta Charitra in 2 parts and releasing in a week’s difference. Do you think people are really gonna watch?
@ Seshu
“A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought NOT to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of ‘in vain’ is the nihilists’ pathos — at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists”
MY ANALYSIS:
Nihilist gaaniki duniya etlunna “arre…gee duniya gitla enduku undhi” ani anipisthadhi. Gatlagaaka pothe “niyavva…..gee duniya gitle enduku ledhu” ani anipisthadhi. Duniya etlunna gaaniki dil khush undadhu. Gitla sonchaayinchi sonchaayinchi sonchaayinchi dimaak kharab jeskuntadu. Gatla dimak kharab jeskunutla emaithadante”chhall…deenamma…em zindagi ra bai….ee lolli, ee pareshaan, ee hairaan…gidhantha utthutthudde” anipisthadhi. “Gee panikiraani dimaak kharab enduku” ani aalochinchude nihilist gaani dimaak kharab jesthadhi. Iga gadhe time la gaani dimaak sarrigga undadhu….antha thikamaka ayithadhi…..nee meedha ottu
@ Seshu
If you did not understand what I wrote…listen to the below song
Nenu paina raashinadhi neeku samaj kale ante gee paata inu…jarantha naina samaj ayithadhi
Jagame maaya
Bathuke maaya
Veddhaala lo saaraminthenaya….ee vinthenaya
Kalimilemulu kasta sukhaalu kaavadi lo kundalu ga migilenoyi
kaavadi lo kundalu ga migilenoyi
kaavandi kunde noi kundalu mandenoi…..
kanuggunte brahmaanandamoi….nischalaanandamoi
aasha mohamula dari raanikoyee, anyulake nee sukhamu ankithamoiyee
anyulake nee sukhamu ankithamoiyee
bhaadhe soukyamane bhaavana raanivoi
aa eruke nischalaanamdamoi….brahmanandamoi
Jagame maaya
Bathuke maaya
Veddhaala lo saaraminthenaya….MANAKEE LOLLI ENDUKAYA…
@ Seshu
neeku inka samaj kaale anuko…em jestham….khandistham….ganthe….au malla, khadisthannam ante khandisthannam…ganthe…
ppl,
Does RGV writes the dalogues for his films himself or somebody else ?
especially for the telugu films he made in past, who wrote the dialogues?(tried in google, no definite answer) if he wrote himself, i shud appreciate his humor sense..ofcourse, his humor sense is obvious in this blog!
@sneha…
I think Tanikella Bharani is dialogue writer for SHIVA… and SATYA ANAND for Kshana Kshanam…
obviously they wrote in taste of Ramu…so finally credit goes to ramu only….
a snake which is not poisonous shud pretend to be venomous
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never believe a female she hugs a man and pretends to be loving but lusts the man standing behind him————————————————CHANAKYA
to somebodys comment on how a woman shud be
a woman shud be like a moon and shud come in the night and leave in the morning
———————————-madeinandhra
a man who is more attached to the family would be in a sorrow , so a man shud discard the family to be happy————————————————-CHANAKYA
sir, wat was the reason behind selecting vivek oberoi for rakhta charitra when u had many good south stars who could portray it well. And i even wanna know who is ur favourite telugu star of recent generations. I wud be glad if u say Mahesh Babu :)
Good article overall… the last line does make sense because the only guaranteed thing in life is death and death is not an accident but something that WILL happen and hence death is by intent.. well, how it happens we dont know and hence we treat some forms of deaths as accidents, but the truth never changes… as for life being an accident, equally true since despite our best tries, we only control around 20% of our life and the rest is controlled by “probability (the only true thing in the world) of events happening that either favor us or go against us. hence i tell people who speed on motorcycles without helmets not to increase the probability of death or injury since there is always a probability of death, so why help it even more by taking such risks?
but another thing coming to critics.. there are two kinds of critics – the ‘i told you so’ crowd, who basically try to pull down a person from doing anything and there are true critics, who stand by you despite your failure… i have heard many Indian film industry people talking rubbish about critics just because critics severely pan their insane movies… but if one makes a truly good movie, despite it’s box office success or failure, it is only critics who will stand by the film and vouch for it’s quality… critics have a role to play in the industry and quite some of them do it admirably.
hi jaani bai manthena and penmetsa are just sur names , there are lots of people with this sur name in east and west godavari districts
@autojaani
arey jaani bhai emanna samjhaayainchinava anna….highlight cheppinav po
Ramu,
Did u ever use Drugs?
arey yaarrr!!!!now im also de part of ramu s blog!!!!
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I M READY TO JOIN RAMUs FACTORY WORKSHOP!!!!
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I BELIEVE IN ME!!!!!!!
now im also user of dis blog
hi RAMU sir…
ramu, did u ever suffer from Identity Crisis ? and why do u yhink so many people suffer from identity crisis?
@ RANN MOVIE
Ramu, Is RANN a remake of Hollywood movie NETWORK (1976)
OR
Is it inspired by that movie
Dude..
i think ur “Aag” was not as bad as it was made out to be..you shouldn’t have told people that it is a remake of “Sholay”..”Sholay” has been deified in our minds… so anyone remaking it is not acceptable to “emotional” indians…
also, what if the movie had started at amitabh chopping off mohanlal’s fingers?
lot of background info on characters could have been edited and made into a tight triller…
what say…??
aj
Whew !Sunil Gavaskar would feel proud when he would say hello to u,as u won’t ask him to drop his pictures in your office.
Dear Sir,
You are expressing your opinion on unfaith ness of God in so many interviews. So it’s may be your personal opinion.
Generally, everyone can’t know all the things in the world. But some people are feel like which they know is the true, and which he knows is right.
According to circumstances, in our rotien life we have to face many situations and persons. These situations and persons will change our opinions.
Some times we think one type opinion is right. But due to condition of the situation if may changed as wrong, tomorrow.
I really surprised to know that no one had explained to you about presence of God in your 47 years lifespan.
This makes me to feel…bad and sorrow about this.
I am waiting to meet you to explain the existence of the God. In this regarding you can able to provide some time to me. It will helps to me for expressing and discussing about God.
I think you are having time, patience and courage to leason about God.
In your Raksha movie promotion you challenged to give 5 lacks Rupees, if anyone watches this movie alone.
As a challenged person you can able to leason and learn about God.
I want to introduce the God to you. Are you ready to receive??
My dear brother I want to meet you. And also the three most valuable Gifts are waiting for you.
I read your feelings in your blog, about YSR’s (King of poor people) death.
I understood, and I would like to say the answers… for all of your questions.
My name is T.Kanaka Raju, from Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh, India
I don’t know your Mobile number & address.
Please send your appointment to my ID..
Our Indian society will needs…the most valuable films from you.
Thanks&Regards,
T.Kanaka Raju,
Nizamabad, A.P, India.
Mob no. 08106094835.
E-mail – kanakarajuthadepu@yahoo.com
hi Ramu,
Now I realized that you are just using this blog, to convince the viewers that you work very hard, which is not et al true. You are the laziest person, who uses philosophy to support yourself.
You said truth, that you succeed by accident. No it is not. You worked hard for shiva, and that resulted in a big hit. You become proud, arrogant, complacent but not carried on that working.
Have you ever consider how Lagaan become hit. I know you must have thought. but at the same time, the same Ashuthosh, and AAmirkhan got continuous hits after that.. why? why? beccause they beleived on their hardwork. in upgrading themselves. they listen to others. they consider the viewers.
you are giving an example of Gavaskar’s attendant, dont u realize that lakhs of people like that attendant watch cricket and movies, and they pay their one day salary to watch your one innings, one movies. Do you know how much they work to earn that salary?
Dont you have the responsibility to entertain them for their hardwork?
Attendant had the every right to give advice it is upto you to take that advice or not.
Aftermath Shiva you are a useless director and producer who is wasting the viewers, ur fans money.
I am really sorry…
Bye..
Ratnakar
ramu sir,
entidi? meru emi cheyali?emi chestunaru? i think you knoe better than me?
ramu=film
but not ramu=flop.
make a film with some dark stuff again .
santosh
Dear sir,
I have just register to your blog, i know you may read my view so…..
i just want to say, your first movie “RAAT” was master peace, we like “BHOOT” too,
but we like to get thrill by “BHOOT 2″ The story in same house continues….with next tenant…
I am your fan…….
Thank you very much
Hitesh Gangani
Namaste Sir,
When a comment is bad that says something is Lack , when a comment is good that says it is perfect, and that two hour film stays in mind forever . This is a Lack & Perfect and should not counted in Flop or Hit.
Simplicity,Emotions,Purity are Timeless and i feel these are common Indians only mindset.
Manisha Samal (odissa)
I am not Only ur Fan .
I am ur Follower .
I want to be a Director like U .
I want ur Status and Positon in INDIAN Cinema .
Don’t Lough !
Definately, I will Meet in 2 r 3 Year .
—- M V Ravi Teja
B Tech
This is an interesting post Ramu. Like the pop video doing the rounds now says – if you never failed, you never lived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSvvxrprdU [ when you find time, watch this]
The way I see it, my work is my signature. I would like it to as unique, distinct and visionary as I can make it to be. I am not worried about how it is judged as much as how it is remembered.
I personally loved some of your flops better than your hits. Hits are popular appeal – a result of putting the right product in front of the right people at the right time. So, a film maker who delivers a ton of hits in his life is probably a good product manager. But, a GOOD film maker, as a movie distributor and music producer myself, is someone who continues to push the envelope of social acceptance, questions the norm of everyday sanity and challenges some of the deeply held, closely guarded hypocrisies of his time. While doing so, if he wins the majority nod, great. But, he would be twice as successful if he triggered the right discussion or the right call to action. I used to hold you in that elite group of film makers when I was growing up.
I thought ‘Antham’, followed by ‘Ratri’ was your best work in your first few years. There was this friend of mine in high school called moorty, who was so inspired by Antham that he used to draw leafless trees and starless nights when we were asked to draw something pretty. Our Arts teacher made fun of him once in front of a whole school gathering. He went up the stage and without defending his work against the judgement, sought to explain how a starless night or a leafless tree was just as symbolic of promise as was a bright sun or a lush meadow. To him , ‘life was about looking at things that did not happen and asking, why not?’ . I know that is not your spin but it was interesting how something so dark as ‘Antham’, where a criminal dies a sad death at the end, inspired a little boy in high school to not only understand the gravity of our choices given the strength of worldly prejudices but also to question them by putting his fist up against them and say – can it be different ?.
I was actually mildly disappointed with how Rangeela ended on an anticipatory note, even though ‘Hai rama’ as a song stays with me to this day.
Every time you make a flop that people want to grill you about, I see you defend yourselves against the media, the audience and their sentiments. I would really be impressed if you offered no defense at all, considering you have not much more to prove as one of India’s best and most successful film makers ever, just listened to the critique and said – ‘interesting’ ;) .
You have given so much to Indian cinema in your life – be it flops or hits or controversies.
Now it is time for you to take that to the next level. I personally think you have a Martin Scorsese streak in you that was never completely explored, thanks to the hypocrisies of Indian film making. I would love to see you work on a powerful story like ‘Gangs of New York’ or ‘Aviator’. Looks like Raktha Charithra is going to be something of that kind.
on his hair style)
RAVAN pushes away the makeup-man’s hand. Cell phone starts ringing.
RAVAN
(with anger — at makeup-man)
Papayta chakkaga teeya rada?
There is, I believe something lacking in your recent films that was there in “anaganaga oka roju”. Is it the soul or the charm you are a better judge.
I dont know about your visionary in your video shop but you are so visionary about this issue. Whatever you said is correct each and every sentence. Because I am experiencing also failures right now. But I am not going to loose my confidence I will definitely answer what I am to all my problems one day. Thanks for your the best analisation of the Failure…. It gave me the more boost…. THANK YOU