Akashvani
I have always been a sucker for voiceovers in films and I think this primarily originated from my fascination with the voices of radio newsreaders of Akashvani when I used to listen to them as a kid. I feel voiceovers have an effect of almost as if the person whose voice we are hearing is telling the story as if he lived the story himself and thereby he understands it inside out and also as he very objectively narrates the story it makes us feel that he is speaking the absolute truth.
The first voiceover that ever caught my attention was from the film “Mackenna’s Gold”. I remember being mesmerized as the voiceover in the film transported me from a B-grade movie theatre in Ameerpet, Hyderabad to the exotic awe inspiring locales of Arizona.
Apart from the locales the feeling in the voiceover and the way the lines were spoken by the voice also puts you in an emotional context of the story.
Just remember that more than the lines, it is how they are spoken and with what emotion in the voice is what makes a voiceover work.
This is how the words go as a deep voice in “Mackenna’s Gold” narrates…
“A thousand years ago in the southwest there was an apache legend. It told about a hidden canyon guarded by the apache gods and rich with gold.
As long as the apaches kept the canyon a secret, never touched the gold they would remain strong, powerful.
That was the legend.
When the Spanish conquestadaros came they searched for the canyon. They called it the canyon del oro meaning the canyon of Gold. But they never found it.
300 years later the Americans came. They called it the lost Adam. That was because a man called Adams has once seen it or so he said. But whether he did or not he never saw anything again.
That was because the apaches have burned out his eyes.
Canyon del oro, the lost Adam, and then for a while back in 1874 it was called Mackenna’s Gold”.
Before it says “back in 1874” the voice actually takes a pause as if trying to recall the exact date and the con is complete. I completely believed by the end of it that I am watching a real story which happened to real people.
Another favourite of mine is the voiceover from the film “The Guns of Navarone” a 2nd World War based adventure film. It goes like this…
“Two thousand troops of the Allied forces were marooned on an island 6 miles to the south of Navarone. They were trying to send in shipments of food and arms to the trapped soldiers but these ships were being destroyed by 2 specially designed German guns situated on the island of Navarone.
The Allied Command put together a crack team of commandos to somehow sabotage and destroy those guns.
What happened in the next 6 days became the ‘Legend of Navarone’”.
After this voiceover the film starts with a super “The first day 06.00am”.
Yet another great voiceover comes in the beginning of “Conan The Barbarian” preceded with a quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra “That which does not kill us makes us stronger – Friedrich Nietzsche”.
After the above super seemingly 80 year old voice rambles on…
“Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas there was an age undreamed of.
Unto this came Conan destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia.
It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga.
Let me tell you the days of high adventure”.
Now coming to poor Desi me, two of my most favourite voiceovers in my films are from “Satya” and “Company”.
In “Satya” a voiceover starts after the death of Amod Shukla the Police Commissioner.
“Amod Shukla ki din dahade hatya ne… Saari sarkari machinery ko jhad se hila ke rakh diya… Police badla lene par utaru thi… Voh jiss kadar samoche underworld pe toot padi… Jo khalbali machi… Jo shoot outs aur hungame hue… Voh Mumbai ke criminal ithihaas ka sab se kaala chapter kahi gayi… Taanav mein ghira Mumbai shehar, Police rajya lagne laga tha… Aur aane wale chunaav ne haalat aur bhi sangeen kar diya … Har waqt maujood khatre, khokle system aur nir uttar sarkar se logo ka vishwaas hat gayi… Jiss ka Bahu Thakur Das Jhavle ne bhar poor fayda uthaya… Jo gangster underground ho chuke the, unne dhoond nikal lene ka police ka juoon tha… Usska shikaar kuch nirdosh log bhi bane… Maanav adhikar sangato ne police atyachaar ke khilaaf pradarshan kiye… Aur band ki maang ki… Jisse police ne aakaran aur nir aadhar bataya… Lekin ant mein unhe peeche hatna padha… Aur issi dauraan chunaav bhi… jiss mein Bahu Thakur Das Jhavle bhari majority ke saath jeet gaya… esse mahul mein ek din Satya, Vidya ke saath film dekhne gaya…”
This above voiceover in “Satya” I basically ripped off from the tonal quality from a passage in the Godfather novel after Michael Corleone murders Solozzo and Mckluskey which goes likes this.
“The day after the murder of Mcluskey and Solozzo, Police Captains of New York sent out word that there will no more gambling, no more prostitution and no more deals of any kind until the murderer was given up. Massive raids began all over the place. All illegal activities came to a standstill.
An emissary from the other families met the Corleones and asked them if they were ready to give up the murderer. He was told that the matter does not concern them.
Later that night a bomb exploded in the long beach mall belonging to the Corleone family. Also that night 2 men of the Corleones were shot to death as they were peacefully eating their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich village. The five families war of 1935 had begun”.
The beginning voiceover of “Company” was inspired by some random shots of Mumbai taken by my DOP to be plugged in at various places in the edit of the film.
When I saw the shots I was taken aback with the eagles which were by chance hovering on the buildings at the time of the shoot. They reminded me of the opening sequence of “Mackenna’s Gold”. I wanted a voiceover to support that visual and to pay a kind of homage to “Mackenna’s Gold”.
The initial lines went like this “Cheelon mein saber bahut hota hain. Woh ek ganta nahin ek din nahin….”
An assistant of mine pointed it out that it is not true of eagles. But since I was adamant about those lines being there, I just added “Cheelo ke baare mein yeh baat bahot kum log jaante hai ki unn mein saber bahut hota hai…” and I gave my assistant this logic that every guy in the theatre will think that may be he is among the few who does not know. Later after the film is over he would forget about the voiceover in the beginning. If he remembers and he likes the film he will think it is a metaphor and if he does not like the film it does not matter anyway. So the final lines went like this.
“Cheelo ke baare mein yeh baat bahot kum log jaante hai ki unn mein saber bahot hota hai… Shikaar pe nazar padne ke baad… Cheel ek ghanta Nahin… ek din Nahin… ek ek hafta… ek ek mahina… Dur aasman mein udti rehti hai… Jab tak ki sahi jagah aur sahi waqt na aajaye… Aur jab waqt aagaya… Toh palak jhapak ne se pehle shikaar jhapta gaya… Chahe voh poora shehar hi kyun na ho… Unn dino Mailk ka ek import export ka business tha… Magar sirf dikhawa… Asal mein voh aslam ali gang ka khaas tha… Ali se usski nazdikhi gang ke poorano ko khatakti thi… Nazdikhi ki wajah yeh thi ki mailk ne apni hoshiyari se gang ke dhande ko phelaya… itna ke bahut se naye logo ki bharti ki zaroorat padi… aur issi dauraan malik ki pehli mulakat hue Chandu se…”
In the context of “Rakta Charitra” as the story is happening in a certain specific region which the majority of the audience would not have any knowledge of, I wanted to have a voiceover to introduce the place and its context.
“Rakta Charitra” starts with the following voiceover.
“Mahatma Gandhi ne kaha tha ki bharat ki aatma gaavo me basti hai…iss mamle me ya to Gandhiji anjaan the ya phir masoom kyu ki aaj bhi iss desh ke kayi ilaake ek vibhats khooni sangarsh me uljhe hue hai…unme se ek jagah hai… Anantpur…jaha aham, aurat aur addhikar ki ladaayi me log jameen jaaydaad parivar aur apni jaan tak daanv pe laga dete hai…aur hinsa ka ye Rakt Chakra pusht dar pusht bina ruke chalta hee rehta hai Anantpur ke iss Raktranjit sangarsh me itne log mare hai ki Gandhiji ki bharat ki aatma… Ab yaha bas nahi…bhatak rahi hai… ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
All said and done I believe that voiceovers are great devices to create an effect of epic story telling and for whatever understanding I have of them I thank “Mackenna’s Gold”, “The Guns of Navarone”, “Conan the Barbarian” and of course our very own Akashvani.
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Hi Ramu
thank you
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HI BOSS
give me some tips to be strong….
@ Aakasha Raamanna or Vani ?
Make it
…agar ye sach ha toh dua karna ki woh mere gaon me basi na ho!
short simple, and not contradicting Gandhiji. :)
The Mahabharath which you are showing its almost coming to end,after releasing your film it may begins fresh again.
Excellent Ramu…
Hi Ramu
write a piece on your approach of pitching a script and screenplay please..
Ramu bhai,
While reading the article, I felt that I was sitting in Sangeeth 70mm. You brought back my childhood memories again
The concluding part on Rakta Charitra, I think you already published in one EENADU news papper….
before I conclude my comment, let me add one more thing….you brought back old memories of “Binaca Geeth Maala” in radio, anchored by Amin Sahni…
@SHESHU
14.What are your views on Narayan murthy’s blockbusters?
HA HA HA…………….BLOCKBUSTERS……..HILARIOUS…………….
INTERESTING TO SEE RAMU’S TAKE ON IT………
In your statement regarding inspector Khandilkar’s (Aditya Srivastava) voice in Satya, its not only before Amod Shukla’s death but the very begining of the movie when Mumbai is shown in its rustic reality and frighteningly vast ocean of people along with a pathos background score sets the tone of the movie. This introduction and voiceover by Khandilkar makes audience feel some “heavyness” in heart/mind while the movie continues…..
This “Akashvani” voiceover really brought back the childhood radio memories….
‘……tho fauzi bhaiyon….aayiye sunthe hai aaj ka “Binaca geeth maala mei agla gaana “Baiju Bawra” film se, jiska sangeeth diya hai “Naushaad”, gaane ka lekhak hai “Shakeel Badayuni” aur geethkaar hai “Muhhammad Rafi”………”
Then the song starts……”Tu ganga ki mauj mai hu jamunaa ki dhaara……
@ all bloggers
Can anyone convert the Voice Over of RC into English for my sake?
“Mahatma Gandhi ne kaha tha ki bharat ki aatma gaavo me basti hai…iss mamle me ya to Gandhiji anjaan the ya phir masoom kyu ki aaj bhi iss desh ke kayi ilaake ek vibhats khooni sangarsh me uljhe hue hai…unme se ek jagah hai… anantpur…jaha aham, aurat aur addhikar ki ladaayi me log jameen jaaydaad parivar aur apni jaan tak daanv pe laga dete hai…aur hinsa ka ye Rakt Chakra pusht dar pusht bina ruke chalta hee rehta hai Anantpur ke iss Raktranjit sangarsh me itne log mare hai ki Gandhiji ki bharat ki aatma… Ab yaha bas nahi…bhatak rahi hai… ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
THANK YOU, EVERYBODY….
One more thing I remember about “Aakashvani” is that during late 80s and early 90s, in radio “aakashvani vividhabharathi” program, there used to be a 10 min program on new telugu movies. This is much like “Trailer” in radio
A lady used to anchor this program and advertizes the movies…..some voice clippings from the movie involving some “intense” “punch” dialogues were used to be broadcasted and then the lady takes up from there as “….aa tharuvaatha vaalla iddari madhya emi jaringindi….oka nyayadhikaari thana karthavyam paatinchi kanna koduku ne uri kambaanike pamputhaada?….idhi thelusukovaalante thappaka chudandi “Justice Chowdhury”…..
This used to create sleeplessnes sin me….this program was one of the reasons that I watched so many telugu movies….
“……..me from a B-grade movie theatre in Ameerpet, Hyderabad to the exotic awe inspiring locales of Arizona”
Which theatre was this? Sheesh Mahal or Vijayalaxmi talkies??
Ramu bhai,
who is providing the voice for the above mentioned voiceover in RC?
Hi Ramu
Don’t know who is chosen to do voice over for RC but BigB or Ompuri will be the best ones to give the impact
RGV
what an idea to start a violent film using GANDHI( A VIOLENT PACIFIST) and end that voiceover with mahabharat
hope the voice wud b given by amitabh bachan
Also Mohanlal’s accent will give a strong impact if he does voiceover for RC…
his accent and dialogues in company…god knows how many times i saw the scenes just to watch him deliver his dialogues in style…excellent actor
Hi Ramu,
The begenning VO of Rakta Charitra doesn’t invoke the same kind of thrill and eagerness if compared to Comapny’s VO and some of the other examples mentioned by you. It sounds more like a fact or a press-statement that starts with the begenning and ends with its end. Just like you established your two main protagonists – Malik and Chandu with just one VO, something similar needs to be done with Ravi and Suri as well. The VO seems to be quite newsy jo punjab kesari mein har roj chhapta hai. It is trivialisng the begenning of an epic movie.
PS: i feel that you will be again running into trouble with the Mahatma Gandhi reference.
Ramu Ji I have been following your blog for a long time.
I liked you films D and CONTRACT very much. Ramu ji I liked the way you tell stories. The most important thing is that you tell stories that are spot on, that are very much practical and what a common man thinks but never does it.For a film like D and CONTRACT telling a story with a simple cast made the difference.
I wish you all the best for you RAKTACHARITRA and hope there will be peace in ATP.
Ramu ji are you planning any film on student politics???
THANK YOU.
RGV
great voiceover i wud watch the film just for voiceover
definitely gandhis atma bhatakte hi rehti hain aur gandhi ki khadi(raktachakra)chakra chalte hi rehti hain
P.S : RGV add some padyatra(dandi march) aka dandan march to the voiceover to add some spice
If you had a voiceover in Kaun, with the writing, the effect would be much more.
Similarly, the silence in Bhoot gave the effect, no voiceover ever can.
- Piyush Bhageria
My screenplay for this opening shot of Raktha Charitra
———————————————————————————————–
Black screen
(in the center of the screen a title appears in red color)
Madhu Manthena
presents
(Name disappears)
Black screen (2 seconds)
(Then appears another title in the center of black screen)
XYZ productions
(name disappears…..now a background sound “Krrrrrr….krrrrrr…krrrrrrr” is heard on screen)
(In the black screen you will see a white hole in the center…the camera is deep inside a water “well”…..the walls of the well makes whole screen “black” with a white hole in the center showing sky)
as the camera follows the “bucket” carrying water to above (krrr ..krrr…krr..krrr sound in background)…..the white hole slowly magnifies….showing that a lady is fetching water
(Cut to) outside shot….where the lady is shown fetching water…she pours water from well into her vessel, lifts the vessel onto her head and walks …as she walks, the background voiceover starts….
“……Mahatma Gandhi ne kaha tha ki bharat ki aatma gaavo me basti hai”
a man ploughing the land in far distance…..(cut to)
camera near this farmer showing the walking lady at a far distance surrounded by little rocks, trees etc…
lady is still walking…(camera behind her showing the road)….and a car is coming from the other end)
voiceover continues “…iss mamle me ya to Gandhiji anjaan the ya phir masoom hai kyu ki aaj bhi iss desh ke kayi ilaake …”
car stops in front of the camera….
Voiceover continues “…ek vibhats khooni sangarsh me uljhe hue hai”….
(cut to top angle shot showing car’s top and three people coming out with daggers)……a man is dragged out from car….
voiceover continues…”…unme se ek jagah hai… anantpur…
cut to low angle shot…..showing a man lifting the sword and hacking other man…..(background score in low bass intense mood)
voiceover continues “…..jaha aham, aurat aur addhikar ki ladaayi me log jameen jaaydaad parivar aur apni jaan tak daanv pe laga dete hai…
While this voiceover is being aired “…several random shots of shooting, dragging men out of their homes, hacking them inbriad daylight, police lockups with dark rooms, screeming etc”….are shown..
voiceover continues “….aur hinsa ka ye Rakt Chakra pusht dar pusht bina ruke chalta hee rehta hai”…
as this above line is aired, “…a small infant kid crying in front of his killed father on road, one old destitute helpless man sitting in a corner with an expressionless look, some random shots of burnt houses, women crying”….are shown..
voiceover continues “….Anantpur ke iss Raktranjit sangarsh me itne log mare hai ki Gandhiji ki bharat ki aatma… Ab yaha bas nahi…bhatak rahi hai…
While the above line is aired in background “….various news papers cuttings are shown in various languages highlighting the headlines of factions killings”…..
voiceover continues….”ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
when the background voice says raktha charitra at the end….the screen becomes BLACk screen
and in the center appears RAKTHA CHARITRA (in red color) in the center…..
can i know Whats ur take on metaphysics in context of movies..do u see any significance of it or films are just about aesthetics ?
And now starts free advice and sugesstions….
yemi cheeta rasavu ra babu…………………….complete shit……………
jaani bangaya director…auto chodo megaphone pakdo…
reading hindi in english was tedious
Hi Ramu,
“ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”” , isn’t Mahabharat a bit mis-used in the context of the killings in Anantapur. Mahabharat as we understand is a big war but between good and evil, but the killings in Anantapur is not either fight for good nor is it a fight for rightfulness.
Am sure you would have already thought of some one with a very deep throat voice to do the VO for this stanza, else there would not be any punch.
BTW, just curios to know when do you find time to read/write this blog.
voiceover continues….”ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA
There should be a 3-second PAUSE between the words “…….Mahabarth hai” and “Raktha Charitra”
voiceover”…..ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI”………….3-second pause……..… RAKTACHARITRA
what is u r take on the movies of k.viswanath
@autojaani
e cinema nenu chusanau…ledu nuvu cheptha vunte ekdo chusinatlu vundi…cinema peru gurtukravatledu kani…
@autojaani
chill …yaar
good interpretation
y don’t u write a piec on the movie govinda govinda
i think it was paradoxic that an atheist like u made a movie like govinda govinda which starts with a scene in swargalok or indralok or whatever it is and ends up showing the idol of balaji
i just want to know the idea that made u to make a movie like govinda govinda
Thank You Rathnakar bhai.
I posted whatever I wanted to post….
Now it is the turn of my dear friend fake Jaani to post his comments/thoughts…he already posted one comment stating that “one’s madness is others happiness”
I need to eat now and see you friends later when my friend brings back his computer to me..
@Ramu bhai…..
Thank You for the post….I feel like listening to “Binaca Geeth Maala” now…
I forgot to mention that “Binaca Geeth Maala” later became “Cibaca Geeth Maala” when Binaaca toothpase company was acquired by CIBA-GEIGY industries limited.
Thefore Binaca toothpaste became CIBAca toothpaste
bye for now
Ramu,
I couldn’t agree more with you. I think voice-overs can create a profound impact on the mindset of the viewer. A voice over can make the viewer concentrate on the movie. It is very essential foe a “drama” genre movie to have a voice over if the director wishes the movie to create an impact on the audience.
According to me, some of the best voice-overs are:
1. Aditya Srivastava for “Satya”
I was always a great fan of him. He has a gifted voice. That is also one of the reasons why he could complete countless episodes of CID. The scene where he narrates about Mumbai in the opening of the film is mind-blowing.
2. Amitabh bachchan for “Lagaan”.
3. Tom Hanks for “Forrest Gump”.
I don’t know if it can be called a voice-over, because he narrates the story to a person sitting beside him but I think without the voice over, Forrest Gump would not have been what it is.
4. Morgan Freemam for “Shawshank redemption”.
The best voice-over ever.
Raktha charithra………..story input
Paritala ravi might have done some good deeds to please his followers (for security) thats purely becoz he was in power (Ruling party) that doesn’t mean he was any different from other factionists.
Infact he was the one who tried to spread the factionism to hyd city by land mafia.I hope you make a note of it if u already don’t know…
i was always puzzled to know as to how could u secure a seat in engineering given the limited number of engineering colleges those days
was it that u r father had payed hefty donations to make u study engineering or were u a bright student in intermediate??
did u write the qualification exam for engineering(eamcet) those days??did it exist those days??if yes, what was u r rank in eamcet??
There is a scene in “Satya” where Satya and Bhiku talk near the sea about killing Guru Narayan.
How did you conceive that scene? Was it inspired from anywhere? Was it a conscious decision not to show their faces or take suggestion shots but to shoot the scene from the backside.
The continuous three scenes of Bhiku going to Bhau’s house, Satya and Bhiku talking on beach deciding to kill Guru Narayan, and the killing of Guru Narayan followed by the argument between Bhiku and Mule, are the most brilliant scenes in “Satya”. Brillinatly shot, awesome continuity, mindblowing performances by Manoj Bajpai, Govind Namdev, and the best background score ever.
With the kind of philosophical knowledge and thinking you have…..you should make a movie in lines of Shawshank redemption, Bucket list etc…mainly with 3 or 4 charactars.
is it true that u asked j.d.chakri many questions related to physics when he approached u seeking a chance to act in shiva
i would really love to see u writing a piece on the caste wars that have occurred in vijayawada in general and in your college in particular when u were doing engineering
@autojani,
jaani bhai, ur narration is good.
But dont you think with given voice over, the scene goes over done.
wht abt showing only the effects with out showing the people. .. empty houses, anantpur railway staion board with just land scape no people .. a village after attacked/looted .. here also we r not showing people .. some thing like this ..
dont you think this builds up the scene & triggers the imagination in the viewer …
emantaaav bhai ….
was the movie gaayam made based on the life history of vangaveeti mohan ranga
did the comments of tammareddy bhjaradwaj that
“the heroes in telugu film industry are not real heroes.they don’t have any guts(dammunna maggallu leru)”reach u.
i would like to know u r reaction to these comments
you just ruined my ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITCTURE exam RAMU……….
“ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
waaaahhhh…………maaakki chooooo*h ……..
im ready to credit my 5×100 rs of ticket money for RC right now into your account……..
@bhanu teja
JD chakravarthy, physics qs evvad cheppindra neeku???
i cant say about the hindi version’s voiceover but in telugu version i think the voiceover should be done by Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry(and may be the lines also be written by him)
@auto jaani…..
i tried to resist myself from saying this……..but………. it was really a good narration [screen play] jaani…..good job !!!!!!!!
@evryone(including those barking dogs)
i am no more interested in even looking at the comments made by other people using my name as their display name…i dont care those barking dogs which do not have the ability to bite
I expect the eagle’s hovering shot of Mackenna’s Gold….your homage shot in RC as well
@auto jaaani
i think it is really lacking pace when you say
“ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA………… AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI………….. RAKTACHARITRA!”
so, i think its actually awesome the way it is
“ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI……….. RAKTACHARITRA!”
aaaaatttt maaaaaakkkiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luvv u RGV,myself !!!!
cheers !!!!
How come there is never a voice over by a woman?
RGV
U CANT MAKE A FILM LIKE RC WITHOUT MAHABHARAT INSTINCT
sarkar
kahan sogaya re bhai kaali lungi pehenke
@jagadeep chowdary
jd chakri oka interview la cheppinattu gurtunnadi………..correcta kada confirm chesukoniki boss(rgv) ni adigina……..
RGV
RC is nothing but
give up a member to save the family , a family to save the village , a village to save the nation , and a nation to save urself———————————–CHANAKYA
what do you think about the vo in shashank redemption?
RGV
can a voiceover run the movie and make money for u
sarkar
agar if u mess with me i wud pull ur fukin black lungi
RGV
i’m 35 years old and akashvani reminds me
SAMPATI VAARTA HA SUVANTAM
PRAVACHAKAH BALADEVANADA SAGARAHA
i dont know where this baladevananda sagar is now
hope he might join this blog
@sheshu
I agree with you…..In telugu I think Seetharama Sastry’s voice will suit.
It was his voice which was used in telugu version of SATYA.
Ramu
Boring post ! :(
“A killer Idea”"A fighter’s mind” “Program puckups’ are the best out of all your Posts so
far.
in your language, if you want me to say ‘ your Shiva(b’coz of the fact that it totally
changed the way of looking at the cinema of the telugu Viewer), Satya(i am not including
‘Company’ here
only b’coz i found it more like a documentary film than a feature film) and Sarkar raj
(again ‘Sarkar’ is not there here b’coz even though from the very first frame of the film
you have ‘ripped off’ from ‘The godfather’ the rest of the movie was simply a dumb imitation
of the
original movie. In the remake(of your very own film) ‘Shiva 2006′ was not at all close to
the
original movie Shiva. May be you were not very clear as why and how the first one was a
massive hit !
The rest of the posts are more or less like your rest of your films. Sarkar raj was the most
intelligent film i have ever seen from your direction. Whenever i think of you, you remind
of what Osho said about P.D. Ouspensky. I would have felt happy if it was otherway around
Osho in one of his talks on P.D.ouspensky, he says that ” P.D. Ouspensky’s Tertium Organum
is a miracle that he wrote it before he had even heard of Gurdjieff. He wrote it before he
knew what he was writing. He understood it himself only afterwards, on meeting Gurdjieff.
His first words to George Gurdjieff were: “Looking into your eyes I have understood Tertium
Organum. Although I have written it, now I can say that it has been written through me by
some unknown agency I was not aware of.”
Perhaps it was that rascal Gurdjieff who wrote it through him, or maybe somebody else whom
the Sufis call the Ultimate Rascal, who has been doing miracles – miracles like Tertium
Organum.
And about about Pre-RGV and Post_RGV concept that’s going on on your blog:
You and Mani ratnam did a great job in bringing new waves in the film industry. In no time
that even reached to Hindi cinema as well. Look at their films before you guys! glossy… Dil
Diwana, Pagal and Mohabhat…nothing else !! Even their cinematography didn’t have a sense of
Lighting. Even though all the credit goes to Rembrandt…but still there is so much happened
after you people entered the industry as a whole.
Coming to Telugu scenario… Before you, we had Vamsy,Balumahendra, Bhrathee raja, Balachander, Vishwanath etc who were having their own language. Such strong concepts for the time they lived !
Now, i mean Post-RGV we have all the stinking crap who don’t have any conceptual depths they except making same old DOSAs with a little changes(Masala) here and there.
what a pathetic state we are in !
Autojaani, your first half of the screenplay for the narration is truly fantastic.. i mean i actually imagined and could completely connect with every scene you described so well… try if you can to re do the second half of the screenplay once that person is hacked…. make it similar to the first half in terms of pace, style etc… but great work man, i would not have thought about such a screenplay in my lifetime… but now that you gave me some thought let me do some thinking and see if i can come anywhere close..
the reason behind the complete decline of quality in telugu movies is because of the letter ‘K’.
@ Jagadeep Chowdhury
” ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI”…….pause in voice…… RAKTACHARITRA!”
The reason I used a small pause for beween “hai” and “raktha charithra” is to have an impact.
This is kind of “pause” RGV used in opening voiceover on SATYA when Khandilkar’s voice pauses several times….example: opening sentence “Mumbai……(small pause) ek aisa shahar…”
just before saying “underworld”. the sentence was “……issi farak ne ek alag duniya banaayi……..(small pause)…mumbai underworld”
and in the last sentence “….issi maahol mei kahi ek aadmi aaya…..yeh usski kahaani hai….(small pause) Satya:…
@ Niv
Thank You for the comments. I agree with you, even without showing any people, it will create an impact….
but in this case, I based my imagination using SATYA’s opening scenes in which RGV used some random shots of Mumbai and some shootouts/gunshots etc but in between he placed some specific scenes showing Kallu mama, etc.
@Niva and @Jagadeep Chowdhury
Thank You for your comments…..but I by this time RGV might have already shot this opening scene of RC….this is just an autodriver’s imagination
autojaani says:
November 26th, 2009 at 9:46 PM
hello guyz this is fake autojaani 4 joining the league
autojaani says:
November 26th, 2009 at 9:46 PM
wtf rgv,I love you
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@fake Jaani bhai,
welcome….how are you bhai…..
100
@autojaani(real not fake)
bhai namaste…oh satya in telugu had the voiceover of sastry…great …will definitely watch it in telugu some time….i am a great follower of sastry’s songs(though i dont undertand them fully) especiaally his intense ones like niggadeesi adugu….and he was apt choice to act for that song in gaayam
RGV
do u fake this ids or some of ur assistants
great
anyway ur akashvaani
is a real joy for me i just remembered HAWA MAHAL , VIVIDH BHARTI AND ALL THAT STUFF
i used to listen to this sanskrit news when i was in school
thanx for riding us back to school
madeinandhra….i am done with you
ithihass ke ek paane ko pakd kar latkne wale…i am in here without this ID as well
I wanted to test your attitude in here..like i do with whoever i get interested in.. and i did that…
aur finally…sarkar gaali deta nahi leta nahi..
when the raya kings of vijayanagar gave jagirs to the chieftains of south andhra region at that time, little did they knew that it would continue to hav an impact on the history of the place even in the 21st century… from what i heard factionalism is a byproduct of jagirdari system by which the Raya kings gave armies to their chieftains to maintain discipline at the borders….. and the enmity among the rival chieftains continue to this day along generations.. but i may have heard wrong
Wd you allow me to work with you?
In film, the film-maker places the sound of a human voice (or voices) over images shown on the screen that may or may not be related to the images being shown. Consequently, voice-overs are sometimes used to create ironic counterpoint. Also, sometimes they can be random voices not directly connected to the people seen on the screen. In works of fiction, the voice-over is often by a character reflecting back on his or her past, or by a person external to the story who usually has a more complete knowledge of the events in the film than the other characters.
Voice-overs are often used to create the effect of storytelling by a character/omniscient narrator. For example, in The Usual Suspects, the character of Roger “Verbal” Kint has voice-over segments as he is recounting details of a crime. Other examples of storytelling voice-overs can be heard in Gattaca, Blade Runner, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, Moulin Rouge!, and Goodfellas.
Sometimes, voice-over can be used to aid continuity in edited versions of films, in order for the audience to gain a better understanding of what has gone on between scenes. This was done when the 1948 Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman, turned out to be far from the box-office and critical hit that was expected, and was edited down from 145 minutes to 100 minutes for its second run in theatres. The edited version, which circulated for years, used narration to conceal the fact that large chunks of the film had been cut. In the full-length version, restored in 1998 and released on DVD in 2004, the voice-over narration is heard only at the beginning of the film.
The genre of film noir is especially associated with the voice-over technique.
In radio, voice-overs are an integral part of the success of the radio programme. Although the announcer holds the prestige and claims all the glory, it is the voice-over artist that is the real drive behind the show.
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What abt Lagaan Voice over?Did you like dat?
……… i think Amitabhje’s work was superb.
SARKAR
theek hai
tum gaali leta nahin aur deta nahin
to tum leta kya hain aur deta kya hai
sarkaaaaaaar
ek panna hi itihaas banjaata hain
ithihas ke liye koi kitaab ki zarurat nahin
tum lungi sambhallo
aur do panne padlo
ek nathuram godse
doosra chanakya
HI RAMU
MY FASCINATION FOR VOICEOVERS STARTED WEN I TRAVELLED BY TRAIN TO COLLEGE FROM ANDHERI TO CHURCHGATE………..AND IT WENT……..PLATFORM NO EK PAR AANEWALI YEH LOCAL 7.40 KI CHURCHGATE JAANEWALI DHEEMI LOCAL HAI AUR YEH SABHI STHAANO PAR ROOKEGI………AND IN A COUPLE OF DAYS I WOULD BE SAYING IT ALOUD EVERY MORNING…….SUCH WAS THE IMPACT………OF SUCH A BASIC ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT RAILWAY STATIONS………THE VOICE OVERS U MENTIONED DEF HAS MUCH GREATER IMPACT ON MOVIEGOERS………MY FAV AMONGST ALL IS FROM COMPANY……ABOUT THE EAGLE………………THOUGH IT IS A HALF TRUTH WHICH I DIDNT KNOW…….SO M ALSO AMONG THE FEW WHO DID NOT KNOW……….AMAZING HALF TRUTHS ALSO VE SUCH GREAT IMPACT ON THE AUDIENCE…….SO RAMU THE IMPACT OF THE VOICE OVER OF RAKHTA CHARITRA WHICH IS A REALITY OF ANANTAPUR IS GONNA GIVE GOOSE BUMS……..TO AAJ KA BHARAT…………CHEERS.
@neosapien
ur right
its polegars
@A
can u please give the marathi voiceover of that local train
sarkaaar
tum chutiy———————–e log ek ayn rand aur ek eeda neitzsche ko pakadke latakne wale bad—e log
tum sab paagal hojayenge neitzsche jaise
Nice.
The gandhij’s example is out of context (considering there were mostly villages back then and Gandhi himself saw one of the worst communal violence episodes in Indian history for power) but the effect is right.
You choose good opening statements (the bioscope opening in rangeela is one of my favs).
I would however have explored the theme of Mahabharat more. The idea is that Mahabharat is actually a fight between two families that ended only because one side got wiped out. Raktha charitra is what happens when the legacy continues. Let me see if I can expand on this and come with an alternate opening for the joy of it.
@A
ur voice over of andheri dheemi local was awesome
can u please give me the marathi voice over of that dheemi local
bhau malaa voiceover paije marathi la
madeinandhra…..tum abhi bi woh panne ko pakd kar latak rehe ho..aage bado.. apna awaz sunao
i asked you how would you fuel your mind and create an EFFECT of your own with so called influences of yours and you are repeatedly chanting chanakya..chanakya….kushi se latak te raho…no problem no regrets
sarkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
mere ithihaas ke panne mein sirf theen panne hain
1. chanakya
2. vir savarkar
3. nathuram godse
mein hamesha khushi me hi latakte rehta hun aur neitzshe aur aynrand jaise yedon ka kitab aur quotes nahi padta hu
enjoy
My take:
Itihaas batati hai ki Mahabharat dharm aur adharm ki ladayi hai. Par shaayad wo do vargo (families) ke ahamkaar aur adhikaar ki ladayi thi. Kyonki, dekha jaye tho dharm bas nazariya hai.
Aur aadmi is nazariya ke aadh me sab kuch daav pe laga sakta hai. Iss daav me laalach khoon pe bahut bhaari padta hai, kyonki ye bas “adharm” aur “adharm” ki ladayi hai aur isme koi bhagwaan dhakal nahi deta.
Mahabharat ka anth ek varg ke anth se hua tha. Par vaasna, adhikaar aur aham ki ladayi aaj bhi jaari hai.
Ek aisi hi charitr Anantapur ke khoon se rachi hai, Raktacharitra.
madeinandhra…..cool buddy okey what you learnt understood and digested express them in your words & make your path..then you will attain what people will call his-story when you are alive and later history..that is what i wanted to say
there is no one who knows everything
there is no one who knows nothing
everyone knows something or the other…good or bad grasp it and use it for your benefit….why fill yourself with hatred towards someone just because they were not of our origin..nietzsche ..rand or anyone…
@A
AWESOME MAN
I FEEL LIKE TRAVELLING ON THAT TRAIN AFTER A LONG TIME CHEERS
sarkar
sojao yaar
bahut hogaya
enjoy and good night
haah hah ha ….madeinandhra…..neend tumhe aa rahi hai sulana mujhe chahte ho
madeinandhra………
sarkar soch hai
jagata hai …par kabhi sotha nahi
tumne mujhe pukara aur mein tumhare liye aagaya
madeinandhra………lagta hai ki tum so gaye….agar soch se choch ladana hai to yaad karna sarkar ko…
theek hai sarkar ab to so jao hume dar lagraha hain tumhari soch dekh ke
madeinandhra…..you sleep buddy do not worry about me
Slight modification:
My take:
Itihaas batati hai ki Mahabharat dharm aur adharm ki ladayi hai. Par shaayad wo do vargo (families) ke ahamkaar aur adhikaar ki ladayi thi. Kyonki, dekha jaye tho dharm bas nazariya hai.
Aur aadmi is nazariya ke aadh me sab kuch daav pe laga sakta hai. Iss daav me “Talwaar” “khoon” pe bahut bhaari padta hai, kyonki ye bas “adharm” aur “adharm” ki ladayi hai aur isme koi bhagwaan dhakal nahi deta.
Mahabharat ka anth ek varg ke anth se hua tha. Par vaasna, adhikaar aur aham ki ladayi aaj bhi jaari hai.
Ek aisi hi charitr Anantapur ke khoon se rachi hai, Raktacharitra.
So who is doing the voiceover for RC? Can this be a woman…an old mother who lost her son in the battle…and telling the story??
Not a suggestion…just an idea. TC
if u can convince paritala’s wife to do the voiceover it would also be good apart from sitarama sastry i guess
Ramu
RC ke naam pe documentry tho nahi bana rahe ho naa…idhar aatey huve suggestions dekh ke aisa lagta hai
ok sir, yes sir, all right sir, any thig else sir?
Akira………coppola…….spilberg………..torantino……………RGV……………….????????
whoz the next acc to you
RGV – You are a perfect conman!
With all due respects , I am laughing out LOUD after reading Chillon mei…episode…
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I think Makrand Deshpandey will be good for voice over
Hi to all the attention seeking morons
In Telugu actor Surya voice over may be good its kind of raw…earthly yet troubled…
Hey RGV….is there a possibility that in the end the voice over person is shown telling this tale….?
have u seen “kanchivaram” ?
To Duplicate or Fake autojaanis….no offence meant….just for fun…apologies if last time first draft is offensive…take light
Inspiration from different era’s
The common thing between MacKenna’s Gold and Guns of Navarone, that were released in 1960s, is that both were directed by J. LEE THOMPSON. Therefore is the director’s vision who visualised and imagined the impact of “voiceover” that could seen on audience.
“Obviously” the common thing between Satya and Company (1998 and 2002, respectively) is that both are from RGV.
Now, down the lane in time period, after 10 yrs, when someone becomes a director from this group/blog etc I am sure he will mention about voiceovers in SATYA and COMPANY ….and how those voiceovers inspired him new director to make two movies with the similar voiceover. (the titles of those new bollywood movies to be released in early 2020s would be SHANKAR and MAFIA)
@ static_atmospheric_energy
I dont mind bhai……there should be some sportive spirit to discuss here but the fake guys (fake Jaani and fake Sheshu) are spoiling the spirit and it is highly irritating, I hope they stop it.
Akashavani…Pranthiya varthalu, Chaduvutunnadi..Tiraga Usha Ramani
You made me remember my childhood days when I used to have chai and listen to the news along with my grand father.
Akashavani…Jathiya varthalu, Chaduvutunnadi..Koppula Subba Rao
I used to wait till the end of the news bcoz, they will tell the cricket match result only then :)
Hello Sir
I love to see a huge action movie in your style…..Produce it is it possible in future ??/
I divided the scenes/parts length real small ~15 lines. Still says “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” I remember from older posts — the comment status never changes. So inconvenient.
(satyaneal@yahoo.com)
>>>After this voiceover the film starts with a super “The first day 06.00am”.
Ramu bhai,
It is not 6.00AM…… it says 2.00 AM
Just a small correction, please dont mind.
@neosapien
thank you bhai for your comment.
you said the reason for decline in quality of telugu films is because of “K”…whst does this mean?
in CONAN THE BARBARIAN the frendship theme music composed for subotoi and conan is so nice ..its fresh even for today in my ears… hats off to Basil Poledouris….long back I used to close my eyes and listen many times to the background music where conan will be practicisng sword…my brothers used to see me like some mad guy…it is this movie in my life which taught me for the first time and forcibly made me visualize that composer will actually sit in front of the screen and start composing super lengthy classical orchestral scores by looking at the scenes and changing the notes to match and travel with the changes in scene and still be melodious…..like background music is narration of story through music…
and can u beleive ? the producer actually wanted POP music to be the soundtrack of conan HA HAHAAA…but latter changed to classical orchestra….
I guess CONAN THE BARBARIAN inspired ARUNDHATHI titles where sword making is shown in similar way …and also to kamal hassan to make MARUGADA NAYAKAN ….maybe music wud have been met the standards since he has illayairaja who can compose huge western classical orchestral scores ..but the movie cud never be like conan…HA HAA
Ramu ,
in india only u implemented voiceovers effectively..some directors tried to implement them but it turned out to be a joke and stereotype…espcially voiceover for serious movie…but ur voiceovers hit the nail right on the forehead…direction is story telling and voiceover is actually telling story ..whatelse cud be the effect..??? …ooooooooo
voiceovers implemented for comedy movies was very successfully …like nuvvu naaku nachaav , chintakayala ravi etc… :)
i find voiceovers for ANIMAL PLANET, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC highly effective !!!
RE: and I gave my assistant this logic that every guy in the theatre will think that may be he is among the few who does not know
HA HAAA…ramu, u r a perfect blend of fox and a monkey who makes movies on tigers
voiceovers of ANIMAL PLANET , NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC are so effective..i think we can take ideas from there ;)
@satyaneal
even i faced the same problem
a few days back i have posted nearly six comments of which four comments have vanished,i don’t know where they have gone, and the remaining two comments remained like that forever saying “your comment is awaiting moderation”
i was highly irritated
@Ramu…
After reading this on VO.. i got remember VO of Mr Amitabh Bachchan..in “LAGAAN”…
its amazing ..with first few minutes he takes us to different mood…ie in 1893..
it goes like this
“San 1893….(He pauses as u said.. that a pause as if trying to recall the exact date) Chamapaner ..Desh ke beecho beech mein basa ek chota sa gaon..(He pauses and camera shows the small village)
Champaner ke log desh ki hazaaron gaon ke tara apna gujar bajar kethi badi se karte te.
Gaon se seema se lag kar..Angrej hukumat ke chaavne nithi..(pauses) aur chavani se do
kos door dakshin ke aur..is pranth ke raaja ka kila tha.
Angrej raaja ki padosi raaja ki pranth ki aakraman se hifazat karate te..aur un rajaon ko bhi in rajaon se aakraman se bachane ka vaada karte hain..is dogle khel ki badolat angrej un raajaon ke saath saath chamapaner raaja se bhi Laagan vassol karte the..(Pauses)
Lagaan…
What a true manly voice ..amazing..
If dont mind ..i know u wont take suggestions…..pls use Mr Amitabh’s voice in Rakata Charithra…
“Mahatma Gandhi ne kaha tha ki bharat ki aatma gaavo me basti hai…iss mamle me ya to Gandhiji anjaan the ya phir masoom kyu ki aaj bhi iss desh ke kayi ilaake ek vibhats khooni sangarsh me uljhe hue hai…unme se ek jagah hai… Anantpur…jaha aham, aurat aur addhikar ki ladaayi me log jameen jaaydaad parivar aur apni jaan tak daanv pe laga dete hai…aur hinsa ka ye Rakt Chakra pusht dar pusht bina ruke chalta hee rehta hai Anantpur ke iss Raktranjit sangarsh me itne log mare hai ki Gandhiji ki bharat ki aatma… Ab yaha bas nahi…bhatak rahi hai… ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
I think it will be amazing…I’m getting excited after imagining Amitabh’s voice saying the above phrases…
No other person in the world knows the point at which you are touching your own life…hence no one’s knowledge will help you to solve your problems, except your’s.
— U.G. Krishnamurthi
Re : Cheelo “ke baare mein yeh baat bahot kum log jaante hai ki”……..
Ramu,
u dont need to think so deep dude ..what do u think ? indian audience are so knowledgeable regarding nature ? ..huhhh !!! They are mostly dumb sheeps of the heard…”THINNAAMA, PADUKUNNAAMA , THELLAARINDHA ” sort.U neednt be so perfectionist , u can blindly bullshit …….and u r good at that also ;P
RGV
my fascination towards voicerovers started like this
when i saw a film in radha theater vijaywada when i was 12years old
they started playing the newsreel it goes like this
“adi pantommidivandla debbai rendu
aayna andhra viswavidyalayam nunchi pattabhadrulu ayyaru
kamala oka kuttu mishan to thana jeevitaanni konasaagistondi and so on
I think the “voiceover” in RC would be by someone who is a part of the movie as one of the prominent characters…may a commisioner or SP or even Suri who narrates it….just a guess…
I also feel that this “voiceover” will be narrating the some parts even in-between the movie just like in Satya
@crazy_kiran
Thats a good comparison between the opening scenes of Arundhathi and Conan, the Barbarian.
after reading this article and seeing the word “Cheel” or “Cheelon”, I remember a joke that our friends used to share in our galli during our childhood. This is aboiut “Where Eagles Dare” movie.
If “Where Eagles Dare” movie is dubbed in hindi, what would be its title?
Ans:: “Jahan Cheelon ke Ga**nd mei Dhum”
Just for fun guys, thought of sharing this with you…..it might be a bad joke too….sorry.
@RGV
Thanks RGV for removing fake fukcers…..
when you says about Voice overs, Voice Over or Narration of Morgan freeman in Shashwank redemption was damn good….. Morgan freeman is very fame about his unique modulation …
Thanks moderator saab
in my view when it comes to voiceovers robin williams is the best in hollywood…especially for the movies “Happy Feet” and “Everyone’s Hero”
Glad that our Anantapur is going to be well known with this movie
Sad that the impression its going to get isn’t so healthy !
do u read this blog bigb.bigadda.com?
Ramu,
One of the main reasons I admire your creative talent is because of your ingenious adaptation of western art into our native Indianized fashion.
Anyone (at least me) who watches your films cannot say that it’s roots are (or inspired) from some Western classics or literature or art. Every aspect of your films have soo much nativity and captivates the essence of the local traditions & culture. It’s hard for to believe that you are so heavily influenced by Western art and still make films in a local flavour.
Even the characters in your films are filled with nativity in them. Let me give some examples from top of my mind:
Rangeela – The relationship between Urmila’s and her younger brother and her brother reading comics by inserting it in school books.
Sarkar – Subhas Nagre’s wife serving tea & snacks to the guests and answering husbands phone calls while he is in a pooja.
Shiva – Shiva’s brother’s wife (Vadhina) hating him for staying in their house for free and feeling him as a burden .. while Shiva being a self-esteemed guy who is aware of that, but still tolerates her because of his relationship with his brother and the family.
I personally feel, it’s bit hard NOT to get carried away when we are trying to reproduce something we admire. From what I noticed from your films, you seldom get carried away.
The Satya voiceover helped in determining the environment that police have backed off after their initial outburst, and also to direct the audience attention to satya and vidya’s film outing.
You dont believe in “Dont tell, just show”?
A huge megalomaniacal voiceover came from Jack Nicholson in The Departed “I want the environment to be a product of me”. Jesus!
Even while we are reading a novel, apart from the conversations, everything else is a voiceover.
My favorite voice overs among all the films I’ve watched so fare will be Scorsese’s CASINO and GOODFELLAS… among these two I like CASINO much better
Joe Pesci & De Niro are terrific in narrating the story ..
I guess most of the credit goes to Scorsese .. Joe Pesci or De Niro just enhanced Scorsese’s vision..
iti vaarthaaha
Would you mind posting the screenplays of your earlier hits like Satya. Company, Rangeela.
When the trailer is going to be out? Tentative release date?
JAANI
Your screenplay of the opening shots is very apt. It seems that either the whole or part of it would be definitely displayed. Well done.
He he he, someone suggested Mohanlal for the voice over of Rakta Charitra. If he uses the same accent as in Company, this would be er.. like this:
Mehaatma Gandi ne keha tha khe baarat khe aadma gaavo me basdi hei…izz mamle me ya do Gandiji enjaan de ya fir mazoom. kyoki aaj bhi izz desh khe kahi ilaake ek wtf wtf wtf me ulje hue hei…unme se ek jegah hei… Anandpur…jeha a-ham, aurad aur eddhikar ki ladhaayee me log zemeen jaaydaad periwar or abni jaan thek daav pe lega dete hei…aur hinsa kha ye Rakd Chekra wft dar wft bina rukhe chalda hee rehta hei. Anantpur ke iss wtf wtf me idne log mareh hei khi Gandi jhi khi barat ki aadma… Eb yahaa buzz nahee rahee…batak rahee hei… ANANDPUR KHI YE WTF, AAJ KI MAHABAARAT HEI… WTF
voice over not only sets the mood, but saves lot of screen time
ramu why is half fried understanding of anything is dangerous?
RAMU SIR,
es article ko post karne k liye main aapka shukrguzaar hu..mujhe bhi voice overs bahut pasand hai aur main enka deewana hu..maine apni horror suspense script bhi voice over se hi shuru ki hai..
JAISE jaise dharti par buraiya badti ja rahi thi waise waise shaitani taakte aur jyada taaktwar hoti ja rahi thi…shaitaan inssano par havi hone lag gye the..aur raat me gumne wale nischachar ab din me bhi buraiya failane lage hai…shayad dharti par kalyug ne apna asar dikana shuru kar diya hai..kaun jane eska kaha ant hoga par ek cheez saaf hai ki es khauf ki shuruaat ho chuki hai..
aise hi ek din…
DAY 12..THE STORY CONTINUES…
JAISE jaise dharti par buraiya badti ja rahi thi waise waise shaitani taakte aur jyada taaktwar hoti ja rahi thi…shaitaan inssano par havi hone lag gye the..aur raat me gumne wale nischachar ab din me bhi buraiya failane lage hai…shayad dharti par kalyug ne apna asar dikana shuru kar diya hai..kaun jane eska kaha ant hoga par ek cheez saaf hai ki es khauf ki shuruaat ho chuki hai..
aise hi ek din…
DAY 12..THE STORY CONTINUES…
Dear ramu,
was watching TIMES NOW debate on tv..and in their HEAVY discussions they did not even spared U ramu..they again digged the matter when u were seen on spot..and asked u openly on air..Mr. RAM GOPAL VARMA IF YOU ARE WATCHING THE SHOW PLS EXPLAIN,,WHAT WERE YOU DOING THERE??..even anupam kher was present on show and he told when asked..i dont know i have not spoken with him yet..but certainly i would not do that..
WELL I HAD seen ur interview on NDTV and also u wrote on blog so it was not an issue for me..
I wrote on TIMES NOW website to arnab as bel;ow..
even when ram gopal varma was seen on the spot..i think TIMES NOW.. also followed other so called channels logic and without any logic started blaming the director also..this is not the waY TIMES NOW normally operates..and also when arnab uses his popularity to get his consensus on this issue..i felt very bad,,i agreed with RGV who once told media is exposing everybody,someone should expose media as well..and he is doing it in his next movie RANN..arnab,hope u understand!!.lv
I know i am not ur lawyer and i dont need explain on ur behalf but i wrote it anyways….surprisingly the views of shobha de and anupam kher were so childish and unmatured that if u would have seen that..u could have got some FUNNY CELEBRITY CHARACTERS for RANN..
LOVE YOU,RAMU
Ramu sir…did you like my voice over article…
Thanks auto jaani
i am big fan of conan…and arnold…i saw that movie many times..so every time i read the quote also naturally… “That which does not kill us makes us stronger ” ..though i really dint understand it completely…alway wondered there are many things that dont kill us but dont make us stronger either…ofcourse that which kills us makes weak is obvious anyway..and then never worried abt quote who said it…today only realized after rgv wrote that it is by “Friedrich Nietzsche”.
Pleasant surprise !!!!
WHAT IS COMMON BETWEEN..madhur bhandarkar,vishal bhardwaj,saurabh shukla,shimit amin and anurag kashyap??
JAISE jaise dharti par buraiya badti ja rahi thi waise waise shaitani taakte aur jyada taaktwar hoti ja rahi thi…shaitaan inssano par havi hone lag gye the..aur raat me gumne wale nischachar ab din me bhi buraiya failane lage hai…shayad dharti par kalyug ne apna asar dikana shuru kar diya hai..kaun jane eska kaha ant hoga par ek cheez saaf hai ki es khauf ki shuruaat ho chuki hai..
aise hi ek din…
DAY 12..THE STORY CONTINUES…
if anybody wants to express his/her comments on it..most welcome..
RAMU SIR YOU ARE MOST WELCOME..
Ramu,
How abt picturizing RC voice over in following way ??
Brahmanandam in telugu and johnny lever in hindi looking at somewhere other than camera and narrating …
Then after narration is done with a sudden movement he looks at camera and says
“ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI…
RAKTACHARITRA ,RAKTACHARITRA,RAKTACHARITRA,RAKTACHARITRA!”
Then immdelty the LUNGI angle takes over where camera shows us between two legs …somebody will be tied to the pole and some vegetable vendors will be leaning on walls with AK 47s…then the two legs start walking to the tied man…will untie him …the two legs guy is none other than brahmanandam…and together with that person whose hands he untied they will look at the camera and say RAKTACHARITRA ,RAKTACHARITRA,RAKTACHARITRA!”
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Ram gopal varma
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Re : Cheelo “ke baare mein yeh baat bahot kum log jaante hai ki”……..
Ramu,
Rajnikanth’s super hit dialogue which makes front bencher go mad with lot of whistles is
“simham eppudu single gaane vasthundhi”…..which is big blunder in nature books…
tigers attacks alone…but lions never attacks alone and ONLY IN GROUP…thanks to animal planet knowledge .
Though its pure blunder its bit hit and credible, since our indian audience , doesnt care as long as they like it….They accepted LION mistake , then think about EAGLE Mistake…
SHARMAAJI
aapka ye shaitaani voiceover ek dum khaufnaak hain shayad RGV ko achha lagega
aur kuch hain to sunaiye
Jaani, tere auto ke peeche kya likha hai re! BTW Shalini is back. Now you will face an attention lag from RGV
Dude, Voiceover is too heavy…. Reference of Mahatma Gandhiji and Aatma is comic… If I have to go by this voice over, Film is flop. There wont be RGV in films after Raktha Charitra. Only before Raktha Charitra.
Yaar Ramu, anything happening on “Lets kill Veerappan”? I know Shimit is busy with films in another camp. But still another of your protege making it?
Why r ur films are filled with too many complex dialogues, too many dramatic scenes and too many closeup shots. We don’t enjoy this kinda films any more.
Ramu bhai,
Is it possible to make a movie on CHUNDUR episode .. on the lines of MISSISIPI BURNING movie?
I watched RGV ki Aag again yesterday and I never felt that its not really that bad, to receive brick bats and criticism from public.
I watched it for the second time ( the first and last time being on August 31, 2007, 10pm show at Prasads) I don’t understand why sometimes ( In fact most of the times, the second viewing gives a different experience- it can either be good or bad. There are chances that you’d love the movie for the first time and hate the very next and vice versa) I am guessing you have a theory or an explanation behind this one.
I feel, movie reviews, are very similar to an arrange marriage system. The bride and groom side guys will inquire about the job, salary, lifestyle, appearance and habits etc and that talk will last till the guy ties the nuptial knot. The whispers and murmurs and bitching would stop the very next moment after the marriage is over. So, even if there is a huge dip in his monthly salary, change in lifestyle or appearance, who cares!!!
Watching AAG for the second time, I felt its as normal as any other movie. I think most of us in life only “believe in that moment” rather than “living that moment”.
Cheers
Abhishek Naini
I watched RGV ki Aag for second time yesterday ( first and last time was on 31 August 07 at Prasads) and I never felt its not really that bad to receive brickbats and criticism from public. I feel, On most of the occasions, the second viewing experience is different. it can either be good or bad. there are chances that you’d love the movie for the first time
I feel movie reviews are similar to an arranged marriage system. the bride and groom side
will inquire about each others family status, wealth, job profile appearance, lifestyle etc
and all this whispers and murmurs ( Read: bitching) would last till the groom ties the
nuptial knot. The moment marriage is over, nobody cares, So even if there is a huge dip is
Salary change in lifestyle or appearance, who cares!
@ Abhishek Naini
Bhai Its really too much… can you tell which part or which scene of the movie you felt really very good , at-least good..
Watching AAG for second time , I felt it as normal as any other movie. I think most of us in life only “believe in that moment” rather than “living the moment”.
Cheers
Abhishek
i dont aag think is the worst film….in my view the worst among the films which i saw till now is “JOHNNY”
Hello Varma garu,
Do you think you are taking movie-making far too seriously light?
@auto jaani
intresting work!!!!!!!
@rgv
good one!!!!!!
Voice over in satya before the start of the film revealed the whole plot saying its the journey of man who wants to make a living coming from no where in a city that’s contrasting and fascinating.Not only can Voice over can set the tone for the film ,indeed it can reveal the whole plot,ah?
U Started the film satya (with the the gang member shooting at the news paper not able to digest the death of satya),incidentally it ended with the same shot.The underlying point is people of those kind become the victim of the very situations that they were made to part of out of their choice.
Some times u give me a feeling that u regret being part of the desi industry where the audiences are not yet prepared to accept intellectual stuff from film makers like you?Have you ever entertained the thoughts of being in Hollywood?
Using voice overs in the middle of the story helps the film maker to skip the narration to some extent.It helps you show a transformation OR an aftermath with mere words,ah?
RGV deleted my comments in earlier post..
“Mahatma Gandhi ne kaha tha ki bharat ki aatma gaavo me basti hai…iss mamle me ya to Gandhiji anjaan the ya phir masoom kyu ki aaj bhi iss desh ke kayi ilaake ek vibhats khooni sangarsh me uljhe hue hai…unme se ek jagah hai… Anantpur…jaha aham, aurat aur addhikar ki ladaayi me log jameen jaaydaad parivar aur apni jaan tak daanv pe laga dete hai…aur hinsa ka ye Rakt Chakra pusht dar pusht bina ruke chalta hee rehta hai Anantpur ke iss Raktranjit sangarsh me itne log mare hai ki Gandhiji ki bharat ki aatma… Ab yaha bas nahi…bhatak rahi hai… ANANTPUR KI YE CHARITRA, AAJ KI MAHABHARAT HAI… RAKTACHARITRA!”
3rd class !!! These events occured well past independence, which Gandhiji or no Nobel Laurette would have imagined. Quoting Gandhi is rather silly.
aha finally moderator saab posted my comment(153)
RGV
when i was 12 years old i went to watch a film in radha thater in vijayawada
my fascination towards voice overs started from then and it went like this
” ADI 1947 VA SAMVATSARAM RAVI ASTAMINCHANI BRITISH SAMRAJYANNI YENDARO SWANTANTRA SAMARA YODHULU SWANTANTRANNI SADHINCHARU
ADI PANTOMMIDIVANDALA DEBBAIREDAVA SAMVATSRAM AAYANA RAMMANNA SURAMMALA DWITEEYA PUTRUDU
AAYANA ANDHRA VISWAVIDYALAYAM NUNCHI PATTABHADRUDAYYARU
ATU PIMMATA AAYANA RUSSIA AMERIACA CHINA MUNNAGU DESALALO PRYATINCHARU
KAANI KAMALA KUTTU KICHAN KUDUTU JEEVANAM SAGISTU VUNNADI”
INTALO TITLES
TENTADEN TETE TETEN
KONDAVEETI SIMHAM
SP RANJIT KUMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
EE KONDAVEETI SIMHANNI NUVVU EMI CHEYYA LEVU
HAAAAAAAAAAAA
@rgv
i really think that you definately share some ideas with Mahathma Gandhi…….for sure rgv……take my word !!!!!!!!
@Ramu
I totally agree with the voiceover effect of the scene from Satya you have narrated………The dialog alongwith the visuals plus the background score, everything is perfect and it creates the effect it was intended to………its chilling and haunting…….makes us to believe that the city was no more safe to roam around freely in streets
There are many aspects in your movies which have went unnoticed (thanks to our pathetic audience) like-
1. Company – the video of the title song in Company which featured Urmila…….the lyrics+visuals+lights used in the video totally fit together……..it creates the mood for the movie. The best part of this video is the one at the end where all the men in background raise their guns at each other one by one……..which I guess signifies the one-by-one killing of Malik’s and Chandu’s men by each other & at the end, no one one survives. It was simply beautiful.
And of course then comes the narration by Makrand Deshpande “cheelo ke baare mie……”
Its a masterpiece……….which defines a flawless movie………perfect background music and camera work
2. Raat – without doubt the best horror flick of Bollywood till date. It doesnt need to be a story of a ‘purani haveli’ or some remote & haunted place on earth. After watching RAAT it was genuinely frightening to go a movie theatre(due to the theatre scene in the movie) or to college campus on a holiday(another scene from the movie) or even to a small store room in our own house. Its a longlasting effect. Background music again playing a vital role.
3. Satya – One of the four masterpieces from you (others being Shiva, Company and SarkaR). Best background music any bollywood movie has had………..specially in the scene when Satya speaks about assassining Com. Amol Shukla In one part of that scene, the focus is on the character ‘Yeda’ who has no dialogs during this scene but its a master-stroke…….the expressions on his face totally reflect the gravity of the scene
4. SarkaR – No other movie has done justice to the Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather’ except this. Again background score playing a vital role. But no taking away the credit for direction,camera-work,acting. The character Rashid is one of the strongest negative characters played in bollywood movies. “Tujhe marte hue dekhne ka maza mai khona nahi chahta tha……” this was not just Shankar’s desire, but it was also of each and every audience that watched the movie. Its not that we as an audience developed hatred for Rashid, its like we wanted to see that character’s reaction when he knows he was going to die.
I just hope you complete the SarkaR trilogy……..
and of course……….we are eagerly waiting for ‘Rakhta Charitra’
@teja
sleep vth rgv then……..hehheee…..
@Ramu
Have you ever thought of making movie on science fiction?
RGV
my fascination towards voiceovers started when i watched a film in radha theatre vijayawada
it went on like this
RGV
” adi 1947 va samvatsaram ravi astaminchani british samrajyanni mana swatantra samarayodhulu british samrajjanni paradrolaru cut
RGV
adi pantommidivandala debbairedava samvatsaram aayana raamanna soorammala dwiteeya putrudu ga krishnalanka gramamlo janmincharu
@ramu
Ahh and how did I forget about ‘Rann’…………eagerly waiting for that too :)
RGV
suddenly the news reel stopped and the fim started ‘KONDAVEETI SIMHAM
thendaden teda teda
SP RANJIT KUMAR EE KONDAVEETI SIMHANNI NUVVU EMI CHEYYALEVU HAAAAAAA
RGV
from kondaveeti simham to SHIVA is great to have a reformer like who transformed the industry and exploded like a bomb
industry can definetely be divided into PRE RGV and POST RGV
RGV
never ever remove the lines of that gandhi it is 100 % true
even before independence the scenario was the same
and gandhi played with the emotions of the countrymen
“number of blog visitors” is shown today…
RGV
gandhi knew everything and he enjoyed the raktaranjit sangarsh simply having a therapic massage with a female masseur called sushila nayyar at sevagram
these are all pseudo secularists and pseudo ahimsa vaadis
i admire ur concept of RAKTACHARITRA coz this is the first original story by u
@Vinay Joshi and Prashh
Thank You for your comments
@Vinay Joshi
while reading your text on voiceover based on Mohanlal, I was imagining the character “Mary” (Ashwini Khalsekar) in the movie ALL THE BEST.
RAKTACHARITRA HAS TO BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC
Wud like 2 watch Mr brooks & City of GOd in ur direction
inkenti ramu visheshaalu?
Day by day your blog feels like having sex with the same woman
@ ALL BLOGGERS
I have just come home from watching ARYA 2. Movie is a very good attempt as it is little different from the regular shit churned out in Tollywood. I loved the characterization of Allu Arjun, his dances and acting and photography. The unpredictability of his character makes the narrative interesting.
Hope some of you can give it a try since there is a Voice Over by Navdeep although its not great.
P.S:- 1) Guys, don’t compare this to RGV movies. They are class apart.
2) I am not a fan of any hero in Tollywood, I watched it as a common audience(Plz ?)
3) I am not sure of it’s commercial results as my sensibilities doesn’t match with the regular
mass audience. (for example I didn’t enjoy ‘Magadheera’ very much as I did Arya 2)
@marty
are u also a movie reviewer?
@ Seshu
This is not a review but my personal view.
I guess you know the web sites to get the reviews. I am sure my views dont match the reviewers.
P.S:- Do we have to take your ( ? ) permission to comment on this blog?
WANT TO KNOW YOUR INTERACTION WITH TELUGU ACTORS PAWAN KALYAN AND MAHESH BABU,IF ANY???
@marty
actually i am afraid of reviewers thats y i asked if you are one of those…..in my opinion the reviewers must Re View the film again and again atleast 10 times before actually reviewing it
P.S: who am i to give n e permission sir?
evry time we refresh this page the blog visitors count is increasing by 1…so its not the actual number of people visiting the blog? y are they showing this i didnt understand…does ramu want the statistics as to how many are following the blog …. is he closing the shop any time soon?
Hi Ramuji..!!
why don’t you give voiceover for RC?
@autojaani Have you seen Shankar Nag’s Accident?
Ur opening shot idea is brilliant and reminds very much of that. :)
Plus are you real auto driver or is that a gimmick to impress Ramu?
ARYA-2 was fun, if u r not too serious types, u will enjoy the flick………..
Hi Ramu..
It wud be gr8 if u can introduce Howard Roark’s character in one of your movies for us.
Don’t you think 300 movie has the best voice over?
I personally think it is as good as any other film
Then you should watch “Man who wasn’t there” by Coen Brothers
@autojaani..
Script of this movie is excellent. the starting well scene is exceptionally thought.. but (theres always a but).. instead of the random shots of newspapers and houses burning…and other scenes.. I think the impact would be more if the scene is not disturbed.. let me continue..
camera follows the woman from behind.. as the woman carries the pot on her hips.. (not head).. ambassador car is coming facing the camera.. and the same car is seen by at-least two other people including the man ploughing the field and another one reading newspaper on the portico of his house and an old man walking with a stick and the woman of-course.
car passes the woman and the camera stops following the woman and camera starts moving backwards.. to while we hear the car hitting breaks.. the scene without breaks.. passes the car from the left and shows the front headlights and then moves the the right side of the car where two people rush out of the car and run into the house where the man is reading newspaper.
That man gets up to start running into house and they run to catch him (this somehow looks liked D first murder.. but I’ll continue).. the catch him soon enough and drag him to the road while people just watch all this not moving an inch with the palms straight on the brows to stop the sun falling into their eyes and trying to look at far off distance.. (camera is placed behind these peoples heads).. after the guy is lying on the road trying to escape.. the guy lifts his sword (or whatever weapon).. and we see people’s scared reaction.. some.. give an’ used to’ kind of expression but still want to see what’s going on.. (just like people gather after accident on road) woman obviously screams silently.. old man struggles to getup.. to be far away from the scene.. and after the dagger falls on him the .. camera is now placed on top of their heads and starts zooming out.. and in the distance the man resumes back to ploughing his field and other who are closer to the murder scene disappears.. and the camera keeps zooming up and up.. and the murderers don’t move from the place and the screens goes red .. then to black.. then the title appears..
sounds very predictable .. but I thought it captures the essence of easiness with which people around there takes such a scene.. and the fearlessness of the murderers… and the heat of the area..
and no mention of this scene or victim or murderer should ever be mentioned in the movie..
P.S. I’ve never been to anantuapur or nearby places nor do i know the story of these guys.. just the names of ravi and suri and his brother-in-law.. I just continued your story and edited from where I thought the scene was misleading.
@Cheers autojaani.. don’t you have any other work?.. just kidding man.. i love your reactions..
Sunset Blvd is my favourite for Voice Over.
I expected you will use VO for RK.
VO is almost must to establish the context for a story like this.
It looks Anantapur is all set to be established on Indian map.
When some one asks me, where you are from, I always say, ANANTAPUR, Woh Saibaba haina Puttaparthi wala..Wahan se hun.
Now i will say Woh RGV ka movie haina RAKTACHARITRA..Woh movie hamara area ka hi. I am from there. I am sure, they will show little more respect..Ha Ha Ha….
@ Seshu
If you want to talk about movies, please comment.
Otherwise, cut out this shit and don’t waste the web space by ripping off words from RGV reactions.
Is this enough, Sir?
M Nair says:
November 27th, 2009 at 2:01 PM
WHAT IS COMMON BETWEEN..madhur bhandarkar,vishal bhardwaj,saurabh shukla,shimit amin and anurag kashyap??
My answer: They are all Men.
@agreen
Thank You for your comment bhai.
I have never seen any of Shankar Nag’s movies. Just heard of him, thats all.
@Jonah
shukriyaa bhai aapke comment ke liye…aapke script bhi accha hai….especially your 3rd para which explains about camera movement in front of the car headlights/rightside.
I have lot of other works other than autodriving, such as sitting in irani cafes, smoking cigaret/drinking chai/making jokes and then watching movies.
autojaani says:
November 26th, 2009 at 6:35 PM
@jaani bhai..nice visualization ..In last that paper cuttings shows..VV Vinayak’s Samba…rest all is very good..
neelante vale RAMU ki kavali…. :)
@marty
Ok Sir, Yes Sir, alright Sir, n e thing else Sir? ;)
good voice over buddy
Bored! Not so interesting.
@ramu
r u gandhiji fan???
Ramu..,
Why the hell u made Govinda…Govinda movie?
VO for Raktha Charithra can be as follows: of course translated in Hindi or telugu..
When the Portuguese brought Chilli pepper to India, little did they know, that this humble fruit will dictate politics and life in a remote part of south India. The small town folk of Ananthpur have since then embarked upon a culture of severe violence based on factions and all this because they have chillis up their arses all the time… the effect of chillis up the arses of these otherwise normal folk, which gave them intense passion and severe piles have changed the course of history of this place and it sprang forth individuals for who ego, honour, power and pride and violence have become central pillars of life. In such a landscape wee born two individuals who were born with chillis up their arse and despite the best efforts by reputed surgeons, those chillis could not be extracted… and this gave rise to the long feud between these two families which shed blood and lives across the region over three decades… people got killed, families destroyed, houses burnt and chillis got consumed by the tons… this is Rakthacharithra – a story of piles, blood and chillis.
@chjk8809
@218
if GANDI would have been a HILTER fan
RAMU would have been a GANDI fan
VARAHALARAJU
Interestingly GANDI and HITLER both are in top 10 most influential people of last century.by TIMES magazine
RAMU deserves it for this century — by RGVZOOMIN blog.
@neosapien
laughing my arse off…
amazing translation
Hi RGV,
Write a article on your friend Satyaendra
Hi RGV,
How u differentiate young girl and mature lady
hi sir,
all the best for Ur RAKTHA CHARITRA…..
Revolution
Generated
Version of Indian Cinema……
am I right??????
RGV
i’ve been following ur films right from SHIVA days and i admire ur films.
but i’ve never given so much importance to the voice overs given by u in ur previous films like company and satya
and i’ve asked my friends yesterday who like ur films, that how did they feel about voiceovers of ur films they said they care fuk for this voice overs.
what i’ve noticed is its only the people who aspire to become directors watch all this crap like voiceovers and all
and from the point of view of audience nobody remembers ur voiceovers after leaving the theaters
no doubt ur films are technically sound but no one cares about this voiceovers, its from the audience point of view
as far as aspirant directors are concerned they observe all this crap coz they wud be in a halusination that voiceovers run the films
i know that even u know that and ur attempting to create some hype for ur rakta charitra
but my perception is whether u give a voice over or not to RC it wud be a superhit
coz the concept has everything that indian audience wants
RGV
had u given a great voiceover for AGYAAT it was bound to be a flopbuster
and i guarantee u that RAKTA CHARITRA is bound to be a BLOCKBUSTER
and u can take my word u wud become more rich after RAKTACHARITRA
Namaste Sir,
” Cheelon mein sabra………”
is a smooth brilliant improvisation , you dared a risk,
May be you knew that perception, you saw its clear future.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us .
Manisha samal (odissa)
RGV
even the gay voice of KARANJOHAR wud be very effective in this context of anantpur , gandhis atma , pusht dar pusht bina chalnewali raktachakra, and ranktaranjit sangarsh and aaj ki mahabharat
my point is the cocept is so strong that even a gay voice like KARANJOHAR can give the voiceover and it wud be a super hit
@manisha samal
what was the smooth improvisation u observed with “chello ka sbar”
i didnt get ur point can u please explain that IMPROVISATION and its basic meaning
superb voiceover……i live in secunderabad…would love to see the shooting of the movie……i’ve never seen one………….can i?
The company voiceover was not good. No great impression or entertainment was achieved by either the reference or shots of eagles.
Gandhi’s comments were made in context of majority of the population residing in rural areas and had nothing to do with ‘eulogising’ the same. Your usage of the same is completely illiterate.
Long back i read an interview of Anil Kapoor when he was making ‘Roop ki Rani…’ The interviewer asked him about why spend so much on just song picturatizations. His answer was that essentially Indian audiences are ‘chu..’ and nobody understands anything etc.
Saawan Kumar said something similar after super success of some of his movies. ‘Indian audience itne bhole hote hai ki unhe film mein agar chotisi si cheez achchi lag jaaye toh woh film ko gale laga lete hain’
To each his own. Interesting to see underlying contempt in your thought process towards your audience.
ela vachindi ra baabu neeku e attitude…u r f**king me lik a bi*ch in al holes…
Ramu bhai,
After the initial voiceover (that talks about Gandhi’s dreams/atma) and ends in the word “Raktha Charitra”, I assume the main titles are shown. And if so, (after the titles end) it would be good if the voiceover continues and further provides a brief introductory backround talking about Sreeramulaiah and his rivals (gangula Narayana Reddy group), and the situations of those times fueled the rivalry beween the two groups. This will give audience the initial appetizer and they will crave for the main course……..
Ramuji your fan autojaani will drive me away from your films.
I just J Lee Thomson’s filmography – and apart from Mckenna’s Gold, Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, I throughly enjoyed King Solomon’s Mines. So bottomline: I have his entire filmography to look at before I need look at your films. :)
nowadays you are making more news before making films than after making the films. All the movie you made in last two three years, are relly embarrasing. The main highlight in your movies were background score n camera work. Nishabd was the only movie, which had genius off you. what really bad has gone in your movie is, camera work is really ackward, some time its difficult to understand what exatly you are focussing and sometimes your cameraman struggles to adjust the lens to capture(Darling). In the movie “Contract” most of the action takes place behind the screen, it raises quetion that you are not good in shooting action sequence. its really surprise for me, you made a fantastic film “Kshana Kshanam” in international standards now you are not able to match local standard.
Hope, you will rethink abt your movies.
regards,
vijay
vijayanand.grk@gmail.com
bangalore
@agreen bhai
why will I drive you away from RGV’s movies? could you please explain
Hey Ramu
Instead of a voice over through a third person why not from the first or second person itself, who is in the action? u already made a third person narrate in films like satya and company. Films like Goodfellas ,Shawshank , Million dollar baby, remember the titans etc have been very effective because of the first/second person narration.
@agreen bhai
also from J. Lee Thompson’s movies watch the movie “The Passage” . You might like it.
I am the ever luckiest person to get the chance to write something on my favorite director’s bog
Sir, thanks for sharing your insights on voiceover. I recently watched the movie, Paranormal Activity, which I truly believe is the best horror film ever made. It reminded me of the fact that such impact was also created in the movie, Phoonk, where fear is writ large on the faces of the protagonist and his family members, when they find skeletons in their lawn.
This scene was aptly utilized in the promos of the film. How was it conceived? I mean, what made you come up with a scene where you scare people just by showing reactions of the prospective victims?
Having said this, I think you’ve always been ahead of time. If Daud, Kaun, and Raat would’ve released now in the ‘multiplex age’, things would’ve been different. What say?
Regards
Prakash Gowda
——-define hit———
The most commonly used term in industry is”hit”.
the general meanings are……
1.highest collections ?
2.highest no. of 100 days centers ?
3.highest no of days ?
———
Anyway in my opinion, it shud b different for different people
for
filmmaker:”film which is useful for making my films”
(an ordinary film can be better than CITIZEN KANE,bcoz citizen kane may not work now and business marketing issues are not in his hand)
producer:”film which generated money @ first sale”
(he cant make film which work @ every center)
audience:”film which i feel comfortable”
(he may dislike a film which was liked by all)
————–
wat do u say sir,is it correct?
Have you ever thought of lending your voice over for the film? I remember in the film “Deyyam” at the beginning, you actually read the disclaimer in Telugu. I felt that was really good and effective because its coming straight from the horse’s mouth. More than that the message was conveyed in the right context!
What do you think about Gandhi and Gandhism?
Hi…
Do you listen to heavy metal? Irrespective of whether u do or dont… Could you plz try listening to RIGHT IN TWO by TOOL… Some of their songs have some simply brilliant Bass notes and the beats by Danny Carey are very intense too.
One more thing, what is your take on the JOKER’s character from The Dark Knight?
I dont like chocolates,I like beautiful girls,you are beautiful.
what was that Boss?
Did you read “Thus Spake Zarthustra” before watching “Conan, the Barbarian” or after?
If you watched the movie before reading the book, then did that opening sentence create any effect on you or you ignored it?
What is “Soul” according to you?
Ramu bhai,
Could you please write an article quoting the quotes of Ayn Rand and F. Nietzsche and how you used/misused/abused/modified those learnings according to what suits your life?
@Autojaani,
“Bava kallallo anandam choodadaniki chesa” those were the words Moddu seenu said after killing Paritala on TV9. those were the famous lines they shoot in most of the Telugu movies including pokiri.
I would like to see how RGV is going to shoot if at all he wanted to keep these lines in RC.
Ramu – You are such a unique personality in the celebrity world…will you endorse any product? What I mean is will Ramu one day sell ‘Dabur Chavanprash’ or anything else through an advertisement…
- Mannar
gandhi is nothing but first four letters of his name
and gandhism is nothing but first four letters and “U” ism
RGV Just watched your interview in Sakshi Channel’s Dilse. I guess host was blown off with your answer about the Toffee Offer n on top it saying I like beautiful girls..hope she then understood what RGV is…Anyways I really liked the answer.
“every one one has his own one destiny”.this sentece is repeated much in GODFATHER .
what does it mean
have you ever feel guilt?
@Ramu
In Agyaat..there is one shot where camera chases the actors and it rotates while chasing…hows that possible and what type of camera it is?
ramu,
yesterday in AAP KI ADALAT aamir khan says its better if RGV
RGV
I’VE SEEN U IN AN INTERVIEW SAYING THAT U R NEITHER kamma NOR reddy AND U SAID U R NEUTRAL.
DOES IT MEAN THAT THE ENTIRE kammas R WITH RAVI AND THE ENTIRE reddys R WITH SURI
i know u have the answer and i know u cant answer and u would not answer this question
ramu,
yesterdayin AAP KI ADALAT aamir khan says its better if RGV doesnt work with me…and everyone laughed and clapped..watching the show conversation from begining it meant as if “better that anti social director is far from me who is very responsible star”….
ramu ,
u r very intelligent…its high time u get into new category of movies…why dont u get into drama…u will go places …this violence and horror has caught u r intelligence from applying to other areas…Please get into classical dramas….u will get oscar also…something like THE PIANISTstyle…U will do damn good ….if not we are afraid one day mob will man handle u …
@Ramu
In Hollywood producers releases the synopsis of film so that people can frame their mind accordingly and watches the movie with out any further expectations..
but here in India producers and directors don’t want to revel the story plot….till the film get released
Is that a business and marketing strategy?
Ramu,
Just watched your interview in Sakshi TV Dil Se program.
I laughted continously for 10 minutes when you rejected chocolates saying I don’t like ‘em and I like beautiful girls and when you gave a compliment to that girl, saying she was beautiful.
Can’t you stop flirting with girls even while you are being filmed ?!?!
how many times have to got rejected by a girl ?
These days I observed you are enjoying giving interviews and explaining your thoughts, saying YES to all tv channels who ever invited you for a chat or program .. looks like your current state of mind wanted to enjoy the time in front of camera rather than behind the camera …Then why don’t you start acting in movies ??
@andhrabond,
I dont know about how RGV is going to picture it but here is my take on entire sequence of events.
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(camera showing the phone and slowly moving backward)
a phone is ringing in the house
(as the phone is ringing, and camera is moving back….”January 24, 2005″ is typed on the screen with typewriter sound)
(as the camera is moving back, a man enters the frame and is walking towards the phone…background footsteps sound)
he lifts the phone and says “yes. we are about to start” and hangs up the phone
(cut to) outside shot in the compound of Ravi’s home, some people are waiting, talking on cellphone,
(cut to) party office where people are waiting for Ravi’s arrival.
(cut to) outside party office, a panshop guy looks in anxiety while making a pan
(cut to) house is shown sideways and Ravi is coming out of home and behind him two bodyguards walking with guns. (camera follows Ravi sideways as he walks out of compound and camera follows him sideways and stops just near rear tyre of ambassador car) Ravi enters the car and his hench men walk behind the camera (out of frame)
(cut to, inside Jail) a barber is putting/rubbing shaving shaving cream to Suri (background is rubbing sound)
(cut to, top angle) a busy road leading to party office is shown
(cut to) camera behind a beggar, showing the busy road
(cut to, camera still behind ambassador car) ambassador car starts and moves forward, a jeep follows behind the car
(cut to, camera is inside/backside of the jeep near two people sitting with guns, as the jeep is moving the road is shown from inside the jeep…whole screen is black and in the center road is shown from inside the moving jeep), then one of the gunmen pulls down the jeeps back curtain and whole screen is black
(cut to inside a garage and whole screen is still black) some guy opens the shutter and only outside light is seen from the bottom as the shutter opens. this guy walks inside and says something in ears to another guy
(cut to, inside Jail) the barber now just started shaving his beard (background is shaving sound)
(cut to) car and jeep going on a bridge (and near tha bridge a construction is going on) and both the vehicles move this construction site
(cut to camera behind a construction worker) he takes out his cell phone and calls someone while watching the moviing vehicles from behind
(cut to) party office, and party workers are waiting for Ravi’s arrival
(cut to) the guys in the garage start a jeep (camera shows guy starting the jeep with key and the camera slowly moves sideways to show a gun in another person’s hand)
(cut to) Ravi’s vehilces going on road and just past the beggar
(cut to) camera behind the beggar, taking out his cell phone and calling someone as the vehicles moved
(cut to camera near the party offce gate) camera slowly moves down from top almost onto road and car stops just in front of the camera
(Cut to top angle) Ravi gets down from the car and walks into party office (now the camera from top slowly zooms into the busy road and focuses on the killers jeep which just arrived at a distance near the party office)
(Cut to, carema behind the jeep) the jeep slows down and coms to a halt
(cut to, Jail) barber almost shaved the face (close up shot) but Suri signalled the barber to shave off his head also (camera onto surprised look of barber)
(cut to behin dthe man in pan shop) pan shop guy looking at the gate of party office and one guy came out and walking towards ambassador car
(cut to pan shop guy) he takes off his cell phone and calls the killers injeep) the phone rings in the jeep
(Cut to Jail scene) barber shaving the head of Suri
(Cut to) Ravi just signed some papers in the party office and got up from his chair
(cut to) jeep starts and hurriedly moves towards the party office
(cut to) Ravi is slowly walking out
(cut to) jeep is almost near the party office
(cut to Jail scene) Suri is shown in total tonsured head
(cut to) Ravi is slowly stepping down from stairs
(cut to) pan shop guy took his gun and started shootng people outside the
(cut to) killers came out of jeep and started spraying bullets on Ravi
(cut to) Ravi falling down (in slow motion) and he fell down on ground
(cut to) Suri pouring a bucket of water on his tonsured head
(cut to) killers got into jeep and they escaped into the busy road
(cut to) camera is now just behind a guy is walking and running here and there shouting for help and camera is just following this guy…..
(cut to camera just beahind the head of Ravi, on the ground showing the guy) guy falling onto his knees near ravi’s body
(now its top angle) guy screeming by looking at the sky and the camera slowly moves back/from top) showing the whole compound of party office with the body lying on ground
Now in the background “thara tharala raktha charithra” theme song starts in slow tone
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There should not be any background score/beats/music on this whole episode except for natural sounds like vehicles sounds, busy road sound etc etc .
It is the silence/anxiety that kills the audience before the killers kill Ravi
guys where to upload photo ? how can it be displayed?
next shot (cut to) SP’s car going on road (the camera near the siren, on top of the car)
(cut to) the car enters secretariat. SP gets down from car
(cut to, Jail scene) Suri in meditation mode and a vibration sound is heard in cellphone and he looks at the cellphone
(cut to, camera behind SP) camera following him as he is walking hurriedly in the corridor of secretariat)
(cut to jail scene) Suri picks up the phone and puts the phone near his ears, closes his eyes, listens without any expression on his face.
(cut to) SP barges into CM’s office and CM looks at him
(cut to Jail scene) Suri lies down and turns sideways and sleeps
(cut to) then public property destruction is shown (while this is destruction is shown, Raktha charithra theme song is played in background)
(Cut to) tv news channels broadcasting the news and telacasting the destruction in tv
(cut to, press conference scene) camera behind some journalists and on the screen “three days later” is typed
Narayana Reddy, rekhmayyah surrender is being telecasted in tv and later Moddu seenu is seen talking to some journalists in Tv from unknown place
(cut to camera in front of Seenu, close up shot) as he is talking with journalist (the camera slowly zooms back and now Seenu is shown inside TV and as the camera zooms back it is shown that CM is looking at news and looks sideways at SP
(cut to, roadside barber shop, where people are watching the news…camera zooms towards the tv close up shot of TV in the whole screen) Seenu says ,”bava kallallo aanandam chudadaaniki chesaa”
(while this sentence is uttered by Seenu, the camera slows zooms back and now it is the cellphone is shown in which Suri is watching this whole telecast in his cellphone. Cellphone in one hand and with other hand/finger Suri is cleaning his left ear seriously without any expression.
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(cut to) someone is calling from outside shouting my name…arey Jaani…..arey Jaani….
Then suddenly I got up from dream…..then realized that I was directing Raktha Charithra movie….
@autojaani
you have got good visualization….but as i realize, whatever you have presented is the final outcome of mixing ans mincing done in the editing room of scenes and shots taken during shooting…what do you say?
i have seen ur interview on sakshi tv yesterday….and i must say i enjoyed every bit of it…..the way you said u dont like chocolates and prefer pretty girls and the expression which followed on the anchor’s face made me roll on the floor laughing!!!!
BTW thanks for accepting my friend request on fb…
what was the last indian film you watched (not from RGV factory and not some porn movie) which made you feel WOW!!!
” We think movies are fairly boring and predictable. We want to screw with audiences expectations” – Andy Wachowski
RGV
After getting convinced with ur concept SHIVA how much money did nagarjun offer u and after the grand success of SHIVA did nagarjun pay u extra money
and after the grand success of SHIVA when gopalreddy approached u for KSHANAKSHANAM did u demand a particular amount from gopalreddy or u obliged him with a meagre amount
please answer this and it doesnt cost u a rupee
You always said that you personally prefer to watch BigB play larger than life roles since he is a super star. But how come you cast BigB in a movie like nishabd, where the role was definitely
unconventional but definitely not larger than life? Although I admit that nobody could have carried that role better than Bachhan Sir.
@madeinandhra
Anna, for your Q.271, you must read RGV’s article “The Point of Money” (November 2008 Archive) and I hope you’d surely find an answer to your query!
James Cameron after struggling for 15 years has some thing intresting for all of us.
Look at the trailer and i have no words for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LQkTQ1foSU
@åutojaani
I was wondering for a long time which auto you drive ?
Is it the 3 seater one or the 7 seater steering åuto ?
@Phani bhai
I drive 3 seater auto.
my tagline:: “meter mera fix hai…minimum 26 hai”
Jai Rajini Deva….Jai Bhaasha bhai
@abhishek naini
unfortunately i havent read RGV S old article
and RGV might have mentioned about money in that article but my question is about RGV between SHIVA and KSHNAKSHANAM
and now RGV might be different but RGV between SHIVA and KSHANAKSHANAM might be a different RGV
and for ur info AB NAINI RGV changes not day by day but minute after minute
hope u got my point right
@abhishek naini
my point is RGV between SHIVA and KSHANKHSANAM wud have been a guy like me with little money whether in thousands or lakhs but now RGV is a big name who has some hundreds of crores with him and behind his projects
@abhishek naini
my question is only about RGV between SHIVA and KSHANKSHANM not todays RGV after SARKAR and some superhit films
@autojaani
i wud like to chat with u if u r not the ghost of RGV
U R A VERY INTERESTING GUY
@ everybody
a man who makes big money would nevr get into philosophy saying that we only live for 80 years average.
only a man or a woman who loses money would get into this sort of philosophies.
i ‘ve got this gyaan with my personal experiences
probably i may be wrong 100 percent
its only my personal experience
RGV
after all film making is nothing but business and making money
if u say its not for money making either u might be insane or the bloggers here are insane
RGV
its not that u shud make afilm like KARAN JOHAR to make money
but my feeling is u knowingly or unknowingly used all that masala stuff in ur super hit films and u did not use that masala in ur flop films
RGV
a man who doesnt make money is a fool
and this fukin philosophy exisits even in the year 2300
RGV
i’m least bothered about who created this universe and i care fuk for any god be it ram , allah or christ
i care about who creates a new world out of the existing world
and for me u created a new film industry ie post RGV
the same way i look for a new world and i care fuk for who created human beings and how we are existing
BUT WITHIN MY COUNTRY THE GREAT INDIA
INDIA IS WORLD FOR ME
RamuSir can I come to the sets of Rakhta Charitra to see the shooting provided I dont disturb you
during your shoot. I just want to see you directing from close quarters and hopefully take a photo with u.
i think u liked sakshi tv anchor, did u meet her late? Ha Ha
“for me, freedom fighters are very boring”
lolz ramu..sakshi tv showed it like million times and it still shows whenever they get opportunity… i dont get their point.. its totally ur opinion…
i hope they will change this attitude after seeing ur “rann”
@RGV
batikestunnav bhai with the names of shiva, gaayam, satya, company,sarkar
arey yaar bahut ho gaya voiceover….jara topic change cheya raade
Hi Ramu,
I like your views, thank your movies.
With such a hold on the films, I think you should start a film school. I will be the first to join the school. Please do that for yourself and which will be helpful for many people like me.
Autojani…
I come here to learn from Ramu and let me say, I have also learned from you…I understand a scene can be implemented in multiple ways and each one of these ways at the least need to be very clear in thought and I think I see that clarity in your writing the scene (s)
I am not sure how long you take to write this text, but if you generally do it in one shot, I suggest you record your voice and let us listen to it on your website.
1. You can never judge the intensity of a voice over while reading it. Instead, imagine if you either inserted an audio clip of that voice over or you narrated it itself.
2. I prefer listening to things than reading lengthy text…
3. Your originality shines through when you pronounce “Film” as “Filim ”
Ask some geek around you on how to record and air it.
Hi all,
Me , RGV and Admonistrator of this blog, few days back we had a meeting and finally decided to make small changes to smooth functioning of this blog..
1) Enabling Gravatar so that at-least we can avoid fake fukcers.. It is advised to enable gravatar for each regular users .. this is the url to get gravatar http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup
It is requested not to use any auto icon as gravatar as it is patented by Autojaani
2) Close watch on some of bloggers comments and remove of any unwanted comments ..
3) reducing discussions on fukcing philosophy ….
Regards
Chief Vigilance Officer,
RGVZOOMIN.COM
C/o Punjagutta P.S
Hyderabad..
@ Mad In Andhra…………..
First of all you cannot say Gandhi is Gand and Gandhism is GandUism…….. No matter what he did, He did made an impact and also created history, and most importantly he is one of the reasons why India got independence…….. Now when you want to comment on someone, first realize are you capable enough to do that.
Ramu,
a person like jaani(I’ve just read his screenplay of RC) is an autodriver-don’t you think its a tragedy?
BTW I luvvvvv the dedication you are showing in RC. Regardless of a hit or flop, you are already a winner.
@ Surreal
Yep, I also feel you are right-” P.D. Ouspensky’s Tertium Organum is a miracle ………….He wrote it before he knew what he was writing.”- matches with Ramu’s claim of making films like Shiva & Satya by accident.
Filmmakers like you give a bad reference to the indian epics like Mahabharata , Ramayana etc. While certainly am not arguing on religious grounds , a story of bad taste like Rakthacharitra should not be equated with Mahabharata. You claim to have read Nietzsche , Ayn Rand etc..but have you ever read Mahabharata before casually referencing it in your voice over?
Mahabharata is not a story of war, its a story of peace and ones conquest over oneself and not others.The last chapter in Mahabharata explains this very essence.That is the reason it is held revered and sacred by generations.
Get your facts right before equating a superb and revered epic like Mahabharata with some trashy violent script like Rakthacharitra
@siraj aka sirphiraj
relax
i think you even try to study people’s mind by reading these comments?
@madeinandhra
whats your opinion on telangana?
JAI TELANGANA
@sheshu
if i were the president of india i wud have made telangana a separate state today itself
i ve no problem and my city vijaywada wud become the capital of andhra
so a big JAAAAAAAAAAI TEEEEEEEELAAAAAAAANNGAAAAAAAANA
@sirphiraj
please show me a single non violence movement held by gandhi which ended without violence
gandhi was a VIOLENT PACIFIST
@surap
You make me laugh with you funny rules : )
@neosapien
Re your comment …
“..the reason behind the complete decline of quality in telugu movies is because of the letter ‘K’.”
Just curious, what does ‘K’ stand for ?
The RAM GOPAL VARMA SHOT
I was always impressed after watching any Varma or Mani ratnam movies and many times I used to unknowingly copy certain impressions which I liked in movie. Once when I was in school, when my father bought a new camera and asked me to take some snaps of the family. My family came together and were looking straight at the camera and smiling. I some how dint like it, so I asked everybody to scatter and look anywhere but the camera and switched off lights. My father asked why? I said I am going to take the RAM GOPAL VARMA shot :-)
@AUTO JANI, your screen play for the first scene in Rakta Charitra was excellent. Although I wont say the complete scene, but the WELL screnplay was too good.
Man wat are doing driving an auto, you should be driving a film.
if i say, i became a big fan of u and ur movies after reading this blog, would you believe it? :P
b4, i used to just neglct ur movies :O
dear ramu,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkhf_cf4dWE&NR=1
this is the opening song of the film “Mast”.
For me, this is a brilliant song filming. Even the idea is so simple, the way ramu executed it is brilliant. Unlike other bollywood films, ramu decided to shoot dance scenes in realistic location or so called common places like a market place, A street side, a pizza corner, a smoking joint or in an abandoned theatre.[this trend starts from 'RANGEELA"] In this song, Aftab walks like a ‘thunderbolt struck’ teenager who is unaware of the outside world moving in and around him and sings like a clear lunatic. I was very much fascinated by this song sequence in my teenage years. Mast released when I was 16.
I wanted to know a few things. How did you shoot the common place visuals? Is it without any lighting..?
Those visuals really had the originality of a documentary. The inter cut to Aftab’s dream world where the dancing vamp sizzles was also a very good idea but what mesmerizing me is the way which it is photographed. Even when I am watching it in “you tube”, I am getting a ‘wide screen’ feel. Awesome frame composition. Those frames remind me the original 70MM screen where I have seen the movie for the first time. I think only a few filmmakers know the importance of frame composition for a movie.
If you look at Malayalam films, they would be making serials using the film camera. They are not interested in using the screen space at all. They are just trying to tell the story plainly. This is the same thing with people like Sooraj barthjya,David dhawan, S leela Bansali[before he had Ravi K chandran as a cinematographer[The pre Black era-“as a matter of fact, I hate the work of ‘black”],
What a shame. The most pitiful thing is that current generation is doing this crime not the previous one. The older gen had clear understanding of films, Be it Bharathan, Padmarajan, priyadarshan, T k Rajeev Kumar or even Joshi. From his first film, priyan sir was very conscious about frame composition. “Class mate” is shot by Anurag kashyap’s soul mate Rajeev ravi who had done much better works like ‘No smoking’ and “DEV D”. but I couldn’t believe the same Rajeev ravi shot “Classmates”. It is just an average film ,visually. Now days, the cinematography of Malayalam film s is a shame to India’s best cinematographers who hails from kerala such as Santhosh sivan, Ravi K chandran, Rajeev Menon, Madhu Ambatt,Venu .
Tamil films are much better in the way of making. Their new generation cinematographers are the best in the industry.
By the wayt, RGV never works with a camera man thrice but he get exactly what he wants,irrespective of the cinematographer. That is a miracle. If ramu gets a cinematographer with average sensibility and if he overdo lighting every time, how would ramu handle this guy and get his own kind of frame..?
I am not expecting ramu’s reply on such silly questions from me. But anybody can give their own opinion about this…
P. S : ‘Manirathnam is the only filmmaker who has constantly given brilliant visuals irrespective of the camera man he takes…- Rajeev Menon, CInematographer, Guru,Bombay,Mornign Raga.
Not only manirathnam, but Ram gopal varma and priyadarshan also has done the same….
With love…..Vaishak…
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FANGS IN A BLINK
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I have watched a few vampire movies.
1. ‘Taste the Blood of Dracula’ with Christopher Lee as the Count Dracula
2. Interview with the Vampire’ with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in the lead
3. ‘Blade’ series with Wesley Snipes in the lead
4. ‘Queen of the Damned’
5. ‘30 Days of Night’ with Josh Hartnett
In the first two of the above, more than the horror element, the victorian/shakespearian theatric form of depiction was what really interested me.
In the Blade series the fusion of sci-fi and fable was quite creative and executed with style.
Although rock music and fable fusion was novel, ‘Queen of the Damned’ was quite boring and senseless to me. It still had a style that appealed to the american teens, I guess.
Michael Jackson wore fangs for his ‘Thriller’ album. Frankly, I’m not sure if it is vampire or werewolf that he had depicted.
‘30 Days of Night’, one of the writing credits of which go to Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Pirates Of the Carribean series etc.) was another highly creative fusion of the vampire fable and a unique setup in the northern most town of USA, called Barrow located in Alaska. The town goes into a 30 day long period of night in the winter season, every year, forming an ideal setting for blood-thirsty vampires. As per the fables, vampires cannot stand sunlight and only come out during the night for their prey. Mind-blowing sound effects! Somewhat loose script, I felt.
It is interesting to see America’s fascination with this genre and it keeps re-inventing itself with heredity, variation, fusion, mutation.
Chiranjeevi depicted MJ of Thriller in a song in telugu movie, ‘Donga’. Nagarjuna depicted Count Dracula(?) in a song in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Geethanjali’.
Whenever I see Akshay Kumar, I get a feeling that he will perfectly fit the bill. That is because even without artificial fangs, he looks like he is born with fangs (no pun intended). Just like Christopher Lee or Tom Cruise. His fangs(?) seem to stand-out with age too.
Such people are most suited because, in the middle of the movie, you will be waiting with anticipation for the moment when their fangs pop-out. Because they already have somewhat fang-like dental formation, at times you are not sure if the fangs had already popped-out when you blinked.
Did happen to you that you start a film with lot of excitement and interest and loose the same half way during shooting of the film ?
change “rakta charitra” to “rakta seema “
Bhailog,
sab ko salaam….thank you for all your comments.
maakki kirkiri…mera naam pe Auto hai……wah re wah…..Shukriyaa Surap sir
Ramu bhai,
Wat would be ur definition of a good film?
@ autojani wat u think abt it….
JAISE jaise dharti par buraiya badti ja rahi thi waise waise shaitani taakte aur jyada taaktwar hoti ja rahi thi…shaitaan inssano par havi hone lag gye the..aur raat me gumne wale nischachar ab din me bhi buraiya failane lage hai…shayad dharti par kalyug ne apna asar dikana shuru kar diya hai..kaun jane eska kaha ant hoga par ek cheez saaf hai ki es khauf ki shuruaat ho chuki hai..
aise hi ek din…
DAY 12..THE STORY CONTINUES…
@Mannar, Niru
Thank You
@madeinandhra
How can I become ghost of RGV. Ramu bhai is so selfish that he wont allow somebody else to become his ghost.
But one thing for sure, while watching SHIVA in Anjali talkies, RGV has bitten my neck (mentally) and since then I am wandering every night.
hey autojaani this is our first conversation … i like your name autojaani..ha ha completely different name..
@Dushyant Sharma saheb
aapke dialogue padke mujhe aisa lagaa ki aap “PURAANA MANDIR” pacchees baar dek chuke hai………..aapke yeh dialogue “RAMSEY brothers” ki filim ke shuruvaad ka dialogue lag raha hai…….kyaa aap horror filim baana rahe hai kya……..mai samja nahi……..aap yeh dialogue kaiku likhe idhar?
the best voiceover I found is of 300 movie..in hindi..it is hair raising voice over..
AUTOJAANI…
maine aaj tak koi ramsey brother ki movie me aise dialouge nahi sune …aap kis movie ki baat kar rahe hai..
aur rahi baat ki maine ye dialouge yaha kyu likhe to its very simple..
main ramu sir ke samne isko rakna chahta tha esliye yaha likh diye..
300 movie-
1.USKI SENA ITNI KASIR HAI KI JAB VO CHALTI HAI TO ZAMEEN THARATI HAI ITNI BADI KI NADIYO KO PEE KAR SUKHA DE..
2.VO 500 SAALO SE FARAS K RAJA KA HAR HUKAM PURA KAR RAHE THE..ANDHERE RAAT SI AANKH,DAANT KATAR KI DHAAR,BEREHAM…SEHANSHAH JERKSHEEZ K APNE NIZI MUFAFIZ..PURE AISIYA DESHO KI SABSE GHATAK JANGI TAKAT..AVINASHI SENA..
@ sheshu
I’m happy that you are happy but I’m bored and unintrested in irritating you guyz but I wont be out of the game if you insist
@Autojaani..ha purana mandir kya maine ramsey brothers ki saari movies 25 baar dekh chuka hu..picture dekne ka bahut shauk hai mujhe..bahut filme dekta hu main..engg college me ye shauk lag gya tha..cinema k alwa kisi aur cheez me maza hi nahi aata..
@ surap
you are really very handsome
@Mannar, Niru
Thank You
@madeinandhra
How can I become ghost of RGV. Ramu bhai is so selfish that he wont allow somebody else to become his ghost.
But one thing for sure, while watching SHIVA in Anjali talkies, RGV has bitten my neck (mentally) and since then I am wandering every night.
ok here i am directing my first scene of my script..
there is a scene of an empty road which is passing through a jungle..
yaha jungle me koi nahi aata jaata sirf ek sadak ja rahi hai..bilkul veerana sa hai yaha par…ek ajjeb si khamoshi jisme kisi aane wale khauf ki aahat sunai de rahi ho..
AB camera kuch height par hai aur vo dheere dheere neeche ki taraf aana start hoga..i mean uper se neeche sadak par neeche ki taraf aana shuru hoga and voice over starts..
JAISE jaise dharti par buraiya badti ja rahi thi waise waise shaitani taakte aur jyada taaktwar hoti ja rahi thi…shaitaan inssano par havi hone lag gye the..aur raat me gumne wale nischachar ab din me bhi buraiya failane lage hai…shayad dharti par kalyug ne apna asar dikana shuru kar diya hai..kaun jane eska kaha ant hoga par ek cheez saaf hai ki es khauf ki shuruaat ho chuki hai..
aise hi ek din…
itna voice over khatam hote hi camera bilkul zameen ke karib aa chuka hoga i mean jaha par road aur zameen aapas me milti hai aur camera me samne sadak dikhai de rahi hogi..sirf ek taraf..
aur voice over ke khatam hote hi ek car tezi se samne jaati hui dikhai degi..bilkul camera ki bagal se..vo kaha se aayi hai ye nahi pta lgege par vo ek taraf jati hui dikhai degi..
Aur phir camera dheere dheere uper ki or move karna start kar dega..aur car dur jati hui dikhai degi..
First scene ends…
Have u ever watched RUSSEL PETER s comedy?
RAMU SIR
how is my way of direction which i posted above..pls ..reply once..
RAMU SIR,
will you finance my ambitious project on super natural subject(ghost theme)..i mean i want to make a movie..would you help me fiancially?
RAMU sir,
i want to join your factory because i want to make a movie on suspense-horror theme..wat say..
for all those people who cal gandhi some unparliamentary names all i say is
for whatever reasons, gandhi like hitler has never left us and they continue to remain potent players in the present day thought.. so you call such personalities Great? OFCOURSE.. they have a force of personality that was hard to ignore by their peers and that is hard to ignore by the later generations and that is what makes people legends….
btw,
btw, to someone’s comment on sarkar being the best adaptation of mario puzo’s godfather – hmm, i dont know what is common between sarkar and the movie godfather except that it both are stories about an old criminal lord having more than one son…. in everything else they are different…. especially the characterizations of key people…
It is always a painful feeling when director’s who try to show some reality in their movies are always obstructed by some means like censor board or groups who are part of the roles in the movies like paritala ravi or suri. It would be a bad feeling for the audience if the scenes are cut by the censor board or messup caused by the fans of the roles played in the movies……PLEASE TAKE IMMENSE CARE ABOUT THE MOVIE SCENES BECAUSE I PERSONALLY LOVE TO SEE THE MOVIE THE WAY YOU PRESENT THEM TO THE AUDIENCE.
how boring…………….
“Rakta Charitra” starts with the following voiceover.
–YUKK!!!
I guess, the voiceover in COMPANY was given by Vijay Raz who incidentally played Kaura Singh in the same movie. That voice had this rustic, mumbai tapori(?) slang which rendered a feel of first person account. Akin to the voiceover in a later Hollywood release ‘300′ in terms of first person account.
The way he utters the word KOMPNNI was really unique.
It creates an impression of a reformed criminal of the underworld, who has now matured and mellowed and is now looking at the world of his past objectively and in a perspective. As if he is trying to narrate this whole story to an outsider. Perhaps to a journalist or to a professor while choosing not to lose his roots and not to lose the spirit of adventure, grit, gut which are still filling him with nostalgia.
Dear Ramu sir,
My best wishes for your Raktha charitra movie.
I hope that, the movie gives a big success to you and ur team.
All the best.
Hi sir, How u got an idea of making GOVINDA GOVINDA movie…..while u dont believe in GOD. from when u started not to believe in GOD. Is it since ur childhood or any incident drove u to ……
Do u have belief on the epics of INDIA….(ramayanam and maha bharatam)……..
@ MadinAndhra
I never supported Gandhi, nor do I like him, I am just sayin that using those words for someone like that is not at all correct. And deffinitely he was/is more powerful than us, it doesnt matter whether he was right or wrong…………. At the end of the day whoz a hero? One more thing, just to tell u that I am not a Gandhi supporter, I like Godse because he is one perfect example of a man who did the right thing at the right time…………
And yes I am SirPhiraj, thnx for the complements…….
Ramu,
Voice over (content) you mentioned for Rakta Charitra doesnt sound powerful. Donno if the voice gonna make any difference. Expecting something more.
i find dis blog to b da most entertaining celeb blog…. thx .
Sir, I am a great fan of yours. I read your phil.over media strip. But I believe media is doing their job which means stripping others to entertain others..that is what the meaning of media I believe. In my opinion celebrities are like soldiers. They have no personal life..they meant to be by the people for the people. coz they messed up with people’s emotions..(good or bad)..once you are decided to be a celebrity ..just that you have decide not to have any personal life..decided to dedicate everything to people…the more stronger celebrity you are …..the more stronger soldier you are going to be…take from Michael Jackson (god for new gen) and till chidatala apparao….they are supposed to be a soldier……and the great MJ has died in just 50’s just because of media doing their job I believe… it is all that what media wanted to bring is what matters to people …….I know you will ignore this lengthy message..I don’t mind the answer appears in the blog or not..as long as it touches your soul..(not heart)……
so so so eager for RAKTA CHARITRA……
ego,,control and lust (as described by u in various places over this blog) are such strong and true instincts/emotions of humans that they all become animals in front of this emotions. By animals i mean a behaviour which borders on or stretches the ’societal’ regulations. In rural areas…’gandhiji ke gaav’ mein…where the urban social ‘being good’ milieu is absent the animal instincts get more space to expand and hence RAKT CHARITRA.
even in urban , watched areas such things happen but they are dubbed as bigger categories like terrorism, crime etc.
gurus of peace say that everyone is ‘good’ and wants to be ‘good’ from inside. I dunno. but what i have seen is everyone given a chance ( a free will and no societal control) would want to become an animal in every regard.
your cam angles often seem to be surprising…why do u always love to keep the camera at the feet.