RGV Blog

(This has to be read in continuation to my previous post titled “Wrong is Right”.) As I was hanging out on the sets of ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’ Surendra had an idea of making a film based upon ‘The Sound of Music’ which was later made into ‘Rao Gari Illu’. In ‘Collector Gari Abbayi’ since I [...]

In ‘Sarkar’ Selvar Mani says “Jiske paas power hai uska wrong bhi right ho jata hai”. I believe it’s not so much because of power alone but it can also be due to your own personal attitude towards life. Somewhere in this blog I mentioned that whenever life decides something for me, I immediately take [...]

My father was a sound engineer in Annapurna Studios and due to that he had a pretty good access to the big guns there. I went to him and told him that I wanted to be film director and he thought I had cracked my mind. That was with good reason because there was not [...]

1. Your movies and attitude show no sign of positiveness. Ans: And your views on the same show no sign of positiveness either. 2. What inspires you to resort to such radical compositions and oblique camera angles? Ans: Anything and everything are the same to all people. The way one individual chooses to look at [...]

I came back from my Engineering entrance exam and told my father that I did the test so badly that if I pass the test everyone else who has written will pass. I realized later that it was a terribly insensitive thing to say to my lower middle class father who was struggling to make [...]

1. You should make a special appearance in your film. Ans: I know I don’t look good. But what you have suggested me to play…… Well it hurt me. I hope my girl friends won’t read what you wrote. 2. Why did you highlight the artifacts in Phoonk? Ans: If I have to explain that, [...]

Someone sent me a printout of a review of Sarkar Raj posted on Passion for Cinema website titled “Sarkar Raj: Get Him While He’s Down Cause He’s Gonna Come Back with a Magnum and then You Gotta Ask Yourself: ‘Do I feel Lucky?’ Well, Do Ya PUNK”. I was thrilled to bits seeing the venom [...]

People when told to see a particular film, the first question they will ask is “who is in it?” This is how a star is born. Because they cannot know how the film is, the least they can depend on making up their mind to see the film is the presence of a certain star. [...]

1. Why is that you turn a deaf ear to many of our questions? Ans: I only answer what is worth answering. 2. Why don’t you make movies for society’s good? Ans: I am not into social welfare. I am into self welfare. The Gaayam song is a great piece of work but if you [...]

Any filmmaker primarily wants to make a film which people will acclaim. The collections are more the Producers and Distributors concern. But the collections also indicate how many people actually saw the film. Does one feel that the film has served the purpose because a few individuals like the Print & Television critics say it [...]