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It would be any Directors dream to have an Actor with a combination of intensity in facial expressions and a mind-blowing body to go with it. Most of the time there will be actors with good bodies but they can’t act and then there will be very good intense actors who cannot dare to take [...]

We used to keep hearing Basu Chatterjee’s name again and again in the times of mainstream commercial formula films like Deewar, Zanjeer, etc ruling the box office. He as a director at that time was completely going against type and yet making highly successful cult films like Rajnigandha, Chotisi Baat, Chitchor etc I myself remember [...]

Shankarabharanam released when I was in Engineering college and there used to be an almost a temple kind of an atmosphere in the theaters where it was running. In my college campus everyone used to speak in hushed respectful voices about its Director K. Vishwanath. One day in those days I was singing a song [...]

Nothing is more truer than that line from the “Idea” campaign which says “An idea can change your life”. My whole life and also my career as a Director is a living testimony of that truth both in positive and negative ways. It could range from a film like “Satya” coming from an Idea like [...]

1. Do you ever get bored? Ans: No. I only bore… many times through my films and sometimes in person. 2. Why don’t you make films with good scripts? Ans: I was recently called for a meeting with an industrialist who wants to come into films. This is how the conversation went. Industrialist: Mr.Varma, I [...]

..  “Phoonk 2” collected Rs.5.12 Crores all India for the first 3 days excluding the Tamil and Telugu versions and “Rann” collected only around 2.6 Crores for the same time. Considering that “Phoonk 2” is made in a budget of a fraction of “Rann” and its publicity budget is ½ of “Rann”, it is a [...]

1. I did not like this “last time I was scared” post. Ans: Jaani, to start with I don’t post anything here for you or anyone else to like it. I do it because I felt like posting it at that point of time and I myself might dislike it more than you at some [...]

It was 3’O’clock in the night. I just returned from a late night shoot of “Bhoot” to my apartment on the 8th floor. As I got into the bed and was trying to sleep I suddenly had a feeling that Manjeet the ghost in “Bhoot” was behind the cupboard near the wall. I felt my [...]

1. Did no Telugu director or Telugu writer ever influence you? Ans: Dasari Narayan Rao and K.Vishwanath influenced me as directors with “Chillarakottu Chitemma” and “Siva Ranjani”, “Shankarabharanam” and “Sagara Sangamam” respectivelyt. Muppala Ranga Nayakamma the novelist influenced me tremendously through her book “Ramayana Vishavriksham”. 2. How do you prepare an actor for a character? [...]

1. Would Howard Roark read Fountainhead? Ans: That’s a damn intelligent question Bhanu, I can’t imagine Roark ever reading a book because he himself is an embodiment of a thought process that arose from an intellectual analysis of the knowledge gathered by Ayn Rand through her reading of every book back then that was ever [...]