RGV Blog

1. Do you keep changing your directorial approach like for instance, post Naach till Sarkar Raj I see a difference? Ans: Directorial approach largely depends on the theme of the film and the characters I am dealing with. 2. In Sarkar how were the killings of Selvar Mani, Vishram and Rashid countsructed? Ans: In real [...]

1. What is death? Ans: Will let you know as soon as I die. 2. Bastard you are really a genius. Ans: Well. I wish Satya thought the same. 3. I think you are bored, lonely and just want to show off. Ans: You are right on the third charge. 4. Do you really think [...]

When News Channels, Political parties and Industrial czars are the principal movers and shakers in a film, there is obviously a tremendous scope for high drama. As I mentioned in my earlier post on ??, the film is going to be a very high drama affair. And this is not so much my conscious intention as the director of the film, but the very demand of the subject matter.

In a very bad and not totally darkened theatre (because of the light leaking through some vents and gaps in the closed doors) called Ramapriya in Vijayawada town in Andhra Pradesh, for the first time I consciously began to understand the phenomenon of Amitabh Bachchan. The film that was playing was Khuddaar and the scene [...]

Years ago I was involved in a train accident, while travelling from Hyderabad to Naraspur for the shooting of ‘Prema katha’, which resulted in around 17 deaths. It was one of the most dramatic, comic and tragic experiences of my life. I was sleeping on the upper berth in a First Class cabin, when I [...]

Right from my childhood I had a fascination for tough guys. I used to look up to the bullies in school as they were my earliest exposure to violent power which slowly graduated to street toughs. When I was doing my B.Tech in Siddharth Engg.College in Vijayawada I had a pretty tough guy reputation. The [...]

(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 [...]