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1. The unreal” is more powerful than the “real”. Ans: “Real” power is about making the “unreal” real. 2. What is success and who is successful? Ans: Success is for others and being successful is for yourself. 3. Whenever I read your new post I feel as if I am having sex with a new [...]


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1. Waiting for some good films from you. Ans: Wait. 2. How do you rate Rahman as a composer? Ans: Read my article “Rahman Times” on this blog. 3. Are you as selfish as Roark? Ans: He is selflessly selfish and I am selfishly selfless. 4. Is it the 3D or is it the adventure [...]


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1. Can you explain how you create characters that suit a particular story? Ans: Instead of creating characters to suit a story, you should create characters who will give rise to a story. The reason for this is different characters will react differently in different situations which will influence the subsequent sequences. So if you [...]


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.. 1. With regard to you believing in what Rajgopal believes how can you believe in something just because someone else believes in it? Ans: As I have been living in Hyderabad since my birth and I know people all over Andhra Pradesh I just felt emotionally upset about the division. But since I don’t [...]


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I and Rajgopal

He was my junior at Siddhartha Engineering college in Vijayawada. The first time I remember seeing him was when he was coming towards our hostel on a scooter. Short and very unassuming looking I hardly took notice of him. Me and a few others together used to be a very tough gang on the campus [...]


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1. Ayn Rand is ashamed of you. Ans: Oh! ……. When did you die? 2. I want to kiss you Ramu. Ans: I only believe in kissing and not in being kissed. 3. What is your advice to budding directors? Ans: To understand that the onus is on you to get a film and not [...]


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1. How did you feel when Sridevi married Boney? Ans: I wept. 2. With Daud, Kaun and Raat I think you were ahead of time. Ans: To me they look worse now than at the time they were made. 3. How was the shot in Agyaat taken when the camera rotates in the chasing scene? [...]


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1. Love you Ramu.Ans: Love you too Shalini. 2. I am sure that there are many people in the world who are like the characters in Fountainhead though they have not heard of Ayn Rand.Ans: Well Sandhya, that’s obviously the only reason how Ayn Rand could have written that book in the first place. 3. [...]


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1. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Do you have limits? Ans: I am off limits. 2. Are you saying that philosophy is neither wrong nor right? Ans: I am saying that philosophy can be and should be used to mainly psyche others and sometimes yourself that even your [...]


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My Reactions to Reactions

1. You will be very sexy if you were a woman. Ans: I don’t know about being sexy but surely I will know better than a woman on how to please a man. 2. Fear is the only pure instinct and there is nothing wrong in having it. Ans: My quest is to understand the [...]


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