Ram Gopal Varma

Sridevi was like a bird in a cage: Ram Gopal Varma

Feb 272018

RGV-Sridevi-death What was Sridevi’s life like? Director Ram Gopal Varma who worked with her in two films and knew her well said she was always in problems and all that her husband Boney Kapoor could provide her was a shoulder to cry on.
In a “Love letter to Sridevi’s fans” on Tuesday, the filmmaker from Hyderabad explained how difficult life had been her right from her childhood.

“Except for the short glimmer of ‘English Vinglish’, Sridevi was pretty much an extremely unhappy woman. The uncertainty of the future, the ugly turns and twists in her private life left deep scars in the superstar’s sensitive mind and thereafter she was never at peace,” he said recounting all that Sridevi went through in her life.

“From my personal experience with her, the only time I ever saw her in peace was in front of the camera that too only between Action and Cut ..That’s because she could cut off the harsh reality and escape into her own fantasy world,” RGV explained on a blog post on his Facebook.

Ram Gopal Varma pointed out that he had worked with her in her films “Kshana kshanam” and “Govinda Govinda” and that Sridevi’s life was a classic case of how a celebrity’s persons actual life is completely different from how the rest of the outside world perceives it.

“For many, Sridevi’s life was perfect. Beautiful face, great talent, a seemingly stable family with two beautiful daughters. From outside, everything looked so enviable and desirable… But was Sridevi a very happy person and did she lead a very happy life? I know her life from the time I met her. I saw with my own eyes how her life was like a bird in the sky till her father’s death and then became like a bird in a cage due to her overprotective mother,” he explained.

The director explained that back in time when actors used to be only paid in mostly black money, due to fear of tax raids her father used to trust friends and relatives but everyone of them betrayed her the moment her father died. He said then her ignorant mother made many wrong investments in litigated properties. “All those mistakes combined made her almost penny less by the time Boney came into her life. He himself was in huge debts and all he could afford was to give her a shoulder to cry on,” he said.

Ram Gopal Varma recalled she has got into issues with younger sister Srilatha over property matters. “So in effect, the woman desired by millions in the world was all alone and almost penny less in the world,” he said.

The director said Sridevi knew she was a beautiful woman and for years got comestic surgeries done, the effects of which could be seen. He said the nightmare of every actress was age and Sridevi was no exception. “She always came across as a little uptight but that’s because she built a psychological wall around her as she was scared of anybody to really see what’s going on within her. She was panicky about anybody knowing what her insecurities were,” he said.

“She had to put on the makeup and be somebody else not just in front of the camera, but also put a psychological makeup to hide her real self behind the camera. She was being constantly directed by the motives of her parents, her relatives, her husband and to an extent even her own children,” he said.
Ram Gopal Varma described Sridevi as a child trapped in a woman’s body. “She was naive as a person, but suspicious because of her bitter experiences which is not a very good combination,” he said.

Ram Gopal Varma: I hate God for killing Sridevi and I hate her for dying

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Feb 252018

A saddened and furious Ram Gopal Varma posted a letter on social media on learning about Sridevi’s demise

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A snapshot of Ram Gopal Varma with the late actress Sridevi.

54-year-old veteran actress, Sridevi, breathed her last on Saturday in Dubai due to cardiac arrest. She was there to attend her nephew Mohit Marwah’s wedding and extended her stay to do some shopping for her elder daughter Janhvi, who is making her Bollywood debut with Dhadak, say sources. She was there with producer-husband Boney Kapoor and younger daughter Khushi Kapoor. But, it’s filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma who is really furious with this untimely death and has professed his hatred towards God for taking the beautiful soul. In a Facebook post and a few posts on Twitter, the ‘Rangeela’ director has expressed his emotions.

This is what he ” target=”_blank”>wrote:

I HATE GOD FOR KILLING SRIDEVI AND I HATE SRIDEVI FOR DYING.

I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my cell phone and I suddenly saw a message that Sridevi is no more ..I thought that either it’s a nightmare or a hoax and I went back to sleep. An hour later I woke up to check and there were around 50 messages informing me of the same
Back in the times when I was in engineering college in Vijayawada, I happened to see her first Telugu film “padaharella vayasu”.. I was awestruck with her Beauty and I walked out of the theatre in a daze thinking that she cannot be a real person and she has to be some fantasy form who somehow has taken a human shape. Then I saw her various other films, all of which constantly created a higher benchmark of both her talent and her beauty ..To me she looked like some being who has come from some other world in the outer space as a favour to bless us for a little while for all the good we might have done in this world .

She was like a creation of God which he does whenever he is in a very special mood as a very very special gift to mankind. My journey to Sridevi started when I was preparing for my debut film ‘Shiva’. I used to walk from Nagarjuna’s office in Chennai to a neighbouring street where Sridevi used to live and I used to just stand and watch Sridevi’s house from outside her gate.

I just couldn’t believe that the goddess of beauty lives in that stupid looking house. I say stupid because I believed that no man-made house deserved to house that beauty called SRIDEVI. I used to so desperately hope to catch a glimpse of her as she went in or out of her house. But sadly no such thing ever happened.

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And then after ‘Shiva’ released and became a big hit, a producer came to me and asked if I was interested in doing a film with Sridevi. I said “Are you mad or what? I will die to just see her, let alone make a film with her!”He arranged a meeting with her and took me to meet her at that very same house where I used to stand outside the gate and stare. At night we went and as luck would have it there was a power cut in her house. so I was sitting in her living room in candlelight along with the producer waiting for the angel to appear and my heart was thumping like mad.

Her mother told us she was busy packing as she was about to catch a flight to go to Mumbai. As we were waiting, every once in a while Sridevi was rapidly crossing the living room as she was moving from one room to another room in a rush to finish her packing even as she apologetically smiled at me for the delay. Every time she was appearing and disappearing in a flash and the director in me started slow motioning her and running her backward and forward for my visual pleasure.

Finally, she came and sat in the living room, just said a mandatory few lines that she would very much like to work with me and then she left for Mumbai. I continued talking to her mother with enormous respect and awe because she actually gave birth to Sridevi. I went back to my place feeling like I was in the seventh heaven. The way Sridevi sat in front of me in the candlelight got imprinted in my mind like an exquisite painting and with her image completely filling both my mind and my heart I started writing Kshana Kshanam.

I wrote Kshana Kshanam with the one and only purpose so as to impress Sridevi. Kshana Kshanam was intended by me as a love letter to her. Throughout the making of Kshana Kshanam,I just couldn’t take my eyes off her charm, her beauty, her personality and her demeanour was a new discovery for me.
She had an invisible wall around her and she does not let anyone cross that. Behind that wall, she maintains her dignity and her self-respect and she never lets anyone inside. Also during the course of working with her and observing her technique of acting, I began to understand more and more as a director about the nuances of performances and characterizations because for me she formed the epitome of cinematic acting.

Her popularity and stardom had to be seen to be believed. We were shooting for the climax in Nandyal for Kshana Kshanam and the whole town of Nandyal came to a standstill when they came to know that Sridevi was in town. Banks, Govt offices, Schools, Colleges everything in town closed as everyone wanted to see Sridevi.

She stayed in a traveller’s bungalow in Nandyal and at a little distance, I was staying in another bungalow. There used to be a crowd of at least 20,000 people around her bungalow throughout the night just staring at it. There were about 50 tough guys along with a 100 strong police force who used to continuously guard her.

When we were at location we used to know that Sridevi started from her bungalow to come to location because we used to see a column of dust travelling towards us from the distance. The dust was due to the thousands of people running behind her car. I have never seen more of a super star and now she just got extinguished
Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman, God ever created and I think he creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years. Though she is no longer there, we her directors fortunately have her captured as a goddess of beauty in our cameras and our cinematic angel has now just become a divine angel.

I thank God for creating Sridevi and I thank Louis Lumiere for creating the movie camera for giving us an opportunity to contain her forever. I still can’t believe that she is no more and I am lying in bed writing about my memories of her

I so hope I am still having a bad dream, but I know I am not

I hate Sridevi.

I hate her for making me realise that she too is finally only just a human being.

I hate that her heart too has to beat to live.

I hate that, she too has a heart which can just stop like anybody else’s.

I hate that I lived to see the messages informing me of her death

I hate God for killing her

And I hate Sridevi for dying.

I love you Sri wherever you are… and I will always love you.

– Ram Gopal Varma

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Ram Gopal Varma appears before Hyderabad police in obscenity case

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Feb 172018

Ram Gopal Varma on Saturday appeared before Hyderabad police in connection with a case of obscenity booked against him for his movie God, Sex and Truth

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Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on Saturday appeared before Hyderabad police in connection with a case of obscenity booked against him for his movie “God, Sex and Truth”, and also for allegedly insulting the modesty of a woman. The filmmaker, whose controversial movie with American porn star Mia Malkova was released on internet last month, appeared before the officials of Central Crime Station (CCS) in response to the notice served on him. The police officials questioned him about the allegations made against him by women activists.

On January 25, a day before the release of the movie, Varma was booked by the CCS. A case under section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 was booked against him for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form. The filmmaker was also booked under sections 506 and 509 of Indian Penal Code for allegedly making personal comments against women activists during the debate on the movie on some television channels. When activists accused him of promoting obscenity, Varma allegedly offered to make similar movies with them. He has been charged with insulting the modesty of a woman.

The CCS this week issued fresh notice on Varma as he could not appear before the officials earlier. Women’s organizations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh had staged protest last month demanding ban on the release of the movie on web and Varma’s immediate arrest. The activists alleged that Varma released the movie on web to avoid the certification by authorities. They said the filmmaker is portraying woman as a sex object and promoting pornography.

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Ram Gopal Varma's new girl Myra Sareen is a hottie

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Dec 042017

Ram Gopal Varma is collaborating with Shiva (1990) actor Nagarjuna after over 25 years. The untitled film will have newcomer Myra Sareen as the female lead

Ram Gopal Varma is collaborating with Shiva (1990) actor Nagarjuna after over 25 years. The untitled film will have newcomer Myra Sareen as the female lead. Though names of Anushka Shetty and Tabu did the rounds for the Telugu film, Ramu felt the model was apt for the role. Not much is known about Myra yet, except that Ramu felt she fit the bill when he first spotted her. RGV will have lots to say about her. We will keep you posted.

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