RGV says Cinema lovers are not interested in stories
Filmmaker Ramgopal Varma whose “The Factory” has been producing films like ‘Shiva’, ‘Rangeela’, ‘Bhoot’, ‘Sarkar’, ‘Ab Tak Chappan’ and many more believes that there is no harm in trying remakes of old classics.
In town for the promotion of his latest film ‘Shiva’ recently, Ramu, as he is popularly known, said, “Cine buffs are not much interest in the stories these days as what they see is the process of the film and the treatment given by the director and the story teller.” “You can always tell a story which has been told in silver screen for thousand times but that would create interest among the cinema lovers only if you are giving a fresh treatment in terms of story telling and grandeur of the movie,” he asserts.
About his latest venture, he told PTI “it is the same old story of an honest cop who fights with the system and against the nexus between politicians and criminals, but the way the whole story is handled you would find it interesting.” He claims that it is the re-incarnation of ‘angry young man’ and audience would love the way Mohit has portrayed the role of an honest cop and Nisha as a role of crime reporter.
Commenting on the remakes of olden goldies like Don starring Shahrukh Khan this time, Varma says, “as far as this new ‘Don’ is concerned I can’t say now as it is yet to be released. All what I can say is that people would be interested in watching this film as they would like to compare the acting of Shahrukh Khan with of Amitabh Bachchan and would see what new has been added in the narrative of Don.” Remakes are always welcome and there is no harm in trying remakes, he adds.
Asked about his remake of Sholay, he says, “It would be quite different from Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay as in his film the backdrop was village and dacoits while in my film the backdrop would be the urban criminals and underworld. And this time in my film the character of Thakur would be replaced by an encounter specialist.” Most of the Ramgopal Varma films arev based on underworld or gangsters and it is always said that they are more like real. To this Varma disagrees and says, “How can one say that the films like Company, Satya, D, and others were realistic? “Any journalist or film critic who writes that my films were realistic it means that he or she knows what happens in underworld and how it works? Most of these movies were based on news stories/crime stories that appeared in various news dailies and on various news channels.”
In the recent past some of his movies failed to click at the box office. On the reasons, he says, “Yes, there were a few mistakes and because of extra work I could not handle too many things at the same time. But after these failures I have focused myself to one or two films at a time so that I can do justice to the film I am doing.” Yesteryear’s movies always had ‘morals’ but this factor seems to have vanished from the Hindi cinema these days. To this Varma says, “See, you don’t need to make a film to give a moral in present era of commercialization.
About his forthcoming film, he replies, “Nishabd which would be a love story between an old man and 18 year old girl and there is remake of Sholay.”
— PTI
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