Ram Gopal Varma Blog #177. My Reactions to Reactions

1. If you were given the budget and technology could you have made Avatar?

Ans: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha He He He He He Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho He He He He He He Ho Ho Ho Ho…


2. I find it interesting that a guy like you, who says that he thinks 20 different things simultaneously can also manage to find time to answer dumb questions.

Ans: But Dumbo, this activity is also one of the 20 things na…


3. I wish you were a woman with such eyes and intellect.

Ans: I am blushing.


4. What is the relation between life and death?

Ans: Living.


5. What is your take on devotion?

Ans: It’s as sanctitious as love.


P.S: Now don’t run to a dictionary to find the meaning of ‘sanctitious’. I just invented the word because I liked the sound of it.


6. In spite of you trying hard, you still cannot cover your natural humility in your unnatural arrogance.

Ans: That’s because I am naturally arrogant which can come across to lesser people as me having an unnatural humility.


P.S: Incidentally Jaani, irrespective of your intent of asking the questions I answer for my own intent.


7. What is the average time you think for such answers?

Ans: They come instantly and that’s why I call them reactions.


8. How can you laugh at K.Balachander, Vishwanath etc?

Ans: Hello! My comment was not on them but it is to draw attention to superior makers.

9. I want to thank you for your tremendous contribution to my philosophical knowledge.

Ans: No need to thank me as I didn’t care to contribute anything to you in the first place. Incidentally Vaishak, l wish for your own sake that you don’t take things so seriously and for a change learn to enjoy life the way it has been given to you or the way you want to take it. I genuinely wish you well for the occasional intelligence you showed on this blog. Bye!


10. What is your opinion of Devdas kind of people who commit suicide?

Ans: Instead of enjoying the drink with the girl they are in love with in reality, they use it as poison to drown themselves in their sorrowful imagination of the girl and hence they truly and very well deserve to die.


11. Did you read the works of modern day philosopher Noam Chomsky?

Ans: I stopped reading philosophies ever since I became a philosopher myself. Nowadays whenever I get time I only read porn.


12. Why did you put that line at the end of “Satya” “My tears for Satya are as much as for those whom he killed”?

Ans: As I was mixing the reel of Satya’s death scene, I had this sudden surge of emotion for the character of Satya who in principal was the cause of so many deaths in the film but yet he seemed as much of a victim due to the compelling circumstances which he himself got caught in.


13. Can a filmmaker not get the desired effect unless he dramatizes?

Ans: Drama is nothing but a way of driving the emotion of the audience to register the given content strongly.


14. Truth that is naked, is most beautiful.

Ans: That is very True, unless it has a bad body.


15. Dreamers of the day are dangerous for they can act out their dream with their eyes open.

Ans: Brilliantly said. But rather than dangerous, I would call them powerful.



16. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.

Ans: That’s the way I lived my life, Dushyant. It’s another matter that I got burnt most times.


17. Like a girl accepts a guy’s character in an overall aspect inspite of his deficiencies audience also accept a film in totality despite its faults.

Ans: I completely agree but in the case of realistic and serious films I have observed that even a minor fault gets highly magnified. This is like when you believe in and trust in a person very deeply even the smallest thing the person says or does in a negative way can affect you very badly.


18. How can emotion be attached to reason or logic?

Ans: I didn’t mean normal emotions which I clarified in that reaction itself. I meant that if you understand your emotions it can be more intensely felt.


19. How can an emotion enhance our sensory perceptions?

Ans: A controlled emotion is like a self induced drug. We can use it in the right desired doses for the right desired effect.


20. Do you believe in vruksho rakshati rakshita?

Ans: Is that Polish?


21. Why is Ayn Rand’s fiction work more popular than her philosophical non-fiction work?

Ans: That’s because in fiction she just dramatically applies her non-fiction philosophy to practical aspects of our lives thereby using our emotions to send her message across as she very well understands that our intellect will be too low and too slow to be able to grasp her non-fiction philosophy.


22. Why do people get jealous?

Ans: That’s because by nature they believe that they should be in the centre of the frame and they can’t take it when they go out of focus and when the camera of life pans away from them.


23. How can I convince any person?

Ans: By convincing yourself to start with.

24. How much does an actor influence the outcome of a scene?

Ans: Completely. Scene content is nothing without a good actor whereas a good actor can make even bad content good.


25. You are a superb cocktail of the creator and the second hander.

Ans: I am actually the lime piece.


26. You have reached the level wherein you have discovered and understood the humanoid singularity of thought process so well and that’s why you can so conveniently twirl and twist it to suitable patterns.

Ans: Well Ratnakar, Yes I did and the secret of that is in the rather very impressive term you used ‘humanoid singularity of thought process’.


Pretty much all of us think and feel the same but the tragedy is that each and every one of us think that only I think and I  feel like this and the others don’t and that’s where our ego comes in which blocks all inputs to our knowledge and world view thereby either stunting or retarding us.


Instead of defending our beliefs we should let them free so that they interact and converse with others beliefs and then they will come back to us and make us bigger in thinking and stronger in character.

27. You are a completely incomplete person.

Ans: That’s my intent, my friend.


28. Where did you find Sudeep?

Ans: When I was going for a walk he was lying on the road.



29. Do you like Stephen King novels?

Ans: I love them. My favourite is “Gerald’s Game”.


30. Is it required for a filmmaker to be a good writer?

Ans: Not necessarily. But he should be a good narrator.



31. You are a necessary evil to the movie industry.

Ans: And the movie industry is even more of a necessary evil for me.


32. What’s your take on songs and their disturbance in films?

Ans: Will soon write a piece on this.


33. What is that which cannot be taken without giving and cannot be given without taking?

Ans: Power and sexual pleasure.


34. How do you describe a kiss?

Ans: Depends on whom I am kissing.


35. Does the camera speak when the actor is silent?

Ans: That’s a great understanding. My whole technique of using the camera arises from this understanding. Thank you for putting it so beautifully.


36. Why do people who want lust start with love?

Ans: Because love is the best currency to buy lust with and the best buy of lust can be only with love.


37. How were you as a kid?

Ans: I was like an adult and as I was growing up I have realized that I was being programmed to become a retard kid which I resisted with my intelligence and decided to remain a normal kid which can be taken as a supernormal kid when surrounded with retard kids. The secret of being a true adult is to be like a kid who is interactive, instinctive and who will live till he dies with just one great realization that there is no greater absolute truth in life than that of vodka and sex.


38. How do you feel about talking to us lesser mortals?

Ans: Immortal.