


It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him." According to him, that is how he learned film direction.Īfter a brief stint as a site engineer for Krishna Oberoi hotel in Hyderabad, he put his dreams on the back burner and decided to go to Nigeria to make some money. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead.

Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his uncle. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada. Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker. I like to study myself - the way I am walking, talking, behaving. I was always a loner - not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life people. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. But I’d want a friend like that (laughs). They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn’t- perhaps did not even want to do myself. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their behaviour. įrom my parents’ perspective, I looked like a useless bum. Other acclaimed films that Varma directed include Kshana Kshanam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Kadha (1999), Kaun (1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Sarkar Raj (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010) Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011) and Dongala Mutta (2011). Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed and which won seven Filmfare Awards) and the 2005 film D (which he produced), form an " Indian gangster trilogy". The next film he directed was Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama section, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India. He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at International Film Festival of India in kolkata and Rangeela (1995). Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres - psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road movies, horrors, politician-criminal nexus, and musicals in multiple languages. Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
