Jungle Queen

After simpering Urmila Matondkar and Jiah Khan,Ram Gopal Varma has found a new mojo-Jungle is my new heroine, he says.

After simpering Urmila Matondkar and Jiah Khan,Ram Gopal Varma has found a new mojo Jungle is my new heroine, he says. The filmmaker,settling down with a cup of tea at The Park,is ready with a new movie,Agyaat,which releases this Friday and for the usual barrage of criticism.

No filmmaker is immune to brickbats. When Sanjay Leela Bhansali made Saawariya,people said things about him,but then he vanished from the public eye to work on his next project. My films release every few months,so clearly I am everyones favourite punching bag, says Varma,who has just managed to wriggle out of another controversy in Mumbai after dummy bodies were hung across the films posters . The fake corpses were put on billboards to shock and grab attention. People are talking about it and weve managed to achieve our goal, he says curtly.

The film,a thriller,has south Indian actor Nitin and Priyanka Kothari in the lead and was shot in the jungle of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka. At that time LTTE chief Prabhakaran was alive and most of my crew was sceptical about the shoot. But I convinced them. No other venue was capable of creating an equally scary ambience. The jungle is the heroine of this film.

Why is he hung upon thrillers? Unlike romance and drama,which need good scripts and performances,thrillers and horror films depend on the techniques used. We have to constantly manipulate the audiences mind and create fear. The sound design is very exhaustive in Agyaat, he says,There is an audience for horror films,otherwise Phoonk and (Vikram Bhatts) 1920 would not have opened to houseful weekends.

Next in line are Amitabh Bachchan starrer Rann,which releases this year-end,and Vivek Oberoi starrer Rakta Charitra that will be ready by next year. Any plans for Sarkar Raj 3? After Shankars death,there isnt much left to do with the script. We never had plans to make a Sarkar Raj 3.

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Jungle Queen

After simpering Urmila Matondkar and Jiah Khan,Ram Gopal Varma has found a new mojo-Jungle is my new heroine, he says.

After simpering Urmila Matondkar and Jiah Khan,Ram Gopal Varma has found a new mojo-Jungle is my new heroine, he says.