For other people named Ram Gopal, see Ram Gopal (disambiguation).

Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References

12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19]

In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23] For other people named Ram Gopal, see Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography

10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21

] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Early years Career in Telugu cinema Career in Hindi cinema Indian gangster trilogy Experimental films Later films

7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda.

Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema

3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok

a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13]

Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19]

Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12]

Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic

h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged.

Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film

Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F

ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S

iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim

al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H

e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter

national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction.

After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th

e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College

, Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5]

He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b

ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel

ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used

to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present

Children

Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2]

Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I

had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma

Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years

In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se

e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References

12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19]

In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography

10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21

] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Early years Career in Telugu cinema Career in Hindi cinema Indian gangster trilogy Experimental films Later films

7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda.

Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23] For other people named Ram Gopal, see Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema

3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok

a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23] For other people named Ram Gopal, see Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13]

Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19]

Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12]

Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic

h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged.

Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film

Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F

ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S

iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim

al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H

e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter

national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction.

After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th

e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College

, Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5]

He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b

ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel

ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used

to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present

Children

Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2]

Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I

had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma

Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years

In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se

e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References

12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19]

In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography

10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21

] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 Early years Career in Telugu cinema Career in Hindi cinema Indian gangster trilogy Experimental films Later films

7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda.

Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema

3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok

a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13]

Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19]

Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged. Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12]

Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic

h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]For other people named Ram Gopal, se e Ram Gopal (disambiguation). Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma Born Penmatsa Ram Gopal Varma Hyderabad Occupation Film director, producer and writer Years active 1989 present Children Revathi Varma (Daughter)[1][2] Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV is an Indian film director, screenwriter and p roducer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Tollywood, the Hindi and Tel ugu film industries respectively. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road m ovies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films a nd musicals.[3][4][5] He has won the National Film Award, in 1999 for producing Shool, for which he wa s also the screenwriter. He garnered four State Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awa rds and five Bollywood Movie Awards. In 2010, He received critical acclaim at th e International film festival of Fribourg, Switzerland, where in, a retrospectiv e of Mumbai noir, was staged by film critic, Edward Waintrop.[6] He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at Inter national Film Festival of India.[7] In 1995 he directed another blockbuster Rang eela. He then directed Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including th e Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama sect ion, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.[8] Varma received the Bim al Roy memorial award for best direction for this film.[9] In 2005, Indiatimes M ovies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.[10] Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed, which won seven F ilmfare Awards, which was premiered at the 2004 Austin Film Festival) and the 20 05 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy". In 2006, he re -made a new version of Shiva, which was screened at the New York Asian Film Fest ival, where a retrospective featuring several of his previous movies was staged.

Alongside Shiva, the festival screened his earlier successful films Company, Ek Hasina Thi and Ab Tak Chhappan.[11] In 2008, he directed another blockbuster, S arkar Raj, which was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library.[12] Other acclaimed films at the box office, that Varma directed include Kshana Ksha nam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Katha (1999), Kaun ( 1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Phoonk (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010), and Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011).[13] Contents 1 Early years 2 Career in Telugu cinema 3 Career in Hindi cinema 4 Indian gangster trilogy 5 Experimental films 6 Later films 7 Influences 8 Autobiography 9 Awards 10 Filmography 10.1 As director 10.2 As producer 10.3 As writer 11 References 12 External links Early years In an interview to Tehelka, Varma talked about his relationship with his parents and the reasons behind his decision to become a filmmaker. From my parents perspective, I looked like a useless bum. It was the truth. I had no objective. I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their beh aviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gan gsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn t perhap s did not even want to do myself. But I d want a friend like that (laughs). I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life peopl e. I was always a loner not because I was unhappy, but because I live away from myself, not just others. I like to study myself the way I am walking, talking, b ehaving. My constant obsession with studying myself and other people is perhaps the primary motivation for me to be a filmmaker.[14] Varma completed BE in civil engineering from V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College , Vijayawada. Even during this period, Varma remained a film buff, through his u ncle. Varma would skip classes often and watch films instead. He would watch the same film repeatedly "just to watch certain scenes which interested him."[15] A ccording to him, that is how he learned film direction. After 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 mon ey. It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad. H e loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, t hrough which he slowly developed connections with the film world.[16] Without be ing successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, S iva.[17] Career in Telugu cinema Ram Gopal Varma in the sets of a Telugu film

Before Varma started his career in the Telugu film industry, he lingered on the sets of films such as Collector Gari Abbai and Rao Gaari Illu. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, Hyderabad which is owned by Akkineni Nages wara Rao. Varma managed to meet Nagarjuna and narrated a scene to the actor whic h impressed him.[18] The result of their collaboration was a film on the crimina lization of student politics Siva. It was a blockbuster with Varma demonstrating his technical expertise and storytelling skills. The success of the film in Tel ugu led to a Hindi remake with similar success.[19] Varma's next film was Kshana Kshanam with Venkatesh and Sridevi which got him no ticed by Bollywood critics. It was dubbed into Hindi as Hairaan. Then he made fi lms such as Raatri and Antham. While Gaayam with Jagapathi Babu and Anaganaga Ok a Roju with J.D. Chakravarthy were successful, Govinda Govinda with Nagarjuna an d Sridevi proved to be a moderate success at the box office.[20] During this per iod, Varma produced films such as Money and Money Money and was the screenwriter for Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. Career in Hindi cinema While Varma's first successful Hindi film was the remake of Siva. His next film was Drohi. What really put the spotlight on him was the blockbuster Rangeela.[21 ] The film won Filmfare Awards for Rahman and Shroff. According to Varma, it was dedicated to actress Sridevi.[22] His next film Daud (1997), however, sank with out a trace.[19] In 1998, Varma was an executive producer for Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam a nd starring Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta. The film won the NE TPAC Award for Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as two Natio nal Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards.[23]