Ram Gopal Varma reveals Amitabh Bachchan never asked him why he’s remaking Sholay, trusted him with Aag: ‘SS Rajamouli questioned…’

He was asked whether Amitabh Bachchan had questioned him astir the project. The filmmaker shared that the megastar had immense spot successful him, which is wherefore helium did not probe much. “That was his spot successful me. He didn’t inquire why. Them not questioning maine was good due to the fact that I had a definite credibility arsenic a manager aft making truthful galore films. They indispensable person assumed I knew what I was doing. I don’t deliberation it was their spot to ask, and astatine that time, they didn’t cognize however Aag would signifier up. Amitabh would person thought I was making an mentation of Sholay,” helium explained.

Reflecting connected his earlier failures, RGV shared an incidental involving Naach (2004), which, similar RGV Ki Aag, was a container bureau disaster. He recounted however SS Rajamouli couldn’t assistance but question his choices, fixed his estimation arsenic a prolific and intelligent director. Opening up astir the interaction, RGV said, “Whatever you make, it has to travel from wrong you with sincerity, and I did not bash that. I wasn’t adjacent alert that I wasn’t doing it. I’m a precise careless person, and I person a inclination not to instrumentality myself seriously. I besides thin to go gimmicky oregon accidental and bash things for daze value.”

He added, “In this context, SS Rajamouli asked me, ‘A idiosyncratic arsenic intelligent and well-read arsenic you, wherefore would you bash this?’ I told him, ‘I americium not a filmmaker, but I besides marque films. I unrecorded my beingness connected my ain terms, and successful that context, thing similar this volition come.'”