MUMBAI: Indian auteur Ram Gopal Varma has spoken about one of his many childhood dreams. On Thursday, the filmmaker took to his X, formerly Twitter, and shared a long note.
He shared how change is the only constant he has grown up with, and how his dreams constantly changed during his formative years.
He wrote, “I wanted to be an auto rickshaw driver when I was around 10, because I was fascinated with the vrooom vroom sound when the accelerator revs up. And then around 15, I wanted to live in a forest inspired by a cousin of mine , and then a few years later, I wanted to be an engineer and then once again I changed my mind to become a director. Likewise, I was heavily into Enid Blyton's books which I abandoned , when I discovered James Hadley Chase, who I thought was the greatest writer ever. And then after a few years, I discovered Fredrick Forsyth who awed me beyond my imagination. In effect we all keep getting re-shaped from time to time because of newer and newer experiences which keep on elevating our bench marks as they should. My bench mark films were The sound of music (‘Rangeela’), Exorcist (‘Raat’, ‘Bhoot’) , ‘Godfather’ (‘Satya’, ‘Company’, ‘Sarkar’). In my entire career I was making films derived from those benchmarks and mainly from ‘Godfather’”.
The director lauded the recently released Ranveer Singh-starrer ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, and shared that he has made a conscious decision to put the upcoming part of the ‘Sarkar’ franchise on hold and work on ‘Syndicate’.