In this deep-dive interview, Ram Gopal Varma looks back at his filmography, its iconic moments and overlooked mistakes as he describes the nitty gritty of filmmaking and what he aspires to achieve with his new initiative, ‘Your Film’.

Link to YOUR FILM: https://rgvden.com

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Democratising filmmaking
04:22 - 90% failure rate in cinema
14:00 - RGV on nepotism
17:00 - What works and what doesn’t?
19:14 - Self-expression vs audience’s acceptance
20:33 - Demystifying the myth of cinema
27:43 - Resources, VFX, Adipurush and HanuMan
33:44 - AR Rahman and Subhash Ghai anecdote
38:28 - Why film schools are bad?
43:43 - Interpreting characters
46:19 - Sarkar and Satya character examples
50:48 - Relationship between acting and editing
52:17 - Mistakes by Mani Ratnam and RGV - Raavan and AAG examples
56:43 - Cinematic liberty - Satya example
59:35 - Cinematic liberty - Godfather example
1:02:01 - Enjoying films without subtext
1:05:56 - Making films “carelessly”
1:07:47 - Story is overrated
1:10:12 - What is good cinematography?
1:18:46 - AI’s impact on filmmaking
1:24:29 - Language question

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Film Companion South is a division of Film Companion, founded by film critic and author Anupama Chopra. Apart from film reviews and articles, Film Companion South, with programs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada, specializes in conducting in-depth interviews with film personalities which include the likes of Kamal Hassan, Mani Ratnam, Academy Award-winner AR Rahman, Vetrimaaran, Dhanush, Yash, Sruthi Hariharan, Mahesh Babu, NTR Jr, Samantha, Aishwarya Rajesh, Ramya Krishnan, Prithviraj, Anjali Menon, Mysskin, Gautam Vasudev Menon, Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Yash, Prashanth Neel, Venkat Prabhu, Nelson, Sivakarthikeyan, Rakshit Shetty and many more. The channel has also hosted shows which open up the lesser-known facets of filmmaking with conversations with PC Sreeram, Ravi Varman, Rajiv Menon, Thota Tharani, and Academy Award-winner Resul Pookutty. In other words, Film Companion South is for those who love their cinema and are unapologetic about it.