Ram Gopal Varma-On corpses to Agyaat hoardings

Ram Gopal Varma-On corpses to Agyaat hoardings

Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varmasays that the on corpses to Agyaat hoardings were for publicity purposes.

Hours after all hell broke lose Ram Gopal Varma is unapologetic about the ‘corpses’ appended to hoardings of his on-release film Agyaat.

“It was meant to create curiosity and it succeeded to that extent,” says Ram Gopal Varma. “Agyaat is a horror film and the entire concept of an invisible force killing people hinges on brutal and gruesome deaths. We thought the idea of putting a dummy corpse on the hoardings would attract eyeballs. And we succeeded.”

Now Ramu doesn’t mind getting those supposedly offensive dummy-corpses off the hoardings. “But I can’t understand why a hardhitting poster designed specifically for a horror film should be offensive when there are so many other issues that openly mock at our sense of aesthetics.”

Interestingly Ramu’s films known to portray women super-sensuously never depict the fair sex in a crude and vulgar light. “You won’t even come across the word ‘prostitute’ in my films. I’ve an inbuilt censorship and I go by it. Why don’t people concentrate on larger issues that plague cinema, like the way women are often shown in our films? I don’t think dummy-corpses on hoardings indicate any sense of social irresponsibility on my part. It’s not as if I’ve actually killed anyone.”

About the hoardings being a traffic hazard Ramu scoffs, “We made sure the hoardings were in secluded spots, so no one gets alarmed and distracted. Whether it’s the national anthem or a civic sense I think I’m a responsible citizen, even if some people accuse me of being an irresponsible filmmaker.”

-Bollywood news and gossips / By Subhash K Jha / Sampurn