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Ram Gopal Varma - Early years

Ram Gopal Varma was born in to Krishnamraju and Suryamma. He did his Engineering from Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada before taking up a career as the owner of a Video Shop and then turned to become India's leading Film Director. He was an average student. Not that regular to the college, he was known to be a movie buff during his graduation days and used to dissect the movies from a movie maker's point of view through repeatitive viewing.

Ram Gopal Varma shook the whole nation with Rangeela and Tamil Nadu with Udayam a few years before. Here are some interesting bits and pieces of information about him. Even when he was in school, he loved films, in spite of beatings with belts from his mother, he didn’t give up his habit. His uncle was crazy about films too. Together, they wouldn’t miss any film. He used to get very excited each time he saw the ‘Directed by…’ and ‘A Film by…’ title card. When he was watching the title card of Sholay that said ‘A Film by Ramesh Sippy’, he had the same passion that he felt when he saw his own name on the title card of the film Udayam. There was no support from his family. Even his maternal uncle thought he was crazy. He was not upset but was very surprised. Ram Gopal Varma believes that North Indian stars are more talented than South Indian ones. He loves Hindi films. He claims that he has no bad habits. He doesn’t believe that alcohol is a bad habit. He loves all directors starting from Steven Spielberg, Shekhar Kapoor, Govind Nihlani and others. But he doesn’t have any influences. He has his own style. He doesn’t bother himself with reviews. He says, “Why should I worry about what the faceless reviewer thinks about my film? If he doesn’t like it, there is nothing that I could do about it.”

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