Amitabh Bachchan will play gangster in Ram Gopal Varma’s Department

The cold war between Amitabh Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma is over finally. The acclaimed director will cast the senior actor in his film Department. It was earlier rumored that Amitabh Bachchan has walked out of the Ram Gopal Varma film. However, with things settling down, things are returning to normalcy.

If those reports were believed, then actually Amitabh Bachchan had walked out of Department, when he came to know that it was the director who had brought disrepute to his son. However, things took a cozy turn when Ram Gopal Varma visited the Big B’s residence on Wednesday night.

The very next morning, he ‘exposed’ Big B’s role in the film (well, finally he did expose someone’s role). He said that Amitabh would be playing the role of a politician who was a former gangster. RGV said, “Imagine the Agneepath character turning over a new leaf and yet to have the same hard intensity and been there done that know-how”.

RGV did not forget to mention that his respect towards the Bachchan family was one of its kinds. He respected the family a lot. He even went on to add the reason for not having Abhishek in Department. It was all due to the date issues, he said.

Ram Gopal Varma and Bachchans are on good terms

Taking a U-turn about the past developments, Ram Gopal Varma has denied having any rift between him and the Bachchan family. He also said that everything was fine between him and the Bachchan parivar. He denied exposing the end of the film Dum Maaro Dum with texting messages and also articulated the reason for replacing Abhishek Bachchan with Rana.

Ram Gopal Varma also said that he did never divulge the end of the film as had been reported in the recent news. He safeguarded his position by saying that if he ever needed to do so, then he would have taken the help of social networking sites (to make the end known to one and all).

He also dared ask what difference it would have made to the public in general even if he had texted the message through his cell phone. What he meant to say was that, the end still remains unknown to the public and makes no harm to the people concerned with the film.

In respect to casting Rana instead of Abhishek Bachchan in the film, the acclaimed director said that the change has to be made due to the clash of dates. There should not be much read between the lines about this matter.

Abhishek Bachchan won’t do Ram Gopal Varma’s Department

The tension between Abhishek Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma finally saw the bad taste when Abhi was dropped from Department. Actually, both Ram Gopal Varma and Abhishek Bachchan were not in cordial relations for the past few days.

It was reported that Ram Gopal Varma was conveying all his friends about the end of the film Dum Maaro Dum. He did not even spare Abhishek when Ramu commented about him (not in the right taste, obviously). However, RGV has brought in Rana Daggubati to replace Abhishek in the film.

It was not even one week ago that RGV commented about Dum Maaro Dum and Abhishek. However, had everything been going okay between them, Department could have been the fourth film between Ram Gopal Varma and Abhishek Bachchan. Before this, they have done films like Sarkar and Sarkar Raj – both of which were appreciated a lot.

If sources from Ram Gopal Varma’s side are to be believed, then Abhishek Bachchan did not respond to the director’s calls as he used to do before. This certainly irked RGV to the extent that he not only dropped Abhishek from his film, but also spelled out the end of Dum Maaro Dum before taking a dig at the Jr. B.

Ram Gopal Varma to direct Kangana Ranaut for a 3D horror film

Some days ago, Ram Gopal Varma had made a statement that he does not know Anna Hazare. Well, rightly so, considering the fact that he is so busy with his own work. As of now, he is busy with his current film on hands – A Love Story.

However, it does not matter to him to deal with yet another project. Reports doing the rounds of the media say he is almost finished with finalizing his next project. His next project will be with the beautiful Kangana Ranaut. This next film will be a horror film.

However, it will not be only a horror film just for the sake of it. It will be made completely in 3D. The title of his new film has not yet been disclosed (or probably it is yet not finalized). But as far as his current film, A Love Story is concerned RGV will be dealing with the film from start right up to the finish.

This means, as soon as he finishes with A Love Story, he will turn his attention towards his next horror film. it remains to be seen how much scary this film will be!

Ram Gopal Varma doesn’t know Anna Hazare?

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If the words of Gopal Varma are taken to be seriously, then he doesn’t know Anna Hazare at all. When the entire world is supporting the humanitarian cause of eradicating corruption from the country, championed by Anna Hazare, Gopal Varma is busy with his own work. Well, nothing wrong with that. But the fact that he has acknowledged that he doesn’t know Anna Hazare can be hurting for his followers.

There have been a lot of supporters for Anna Hazare from the Bollywood fraternity. However, one of the most respected and intelligent directors of Bollywood and the south cinema industry, Ram Gopal Varma has honestly accepted the fact that he totally ignorant about the great social activist.

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Interestingly, RGV said that he knows people from the Bollywood and various gangsters (but not Anna Hazare). Ram Gopal Varma’s busy work schedule has forced him to remain away from these current happenings of the last week, which has been pretty tumultuous for the Indian politics.

Speaking about Anna Hazare’s fast, Ram Gopal Varma said that he would never fast for anyone except for himself if that happens to be a fast for diet. However, he did mention that he has been hearing about corruption since his childhood.
Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Amol Gupte, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shekhar Kapur, Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Shabana Azmi, Dia Mirza, Madhur Bhandarkar and Aamir Khan were some of the prominent Bollywood personalities who supported Anna Hazare.