“Those who liked Aag were mental patients” - Ramu

June 6th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

 By Joginder Tuteja, June 6, 2008 - 14:15 IST

Trust the man to mouth the wittiest of lines with a dead pan expression; even though all the fun is at his expense!

While Bollywood insiders and followers are impatiently looking forward to the fate of Sarkar Raj, Ramu continues to be relaxed. “I have always maintained that no single film is the end of road for me. Once Sarkar Raj comes, I would be getting started with the promotion of Contract. Yes, Sarkar Raj is quite important but so have all the films even before that I have made.”

How about Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag? Has he truly forgotten all the flak? “I could see it coming. At the end of the day, I knew that I wasn’t making Sholay there”, says Ramu.

Oh really? But wasn’t Aag always supposed to be the remake of Sholay? “What remake?”, questions Ramu in a mocking tune, “You can’t have a one line plot and claim that it is a remake. Yes, we started off with quite a few inputs from the classic. But then over the period of time, the setting changed, the situations changed; heck, the basic idea changed. The visual connect too was completely different as conveyed through a different style of photography.”

Reflecting on the time gone by, Ramu says, “Right from the time the film’s title was renamed to Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, there were signs of troubled. I was ridiculed, there were attempts to defeat my courage, I was called arrogant and what not!”

Yes, everyone knows the kind of horrifying response that the film got on its release. But there must have been some soul out there who would have liked the film? Did he come across anyone like that? “Out of 100 people I met, 90 disliked it. To be honest, I truly believe that those 10 people who liked Aag were mental patients”, Ramu sets the record straight.

BollywoodHungama.com

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  1. Comment by manoj on 7 June 2008:

    and those who liked SR??…..

  2. Comment by Saim on 7 June 2008:

    I think they are ………..

  3. Comment by rajeev on 7 June 2008:

    I think ,they really are.

    People like Arun,Nishit are really mental patients for sure.

  4. Comment by Maryam on 8 June 2008:

    Arun/Nishit…you will be glade to hear this news…

    King of contests: SRK show tops TRP charts

    9 Jun 2008, 0114 hrs IST,Himanshi Dhawan,TNN for TOI

    NEW DELHI: So has television finally laid rest to the question - who is the biggest star? In a clash between Bollywood biggies, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and ShahRukh Khan, it is SRK whose game show Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain? that appears to be doing better, according to snap polls done by aMap in six metros.

    the overnight audience measurement agency, aMap, has suggested that while Roshan attracted an average television rating of 0.82% for his music-based contest Junoon - Kuch Kar Dikhane Ka , Salman’s Das Ka Dum (DKD) could only garner a TRP of 1.65%.

    Both were launched on June 6 after much hype and promotion. DKD promises an astounding cash prize of Rs 10 crore besides getting to watch Salman dance to his favourite numbers on the set.

    Junoon , on the other hand, is a music show for which Roshan is a “goodwill ambassador”. However, SRK is not nicknamed King Khan for nothing.

    His show Kya Aap… - that was launched on April 25 - got off to a better start. The quiz show enjoyed a TRP of 2.7 on the first day.

    The show that evaluates the participant’s knowledge on information that a fifth class student knows, has dipped in popularity since its launch. Industry experts have blamed the low ratings to the IPL season that consumed public interest earning TRPs of 7 or 8.

    Even in its peak rating, the Indian version of Are you Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? has beaten both Salman Khan and Roshan with a peak rating of 3.5%. DKD had a peak rating of 2.6 while Junoon barely managed a rating of 1.1.

    Incidentally, Kaun Banega Crorepati 3 - another show hosted by SRK last year - did better than the three that are currently running. While its average rating was 3.4%, it had a peak rating of 4.9%.

  5. Comment by samia on 8 June 2008:

    well if the film is for mental patients why did he make it in the first place???????????
    Ramu is losing it completly!!!!!!!!!!!
    its sad to see the man of satiya doing this :(

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