Rangeela: Ram Gopal Varma Says Mani Ratnam’s Roja And AR Rahman’s Music Sparked Idea Behind Aamir Khan's Film - EXCL

Ram Gopal Varma, known for delivering unconventional films and bold cinematic choices, has consistently created stories that leave an impact. In an exclusive interview with Zoom, the filmmaker finally

broke his silence about what truly inspired Rangeela.

The Moment That Sparked Rangeela

In an exclusive interview with Zoom, Ram Gopal Varma opened up about the incident that sparked the idea for the 1995 classic. He said, "I'm not very sure if I can be called a rebel. Eventually filmmaking is about the purest form is to express yourself and expressing yourself is nothing but the kind of subject matters or characters which interest you which probably you in growing years, the influences you had of other filmmakers or books or maybe experiences or something you heard from someone.""Most of my films always happened because of just one idea not necessarily at the time it came it wouldn't be a film also actually. Now talking about Rangeela, it was just a random happening in my engineering days, the students and gundmans used to hobnob together so I used to know one guy we used to hand around it, he's a tough guy, so he was in love with this one girl in the college, and she was seeing the guy who looks much better and rich. He's got the car, Goliga has a car in the campus.""So one day, we tried to instigate him to go and beat him up because he's not able to get her. And he said, no I think she deserves someone better than me, that for me was the scene of Rangeela. And I made Rangeela in 1995, this must have happened in 1985 or 1984, so at that time that wasn't even a film, and I was not even a filmmaker but it stayed in my mind and I have this uncanny memory and I remember random things of very long time which probably wouldn't have thought much of it at the time it happened."

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How Mani Ratnam and AR Rahman Influenced His Vision

Ram Gopal Varma also opened up about the artistic influences that shaped the film. He shared, "So then when I saw Roja, I was stunned the way Mani Ratnam shot the songs, I heard Rahman's music something like that I never heard, and also one of my favourite films from my growing years was Sound Of Music, the only film I saw where their is no antagonist in the film, just a situation which makes the conflict in the film, so it's a combination of these four five factors, suddenly one day they drop like Rangeela."Rangeela starred Aamir Khan, Urmila Matondkar and Jackie Shroff.