Ram Gopal Varma He is known for making some iconic gangster films likeSatya‘ and ‘Company’. Needless to say, these films required him to get to know the life of gangsters in depth, so he had a very ‘human’ approach to these characters. When the film ‘Satya’ completed 27 years and re-released in theatres, Varma said why he portrayed these gangsters in a vulnerable and human way. Here’s what Varma had to say amid the success of ‘Dhurandhar 2’, in which he also portrayed Dawood Ibrahimthe character of The internet was shocked that Dawood Ibrahim was shown in such a vulnerable way in his old age than how one perceives it. In a chat with ETimes, RGV recalled some instances he heard about Ibrahim during the re-release of ‘Satya’. Dhurandhar 2 Movie ReviewVarma wanted to humanize a gangster and here’s why. “A policeman told me, when we were tracking a gangster, out of tension, he gets a fever. He has a high temperature. I thought it was terrible. A gangster having a fever was not something I thought of. See, all these keep adding up in my films. A woman journalist was one of the only ones who met Dawood Ibrahim. He had a cold once. Another guy told me, you are afraid of Dawood because he is on the phone, he is an unknown man. But if you knew that he stays in Bandra, you wouldn’t be afraid of him. He might have the same power, but you would think, ‘aree idhar hi rehta hai’,” laughed the director.
‘SarkarThe director also revealed that he was not afraid of the underground. The filmmaker also recalled that many people told him not to do ‘Satya’ because they thought it would upset the underworld. However, the opposite happened to Varma. “Many people warned me not to do this. I’m not saying anyone is bad. I’m doing a film. So they were happy. I showed the human side of it. In fact, at that time I was the only one who didn’t get an extortion call because of Satya. They were like ‘usko chhodo’. They gave me a free one,” he said.See more: ‘Dhurandhar 2’ Box Office Collection Day 19: Glimpses of Ranveer Singh, Rakesh Bedi, Sanjay Dutt, Sara Arjun’s Film 1,630 Cr Mark Worldwide
