Guns & Thighs: The Story of My Life by Ram Gopal Varma

Author:Ram Gopal Varma [Varma, Ram Gopal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

My World

YOU SEE WITH YOUR sense of sight, hear with your sense of hearing, feel with your sense of touch. And all these senses are nothing but functions of your mind, and the mind is nothing but a thought which is an idea.

So when you close your eyes and go to sleep, the world ceases to exist and it comes back to you when you wake up in the morning, and it is experienced in different shapes and forms by every living being on the planet. It follows that each and every one of us has our own world which cannot really be seen or experienced by anybody else no matter how close they are to us.

This world of each of us is made up of a combination of our own individual experiences, sensibilities, knowledge and intelligence, however small, big or different they might be.

So my world is nothing but a collection of my own feelings and thoughts and ideas, and it will be a fallacy for me to think that anybody else can really appreciate them, at least in the way I mean them. At best I can hope for a few others to connect to some of my thoughts in their own individual ways. This is what I mean when I say I make films for myself.

So, as long as I am sure that no one can really understand what I stand for, what is the point of even attempting to make them understand? I might as well just give an open invitation to my world through my films to whoever is interested and after that leave it to them to interpret in their own ways.

My film is nothing but my world. Many others may contribute to its shape and form but that world is eventually coloured by my vision. As a director, I am not a primary artist in the true sense of the word. Primary arts are about an actor acting, composer making music, somebody writing dialogue, etc. But all these primary arts I amalgamate into a coherent whole that creates an emotional impact or whatever else I might choose to create.

So, you will get to see the characters such as I want you to see them, hear music such as I want you to hear it. Because of this understanding of mine, I have always believed that the successes of my films belong to everybody in the team but the failures belong to me and me alone. This is because each and every artist and technician has contributed to the best of their ability as required by that portion of my world that I wanted to create in that particular film, and only I know which contribution of theirs has enhanced which part of the film. But if any visitor ventures into my world and does not like it, that is completely my failure alone.

Anyway, coming back to my worldly gyan, as long as you are sure of what your own world is, understand

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