In the tenth and last episode of The Filmy Hustle, hosted by distributor-exhibitor Akshaye Rathi, Ram Gopal Varma and Anurag Kashyap came together for the first time for an interview and as expected, they went down memory lane and raised interesting points on filmmaking like never before. In the last part of the interaction, they explained how the desire to make formulaic films has impacted cinema.
Anurag Kashyap, Ram Gopal Varma SLAM formulaic filmmaking: “After KGF, Salaar, DI of all the films looks the same”; reveal a SHOCKING trivia: “A filmmaker made the VFX look bad taaki pata chalein ki special effects hai”
Anurag Kashyap said, “The moment Sairat (2016) did Rs. 100 crores, I thought that now people have seen the possibility of a film earning so much. That should have become the target. But they stopped creating films. Then it became a formula and they started following the formula. What has happened since KGF, Salaar is that you wonder, why is the DI of all the films looking the same? In Animal (2023), the gore and violence have worked. Hence, filmmakers are getting more and more gore in their films, sometimes without reason! That for me is the scary part as people are chasing the wrong goalpost. The goal post then is not ‘Let me create a cinema experience’. The first time it happens is because of somebody’s peculiar conviction that it would work and everybody telling him, ‘Don’t follow your conviction’.”
Ram Gopal Varma added, “I never consciously thought of making Satya (1998) at low cost. I was spending what was required and it created authenticity and realism. If I had spent Rs. 5 crores more, Satya’s quality would have been five times lesser!”
He added, “Today, post-Baahubali, many have got into this mindset that you have to spend more on production values and VFX and impress people. My issue is not that you’ll save money if you make it at a lesser cost. My issue is that you are spoiling the film by spending more money. The artificial production values that you are putting are cutting into the emotions of the story. That’s what happens in most films.”
Anurag Kashyap then revealed an astonishing trivia saying, “A filmmaker, who I won’t name, made a film with special effects. He saw the film. The special effects were done so well that he complained, ‘Special effects hai, yeh toh pata hi nahin chal raha hai’! Hence, they had to make the VFX look bad taaki pata chalein ki special effects hai!”
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