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22 Responses to “The Mother of All Reviews”

1. nillohit on June 9th, 2008 7:11 am

   Thanks a lot!

2. Kapil on June 9th, 2008 7:20 am

   Is this for real. Is Ramu actually blogging or what???? Or is it some smart fraud. Mr. OZ, please confirm.

3. Phoenixnu on June 9th, 2008 7:24 am

   @kapil..its confirmed. thats Ramu’s space.

4. Sudhir Nair on June 9th, 2008 8:46 am

   Off course it’s Ramu’s space..only he can exhibit such an awesome sense of humour..

5. Vivek H on June 9th, 2008 9:49 am

   wow…I was really blown away by his answers..hilarious. It sure is mother of all reviews.

6. vishesh on June 9th, 2008 12:37 pm

   Its funny if Ramu thinks it so too. But I see a disturbing trend, there is a lack of mutual respect between critics and film makers. Every one is trying to settle personal score.

   If A makes a movie and B criticizes it then as per A, B does not know his job. A starts doing B’s job and B when tries to be A, the result have been disastrous as far as we have seen.

   Now we can argue that all the critics of the world write crap because at some point of time or the other, every one of us have disagreed with the critics.

   I guess this will continue till the critics are educated and trained well to do what they are getting paid for. Constructive criticism. And not wannabe filmmakers.

   A side note, I am surprised at SKJ review: I thought he was a big sycophant of Bachhan Parivar, what’s wrong with him?

7. krishn on June 9th, 2008 2:11 pm

   ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho…
   ramu gives funny reply…
   if his films had half of his off screen wit?

   big b has abandoned skj…

   ramu is making film also on his blog…
   ram gopal varma ka blog…
   he ll play lead role in it … actress ll b new girl… ramu ll disclose blog politics there…

8. Carol on June 9th, 2008 2:51 pm

   LMAO - Go Ramu Go

   Folks will say it is sour grapes. But I applaud him for having the guts to expose these charlatans who call themselves critics. Apparently, any fool can pick up a pen and decide he is qualified to critique someone else’s hard work.

9. Ratnakar on June 9th, 2008 8:13 pm

   Hey that is vintage Ramu. Only he can be so acerbic, bitter and to the point. Only he can talk in that way. Sarkar Raj was not a masterpiece but not a dud either. And i really loved the way he exposed that entire bunch of charlatans masquerading as critics.

   Honestly i feel Taran Adarsh is way better than most of em. He does not masquerade as an intellectual and he is more even handed. He is honest about his intentions, though most of the time i rarely agree with him.

   BTW KM just dismissed Aamir in a couple of words, as if it was not significant enough. And Rajeev Masand has totally lost it nowadays. As for Deepa Gahlot, some one who writes off a movie like Satya, does not even deserve to be a critic in the first place.

10. Ratnakar on June 9th, 2008 8:19 pm

    @ Vishesh

    This fight between critics and directors is there everywhere, cant avoid it. For eg in the West, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Brian De Palma or Terry Gilliam have never been the critics darlings. Even with Quentin Tarantino it has been more of a grudging acceptance. While Roger Ebert is more or less even handed, it is well known that James Berardinelli has always had this bias towards Spielberg.

11. Santosh Kumar T K on June 9th, 2008 9:04 pm

    It is not a blog it is ram gopal varma ki Blaag

12. Anurag Kashyap on June 9th, 2008 9:57 pm

    Ramu is the best thing that has happened to blogging so far.. thats the ramu i know.. ha ha

13. Sreehari. on June 9th, 2008 10:36 pm

    Its this kind of look-out for herosim that’s unjustified, a search for righteousness thats not there and defence that’s all over the place that has been showing in RGV’s works right from the time he made “Sarkar”….
    The best way to silence any critic would be to make a piece of work that stands upto what he showed us thru a Satya, a Rangeela, a Company.
    There was an RGV once who knew how to paint his hero vulnerable. Today he just paints them powerful… Like he once said, “I want my men to be powerful and women to be sexy”… These days he seems to make every piece of work to simply justify the statements he makes in press… And this blog is just another addition.

    Like they say… your public display of power has nothing to do with your personal guilt. And its your personal guilt that should show in your art.
    Sadly for him, RGV today approaches cinema with the mind-set of a capitalist. Its not as bad for anybody who had once championed his movies and now detests them, neither is it good enough for those who never once understood the significance of a director like RGV…
    Its his issue and he should learn to deal with it himself. Neither his virtues nor his misadventures have been created by those around him. Its he who has designed them all..
    The day he realizes that he would start making the kind of films he once made..

14. shiva on June 9th, 2008 10:48 pm

    @Sreehari

    why don’t you make one and show it to him

15. suchita b on June 9th, 2008 11:03 pm

    rocking!!

16. ashwin on June 10th, 2008 12:30 am

    @ ratnakar..

    i quite second ur thoughts on taran and the other critics( should they be called that)..

    ramu’s replies are truly witty….

17. Ratnakar on June 10th, 2008 12:37 am

    Well one thing i did like about his blog, is that all the responses are not the “Oh Sir you are so Great, You are God” kinda kind. I honestly got bored of Aamir’s and Amitabh’s blogs, because every one commenting there seemed to be worshipping, no discussion nothing. All the comments reeked of the “Oh Sir You are God, You are Great” kind. It is quite refreshing to see many people here differing with Ramu and arguing.

18. Ratnakar on June 10th, 2008 12:43 am

    BTW Deepa Gahlot offers a rather weak defence about herself in her response to Ramu’s post.

    This is what she says in her words
    [i]
    Dear Mr Varma,
    I read your blog comments on Mr Bahchan’s blog and this is my response.. just copying it here for you to read :

    “This is just to correct a lie you have inadvertently put on your blog: As a journalist I know every big producer and director in town, having interviewed them over the years, but I have never approached anybody to write a script, leave aside having given a narration. You have a production company too– have I ever pitched a script to you or to any of your directors? We will always welcome discussion on our pieces and would gladly and respectfully accept criticism too, but what Mr Varma has stated is a blatant falsehood. Also, I did not criticise Satya as a film, but on the grounds that it was lending a kind of respectability and social acceptance to gangsters. I still maintain that filmmakers (and stars too) should have some social responsibility. It is my view and open to debate.
    Deepa Gahlot
    [/i]

    I wonder how she is trying to fool. I read her review of Satya, and she picked up a dozen loopholes in the movie. She also criticized Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday, on the grounds that it glorified terrorists. BTW Deepa Gahlot would do fine if there was Ministry of Social Responsibility, consider she keeps on harping about it.

19. Sajjad on June 10th, 2008 1:44 am

    super stuff…ramu is very funny and absolutely right…full support sir!
    aag was a bad film no doubt. but the criticism at aag was not about it being a bad film. the criticism got very personal against ramu. and it was just a film. not the end of the world.
    wannabe film makes cannot be film critics.
    i saw sarkar raj and liked it. waiting for contract.

20. AZAD on June 10th, 2008 4:38 am

    Lage Rahe RGV.. his review of reviews is a mast time pass..

21. J on June 10th, 2008 8:06 am

    The best blog I have ever read! And nice to know a bit of how his mind functions!

22. vishesh on June 11th, 2008 3:00 am

    The Last line of the Ratankar’s Post # 9 made me thinking. The thoughts are not totally related to Deepa Gehlot and Satya.

    Do all the critics have to agree that a movie has to be a masterpiece? What if one critic trashes the movie completely and the other one praises to the sky. I think that should be OK too. That will give a good rounded idea of what fragmented masses think.

    On a personal front, I always like Company over Satya. I think Satya was just OK. Now if someone says Satya is a masterpiece, I will respect that stand provided “OK-ness” in my view is respected too. We can argue/debate over it but at the end of the day, it does not make sense to write off my views just because I don’t concur with you.

    May be we just did what Deepa Gehlot did to Satya. We are writing her off because she wrote off Satya. Where’s the differentiation here?

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