MUMBAI: Ram Gopal Varma’s visit to the terror ravaged Taj Mahal Hotel and Tower spiralled into a controversy, but despite that filmmakers have
gone ahead and registered about 30 titles to make movies on the incident that claimed many innocent lives.
“26 Taj”, “Operation 5 Star Mumbai” and “Bird’s Point of View: Taj Terror” are some of the titles that filmmakers have registered with the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Programme Producers (AMPTPP).
Bollywood producer-director B. Subhash, who has registered two titles for movies based …

Strange things happen in showbiz. And you don’t know how to explain it.
How do you explain the fact that Abhishek Bachchan’s next three films all have titles beginning with the letter ‘D’ - Drona, followed by Dostana and Delhi 6.
How do you explain the fact that last month Madhavan was shooting for two films simultaneously both beginning with the number ‘3′ - 3 Patti and 3 Idiots.
How do you rationalize the revival of interest in the supernatural? Eerie-fairies are flying around filmdom. The fur hadn’t even stopped flying over Phoonk …

His last two films may have been trashed for being poor imitations of “Sholay” and “What Lies Beneath”, but Ram Gopal Varma confesses rather defiantly that he copies - “from everywhere”! “I copy from Hollywood films. Not only from Hollywood I also copy from Tollywood, Kollywood… in fact from everywhere. These days I am copying from news channels as I am zapped by their speed,” said the man whose last two films “Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag” and “Darling” were super duds in the box office.
“When we are born, we …

Ram Gopal Varma is directing a music video featuring Usha Uthup for his forthcoming film Bhoot. The video supports an album that will feature the music inspired by the film.
Salim-Suleiman, Anand Raaj Anand and Amar Mohile composed a song each, of which two are now being made into music videos for television with Usha Uthup and Sunidhi Chauhan.
Ram Gopal Varma hopes to set the trend with film-inspired albums which he feels is beneficial not only to him, but also to the music companies.