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Mumbai, April 13
(Calcutta Tube) Bollywood director-producer Ram
Gopal Varma plans a 3D scary film to make the
audiences ‘experience’ fear. Varma’s latest horror
film is ‘Phoonk2‘, which is to release Friday April
16. He is keen to make a 3D horror film as that
would give the audience the illusion of being part
of the film and experience the horror along with the
cast.
‘Technically, it would work. While watching a horror
film sitting in a theatre you are seeing it happen
to someone else on the screen. But a 3D film is a
medium which makes you feel you are there with them,
on location may be. The illusion it creates is
because of the third dimension. Because of that I
think the technique has terrific application in a
horror film, if rightly done,’ Varma said.
The talented director confesses he always had an
obsession to scare people since his childhood and
would stand behind doors and say ‘bhooo’ to someone
entering a room. Varma also says he loves to catch
the audience off guard through his narrative.
‘I always had this obsession to scare people. When I
was a kid, I used to stand behind the door and say
‘bhoooo’ to someone entering the room and now I am
making (horror) films,’ Varma told IANS in an
interview.
For ‘Phoonk 2′, a sequel to ‘Phoonk’, Varma has bet
upon debutant director Milind Gadagkar, who
conceived the idea of the film.
‘When I was busy in ‘Rakta Charitra’, Milind came up
with this idea, and it excited me a lot. Milind has
been with me for some time and I believe he is an
able director, so I went ahead with it,’ said Varma.
Asked if he has given any value inputs for the film,
Varma said, ‘No, I didn’t give any input. Creatively
it is completely his (Milind’s) brainchild.’
Talking about the technical aspects of making horror
films, he says for this genre ‘the camera,
background score and sound effects have a huge
contribution in the film. For drama or comedy, it
can pretty much work on performances, and writing,
but horror films have many manipulative techniques
where you are manipulating the audience’s emotion.
The movement of the camera constantly plays around
with the audience’s psychology. When I took interest
in films, I wanted to show off. So I thought the
best thing to do is a horror film.’
In the first quarter of 2010, Bollywood has streamed
out a number of back-to-back horror films, ‘Click’,
‘Rok’ and ‘Shaapit’. The makers of these films claim
to have ‘abandoned superficial scares and worked for
far more insidious and intellectual level’ fear.
How would ‘Phoonk 2′ stand apart from the other
films?
‘The more you connect with the audience… if a person
seeing the film can feel that it can happen to him
or he finds some similarity with something he has
heard of, the connectivity factor works best in
horror films,’ said Varma.
He explains that for a horror film to work, ‘a story
is needed to create that moment of fear. I think
predominantly it is the emotion that is created in a
given time’.
‘You can make 1,000 films on a haunted house. If you
are able to create that moment… remember in ‘Bhoot’
there were not more than six scary scenes. People
are not bothered what’s happening in between. They
were waiting for the next scare. I think horror
films work on that count,’ he added.
Varma has completed 70 percent shooting of ‘Rakta
Charitra’ which is a biopic on a character in south
India. |
