Wednesday, June 01, 2005

....and it keeps getting shorter

I just read a news article which talked about Ram Gopal Verma's next film release titled 'D' !!! At first, I thought that the author of the article was using an acronym for a long name, but soon realised that the title of the film indeed is 'D'. In this day and age when Hindi film titles are getting longer and longer, the name 'D' arouses curiosity. If nothing, people are going to try to find out what the film is about. When they realise it is a Ram Gopal Verma production and is about underworld, they will want to watch it. I am already queing up to watch this movie. The film is rumored to be based on the life of underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. There were reports that Ram Gopal Verma received threatening phone calls from Chotta Rajan, arch rival of Dawood. Chotta is supposed to have demanded a special screening of the movie to ascertain that Dawood wasn't being glorified in the movie. At this rate, the underworld dons will soon take over censorship of hindi movies.
RGV, however, vehemently denied media reports about the phone call, saying he never accepts calls from unknown numbers. All this certainly provides publicity to the movie. Having been an ardent follower of hindi movies over the years, it doesn't surprise me anymore how the cast and crew will go to any length to entire public interest in their movie just before its release. Girlfriend, EK Choti se love story are just some examples.
Anyways, I am looking forward to watching 'D'. If the movie is half as good as his earlier chart-busters 'Company' and 'Satya', it will be worth a watch.

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