Varma, Ram Gopal

Ram Gopal Varma was born on April 7, 1962 in Hyderabad . His parents were Krishnam Raju, who worked as a sound engineer at ^{[1] [2]} , and his wife Suryama. From school days, the boy showed great interest in films.

Attended in Vijayawad , where he received a civil engineer degree ^[3] . After completing his education, Varma worked as an engineer at the Oberoi Hotel in Hyderabad ^[4] . But after several years he left this job and started working as an assistant director. As a director, he made his debut in 1989 with a Telugu film Siva , starring in which played Nagarjuna and . Siva brought the first film award to Varma - the Nandi Award for Best Director ^[5] . Two years later, he re-imagined it in Hindi with the same actors. Over the next ten years, he acted as a director in 9 films in Hindi and as a producer in 17 ^[6] .

The “gangster trilogy” is the most famous among his works: (1998), (2002) and (2005, dir. Vishram Savant) ^{[7 ]} , two of them brought him nominations for the Filmfare Awards for best film and best direction . In all, during his career, Varma was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Director 5 times, including for the films “ Merry Face ” (1995), (2003) and (2005), but was awarded the Filmfare awards only for the best storyline for the film “Merry” ^[8] and the best film according to critics for “Betrayal” ^[5] . Varma also received the National Film Award for the best film in Hindi in 2000 for ^[9] .

As a director

• Martha P. Nochimson. World on Film: An Introduction . - Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - P. 273. - 460 p. - ISBN 978-1405139793 .
• Ravi Vasudevan. The Melodramatic Public Cinema . - Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - p. 383-392. - 476 p. - ISBN 978-0230247642 .

• Ram Gopal Varma on the Internet Movie Database
• The official blog of Rama Gopal Varma