/> The news that Ram Gopal Varma is collaborating with Pritish Nandy Productions for a tantalizing film called Sex Haazir Ho! has the nation's academics and perverts agog.

But Ramu isn't buying the cheesy theory. "I am not making a sex film. Agreed sex sells. But as you've rightly pointed out, I'm extremely reluctant to enter bedrooms in my cinema.

In fact Sex Haazir Ho1 enters the courtroom, and not the bedroom. It's going to be an intensely dramatic film where sexual desire as a feeling by itself becomes an accused party in the courtroom."

While you scratch your head about that purported cerebral treatment of basic instincts Ramu enlightens, "While exploring sexual mores the film will also look at headlines. The case that occupies centrestage in my drama will be shown to stun the nation.

That includes everyone from puritans to politicians, from women libbers, moral crusaders to the common man. So in terms of canvas this is one of my biggest films."

It's also another step head in the introspective tome that Ramu has adopted after Nishabd.

"You could say that," Ramu avers. "There's no sex in Nishabd and yet the the older man's love for the girl ripples with undercurrents. Likewise Sex Haazir Ho! is about a fight for sexual freedom where the enemy is not outside but within all of us who practice sexual hypocrisy."

Looks like Ramu's cerebral phase has started in right earnest.