Mahie and Deepak have three long kisses: Ram Gopal Varma

Mahie and Deepak have three long kisses: Ram Gopal Varma
Friday, August 12, 2011 13:44 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Both Maria Sasuiraj and Emile Jerome have sent you legal notices questioning the content of your film Not A Love Story?
My film is inspired from a true story. They've been misinformed that it's based on their lives. My lawyers are replying to both of them in an appropriate manner. That is all I can say right now.

Your Susairaj inspired film Not A Love Story has kissing scenes. This is a first for Ram Gopal Varma?
Maybe I've just grown up. Jokes apart, the intensity of the emotions between the couple is very high in Not A Love Story.

There are three long kissing scenes between Deepak Dobriyal and Mahie Gill. I've to confess I've never had couples kissing in my films before.

But you've made intensely emotional films without kissing?
It was necessary for me to show that such a thing happened (the murder) in Not Love Story because of uncontrollable emotions. I firmly believe no one is intrinsically bad. It's just circumstances that make them do some irrational things and then they get deeper and deeper into the mess.

Are you serious about signing the real Susairaj?
See, the reason why I wanted to do film inspired by the Susairaj incident is because we heard suddenly in 2008 of a man and woman killing and cutting up a man's body into pieces. It was too horrific.

When you think of it, you wonder what could've prompted this behaviour.

I wanted to capture the psychology behind the crime. That's why I made Not A love Story. When I researched for the film I discovered so many things that never came out in the media.

Maria Sausairaj had no criminal record of psychopathic or criminal behaviour. What we read about the case was so superficial.

So what are you suggesting we should be sympathetic towards her?
After three years finally the honourable Judge says she's only guilty of destroying evidence. Why did she destroy the evidence? Was it fear or guilt?

Without knowing the motive behind her killing everyone suddeny pounced on her pronouncing her a killer. It's bizarre. How does anyone know she's a killer? If the judiciary says she is not, she is not.

So are you signing her?
If I've a role for her I won't hesitate just because of what happened to her. Am I being insensitive to Neeraj Grover's family?

I understand how hurt they must be. But in a civilized society you can't become the law and the judiciciary and decide the quantum of punishment. I find this trial by people outside the judiciary very juvenile.

The baggage of her supposedly savage deed doesn't bother you?
But we don't know what happened in that apartment! Is she a psychopath or a serial killer?

Emotional outbursts branding her a criminal don't work for me. Anyone who claims she's a killer after the courts have freed her is just being foolish.

Were these people hiding under the bed in Maria Sasuiraj's flat when the crime happened?How do they know better than the judiciary? Why attack the girl?

Have you taken this empathetic view in your film?
My film is not about Susairaj. My point is, how can something so brutal happen in a city like Mumbai? Yes the incidents in my film are similar to Susairaj's case. But it's not her bio-pic.

Then why did you shoot it in her apartment block?
I wanted to capture the authenticity of the crime. When I shot Satya I went to the locations where the crime happened. At the end of the day I want capture the reality of the situation to the best of my abilities.
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