Courtesy:
IndiaFM
Wednesday,
August
09,
2006
The
next
film
coming
from
Ram
Gopal
Varma's
stable
is
Shiva.
Incidentally
Shiva
happened
to
be
the
RGV's
first
directorial
venture
way
back
in
1990.
Life
has
come
a
full
circle
for
Varma.
There
were
reports
that
the
current
Shiva
is
a
remake
of
RGV's
1990
Shiva.
RGV
talks
about
the
connection
between
the
two
films...
"Fifteen
years
after
my
debut
film
Shiva,
much
has
changed
in
the
conditions
around
us,
in
our
cinema
and
also
in
my
perceptions
of
things.
Hence
I
feel
compelled
to
return
to
first
base,
to
come
full
circle,
to
retell
the
story
in
the
context
of
the
situation
of
the
present
time.
Through
the
various
decades,
people
have
always
had
great
expectations
from
institutions
like
hospitals,
schools
and
colleges
and
of
course,
the
police
and
the
judiciary.
They
are
meant
to
serve
the
people,
but
do
they
really
do
that?
In
my
debut
film
Shiva,
I
delved
into
the
disillusionment
with
our
educational
institutions,
which
often
led
to
violence
and
turmoil
on
the
campus.
The
film's
protagonist,
the
title
character,
rebelled
against
those
who
were
responsible,
namely
goonda
elements
and
corrupt
politicians.
The
new
Shiva
will
look
into
a
law-keeping
system
through
the
eyes
of
a
man
who
just
finished
training
in
a
police
academy
and
has
freshly
joined
the
Mumbai
Police
force.
His
ideals
clash
with
the
harsh
reality
of
a
police
force
at
work.
Yes,
cop
films
are
overdone.
I
have
myself
made
Shool
and
Ab
Tak
Chappan
in
this
genre.
But
here
the
intention
is
to
bring
back
the
intense
hero
who
ruled
the
70s
and
80s
before
he
was
sent
into
oblivion
by
the
sugar
sweet
romantic
films.
It
was
that
hero
who
actually
made
films
larger
than
life,
with
Amitabh
Bachchan
leading
the
brigade
and
then
in
varying
degrees
followed
by
Vinod
Khanna,
Shatrughan
Sinha,
Mithun
Chakraborthy,
Sunny
Deol
etc.
In
an
attempt
to
reinvent
that
genre
of
films,
I
am
reloading
Shiva.
I
want
to
once
again
catch
the
spirit
of
one
man
taking
on
the
odds
when
his
principles
and
convictions
are
under
threat.
With
a
completely
updated
script
and
today's
technical
advances,
I
seek
to
capture
that
element
of
anger
present
in
all
of
us.
Most
of
us
accept
injustice
mutely.
But
every
once
in
a
while
a
rebel
comes
along
who
hits
back.
That
rebel,
who
all
of
us
want
to
be
is
Shiva
2006".
-
Ram
Gopal
Varma