Pritish Nandy and Ram Gopal Varma make the strangest of bed-fellows. But since these two have been meeting surreptitiously, Bollywood is abuzz with talks of new ventures.
There's a rumour about how this combustible combination is actually getting together to make a film that talks of sex and pornography.
With little hesitation and without giving out too many details as their talks are still in the "very formative stages", Nandy confirms that he will produce a film which Varma will direct. "Yes, the film deals with sex and pornography,"he says.
"The cast and credits are still hush-hush because we need to put things down on paper. But it is not a preachy kind of film. For example I could say it is something like the Hollywood drama People V/s Larry Flint."He hastens to add, "But it is not inspired by People V/s Larry Flint or a copy of it."
Nandy who has been hostile to the idea of film censorship right from the very beginning, and who in his work as a journalist has written about the subject extensively, feels making a no-holds barred film on the explosive subject could well be his way of spreading the message that sex can't be wished away.
"It is neither dirty, nor should it be treated that way,"says the producer. "It is about personal freedom. Each person has a right to express his thoughts."
Varma, who is currently shooting his version of Sholay, is likely to get into the Nandy project early next year. According to him, his film—aptly titled 'Sex Haazir Ho'—is going to be an intensely dramatic film where sexual desire as a feeling itself becomes an accused party in a courtroom drama that stuns everyone in the nation.
"Even the politicians, puritans, women's liberation force, moral crusaders and the common man are stunned by the case,"says Varma rather dramatically.
Coaxed to add some more, Varma says, "It is also about a fight for sexual freedom where the fight is not with anyone else but it is more with oneself to destroy sexual hypocrisy." TOI
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