"I hate Michael Jackson. I hate him for dying and making me realise that he is just a human being. I hate that he too has to breathe to live. I hate that he too has a heart which can stop like anybody else's," Varma posted on his new blog.
"I truly truly hate Michael Jackson for becoming a grim reality from a fantastic fantasy," he added.
Just as the world was taken aback with the news of Jackson's death Thursday following a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles, so was Varma, for whom the King of Pop was like someone from outer space.
Varma, who has made films like 'Satya', 'Company', 'Sarkar' and 'Sarkar Raj', narrated how he was introduced to Jackson's unique music and dance style during his college days.
"When I was in college in Vijayawada, a friend of mine took me to a video parlour to show Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. Being constantly fed on a staple diet of Telugu and Hindi songs, I was startled to see the unimaginably high standards of picturisation, choreography and above all I was awe-struck by the sheer personality of Michael Jackson," he wrote.
"I walked out of the parlour in a daze thinking that he cannot be a real person and he has to be some fantasy who somehow has taken a human shape," added Varma.
The filmmaker, who attended Jackson's 1996 concert in Mumbai along with actors Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan, says it wasn't just the legend's "dancing or his singing or even his music, but the sheer power of his presence and the aura around him that swept me away".
"On stage Michael Jackson looked like some being who has come from some other world in outer space as a favour to entertain us for a little while...For me in my mind he was like a creation of god or whatever that thing which creates when in a very special mood as a very very special gift to mankind," he concluded.
Source: IANS
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i whole-heartedly agree with pg joseph. rgv is being misunderstood. people just don't read with enough attention n don't get to the heart of the msg.
mj meant so much to him that his loss is beyond endurance to him, so he blurted out what he blurted out out of sheer pathos, mj especially being one frm their fraternity. all those out there pointing finger at rgv need to take back their words, that's that.
Many of the commentators misunderstood what Ram Gopal Varma had said. In fact at the first glimpse of the caption, I also thought that he was critical of MJ. But to my utter surprise when I went through the whole article I recognized that he adored MJ so much and was devastated by the sudden demise of the unparalleled icon of Pop Music. We love MJ and we love RGV too for his heartrending observations on MJ
All the best.
dear friend ,
hate is a very strong word....and as mj allways said, lets love oneanother and heal the world.
everyone one has the right to say what they want to. so lets not judge each other.
just let there be peace peace peace
I just came in to this discussion to know who is that idot hates MJ. I think u need some maturity to write such comments in a blog. Dont ever try it in ur future.
As someone said go and fly a kite
Did you all notice something the so called celebrities of india even in the condolence message trying their level best to associate with MJ. Perhaps they believe such rubbing can bring them some fame.
And from RGV:- It doesnt look like a condolence message all. Your way of putting may be good for a movie not when some one dies, to express condolenses. I am sure a heart broken person cannot express his condolence with these additional masalas....