Better films, not bigger films: RGV

Maverick director Ram Gopal Varma has heaped praise on Curry Barker’s budget-friendly supernatural psychological horror thriller Obsession, calling it a “wake-up call” for an industry obsessed with stars, remakes and bloated spectacles.

RGV on Friday morning took to X, formerly called Twitter, talked about the true power of cinema and said it lies in the psychological precision and emotional rawness rather than massive budgets. He wrote: “OBSESSION is how we SHOOT and CUT and not WHAT. OBSESSION made on a budget lesser than maybe the cost of a film stars entourage, will hopefully dismantle our complacency.” 

RGV shared that Obsession, which was made on a budget of 75000 dollrars, proves that filmmakers should focus on making “better films, not bigger films.” He added: “Forgetting the reported 750k dollar budget , a film shot entirely in just 2 rooms, interior of a car and a small store with 5 new actors couldn’t have costed more than 70 lakh rupees (Forgetting fee of various) . On that cost , it grossed over $238 million dollars that is Rs 2,279 crores ..It reportedly will do more than 100 cr in india (sic).”