Ramgopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma రాం గోపాల్ వర్మ
Varma in September 2012
Born	Ram Gopal Varma (1962-04-07) 7 April 1962 (age 55) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Occupation	Director and Producer
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Ratna Varma
Children	Revathi Varma (Daughter)
Parent(s)	Krishnan Varma (father) and Suryamma (mother)
Relatives	Madhu Mantena (cousin)

Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Telugu cinema, Bollywood, and television. Influenced by Russian-American playwright Ayn Rand, and European authors Friedrich Nietzsche, James Hadley Chase and Frederick Forsyth, Varma directed films across multiple genres, including parallel cinema and docudrama noted for their gritty realism, technical finesse, and craft.

Varma has garnered the National Film Award for scripting the political crime drama, Shool (1999). In 2004, He was featured in the BBC World series Bollywood Bosses. In 2006, Grady Hendrix of Film Comment, published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City cited Varma as "Bombay’s Most Successful Maverick" for his works on experimental films. Varma is regarded as the fountain head of new age Indian cinema.

Varma is known for presenting the Indian Political Trilogy, and the Indian Gangster Trilogy, film critic Rajeev Masand has labeled the series as one of the "most influential movies of Hindi cinema. The first installment of the trilogy, Satya, was also listed in CNN-IBN's 100 greatest Indian films of all time. Varma's recent avant-garde works include hits such as the alternate history, Rakta Charitra (2010), the dramatized re-enactment of 2008 Mumbai attacks in The Attacks of 26/11 (2013), a horror fiction, Ice Cream shot with Flowcam Technology (2014), a slasher film, Anukshanam (2014), Killing Veerappan (2016), a documentary drama, and Vangaveeti (2016) a biographical "based on true events".