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Manoj Bajpayee vouches ‘Ram Gopal Varma is back’ with their film Police Station Mein Bhoot | Bollywood News

Manoj Bajpayee vouches ‘Ram Gopal Varma is back’ with their film Police Station Mein Bhoot | Bollywood News

3 min readMumbaiJul 24, 2026 07:01 PM IST Manoj Bajpayee has made a career out of working in films of Ram Gopal Varma. They first worked together in the 1997 adventure comedy Daud, before the actor received a major breakthrough as gangster Bhiku Mhatre in Varma’s 1998 seminal crime drama Satya. They reunited for 1999 psychological thriller Kaun, followed by Varma’s productions — Eeshwar Niwas’ 1999 action drama Shool and Rajat Mukherjee’s 2002 comedy thriller Road. Manoj Bajpayee, Ram Gopal Varma’s reunion The last time Bajpayee worked with Varma was in his 2017 political drama threequel Sarkar 3. However, since then, while Bajpayee has carved out his place on streaming with shows like Raj & DK’s espionage thriller The Family Man on Prime Video India, Varma has been undergoing a creative existential crisis. But in an exclusive interview with SCREEN, the actor now vouches that the filmmaker will be back in his form with their next collaboration, horror comedy Police Station Mein Bhoot. “It’s a wild film! He’s back, I can tell you that. Ram …

Ram Gopal Varma says he’s not ‘qualified’ to make a film with Shah Rukh Khan: ‘His romantic films aren’t my type’ | Bollywood News

Ram Gopal Varma says he’s not ‘qualified’ to make a film with Shah Rukh Khan: ‘His romantic films aren’t my type’ | Bollywood News

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has collaborated repeatedly with several actors, including Nagarjuna, Manoj Bajpayee, and Amitabh Bachchan. RGV maintains that he casts actors strictly based on the demands of the story and its characters, rather than their stardom. The same approach, he says, guided all of his films with Bachchan, from Sarkar (2005) to its 2017 threequel Sarkar 3. “Amitabh Bachchan actually has a very immobile face, which is unusual for an actor of that repute. But the way he conveys through his eyes and voice modulation, without moving, is an extraordinary thing because that gives him an inherent dignity and an inbuilt poise and classiness, which happens very, very rarely. To my knowledge, there’s no other actor who can do that, in India at least,” said Varma in an interview with The Hans India. On Shah Rukh Khan being heralded as a worthy successor to Amitabh Bachchan, Ram Gopal Varma countered, “Shah Rukh has a very different style, in terms of his charm and everything. Also, the kind of cinema that I grew up …