DNA (September 10, 2015)

Ram Gopal Varma went on a nostalgic trip and waxed eloquently about his one-time muse and heroine Urmila Matondkar. On September 8, his film Rangeela starring Urmila, Aamir Khan and Jackie Shroff completed 20 years and to mark the red-letter day, Ramu tweeted, “I have to confess to all concerned that I was mesmerised with Urmila and her beauty. Her face to her figure to her personality to her persona to everything else about her was just divinity for me... She’s a painting and I was the framemaker... But for a painting to be truly relished apart from the frame containing it, it also needs a right place to be place and that place was Rangeela...The only person I want to celebrate Rangeela after all these years is the person who made it Rangeeli.” He goes on to say that Urmila was the benchmark of a woman for him and he thanks her for making his career and life richer by being in it! Phew! Now, that’s some ode Ramu, but wonder if Urmila who he had cast aside in favour of younger heroines for his later films is impressed.