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Ram Gopal Varma Revisits Bhoot at Festival, Says Lokhandwala Flat Still Vacant, Confirms May Release for New Horror-Comedy

He highlighted how an expression in Rangeela led to Urmila Matondkar’s casting.

Overview

  • At the Red Lorry Film Festival in Mumbai, Varma joined a Bhoot screening and held a Q&A on the film’s making and legacy.
  • He confirmed his next feature, Police Station Mein Bhoot, is a horror-comedy slated for a May release starring Manoj Bajpayee and Genelia Deshmukh.
  • Varma said a close-up in Rangeela’s Hai Rama convinced him that Urmila Matondkar could carry Bhoot’s lead role.
  • He described Bhoot as a reworking of his 1992 film Raat with the relationship recast from father–daughter to husband–wife.
  • He said the Lokhandwala apartment used for the 2002 shoot remains vacant, and suggested Kangana Ranaut could do justice to the role today.