Ram Gopal Varma (RGV), long one of India's most notorious filmmakers, has announced via his social media pages that his next project will be Nuclear, an international co-production. RGV is currently shooting the third part of his Sarkar trilogy and putting finishing touches on some other projects, but he says that as soon as those are sewn up, he is off to shoot this massive project.
Varma has quoted a budget of 340 crore Rupees, which translates to a little over US $50 million, a huge sum in terms of Indian filmmaking. However, I'm more than a little skeptical of this number considering the fact that over the last five years he's made nearly twenty films and the vast majority of those have lost money. The idea that a production company would wager that huge sum on a project with RGV at the helm is more than a little baffling.
Adding to the hype - that I'm well aware I'm helping keep afloat - are RGV's brags that the film will shoot in four countries (India, US, Russia, and China) and employ actors from six countries (US, China, Russia, UK, Yemen, and India). The production company behind Nuclear, CMA Global, has backed up RGV's boasts, but this is far from the first time that RGV has announced a huge project only to have it fizzle and die.
As of right now, nothing is confirmed, and the only real proof of the film existing is the concept art shown here. Who knows? It may happen, but I'm not optimistic. Here's a statement from RGV regarding the film:
I have been an avid and voracious reader of both fiction and non fiction but never in my life until now, have I come across a subject matter like NUCLEAR. Yes it's going to be much more costlier than the most expensive film ever made in India and the reason for that is because the subject matter truly demands that it is filmed on a scale never before seen
Terrorism is on the top of everyone's minds in the world today be it America, Europe, Middle East or Asia. We wake up every morning to hear dreadful news of a terror attack happening somewhere or the other. Incidents like planes bringing down towers, a truck plowing through people on the roads, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people in Paris,Mumbai etc are terrifying enough, but the real and truly unthinkable terror is, what if someone gets their hands on a nuclear bomb?
This is not at all an exaggerated fear and a very plausible reality with so many terrorist organisations intimidating and attempting to take over nuclear powered countries. The echoes of the nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still reverberating in the world's ears 70 years after they exploded making it impossible for the world to forget the terror they unleashed.
The only thing which can be more terrifying than that is, if that explosion happens now in our times. It is because of this fear that America acted against Iraq. If an act based on mere suspicion that someone could be in possession of a nuclear bomb bring in so much of hate and divide between the countries of the world resulting in regime collapses, friendly countries becoming sworn enemies, rise of ISIS etc., then it's obvious that an actual nuclear explosion in a big city like Mumbai can easily trigger WORLD WAR III and thus end the WORLD.