RGV-Maniratnam 'Drama Revealed'

This might come across as a surprise to you but then if you have observed closely, while watching the credits of the two films ‘Donga Donga’ and ‘Gaayam’, two interesting things are seen. The story for ‘Gaayam’ is given as Mani Ratnam while the story for ‘Donga Donga’ is given as Ram Gopal Varma.

Recently, one of them asked Ram Gopal Varma about the same thing and this is what he had to say- “Me and Mani Ratnam were good friends so we thought that we should exchange our names for branding purpose and increase the mileage of the film. Both are our own stories but just the names were switched”.

Well, this is a drama of its own but then it goes to show that even those days, Ramu was a man who believed in giving twists in real life. ‘Donga Donga’ was more of a cult film while ‘Gaayam’ was a trendsetter of sorts as many films came on those lines. Wonder if Ramu-Mani are still friends or not..