Click to play videoKolkata: Filmmaker Ramgopal Varma's career, by his own admission, has come a full circle.
After making waves with his debut film Shiva in 1990-91, Varma is ready with Shiva yet again - after 15-long years.
But this time around, he confesses, Shiva is a formula film on a subject that has been done to death.
Yet, Varma feels that this film will bring the angry young man back on the Indian screen, at a time when there are too many chocolate heroes.
"After Amitabh Bachchan took that five-year sabbatical, a void was created. There was no action hero on screen and the music companies took over. That gave birth to music albums and chocolate heroes," says Varma.
The film deals with the story of a young police officer, played by Mohit Alhawat who joins the Mumbai police force and realizes that the real world is far removed from what he had been taught at the police academy.
Varma feels that Shiva is the rebel that lives in all of us, though he himself wouldn't want to be like his character.
"I am a con man. I am not Shiva. I can only make films about him," he admits.
He's convinced that the audience is ready to accept a hard-core good against evil action film even at a time when relationship films are ruling the roost.
But whether this Shiva made 15-years after its first namesake will weave the same magic at the box office remains to be seen.
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