More than his films, Ram Gopal Varma has been in the news more for his shocking statements. The director is now working on a web series, ‘Guns And Thighs‘, and a short film, Meri Beti Sunny Leone Banna Chaahti Hai for his YouTube channel. He’s also mostly in the news for trolling young actors like Tiger Shroff, making comments at Sridevi, taking a dig on Karan Johar and quitting Twitter. Here, he explains why did he quit Twitter…
After completing eight years on Twitter, Ram Gopal Verma told his fans before quitting that, ““My pleasantly unpleasant surprise is I am getting out of Twitter…To all my followers, no thanks for following me all these years,” he wrote after completing eight years on Twitter.”
He also announced that he would now be available on Instagram. His last tweet read, “This my last tweet before my tweet death..but I will not RIP and seriously work from now on @RGVzoomin Birth:27/5/2009 Death:27/5/2017”.
When asked about his reason to quit Twitter, the director explained, “I enjoy that I can provoke or irritate somebody enough to react so strongly to whatever I have said or done. The reason I left Twitter was that I felt it had become predictable — the way I said things and people reacted. I thought I should change the medium and get on Instagram, where I could push myself to comment through pictures and videos rather than just saying a line or two.”
If I said in a tweet, ‘There’s no difference between an engineer, doctor, pornstar and a housewife’, they would have collapsed on me. But the same content in a video called Meri Beti Sunny Leone Banna Chaahti Hai, (MBSLBCH) obviously would be taken in a very different way”, he added.