Bruce Lee is the one and only who I loved more than s*x, pens Ram Gopal Varma in his latest blog

Ram Gopal Varma often creates a lot of stir with his thoughts that he shares on social media. We remember how he called Tiger Shroff a bikini babe and how he made a drunk call to Vidyut Jammwal to clarify over his derogatory tweets. Well, his latest blog is calling for attention too. He has shared a long post on his Facebook page wherein he has described his love for Brucee Lee. He has titled this blog as ‘Bruce Lee is the one and only who I loved more than s*x’, and has expressed how awestruck he was to witness the machismo of the star. (Also Read: Ram Gopal Varma on his film with Abhishek Bachchan: We start ‘Arrest’ by May end)

With this, he has also stated on Twitter that he would make a film on Bruce Lee and will release before Shekhar Kapur releases his film with the same subject. He tweeted,

Here’s RGV’s entire blog on Bruce Lee.

There was an extreme excitement in all us youngsters sometime in the late 70’s as somehow word got around that a new film called “Enter the Dragon” was coming starring a new actor called ‘Bruce Lee’ I never heard of the word Karate or Kung Fu before but when I finally got to see the film Bruce Lee just blew me away or shall I say kicked me away. To say that I was awestruck and mesmerized by him will be an understatement. I used to cycle all the way to a theatre 7 km away and I saw “Enter the Dragon” 17 times and after that his subsequent film “Return of the Dragon” 23 times I was obsessed about knowing of him and knowing about him to the smallest and minutest detail possible.

I always felt that if Bruce Lee was 6 inches taller he would not have become the legend he was. Its because he was just 5’7” and so small built that everybody and anybody could aspire to become like him. Nobody could have aspired to be a 6’2” heavyweight boxer like a Muhammad Ali or a Joe Frazier. That’s because they look almost unreal and hence unreachable whereas an average guy will be the size of Bruce Lee which explains the rush of millions of people across the world to join Martial Arts schools of which I too was one.

Bruce Lee was a dream like man who I and many millions of others wanted to be and what we believed we could become and the existence of Bruce Lee was proof that our dream if we work hard enough definitely could become a reality. Needless to say after a few sessions of trying to learn his art I realized how impossible it is to reach anywhere near Bruce Lee and so I abandoned my dream of becoming Bruce Lee and settled for the far less painful and much easier art of filmmaking. But inspite of abandoning Martial Arts my study of Bruce Lee and his thinking created a huge impact on me in various ways which would in time influence both my life and my films.

Lee said “True understanding of the art of fighting begins when one sheds set patterns, and true freedom of expression in art occurs only when one is beyond systems. Regardless of their many legendary origins,styles are eventually created by living men and hence they should not be taken as a gospel truth. Man, the living creating individual should always be more important than any existing style”

These words of Bruce Lee made me feel that there is nothing wrong with being different. Being different means being an individual. If I can’t be an individual martial artist atleast let me be an individual human being and an individual filmmaker. “I am all styles and no style”, said Bruce Lee. That’s where my style came from.

Regarding essential and existential discipline Bruce Lee said

“I have on my table a violin string. It is free.

I twist one end of it and it turns. It is free.

But it is not free to do what it is supposed to do.

That is to produce music.

So I take it and fix it in my violin

And tighten it till it is taut.

Only then it is free

to be a violin string”

The fact that the greatest fighter with the fittest body ever and the soundest mind ever could just die of some bodily reaction to some stupid pain killer was inconceivable to me. I can’t ever forget the grief I felt for his death. It was a mixture of a stunned belief and a sense of almost feeling betrayed. The fact that a man like that at the age of thirty-two could die just like that, was devastating to say the least. As I started thinking deeper, I realized that inspite of all the inspirations he provoked the hard truth was that a symbol of absolute perfection like him could die too.

But inspite of how much I grieved his death, and however harsh it might sound, I am really glad that he died when he died as in no way I would have ever wanted to see a 75 year old Bruce Lee which would be his age now if he was alive. I thank God so much for killing Bruce Lee so very early in his life and I really hope that he’s still kicking and punching in his grave instead of stupidly just resting in peace like ordinary people

RGV

Nikita Thakkar

A strongly opinionated, free-spirited, budding Bollywood journalist, she likes to write anything in her own quirky style. When not running around to get assigned tasks completed, you will find her either painting, indulging in photography or dreaming in the la la land.