New Delhi: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has a soft corner for the surname Nagre. Amitabh Bachchan's character in 'Sarkar' and its sequel 'Sarkar Raj' had Nagre as the surname. Some other films of Ram Gopal Varma also had Nagre surname for major or minor characters.
Varma had used this surname for the first time for a major character in the 2002 release 'Company' where Vivek Oberoi had played the role of Chandrakant Nagre alias Chandu who becomes the closest ally of Malik Bhai before turning into a fierce business rival.
After 'Company', 'Saathiya', 'Dum', 'Kaal' and 'Yuva', Vivek's career was looking promising but then he started to lose his position at the box office. Vivek was definitely not out of the silver screen as he continued to have one or two releases every year but he did not remain in the race to numero uno spot anymore.
Lately, two of his films 'Prince' and 'Rakht Charitra' have done well but they too have not reinstalled Vivek as the hero to watch out for in the near future.
It seems that Vivek has emerged as a calmer and more focussed person after marriage and it shows in his interviews and roles he is doing.
Even when Vivek used to remain in news more for controversies than films, he liked to talk about alternative cinema.
Probably all these reasons together have provoked Vivek Oberoi to produce a film.
His first film as producer is called 'Watch Indian Circus' which showcases a poor Indian family that wants to take its children to the circus but is struggling real hard to make the ends meet.
The film also has en election going on in the background which shows the paradoxes present in a typical Indian society.
Vivek's film was screened at the recently held 16th Busan International Film Festival where it received good reviews.
Directed by Mahesh Hadawale, the film deals with comic situations arising due to economic disparities.
Aamir Khan Productions had come up with 'Peepli Live' which was issue based and had rural set up in the middle for a change but it's a rare example.
Any major Bollywood studio has not produced any story dealing with economically backwards in a long time. Those who have focussed on downtrodden and poor, have only managed to produce 'poor become ultra rich' sort of stories.
Therefore at a time, when major actors are not even thinking about doing stories which are not out and out commercial, Vivek's decision to patronize a film about real and rural India is praiseworthy.
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