Even as Ram Gopal Varma’s Hindi flick Veerappan, a remake of his Kannada film Killing Veerappan is gearing up for release, we hear of the shocking revelation in it that the forest brigand had a plan to kidnap the country’s biggest superstar — Rajinikanth. If sources are to be believed, the biopic on the notorious sandalwood smuggler, who was killed by Tamil Nadu’s STF includes a scene which deals with Veerappan’s plot of kidnapping Rajini in a similar vein to his kidnapping of the Kannada matinee idol Dr Rajkumar.
It is said that the director came to know about this plan while he was researching the project. Meanwhile, in a series of tweets RGV has disclosed many things about Veerappan. In one of his tweets he has said, “Veerappan used to think he is more famous than Rajinikanth and at one point he demanded a film to be made on him as a part of his ransom.” He further added, “Veerappan’s demand was to get a much bigger film made on him than Shekar Kapur’s Bandit Queen because he was much bigger than Phoolan Devi.” “What’s even more unbelievable than Veerappan is the reality of how he was actually hunted down,” (sic) read another.
RGV says that he did extensive homework, gathering information based on interviews with ex-gang members and inputs from mediators and cops from the Special Task Force, who were involved in the hunting down of the smuggler.
