Ram Gopal Varma told Suchitra Krishnamoorthi he’s a ‘horrible person’ after she said she wanted to marry him: ‘He got scared’

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi said that Ram Gopal Varma summoned her to his office after she said that she wanted to marry him.

ITDC INIDA EPRESS/ ITDC NEWS: Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur’s former wife, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, reflected on a joke she once made about wanting to marry director Ram Gopal Varma, and said that he took it so seriously that he invited her to his office to dissuade her from thinking about this seriously. She said that she understands that her joke was taken seriously, because even RGV didn’t get it.

In her autobiography Drama Queen, she recalled sending a text to RGV, saying, “Will you marry me?” Suchitra and RGV worked together on the films My Wife’s Murder and Rann. In her book, she didn’t mention that it was a joke, but said that RGV rejected her advances, and told her that he only uses women ‘for sex’, and that he likes their ‘bodies’ but not their ‘brains’. “In my opinion, women should be seen and not heard,” she said he told her.

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But in a new interview with Bollywood Thikana, Suchitra said that it was all a joke. Asked about the incident, she said, “It happened, but it happened as a joke… How can anybody be serious about marrying Ram Gopal Varma? He’s a very nice man, but he got so scared by my message. That is even funnier.”

She continued, “He took me very seriously, he got so scared. He called me to his office and explained what a nice girl I was, and how he’s a very horrible guy and I shouldn’t think about all this… I said, ‘Ramu, it was just a joke.’ Even he took it seriously.”

Suchitra, who has worked as an actor and singer in the industry, was married to director Shekhar Kapur from 1999 to 2007. In the same interview, she said that she hasn’t forgiven actor Preity Zinta for comments that she made about her, at a time when it was rumoured that Shekhar and Preity had an affair.