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The making of a wife-killer

Ram Gopal Varma claims that his film factory's latest release, "My Wife's Murder'', is Anil Kapoor's ticket back to larger-than-life roles. A bit of vintage Anil in his angry mode like in "Tezaab'', the movie sees the actor reconnect with his past in more ways than one.

"I keep telling him that he should do more aggressive characters like `Jabaaz', `Tezaab' and `Ram Lakhan', but he over the years became involved with family dramas like `Humara Dil Aapke Paas Hai' and `Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rahte Hain'. So I had to make him kill his wife to free him from his family.

This is my contribution to his career,'' he quipped at a press conference in the Capital on Tuesday.

Slated for release this Friday, the movie is about an ordinary man who crosses the line in an argument with his wife and is then forced to live with the horrible circumstances.

While Anil seems to be in a flashback mode with his recent spate of action films, the movie also took him out of his air-conditioned Mercedes into the `real' world and back to his non-star days. Riding a bicycle to the shoot of the film, Anil really tried to get into the ordinary life of the character.

"Cycling was my passion when I started shooting for this film. So I arrived on the sets on the first day of shooting on my bicycle. The location was so far that it took me one hour to get there and my legs were hurting too. I thought I must be getting old. But it took me back to the days when I was a struggling actor and used to travel by bus and train. I had many interesting interactions with people on the way and then rode my bicycle till the film was complete,'' said Anil.

Interested more in playing characters than being a star, Anil believes that this film has been one of his most satisfying experiences as an actor.

"From the time I came to my senses I wanted to be an actor. I get really bored with `naach-gana' and I have to get really excited about a character,'' he said. -- Mandira Nayar

-- Mandira Nayar

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