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Granted that Ram Gopal Verma is a talented film-maker but the man is quite putting off when he criticizes actors like SRK and Aamir. And one more thing RGV, those male chauvinistic statements are deplorable too ! Here are some excerpts from an interview given to the site Santa Banta and as I said you may like RGV the director but liking RGV the person, is very hard.                                                                               

"It wasn't an overnight decision. I thought a lot about it. And finally I saw no reason to go ahead with the Shah Rukh Khan project. His youthful exuberant image just didn't go with the dark brooding intensity of the cinema that I believe in. I felt the kind of cinema I make is incompatible with Shah Rukh's image. Sadly but firmly I decided to put Time Machine aside to do a project I was far more excited about".

"Deep down inside I wasn't comfortable with the idea of directing Shah Rukh. I just love larger-than-life characters and issues. I wasn't comfortable cutting my capabilities down to the size that audiences would expect if Shah Rukh is in a picture".

 "I can't sleep in the night. That's how excited I am about Sholay. With Shah Rukh's project I felt I was going back to school. I hated school. It was like something that had to be done. It was work. See, I never grew up watching Shah Rukh. I was just informed that he's a superstar".

via MSN