Ram Gopal Varma & Antara Mali Movies Together List — 7 Films

The shape of the work

The 2000s account for 86% of everything they made together. The 1990s belonged to Prema Katha; the 2000s to Darna Mana Hai. Ram Gopal Varma director in some, producer in others.

Partnership facts

• Ram Gopal Varma cast Antara Mali in 'Prema Katha' (1999) after seeing her in a music video. He later said he picked her because she had 'raw energy' that reminded him of his own early work.
• On the set of 'Company' (2002), Varma let Antara Mali improvise most of her lines as the journalist. She said he gave her zero rehearsals — just told her the scene's mood and let her run with it. That raw, unpolished feel became the film's most talked-about performance.
• Because of their work together on 'Company', Varma cast Antara Mali as the lead in 'Naach' (2004) — a film that directly inspired the choreography style of later Bollywood dance films like 'ABCD: Any Body Can Dance' (2013). Mali's raw, non-glamorous dance sequences set a template.
• During the making of 'Prema Katha' (1999), Varma and Mali dated briefly. She later said the relationship ended before 'Company' began, but they stayed professional friends. He never cast her again after 'Naach' (2004).
• Antara Mali once said about Varma: 'He doesn't direct you. He just creates a chaos and then films it. You have to find your own character in that chaos.' She said this in a 2004 interview about 'Naach'.