Although many Indian filmmakers have crafted gangster movies across languages over the years, it’s doubtful that anyone else has had as significant an influence over the genre as Ram Gopal Varma (popularly known as RGV). From his directorial debut, the Nagarjuna-starrer Shiva (1989) — which is gearing up for a re-release now — to Antham, Satya, Company, the Sarkar movies, and the Rakta Charitra films, RGV has experimented with the gangster subgenre several times in his career, though not all of his ventures were successful.

Nonetheless, movies like Shiva, Satya (1998), and Company (2002) became benchmarks, influencing and inspiring many directors and their subsequent work. However, the filmmaker, known for his unfiltered nature, has revealed that he didn’t like Company, widely

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