Ram Gopal Varma Plans the Entire Phoonk Franchise Right Till Phoonk 33!

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Ram Gopal Varma thinks that in Ahsaas Channa, he has found his ‘Linda Blair’ the amazing child character that has been immortalized as the ghost possessed girl in the Exorcist.

Ahsaas Channa, the female child actor has been played as a little boy in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna and also in RGV’s Vaastu Shastra, and in both the cases the makers had no clue about her gender. Ram Gopal Varma maintains that he wants to make Phoonk series all the way till Phoonk 33! He states, “As far as I’m concerned Ahsaas is the heroine and the crow is the hero of Phoonk 2. Yes, she had played a male child in my earlier horror film Vastu Shastra. I didn’t know she was a girl then and it’s none of my business if she’s a girl or a boy. All I’m concerned with is she’s the best actress I’ve worked with.”

Says Ramu, “When I made Bhoot with so many established stars I realized somewhere that the known names took away from the terror factor. The trick in horror films is to cast relatively unknown face so that the audience becomes one with the characters’ fears.” About being called gimmicky for promising prize money to anyone who can watch Phoonk 2 alone in the theatre Ramu smirks. “Those who think I’m gimmicky better take a close look at the horror genre. It’s by its very nature gimmicky. When I said I’d give money to a man watching the film only if the ECG machine shows his heartbeat to be normal I was told that was impossible. Which is a fine by me. I don’t want anyone to win!”