Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has announced that he will screen the first copy of his soon to be released ‘Killing Veerappan‘ to police.

He added that the deadly smuggler Veerappan was killed after a radical thought entered into the mind of a particular police officer. He wanted them to show how the police system failed to capture Veerappan for 15 long years.

“The very first show of “Killing Veerappan” will be shown to the Police Department ..am really curious to know their reactions.

A very radical thought of a particular police officer is what which finally Killed Veerappan.”Killing Veerappan” film is that officers story.

Biggest failure of the police department in crime history of India is 1200 policemen couldn’t catch Veerappan for more than 15 years,” tweeted Varma.

The film has been postponing multiple times, and the fresh date is January 1st, 2016.

‘Smuggler Veerappan has an interesting story behind him. I was always fascinated to picturise the history of Veerappan. Almost Rs 700 Cr were spent by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments for catching him. Approximately 900 elephants were killed for the purpose of smuggling, and it took 20 long years of the Police to catch him.

Killing Veerappan is a unique point to be filmed. This movie has covered the only episode that went into hunting down Veerappan. This isn’t his biopic. Real-time locations were chosen to make this movie. Parts of forest’s in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were Veerappan has lived were chosen as shooting locations.

People who participated in ‘Operation Cocoon’ were inquired about the operation. Veerappan’s wife Muthulakshmi was also contacted as necessary information was gathered for the film making.

Watch ‘Killing Veerappan’ trailer here:

Shivaraj Kumar, who is the son of Kannada actor Rajkumar whom Veerappan kidnapped, was our primary choice of casting in as a police officer who hunts down Veerappan. He is the apt actor who could carry the role” said Ram Gopal Varma at the trailer launch of ‘Killing Veerappan.

V. Manjunath, B. S. Sudhindra, E. Shivaprakash are jointly producing this film. Ram Gopal Varma handled the story, screenplay, and direction.

Sandeep Bharadwaj is playing the title role while Shivaraj Kumar is seen as a police officer. Yagna Shetty, Sanchari Vijay and Parul Yadav are playing the supporting roles in this docudrama thriller film.

‘Killing Veerappan’ will come into theaters on 4th of December in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages.

Have a look at the first look of Veerappan in RGV’s Killing Veerappan movie. Sandeep Bharadwaj, a Delhi-based theatre actor played the role of Veerappan in the film and he looks like real Veerappan. It seems that Sandeep Bharadwaj has worked hard to look like real Veerappan.

“Sandeep has been doing tremendous preparation for his role from the smallest details of how and what Veerappan would have eaten to what kind of a psyche he would have developed living in such extreme terrain and in such extreme situations” RGV said about him

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