<P> After a brief stint as a site engineer for Krishna Oberoi hotel in Hyderabad, he put his dreams on the back burner and decided to go to Nigeria to make some money . It was at this moment that he visited a video rental library in Hyderabad . He loved the idea and decided to start one of his own at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, through which he slowly developed connections with the film world . Without being successful as a fourth assistant director in B. Gopal's film Collector Gari Abbai, Varma directly ventured into film direction, with the 1989 Telugu film, Siva . </P> <P> Rachel Dwyer, a reader in world cinema at the University of London - Department of South Asia, marked Varma's Satya as an experiment with a new genre, a variation of film noir that has been called Mumbai Noir, of which Varma is the acknowledged master . In 2010, Varma received critical acclaim at the Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland; a retrospective of his filmography, highlighting Mumbai Noir was staged by film critic Edouard Waintrop, a delegate in the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival . Satya and Company, in particular, were cited by British director Danny Boyle as influences on his Academy Award - winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for their "slick, often mesmerizing portrayals of the Mumbai underworld", their display of "brutality and urban violence", and their gritty realism . </P> <P> In 2005, Varma directed the Godfatheresque - Sarkar, another super-hit thriller inspired by the life of Bal Thackeray and North Indian politics, which was screened to special mention at the New York Asian Film Festival, along with its sequel Sarkar Raj, which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and the 9th IIFA World Premiere - Bangkok, and was archived at the Academy of Motion Pictures library . In 2013, he directed a docudrama, The Attacks of 26 / 11, showcased to critical acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the Panorama as well as the Competition section, and was premièred at Films Division of India . The film received highly positive reviews, with critics praising Varma's narrative of assistant commissioner N.R. Mahale, and the discrepancies associated with Mahale's interaction with Ajmal Kasab on anti terrorism . </P> <P> Varma's philosophy is influenced by Russian - American Novelist Ayn Rand, Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and authors like James Hadley Chase and Frederick Forsyth, as well as by Mad magazine . Varma's first runaway hit in Hindi cinema was Shiva (1990), the remake of his 1989 film Siva . Varma introduced the steadicam to Indian cinema with Siva . Later, He garnered attention in Bollywood with the romantic comedy film, Rangeela (1995) starring Aamir Khan . The film won seven Filmfare Awards . Rangeela was later remade in hollywood as Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! . </P>

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