Ram Gopal Varma, Mohit Suri Team Up for Gangster Drama Set Against 1993 Blasts

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has announced that he is co-producing a new gangster drama to be directed by Mohit Suri, with the story rooted in the aftermath of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

In a post on X, Varma said the film unfolds against the split between Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan, triggered by a man named Satya, and traces how Indian intelligence agencies became involved in the events that followed the blasts. He wrote that he had penned the original script, but credited Suri with lifting it to an entirely different level.

Varma praised Suri's approach, describing it as bringing heartfelt characters, emotionally charged music and a strikingly realistic treatment of action. Drawing an analogy from Hollywood, he said he had often wondered what it would look like if Francis Ford Coppola directed Jaws or Steven Spielberg directed The Godfather, noting that the contrast was the point while mastery of character remained the common thread.

He added that he believes Suri's film will be far bigger in scale than Dhurandhar and more deeply rooted than Satya.

The collaboration was first teased on Sunday, when Varma shared a photograph with the Saiyaara director on X, saying the two were "cooking together a love dish full of gangster curry" and promising details soon. Suri reshared the image on Instagram, writing that going from watching Varma's films and dreaming of becoming a filmmaker to making one with "the OG gangster himself" felt like a journey coming full circle.

Varma is best known for directing films such as Satya, Company, Siva, Kshana Kshanam, Gaayam and Prema Katha.