His life story has enough of drama, action, and is filled with adventures, innumerable incidents of his famed survival instincts, high profile kidnappings and the aura of fear about himself that he was able to instill in the minds of the people is a fertile ground for a film maker to get inspired.
Even when the notorious person was alive, Ram Gopal Varma's wish to make a film on his life has been know.
When Ram Gopal Varma's film 'Jungle' was released a couple of years ago, everyone thought that it is a film about Veerapan.
There started the saga of a film about Veerapan and still it has not become a reality.
After a long period of time, with the success of 'Sarkar Raj' Ram Gopal Varma has reinstated his position in Bollywood and now is the right time to think again about his long cherished wish of making the film on Veerapan.
The forest brigand's wife Muthulakshmi coming over to Mumbai for a discussion on the story line of the film is a clear indicator that the film can be expected to roll soon and this time Ramu is really serious in working out the project.
May be the success of 'Sarkar Raj' has brought in a much needed confidence booster for the film maker and he wants to follow it up with a story of the true life story of a different kind of gangster.
Keeping with this film maker's record in making films that satisfies people who are looking out for movies with a realistic touch as well as weaving interesting commercial elements in a particular way in which it will not hamper with the total feel of the film, film lovers will not argue that Ram Gopal Varma is the right person for making a memorable film on Veerapan.
According to the reports the film maker will co produce the film along with Ekta Kapoor and the writer of 'Sarkar Raj' Prashant Pandey will be the director.
The film will be showing the circumstances that the young man in a village to take up the arms and finally becoming the most dreaded uncrowned king of the forests and how he became so successful in fooling the army, the police and the special security forces each time they were deployed to catch him.
