Much before Chinese doctors and health officials spotted corona novel virus and the world witnessed the pandemic, it was Ram Gopal Varma who predicted the current crisis.
In a social media post, he pointed out that he foresaw an outbreak of this proportion two years ago.
He announced a film named ‘Virus’ in 2018 as his next film but like many of his movie announcements he didn’t go the floors. The plotline of this movie is an uncanny resemblance to the current situation.
“I wrote a script on a deadly viral outbreak and tweeted my intention to make it on 10/6/18 ...Check the eerie similarities of today’s happenings in the link given in my tweet nearly 2 years back,” he tweeted.
Ram Gopal Varma back then shared the plotline of this ‘Virus’ movie - “ In VIRUS, a Student contracts a deadly disease from a visit to central Africa and soon it spreads like wildfire in Mumbai City.
A panicky and unprepared government warns the people of Mumbai to maintain a distance of at least 20 feet from each other which becomes impossible in a 2 crore populated city.
The death toll soon rises to more than a lakh and the government cuts off Mumbai from the rest of the country in a desperate hope to contain it in Mumbai.
The uninfected in a panic try to flee the city, but the administrators give extreme orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape because they want to stop the spread and do not know who’s infected and who’s not.
Against this backdrop of a battle between the city’s scared people and its helpless administrators, VIRUS will be a high octane human drama full of fear, tragedy, love, sacrifice, hope, and desperation.”
Well, the plot has eerie similarities of today’s times but he didn’t make the film yet. Ram Gopal Varma had announced more than a dozen movies in the recent past which remained at the announcement level.
