26/11 is one of the dates which no Indian will ever forget. Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma's visit to Taj Mahal hotel along with the then CM Vilasrao Deshmukh and actor-son Ritesh Deshmukh soon after 26/11 terror attacks so as to study the incident and make a film on the same is no more a speculation.

Ram Gopal Varma's visit to the terror ravaged Taj Mahal Hotel and Tower spiralled into a controversy has not gone well with people from the industry as well. and even costed Vilas Rao Desnukh his CM job. Public  and industry even felt that these people are  vultures who were preying  on half burnt bodies of 26/11 casualties.

As it has turned into a reality now. Well the ever-experimenting filmmaker has announced that he is making a film on 26/11 attacks. The terror attacks at prominent Mumbai locations by 10 Pakistan-based terrorists, left 166 dead, including several security personnel and foreigners, besides over 300 people injured.

Soon after the incident, Varma's walk through the half-burnt hotel accompanied by the then Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and his actor son Reitesh had led to speculations that he might make a film on the attacks.

But when he was asked, by media,  if he was planning a real-life inspired movie on it, he had told  'It's a figment of their (media's) imagination. I have no such plans (to make a movie on Mumbai's 26/11 terror strike).'

The filmmaker still maintains that he was not invited by Deshmukh and his son to visit the hotel so that he could see the devastation first hand and portray it realistically in a movie.

'I only got the idea now. I have enough knowledge and understanding of the events now. Also, at that point the allegations were about Riteish being a part of this project, which he is not,' he said.

RGV said that:

“26/11 is one of the dates which no Indian will ever forget. The three days 24/7 live telecast of the terrorist carnage had people’s eyes glued to the TV sets across the world.

Every one more or less has seen on TV or heard of what happened during that time. But my attempt now would be not only to capture on film the physical aspect but also the behind the scenes aspect of what exactly happened from the time Kasab  and rest of the team landed on Amar Singh Solanki’s trawler in the high seas, till kasab’s heroic capture by the late Tukaram Ombale at Girgaum chowpatty. This will be intercut with what the various gallant police officers did in their attempt to get the situation under control.

I am being assisted by Rommel Rodrigues, author of “Kasab the face of 26/11”, who has an extensive and encyclopedic knowledge of the event but my film is not based on his book.

The film is being made for both the International and Indian audiences. It will have a cast of completely new actors to create a heightened sense of reality.

After my tryst with the so called underworld films I would consider this film as the greatest challenge of my career.”

-Ram Gopal Verma