Mohsin Akhtar, Urmila Matondkar; Ram Gopal Varma
Mohsin Akhtar, Urmila Matondkar; Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma and Urmila Matondkar worked together for several films – most notably Rangeela – and had an offscreen relationship as well. That didn’t last, and while we don’t know exactly why, RGV did say sometime recently that his biggest problem with Urmila was that he could not accept her as a normal human being:

I don’t know how this may sound, but my biggest problem with Urmila on a personal front was that I just couldn’t accept her being an ordinary human being. I know that is a very unrealistic expectation from any woman but then you have to understand that I am a very filmy person. She was, in person, a simple sweetheart but I, very selfishly, always wanted her to be larger-than-life even in real life.

The director was clearly besotted with her, and he even said he was mesmerised by her beauty and that everything about her was divine.

Now that the news of her tying the knot has broken, RGV took to Twitter to send out his wishes for Urmila: