By our Special Correspondent
Varun Tej will soon play a Matka King called Vasu in Karuna Kumar’s upcoming film Matka. Given that Ratan Khatri is one of India’s most well-known Matka Kings, everyone is curious to know just how much of his story was tapped into for the film.
Talking to the press, Varun clarifies that Ratan is a man who came to Mumbai from Pakistan, while his character travels to Visakhapatnam from Burma. And that’s as far as the similarities between them go. “People talk about his deeds like they’re urban legends because no one has evidence to back it. There weren’t cell phones back then and yet, he would communicate the same number country-wide. Karuna Kumar wanted to tell a story like that but with a Telugu touch.”
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