Ram Gopal Varma, who directed his new movie on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is promising an unflinching depiction of the tragedy, which some traumatised survivors fear will be too painful to watch.
'The Attacks of 26/11,' which opens throughout India tomorrow, reconstructs the terrifying assault by 10 heavily-armed Islamist gunmen on November 26, 2008 -- the start of a 60-hour siege that left 166 people dead.
RGV, a Bollywood veteran known for his gangster and horror films, said he wanted to convey the "emotional aspect" of the deadliest militant attack in India since Independence.
"Pretty much everyone knows what happened but they don't know how it happened," he said.
"The film is very dark and violent. There's no entertainment."
The making of the film has provoked mixed reactions in Mumbai, where feelings still run high over the attacks that targeted luxury hotels, a hospital and a cafe, a busy train station and a Jewish centre.
Some expressed reluctance to drag up memories of the siege and others questioned Varma's ability to pull off such a movie, given his recent run of slated films.
But superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who watched a rough cut of the project, wrote on Twitter that it left him "choked with tears" and was "infinitely precise" in its research.
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