Ram Gopal Varma’s Guns & Thighs: Why I Called Amitabh Bachchan an Idiot, The Women in My Filmy Life, My Affair with the Underworld and Other Stories from My Life is an entertaining read. In this excerpt from a chapter entitled ‘The Day I Toppled The Maharashtra Chief Minister’, RGV, director of Hindi film classics like Satya and Rangeela, explains how he came to be at the Taj Hotel in the aftermath of 26/11, and examines the reasons for the outrage that ensued.