Ramu's next is a trial on sex

Mumbai: Director Ram Gopal Varma says his new film will seek to explore India's attitudes toward sex by literally putting the issue on trial.

Varma told a national daily that Sex Haazir Ho, would be about a fight for sexual freedom.

Describing Sex Haazir Ho as intensely dramatic, Varma said, "Sexual desire as a feeling by itself becomes an accused party in the courtroom."

"I'm not making a sex film. I agree that sex sells. But I'm extremely reluctant to enter bedrooms in my films," Varma said. "Sex Haazir Ho enters the courtroom and not the bedroom."

He will begin filming the movie after the release later this year of his latest offering, Nishabd in which superstar Amitabh Bachchan plays an aging romantic who falls in love with a teenager.

Varma said the new movie was "about a fight for sexual freedom, where the enemy is not outside but within all of us who practice sexual hypocrisy".