6M views for Bishnoi

Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s personality and the points he is making through his crimes is what is drawing attention to him, giving him a “cult leader” status and getting him followers, his 700 shooters, film-maker Ram Gopal Varma said today.Ram Gopal Varma said, “I tweeted about him and it got 6 million views.

That is just an indication of what kind of interest he arouses in public”.

“The public is always fascinated by dons, which is why we make films… So I think he is getting a cult following, which is a very very new thing,” he added.

The tweet is question is one where Mr Varma sums up the story so far of Lawrence Bishnoi, commenting that if it was a Bollywood script, the writer would have been thrashed.

Blackbucks are known to be sacred to the Bishnoi community. But that he intends to kill Salman Khan for that generates a shock effect that immediately draws attention, he said.

Bishnoi, who is currently in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, shot into the limelight with the murder of Punjabi artiste Siddhu Moose Wala. But comments by his associates have exponentially raised curiosity.