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On bumpy roads 2009-01-18 10:32:30 Seminar schedule has been posted. And 1st one is mine. I am getting paranoid ideas. Usually it takes one month for preparation. And I have only 10 days…
Writing will have to be cut to 45 minutes no doubt. But the question is whether I would be able to hold on to that also, when the [...]
Slumdog millionaire 2009-01-16 01:16:52 Danny Boyle is clever. Simon Beaufoy is cleverer.
The formula is simple. Put in the life. Put in the suffering. And then you add enough masala to dissolve the bitterness.
There is nothing in the story that you have not seen before. The street kids- Salaam Bombay. The good brother vs. grey brother- From Deewar to [...]
Appreciation appreciated 2009-01-14 12:12:29 Thanks Nimisha, for the appreciation. It is always nice to know that someone finds my blog interesting.
And I award it to:
Amrita
Twisted DNA
Nikhil
gurcharandasji
Vmohanty
American Desi
The closed door 2009-01-12 11:02:29 The landlady is clearing off the empty liqour bottles. She is swearing. There are around 30 to 40 of them.
Still she should be happy. He had been real trouble for her in the last 1-2 years. This is the last trouble he would cause her. To have to clean up his room. For the new [...]
The role of restraint in a good screenplay 2009-01-07 12:26:06 Originally published here in Passion for cinema.com.
Consider this situation in a movie. Two commandos are escorting terrorists in a bus to a point of transfer. Terrorists realise that one of the commandos is a Muslim after seeing a thaveez or something in his neck. Consider that you are writing this script. How will [...]
Mongol 2009-01-03 06:49:08 The savage is in chains. King passing by in a pall stops and asks, how much does he cost?
He costs five times the other slaves. But king still want to buy him. The old priest tries to change his mind.
Don’t buy him. He will bring sorrow to us.
What sorrow can a slave bring. We have [...]
Script writing: my goals for 2009 2008-12-31 08:37:44 2008 has been the most productive year for me until now as far as script writing
is concerned. Though on paper I have only around 140 pages of a 1st draft, I have done regular systematic work last year.
When I plan for next year I have to take into account that I will be [...]
Rab ne bana di jodi- 9 scriptwriting flaws 2008-12-28 12:35:46
Yeah what you guess is right. I had written down 10. One of it was too harsh. Considering the fact that this is a better movie from the Yash raj stables I didn’t want to sound harsh.
Here is my take on the script flaws.
1. Mixing of different tones. As you would have noticed it’s a different [...]
Script progress 2008-12-25 10:05:00 Its said that writing is rewriting. In that case I havent even started writing. I am working at an average of 45- 60 minutes per day on this script tentatively titled ‘three’ for the last 1 year. I did outlining for about 4 months. When I had an rough order of events from beginning to [...] Read more:progress
Is terrorism reversible? 2008-12-21 11:15:00 Salman Rushdie responded to the article by Arundhathi Roy here .
His argument regarding the issues paraded by terrorists is this:
”Ask yourself the question that if the Kashmir problem were resolve tomorrow, if Israel-Palestine reached a lasting peace, do we believe that al-Qaeda would disband? Do we believe that Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad would put their guns [...]
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