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I’ve just been reading all the columns at wordplayer.com and if you are an aspiring screenwriter, suggest that you do the same. Invaluable advice, there. What I also did quite recently, was read the screenplay of ‘The Omen’. Remember the movie- Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner? Written by David Seltzer and directed by Richard Donner? It’s a fantastic screenplay which if you get past the first five pages, is unputdownable. If you are the kind who avoids horror movies, I strongly recommend reading the screenplays of the better ones and then seeing them. Reduces the thrill factor but it will get you introduced to the genre at least.

Ok, the reason I am writing this is because while I was reading and admiring the screenplay, I couldn’t but help relate to what Terry Russio had been saying in his columns about what makes a great screenplay and many …

Had been to Cinemax Versova yesterday, Anupama Bose from Baiscope Entertainment had sent a very interesting invite. Let me share it with you all. The press conference was held at The Red Lounge -Cinemax Versova. The brochure which they have made is comprehensive enough for a person to know the whys? and hows? Of Sankalan.

At the press conference there was some questions thrown in spite of some very concrete briefing by the panel. A few of them were hair splitting…anyways the crux of the matter is

Send in your script (registered with the Film Writers Association)…it’s safe with your IPR intact.

Get selected and then get paid to work on your script and have an opportunity to being mentored by Anurag Kashyap, Sriram Raghavan and Anjum Rajaballi.

Sriram Raghavan was candid enough to confess that there is a very selfish motive to be a part of this..I am in search of …