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iView Author: Saket Chaudhary
(screenwriter Asoka, director-screenwriter Pyar Ke Side Effects)

Email: saket74 [at] gmail [dot] com

HAS THE INDIAN SCRIPT ARRIVED?

THE INDIAN SCREENWRITERS’ CONFERENCE 2008

Mumbai, December 13 & 14, 2008

Organised by the Filmwriters Association

Introduction

There is little doubt in the mind of anyone associated with Indian cinema – film industry, audience or the media – about two clear facts.

That the script is the bedrock of filmmaking. The ability of a film to connect with its audience depends firstly on the quality of its script. In that sense, a film derives its primary creative force from the script.
That scriptwriting has been the most neglected craft in Indian filmmaking.

However, there …

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 …