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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 …

I’m still running a slight fever as a write this – I have it since the last two days of the Sankalan workshop. The fever could either be due to an information overload or a food and tea overload. We, the dozen plus two chosen writers, were treated to luxury which at least I’m not used to. We’d be taken to the venue, Digital Academy, in an AC minibus, fed breakfast, have a session, then a tea break, then session, then lunch – session – tea break – session – and finally goodbye tea and snakes – I mean snacks. Our hostesses (cum bosses Anupama, Arti and Sushmita (more power to women!) declared that they intended to make us at least one or two kilos heavier by the end of the session. Unfortunately for me, who’s struggling to get rid …

Last few weeks we have had a lot of posts & discussion on screenplays. Dabba dissected the screenplay of AAMIR.

Then he bitched about the Conspiracy against Screenwriters.

I thought keeping with the tradition of writing on the subject of writing I would share with you one of my favorite radio shows LA.
Its called MARTINI SHOT. Hosted by Writer/Producer Rob Long. His bio on KCRW says

“Veteran TV writer and producer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life on “Martini Shot.” A contributing editor for the National Review and Newsweek International, he was a co-executive producer of “Cheers” while still in his 20s and is the co-creator of a string of (cancelled) sitcoms: “George & Leo,” “Men, Women & Dogs,” etc. Rob is also the author of “Conversations With My Agent,” the cult classic about real life in Hollywood, as well as its recently published sequel, …