Posts Tagged ‘Writers’

  • Writer ki izzat and a happy incident
    Salim-Javed used to carry a paint-ka-dabba on a bicycle to hand-paint their names on the film posters the night before the film released. (Source: Javed Akhtar’s interview book by Nasreen Munni Kabeer.) Blatant lies.... Co-writer's name is missing againJaved Akhtar admits this much, and it may be dismissed as a fiction or dramebaazi, but the story is a good starting...
    by Vidushak at October 9th, 2009 at 11:10 am
  • Indian Screenwriters’ Conference 2008 – I Was There
    I attended the two-day Indian Screenwriters’ Conference 2008, and to prove it, I have, apart from a bunch of notes and quotes, a small boil at the top corner of my left ass. The theme of this year’s conference, which was dedicated to the late Vijay Tendulkar, was “Has The Indian Script Arrived?” We had quite a formidable collection of speakers on...
    by Kenny at December 15th, 2008 at 03:12 am
  • Has the Indian script arrived? The Indian Screenwriters’ Conference 2008
    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...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 19th, 2008 at 09:11 pm
  • A Week With Anjum Rajabali, Sriram Raghavan and Anurag Kashyap
    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,...
    by Kenny at September 6th, 2008 at 08:09 am
  • Rob Long’s MARTINI SHOT at KCRW
    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....
    by Mainak at July 19th, 2008 at 04:07 pm