Logbook of a Screenwriter
Non-fiction Screenwriter of award-winning documentaries and TV shows from India. 25 years of experience and still learning. Loves writing scripts and copy and articles - everything non-fiction.
Whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.
That saying goes rather well with Art Director Sukant Panigrahy – one of the most quirky yet dependable professionals in contemporary Hindi film industry. He came. He countered. He conquered. But he also stayed true to himself, and that’s what makes him distinct.
Leave a CommentSukant Panigrahy’s hustle with life could perhaps be best understood as osmotic. He did some odd things to make life happen, and life did some course corrections to make him happening – while all of this interactivity seeped across a thin diaphragm of uncertainty, always. Or else, how else would you decode him? His phenomenon? A boy from remote, backward…
Leave a CommentThe story of Hitendra Ghosh is the saga of walking willingly into a maze of amazement. His insatiable quest for meaning partnered with his indomitable will to experiment. It didn’t take any time for his skills to be noticed, recognized, and efficiently used across the spectrum. Be it the multi-layered aesthetics of ‘art’ cinema, or the heightened emotions of ‘pop’…
Leave a CommentAllow me to start by telling sorry to my readers. It’s been quite some time since I did my last blog, with Sham Kaushal – although it seems you guys have kept reading my pieces, since the traffic to my blog has been remarkably steady. Thanks for the support. Life kept me busy with other things. I did a couple…
Leave a CommentPersonally, I am more of a Robin person than a Batman fan. First of all, Robin is middle class. He has learnt his tricks by default, not because he wanted to. He is a sidekick whose sole purpose in life is to fulfill the agenda of others. That’s my type. Also, might be since I spent a substantial share of…
4 CommentsIn retrospect, I have done quite a lot of useful things with my rudderless self – most of which I don’t even care to remember now. Having said that, the couple of years I spent with stage lighting have remained firmly embedded in my head, as a sweet spot. I still love the lights, and not just the limelight. So…
6 CommentsSoumitra Chatterjee has been like that father figure whom you don’t miss till the time he is no more. He is much like that cornerstone of your being that you have taken for granted. So when I heard, sometime around Durga Pooja last year, that he was severely unwell and hospitalized, it came as a jolt. He was 85, true,…
8 CommentsLast week was the birthday week for K Hari Kumar, and I did plan to do this post celebrating that occasion, but alas! Like much else that I have not been able to do on-time recently, this too stayed a pipe dream. Can’t blame anything or anyone else; it’s just too much on my platter and a severely lost appetite;…
2 CommentsInteracting with Abhishek was heart-warming – since he is someone who has just begun his journey in the industry with which I have grown old ( and senile). He is young, comes across as rather energetic – and has that fizzy and adorable quality of someone who doesn’t claim to know everything as yet. That reflects in his honest and…
Leave a CommentWhen I think of the way I have treated my career in writing it often ends up giving me a shudder. It wasn’t really a choice for me – I started writing since I had no other skills to sell. It became a question of survival, so I wrote whatever I got to write for whoever would pay. I was…
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