Logbook of a Screenwriter
Three months is nothing in the lifetime of a blog…But yes, you do get to know where you are heading, and think…!!! Let’s see.In the past three months, at therewillbetime, we have discussed screenplay writing with Farookh Dhondhy and Soumik Sen, Copywriting with Stanley Pinto, Satire Writing with Akash ‘Deshbhakt’ Banerjee, and Travel Writing with Nishi Pulugurtha. We have also…
It’s bizarre how some songs stick to your head. Like this one, C Funk from Popcult. I heard it quite by accident – since Gaurab ‘Gaboo’ Chatterjee is the percussionist of the band, and he remains a blast from my now largely defunct past in Calcutta. I used to assist his father Gautam Chatterjee in my early twenties. Gautam-da, a…
The theme puja I covered on 100 years of Bengali Cinema has been awarded the best creative pandal in Delhi NCR.Kudos to the entire team of Prantic Cultural, Indirapuram. And a special thanks to Tapash Maity, the artist, for spending so much time with me. That’s one update I had to make upfront. Now for the ‘making’ story… NOSTALGIA REVISITED…
Soumik Sen is the friend who gave me a Woody Allen omnibus as a marriage gift. Whether the gesture had some kind of symbolism I can’t say. It’s just that I continue reading it, till this day, when I am out of wits. The way I remember my friend and colleague Soumik is very different from what he is now.…
My friend Nishi happens to be quite an inexplicable person; even while we were in the university together I often wondered how she managed to pack so much into a single day of standard dimensions, and still remain cheerful and uncomplaining about almost everything around her. I still do not have an answer to that. She loves to travel; and…
There’s absolutely no reason why advertising legend Stanley Pinto should give me an interview. Yes, I had infrequently tried my hand at advertising copy writing, rather unsuccessfully. The fact that I did that to tide over my frequent bouts of depression as a natural fallout of being a documentary script writer, isn’t a strong enough reason to impress him –…
There’s something disconcerting about Vincent Van Gogh that has always attracted me, even while I was in no position to understand the depth or the significance of his work. I might still be not qualified enough to even appreciate him, but what to do; that enigmatic pull has only increased with time…!!! Is it about his seemingly abandoned brush strokes?…
It’s not every day that you get to interview someone like Farrukh Dhondy. All I can say, films he has worked in have been films that inspired my very early thoughts about choosing a career in screenwriting. I remember breaking down the ravine sequences of ‘Bandit Queen’ when I was barely 20 something old – to learn editing and sequence…
What was meant to be a social media joke has exploded big time!!! Storm Area 51 was a Facebook event dated June 27, created by US college student and Game-streamer Matty Roberts, planned for September 20, 2019. That’s about one week from now. The idea is – to mass-invade a top secret US Military base in search of extraterrestrial ‘aliens’;…
Every writer of every genre I can think of has something in common; we all need readers. What’s the use of writing if there’s no one to read them? I have been to a couple of shoots for Room to Read, an international NGO that works in the area of early literacy interventions – among other things. To start with,…
