"One producer from the south was narrating a story to me," he said. Nothing could illustrate this better than what happened to ace scriptwriter Anees Bazmi, 32, whose hits include Ankhen and Raja Babu. I've spent the past 16 months looking for a script, but writers just come with ideas from other films." Yash Chopra, a film maker for the past 3 6 years, says that scripting has not progressed at all. Still, Bollywood has never been such a wasteland of ideas. A script has rarely ever been more than a photocopy of collages from other films. And more lately, laser discs- everything looks so good with them that nobody notices the missing storyline or the incongruities. 'Inspiration' for the Bollywood screenwriter has long meant an armful of A- and B-grade videos of American films. If it's Akshay, we put more dances, if it's Shetty, more action." His lyrical pen, which has authored Umrao Jaan, not to mention the memorable play Tumhari Amrita, now has to write for beef-calces like Akshay and Shetty. "In 199 5, there are two heroes on the drawing boards, Ak-shay Kumar and Sunil Shetty.This is a country for hero-worship, gods, kings, film heroes," laments Javed Siddiqui. The producer first gets the star, his dates, and then looks for a scriptwriter to cut his story to the hero's measurements. And as the buck goes back and forth between them and the system, the upshot is a stalemate, with Bollywood continuing to spew out stale tales of love and revenge.Ĭuriously, while the post-Amitabh Bachchan era has no superstar, the star system is as tyrannical as ever. The other being the system directors and producers, that is. Why did Bhaumick need the subterfuge? Well, it's the star-is-always-right syndrome now just one of the grouses film writers have.
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