Welll this has to be my most spontaneous blog yet... I mean to think of it I didn't know I'm going to blog at all today... All I was going to do was watch Hugo and divide the rest of my day between 2 of my scripts (Which is why I'm probably using the courier font... For those who don't know... a script is usually written in that font)
So anyway watching Hugo I have reserved for the evening since that's the time I can't usually get myself to write and also because that's the time Mom can't come up with an excuse to yell and shout at me for not eating lunch, not having a bath and not letting Sanjay (My trusted soldier) clean the floor under the chair on which I sit... I don't think even the dust likes to come and settle under my chair cause mom has turned into a towing van. The dust has not even parked itself for about a minute that the towing van comes with BBC (Broom, Bucket and Colin)...Colin is the newest member in our family and Sanjay and Colin the new Jai Veeru respectively.... And mom as Basanti is perfect casting... She loves Colin and is at logggerheads with Sanjay even before he comes to work every morning...
Hence Hugo and Martin Scorsese have to wait... So that leaves me with my 2 scripts which doesn't seem like a good option... I mean how can I, when the construction of the 'Raichand Mansion' is happening next door and isntead of my thoughts I can hear thakk thakk and kach kach (Latter is not that much of a problem... Since I have gotten used to Mom and Sanjay's daily ritual... Infact I have got quite accustomed to hearing my thoughts with the kach kach)
However with the 3 D's (Dedication, Determination and Devotion... I love using this line by the way) I have decided to concentrate on my scripts...
So the first thing I do is think about the current one I'm working on with my friend Shachi and which has been the sole focal point of my life over the past year... A new thought regarding the script has come to my mind and I feel extremely charged about it, though I need to do discuss it in detail with Shachi and a certian Mr. R who apparently has no time for me... The idea is in my head all I need is waqt....
With what I want to do with the script already in the processing stage in my head, I move onto revisiting an oldie.... Love and All That...
Love and All That for those who know and those who don't was my first writing experience ever and my first work experience ever... I had just finished college and a certain Miss S entrusted me with job of putting her celluloid dream on paper.... And for this I thank her with all my heart... I mean I didn't know what was eventually going to happen to the script but all I knew was that I found my calling (And even got paid for it)
So I met Miss S who is know Mrs. S yesterday for a 3rd script which seems to be completely up her alley but somehow or should I say but ofcourse the discussion went back to Love and All That and its possible potential and evident potholes (The length being of prime importance... I mean what was I think when I wrote a 201 page draft... I wish someone sat next to my hand with a pair of scissors...) Anyway we decided and discussed that I revisit the script and try to bring out the true potential and and fill up the potholes in the script...
But let me tell you... Revisiting a script is far tougher than actually writing one... Your heart melts when you press the delete button to erase all that you once felt was of utmost importance but have finally realized is bull crap... But still your heart melts since the bull and it's crap are both yours in this case...
The only thing that I'm really excited and happy about is the removal of one inconsequential track of the film.... I was convinced about its removal from the inception but coudn't convince Miss S to do so... However yesterday Mrs. S asked me to completely do away with it and that's the first thing that I did this morning...
But now comes the difficult part... Of cutting, chopping perhaps adding or completely renovating the entire script... For the fist four days it seems impossible cause you feel that those 201 pages have been written in stone... However from the 5th day you realize that nothing is actually written in stone and even if it is... It can always be re-chiseled...
And that's precisely what I plan to do...
Revisiting an oldie can be a daunting task but at the same time it challenges you to overcome your attachment to it and look at it subjectively.... And this one specially comes along with a feeling a nostalgia since it was the very first time someone instilled her confidence in my writing skills (Which I never knew I had or probably still don't know I have) and paid me for that 201 page word document even when I didn't know that there was something called as Final Draft...
So anyway watching Hugo I have reserved for the evening since that's the time I can't usually get myself to write and also because that's the time Mom can't come up with an excuse to yell and shout at me for not eating lunch, not having a bath and not letting Sanjay (My trusted soldier) clean the floor under the chair on which I sit... I don't think even the dust likes to come and settle under my chair cause mom has turned into a towing van. The dust has not even parked itself for about a minute that the towing van comes with BBC (Broom, Bucket and Colin)...Colin is the newest member in our family and Sanjay and Colin the new Jai Veeru respectively.... And mom as Basanti is perfect casting... She loves Colin and is at logggerheads with Sanjay even before he comes to work every morning...
Hence Hugo and Martin Scorsese have to wait... So that leaves me with my 2 scripts which doesn't seem like a good option... I mean how can I, when the construction of the 'Raichand Mansion' is happening next door and isntead of my thoughts I can hear thakk thakk and kach kach (Latter is not that much of a problem... Since I have gotten used to Mom and Sanjay's daily ritual... Infact I have got quite accustomed to hearing my thoughts with the kach kach)
However with the 3 D's (Dedication, Determination and Devotion... I love using this line by the way) I have decided to concentrate on my scripts...
So the first thing I do is think about the current one I'm working on with my friend Shachi and which has been the sole focal point of my life over the past year... A new thought regarding the script has come to my mind and I feel extremely charged about it, though I need to do discuss it in detail with Shachi and a certian Mr. R who apparently has no time for me... The idea is in my head all I need is waqt....
With what I want to do with the script already in the processing stage in my head, I move onto revisiting an oldie.... Love and All That...
Love and All That for those who know and those who don't was my first writing experience ever and my first work experience ever... I had just finished college and a certain Miss S entrusted me with job of putting her celluloid dream on paper.... And for this I thank her with all my heart... I mean I didn't know what was eventually going to happen to the script but all I knew was that I found my calling (And even got paid for it)
So I met Miss S who is know Mrs. S yesterday for a 3rd script which seems to be completely up her alley but somehow or should I say but ofcourse the discussion went back to Love and All That and its possible potential and evident potholes (The length being of prime importance... I mean what was I think when I wrote a 201 page draft... I wish someone sat next to my hand with a pair of scissors...) Anyway we decided and discussed that I revisit the script and try to bring out the true potential and and fill up the potholes in the script...
But let me tell you... Revisiting a script is far tougher than actually writing one... Your heart melts when you press the delete button to erase all that you once felt was of utmost importance but have finally realized is bull crap... But still your heart melts since the bull and it's crap are both yours in this case...
The only thing that I'm really excited and happy about is the removal of one inconsequential track of the film.... I was convinced about its removal from the inception but coudn't convince Miss S to do so... However yesterday Mrs. S asked me to completely do away with it and that's the first thing that I did this morning...
But now comes the difficult part... Of cutting, chopping perhaps adding or completely renovating the entire script... For the fist four days it seems impossible cause you feel that those 201 pages have been written in stone... However from the 5th day you realize that nothing is actually written in stone and even if it is... It can always be re-chiseled...
And that's precisely what I plan to do...
Revisiting an oldie can be a daunting task but at the same time it challenges you to overcome your attachment to it and look at it subjectively.... And this one specially comes along with a feeling a nostalgia since it was the very first time someone instilled her confidence in my writing skills (Which I never knew I had or probably still don't know I have) and paid me for that 201 page word document even when I didn't know that there was something called as Final Draft...
hmmmm...but why why why is ur blog supposed to be read ony by some 10 odd ppl....??????? why why why??
ReplyDeleteya.... good question.... even I don't know why why why..... do you want some rikshawalas to read it?
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