Bollywood is beyond reality

Coppola may have guided the concept of screenplay. Mario Puzo also won an Oscar for the first and second parts. Until then, he had not written any screenplay except for his own film (Godfather One and Two). That's why he thought: I should read some books so that I can write a screenplay . He bought a book, the very first page of which was an example of a screenplay; That was 'Godfather'.

Many big Hollywood series and movies are based on some novel. The story of 'Game of Thrones' is also like this, The film was based on the novel 'Fire and Ice', the last part of which has not been written yet. More than 90 percent of Hollywood movies are based on novels. These films are co-written with the author. Some of us may know which book the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' is based on. The name of the book is 'Q&A' . The author of this book is Vikas Swaroop working in the Department of External Affairs. Danny Boyle is sure to make a movie about it . He then sent an experienced American screenwriter to Bombay to understand Bombay and write the script. Vikas Swaroop was also invited to the stage of the Oscars with full respect.

Bollywood made Three Idiots based on Chetan Bhagat's book. The screenplay was written by someone else. The screenplay was changed, when Chetan objected, Vidhuvinod Chopra joked at a press conference-writers need a lot of money . Only Veer Sanghvi questioned Vidhuvinod Chopra about this. At that time neither newspaper nor journalist said anything to Chopdaji . No one said anything to Aamir Khan either. Today, Aamir Khan says with what mouth that no writer has the guts to run a film on his own. You didn't let anyone stand up sir . This is the truth. You did not give credit .

'Three Idiots' At the end, a small credit appears after the credits, 'Based on a novel by Chetan Bhagat .' Bollywood has brought India's best-selling author to this point. A writer, whose name the publisher says, "Man, we are not getting a second Chetan Bhagat." We need Chetan Bhagat in Hindi . When writing books in his style, a new genre has been created in 'chick-lit' in English. This is the power of the 'star-system' and Bollywood's Englishmen working in Hindi based on Hollywood, who look down on Hindi.

Recently, Anurag Kashyap rightly said in an interview that the people of Bombay do not understand the reality, for them the film is what is seen on the screen . If you tell a scene where a tribal cuts the throat of a powerful man of another tribal community with an axe, the Bombay film world understands it as, 'Apocalypse has a similar scene - when a tribal kills another tribal .'

Bollywood is beyond reality, it considers screen as reality. Those who are outside this system are the ones who make Cannes the standard... . This is how the world works.

- Translated portion of J Sushil's Facebook post, author of 'JNU Anant, JNU Katha Ananta'. Prepared by Ekantipur with permission from him.