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Vivegam tickets done & sorted :) Hope it's playing with subtitles as taking some non Tamil pals too. Else will be a talking subtitler :)
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Superb read 👌
@ikamalhaasan
sir picks his 70 favorite Indian films. Quite a few South films I need to catch up on.
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And thanks to everyone writing in for the lovely wishes & words for Yennai Arindhaal :) All credit to Gautham & Ajith sir & team👌cheers :)
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Saw YA with public. Damn proud. HUGE Ajith fan. All my life I whistled & clapped. Today I was moved. Nobody does it better. Thx Gautham :)
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Cool Shark Tank quote. Applies to writers pitching too. "It's not my responsibility to listen. It's your responsibility to make me hear."
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For those of you into CID-we do 20 years this month. Think it’s the longest continuous running show in India perhaps outside too. No idea :) We got Specials lined up for 27/28 Jan & turning out quite cool :) thanks for tuning in. We love you 😎
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On set for Day 1 of GVM-Ajith sir film that GVM & I co-wrote. GREAT vibe. Thx everyone for all the warm wishes :) Roll & Rock Gautham :)
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After the stunning cult "Aaranya Kaandam", Kumararaja Thiagarajan
@itisthatis
returns with a wonderful ensemble cast & insanely awesome stories in the thoroughly trippy Super Deluxe. Absolutely love the poster
@sash041075
congrats & please release all over with subs :)
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Vikram Vedha is playing in Mumbai with English subs. Don't miss it seriously ... rises way above a cop-gangster thriller to a morality saga.
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CID alert (rest please ignore) A few of us were chilling post hectic shoot (I mean serious hectic - I wrote this 18th, we shooting today onwards & it telecasts 28th phew 😅 but the pressure is fun).. 21 years is kind of something to briefly celebrate na:)
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Saw YA with public. Biased obviously. Ajith is bloody DEADLY. Arun, the kid, Anushka, Trisha, Dan, Harris. Hypercool. Hats off to Gautham 👏
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Wonderful script sessions on
@menongautham
's Ajith film. Turning out pretty cool & deadly, most important, a damn enjoyable collaboration👍
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Vikram Vedha is deadly! Totally envious of
@PushkarGayatri
script & direction. Madhavan, the whole cast are outstanding & V Sethupathy WOW👏🏻
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Gautham Menon and Ajith sir's Yennai Arindhaal releases today. Thank you all for all the love and hope you enjoy it :) cheers :)
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Wow! Massive & enthusiastic fanbase both Gautham & Ajith sir have! Huge fan of both myself 👍Overwhelming & very motivating. Cheers & thx :)
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A deliciously twisted funny romp thru the dark side that’ll keep you guessing, Andhadhun is a manic musical thriller that’s Sriram’s most fun freak-out film yet. Ayushmann, Tabu, Radhika, the entire cast including a musical cat & an elusive rabbit, are killer 😎 Don’t miss :)
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Airlift is awesome! Taut, thrilling, moving. Superbly directed by Raja. Akshay is deadly. Career best performance. Writing, cast, DoP 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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@Sethumadhavan
touchwood :) we're working on it together. Been long keen to work with
@menongautham
and am quite the Ajith fan :)
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If you’re into Sriram’s work you might enjoy this short video on him, his process, etc ... done by the Bloomberg Quint team ... quite funny & cool :)
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Teaser of Yennai Arindhaal (Tamil) - RT “
@menongautham
:
http://t.co/BzmmnIRk8U
Just in case”
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Kundan was a mentor, a brother to me, to many writers. He'd read our stuff & ask, "Is there poetry here?" Today the poet himself is gone.
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@lovers_cid
@crazy_agent101
There are two stories tomorrow - 8 pm & 10.30 pm. I think there are promos out. But please spread the word for those unaware. Thanks :)
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Seriously don't miss Airlift. It totally raises the bar & we rarely crack this genre as honestly & non jingoistically as this film does.
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Hi
@PVRSupport
why doesn’t PVR play regional films with subtitles? There were no subs for CCV (Tamil) in PVR Goregaon at least. Are 96 & NOTA playing with subs? Why can’t the theatre Display screen & your app at least indicate availability of subs pls? Thx.
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Delighted to hear superb reactions to Tu Hai Mera Sunday. Rock on
@ShahanaGoswami
& cast/crew👏🏽 Here's the trailer
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Screenwriters please note - SWA has initiated free legal advice on contracts & screenwriting related matters for members. Details below 👇
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The Wandering Earth (Netflix) is an absolute stunner - insanely awesome, visually gorgeous, breathlessly paced, fabulously plotted with climax after climax ... and yet rooted in a terrific emotional family core. Fans of sci fi will be blown. Deserved an IMAX release.
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Do see Visaranai - it's on Netflix. Our Oscar entry & with damn good reason. Chilling, terrifying, real. Will haunt you long after it ends.
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Groundhog Day is one of my favorite films/scripts. Ken Grimwood's Replay is among my all time favorite books. And now Russian Doll (Netflix) is among the best genre-blasting series I've seen in ages. Taut, hilariously dark & absolutely twisted wild writing. Utterly fabulous 👏🏽
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This is mesmerising & awe inspiring 👏🏽
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And here’s the trailer of Sriram’s next with Ayushmann, Tabu, Radhika Apte, a cat ... and the even cooler cat, the wonderful Anil Dhawan :)
You can't see what I can...or maybe you can. 'See' for yourself! Apologies for the delay but here's the
#AndhaDhun
trailer -
#Tabu
@radhika_apte
#SriramRaghavan
@Viacom18Movies
@MatchboxPix
@ZeeMusicCompany
@AndhadhunFilm
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Finally saw Aruvi (Amazon) & left me stunned. Funny, sad, gut wrenching & moving, got me smiling & teary eyed in equal parts. Superbly written/directed by
@thambiprabu89
& lost for words, totally overwhelmed by
@aditibalan
... What a debut 👏🏽
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The all new streamlined & revamped website of the ScreenWriters Association (India) is online now. Tons of new stuff & more coming up. Check it out at - and fans of Dhruvangal 16, I’ve interviewed
@karthicknaren_M
..
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The dearth of writers is partially solvable if every established writer mentors 3 new writers a year. Time maybe to go back to gurukul ways?
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@akv_10
that's a lovely compliment. Am a huge admirer/ friend of both Gautham & Kumara + a MASSIVE Ajith fan :) Pleasure to be part of YA.
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Wish I was as sorted at his age.. Absolutely love
@karthicknaren_M
(Dhruvangal Pathinaaru).. his energy, passion & honesty is brilliant :)
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LOVED “Ani..Dr Kashinath Ghanekar”(Marathi with subs), a deeply moving biopic on the roller coaster life of a wildly talented, stylish but moody, troubled & self destructive superstar of Marathi Stage. Superbly written & directed by
@unbollywood
Abhijeet Deshpande 👏🏽 (contd)
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CID viewers only : what if I design a brief quiz? 10 winners can come on shoot & meet team. Those not in Mumbai can do a 5 minute video chat. 40 who come close get autographed photos of the team with their name. Sounds fair & fun ? Thinking aloud :)
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Finally saw Newton. Tense, funny, scary, so relevant. Superb writing, direction & Rajkumar, Pankaj, the entire cast: just WOW👌 Don't miss.
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Sheer guilty pleasure seeing my name up there in my mother tongue Tamil :) Ambition is to aim for that in every language our country has :)
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"The axe forgets. The tree remembers." Take a tour of the darkest wickedest recesses of the human heart. Come to Badlapur :)
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Brilliant thread 👏🏽
Archaeologists think this spinning disc might be a children’s toy! It’s at least 14,000 years old. When you spin it, the two sides make it look like the deer is running. Delightful!
#archaeology
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Lots of love & thanks to my friend & brother Tigmanshu
@dirtigmanshu
for making the 21st year CID Special really Special :) We had fun making this one as you'll see tonight :)
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Growing old is just about realising the value of Time. Two hours with a cool person > 11 years of banal person talking.
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From funeral romance to tirades on desi Friendzoning & 'Rahuls', Rajkumar Rao makes
#BehenHogiTeri
mad fun. Shruti is super + Fab dialogs 👍
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Just box files. For me it's the first five years of CID scripts from my time :) Thx to everyone writing in on the latest set of stories :)
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The Vargheses run the lovely tiny Kerala Lunch Home in Goregaon West ... fabulous home cooked food and I love stopping by whenever I get a chance ... I talk in Tamil and he replies in Malayalam and we understand each other beautifully :)
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CID related : me and close pals on the toughest (yet most super efficient) shoot I’ve been on ever for the 21st year special. 2nd pic with the director Santosh Shetty I look perplexed because of the tiny dog on my head :) hope you like the weekend set :)
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Will post candid team pix soon - cops, writers, crew, channel team - but here's a random image of me & a close pal :)
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Angamaly Diaries is pure insanity. Boisterous, vibrant, outrageous, wild. Magic at the movies after a long bloody time. And what a score 👏🏻
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Chennai entry=4 kg. Exit=18 kg. 14 kg Tamil books. Er I can't read Tamil :) So in my 40s I'll do what I should've done at 4: learn Tamil :)
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The intriguing Kumbalangi Nights (eng subs) pits four loser brothers against the "perfect man" & superbly gear-shifts genres from a quirky family drama to a hyper creepy take on patriarchy as the perfect man with the perfect smile harbours another sinister primitive persona 👏🏽
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@RajaMenon
was seriously seriously blown. Full house, everyone moved & overwhelmed. Congrats again. Too deadly you are 👍😃
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Main Tera Hero is trippy. Varun is insanely energetic. Livewire. Electric. Uninhibited. Raison d'être. Channelises inner Govinda superbly👍
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Love the Andhadhun posters & that the writers are credited prominently. Close friends all, but specially delighted to see Yogesh Chandekar get his feature cowriting debut credit. For the record, also a fab graphic novel writer & makes a mean missal :)
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CID watchers - just created an account for any further follow ups photos quizzes interactions etc. Rather than write us individually you can post there. Its
@CID21Official
... follow that instead :)
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We were on set today and the ACP wanted to talk to you :)
#CID
in the 20th year all bcoz of your love😍WE LOVE U ALL & MAY GOD BLESS U ALL 😍 Always 😎
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CID began Jan 28, 1998 :) Today is the 20th year start - not last week as all think :) Sorry no episode today but tomo's story is kickass 😎
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Came across an interview with writer
@UnamPillai
in the Hindu a few days back & was fascinated. Just started reading & it’s riveting, full of insane thrilling humorous anecdotes. In the hands of the right narrators, history is delirious time travel 👏🏽
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Gautham's film trailer - via
@Sethumadhavan
: Yennai Arindhaal: Official Trailer
http://t.co/dLYyxsZXpN
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Wonderful & heartening to see the writers prominently acknowledged in the announcement poster ... specially coming from such a huge studio. Hope more studios & producers follow suit too. Super stuff
@dharmamovies
@NotSoSnob
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I work across multiple spaces across the country. Terms of sheer hospitality, courtesy & work etiquette, no one comes close to Hyderabad.
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Wow. Just wow. This brilliantly devised & executed tracking shot is from 90 years ago 👏🏻
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Just read that Firoze Nadiadwala created an ICU in his office & is getting the comatose Neeraj Vora treated. Full admiration & respect.
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And we roll with the Indian take on Criminal Justice (adapted in the US as Night Of). Pleasure working with
@nairsameer
@myleeta
& Applause/BBC teams + the fab
@dirtigmanshu
@FuriaVishal
@TripathiiPankaj
@masseysahib
@anupria_goenka
& übercool
@bindasbhidu
This one’s going to be just terrific!
#CriminalJustice
@ApplauseSocial
@BBCWIndia
#FilmingNow
@masseysahib
@bindasbhidu
#PankajTripathi
@anupria_goenka
#MitaVashisht
@dirtigmanshu
@FuriaVishal
@ShridharR
@myleeta
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Thanks
@dirtigmanshu
we totally love you & how you channelised your inner Pran Madan Puri Ashok Kumar :) My pal Santosh Shetty directed & wow it was an insane schedule - thanks to the entire team & it was us trying to pay tribute to the creator BP Singh :)
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Loved the Bajrangi trailer. Written by the fabulous Vijayendra Prasad, dad to one of the coolest deadliest directors in India. SS Rajmouli.
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A huge thanks to everybody wishing us on CID turning 20 from the entire cast and crew :) We massively appreciate it :)
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Oh I absolutely love this :)
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The real prize is ..Those of you who are really on target, I'll try get Mr BP Singh to meet you briefly. He is CID. His creation. I may be his right hand but he is the head heart soul :)
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Aquaman is a riveting classical story with hypnotic visuals & set pieces (the Trench descent is sheer terror). Spiderverse flamboyantly fuses comic book & film to psychedelic level high concept mayhem. Two radically different takes on the superhero genre, both bloody brilliant.
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Fabulous, insightful & bloody motivating stuff this 👍 (via and thx
@sriramsr
) : 100 Directors’ Rules of Filmmaking
http://t.co/fkwgHMnNKA
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Been fascinated by the concept of Ikigai for years (loosely, the reason to wake up in the morning) nice piece on it 👇
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CID fans - very curious :) If we did an official CID competition - what's the ideal prize? Lunch with cast & crew? A role? Or? Write in :)
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Hahaha too funny :) I totally agree the CID team is hyper cool but never quite figured they were edible :)
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Kick is super fun. Cool lines, smoking hot heroine, visually stunning, fab action, cast has a blast. Above all, Salman in FANTABULOUS form.
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And for those who were requesting updates on the GVM-Ajith sir film .. Previous RT is as official as it gets :)
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Happy Ganesh Chaturthi 🙏🏽Its an auspicious day specially for writers (He is the God of Beginnings & Remover of Obstacles) so get cracking 😎
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My favourite Hitchcock with a stunning script by Mr Lehman - link to read script is there in the piece. Absolute must watch case not seen :)
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Paper Menagerie by
@kyliu99
is the best short story I've read in years. Midway through the book & its exquisite 👏🏾👏🏾
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Sufi is insanely exciting - Shantaram meets Dickens - a dual memoir of two boys growing up in 1930s-60s Bombay where Mastaan & Vardha are new entrants, Dawood is a teen. Join author Aabid Surti, Sriram, Annie Zaidi & me this evening case free - if not do read Sufi, it's deadly👍
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Deviously going to cancel all work meets & somehow see Vikram Vedha ASAP :) Love Madhavan & V Sethupathy & only hearing brilliant buzz :)
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@aamir_khan
you don't just raise the bar you are the Bar :) In every sense of the word. Cheers to that and thanks, loved Dangal.
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A 24 week course in Television Writing from the FTII. If you're keen to figure writing for TV &
Digital you should check it out.
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If you write fiction or poetry, these resources might be useful. 20 Indian magazines/sites that publish writing 👉
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Pal of mine Rupi shared this lovely image. Guess it's doing the rounds. Lovely yet sad. So many greats. So many gone.
http://t.co/XIsCpbGN1j
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Anyone into CID please keep track of
@shivaajisatam
aka the Boss's account this evening - he'll be talking to you :) Plus nice Ep tonight :)
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In 21+ years I don't think I had as much fun writing a CID episode & it's all due to
@dirtigmanshu
freaking out & having fun :) hope you all are tuned in & biting fingernails :) Minor homage to Jewel Thief & Johnny Mera Naam & added little Khakee tadka :)
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Newton was a gentler take in the spirit of early Nihalani/Tendulkar. To get raw starkness with humour is such an achievement
@Amit_Masurkar
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LOVED this book - exhilarating, funny, yet moving, real & totally life affirming. Fredrik Backman writes exquisite. Capra meets Gran Torino.
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@akv_10
I will :) will show him & Kumara all your lovely messages. It's you who keep us going. Moved seeing the love Ajith sir's fans give.
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Finding Fanny is lovely, demented, dark funny like Homi. Deepika is exquisite, Arjun too. Both hold their own so fab amidst a deadly cast.
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And as a companion to the Andhadhun trailer, a lovely extended interview with Sriram (one of the best I’ve read of his) on everything from stammering to Sunny & more - journey, process .. the works :)
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As screenwriting books go, I respect & find practical, insanely useful W Martell’s
@wcmartell
Action Screenwriting + Blue Series. Wish they also released in paperback. The Raiders of the Lost Ark transcripts are brilliant film schools + anything by Goldman.
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Screenwriters please note - SWA is organising a day long workshop on Contracts, Copyright, Royalties for SWA members on April 29th. Details👇
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Always felt there was a formula to scriptwriting. A secret potion to turn Mamooli into Mamet. Found it in Chennai :)
http://t.co/PLHVoaw9Un
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Love
@VetriMaaran
‘s Vadachennai teaser - saw some rushes a while back & was blown! If you’re coming to the All India Screenwriting Conference, I’ll be chatting with him,
@PushkarGayatri
& Vikram Kumar on South Screenwriting :)
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