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By Our Correspondent Š2006 Bollyvista.com |
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Kamlesh Pandey |
Kamlesh laments the fact that though we claim to be the biggest film industry in the world, we do not even have a film course or workshops for screenplay writing in even a single university. Kamlesh adds. "It is pathetic that we do not have even half a dozen competent writers though we claim to producer around 800 films in a year. India has been unfair to writers who I feel have not been given their due credit and status. No wonder almost 95% of the films released every year flop miserably. Though the media is ready to write reams and reams about any girl who is willing to take off her clothes, it does not bother to respect writers who are treated like illegitimate children."
Kamlesh who has also written for TV serials like Mrs Madhuri Dixit says that though he is out of television more or less because he is not able to relate to the vision people have of television, says that he couldn't say no when Ekta Kapoor approached him with the offer to be on her panel of writers and supervise her serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki with his story inputs. Says Kamlesh , "I have known Ekta right from the time I had commissioned her TV serial Ek Paanch for Zee TV almost a decade ago."
Kamlesh Pandey is not ready to just sit on his laurels now that both Zinda and Rang De Basanti have reached the winning post. He has started working on two projects for Rakyesh Mehra for whom, incidentally he had also written Aks with which Rakyesh has made his debut as a director. "One of the two films will be Delhi 6, which will be a light hearted film about real people in flesh and blood who inhabit Chandni Chowk in Delhi while the other one will be a musical called Bhairavi for which A. R. Rahman has promised to compose music provided Rakyesh is ready to wait for two years."
Kamlesh Pandey has added one more feather to his already crowded cap by writing a stage musical called Bharathi for Pashagoshi Productions from Israel, who have earlier produced several stage musicals like The Fiddler On The Roof, Phantom of The Opera etc. "I was given a brief to write a stage musical on India with 14 popular Bollywood songs and weave a story on India. It is a live show with Bhavana Pani, daughter of writer-director Uday Shankar Pani in the title role. Ganesh Acharya, Remo and Jojo Khan have done the choreography for the live show, which consists of 60 dancers from India. The play has run for a month and a half in Israel in the Hebrew language and is now all set to open in France on January 26 this year in French." |
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