December 19, 2008

New Inspiration for Bollywood Scripts

Is Bollywood finally waking up to realize that it helps to have a good script to make a good movie? I don't know if we can apply that broad brush to paint all directors in the same color. Livemint.com in its issue dated 20 Dec 2008 has a piece that talks about the growing desire of directors to pick a bestseller since it has all the ingredients - gripping narrative, pre-soaked audience and of course name recall.

December 19, 2008

The List That Matters

The Asian Age runs a list of best sellers for the week. For two weeks now the Booker award winning novel The White Tiger has been topping the list. The others that follow have been pretty consistent too. Brisinger has been at the silver medal winning spot and Meenakshi Madhavan Reddy who writes the immensely popular blog called The Compulsive Confessor is holding forth at spot number three while I am holding fourth