Okay I’m feeling great this morning. Positively ebullient. Effervescent. Exultant. Elated. Ecstatic. Now that I’ve impressed everyone with my enviable command of the English language, synonyms for happy anyway (did you notice how all of them begin with E?), let me get into the why. Remember about the project I was griping about yesterday? Yes, [...]
Archive for May, 2008
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED WITH A HEX
Posted in Experiences, Random thoughts, Screenplay, tagged Bollywood, copyright infringement, films, humour, life, Movies, pitfalls, suing, writing on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gripes of Write
Posted in Experiences, Novel, Screenplay, tagged blogging, Books, copyright form, copyright information, copyrighting, dealing with producers, how not to get bummed, how not to get gypped, how not to get scammed, morning pages, registering your works, scripts, writing on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Curiously, this morning, I found myself running out of ideas for my blog. What’s curious about it, you say (that’s just a mystery writer building suspense). Patience and all will be revealed (now that’s just plain grandstanding). You see, the reason I first started blogging was to discipline myself. In one of my earlier [...]
I’m in a Rut
Posted in Novel, Random thoughts, Screenplay, tagged humour, irritants, obstacles, problems, writing on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in a rut, creatively speaking. It’s not that I have a writer’s block. I don’t. The ideas abound plentifully but I just can’t muster up enough enthusiasm to put them down. I blame it on the heat. I swear, it doesn’t rain soon, I won’t be responsible for my inaction. It’s is so sweltering [...]
Murphy was an Optimist
Posted in Random thoughts, Screenplay, tagged Experiences, humour, life, Murphy's Law, television, writing, writing film, writing television on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You know what they say, If you think it’s your lucky day, don’t worry, it too shall pass. So true. And there was moi, thinking just that I was having one of the best days of my life. No script to turn in, an off day from my running schedule, nowhere to go, plus I [...]
Apropos Advice
Posted in Random thoughts, Screenplay, tagged a writer's life, humour, job opportunity for Indian screenwriters, writing do's and don'ts on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my readers asked me why I don’t write on the subject of writing so much. Well, there is only so much gyaan I can dish out. The rest is up to you, the writer. You have to start writing. And in case you already have, stick to it. If you don’t write no [...]
Let’ Talk…a Little
Posted in Screenplay, tagged dialogue, how to, Screenplay, tips, writing on May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the most important features of a script is the dialogue. Also the most tricky. Often times writers meander around for ages before stumbling upon the right formula. So how does one go about writing dialogue? The answer to that is to keep it as realistic as possible. But in reallife life we do [...]
Wanted Sucker with Fire in the Bally
Posted in Experiences, Screenplay, tagged Bollywood, Bollywood producers, humour, India, life, screenwriting, writing on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Resuming from yesterday, I knew that the project would never get off the ground. After years of dealing with people like that you develop an instinct for such things. But there sat Mr. Rajinder, across the desk from me, looking at me expectantly. All he wanted to know was how much I wanted for writing [...]
Wanted Sucker with Fire in the Bally
Posted in Experiences, Random thoughts, Screenplay, tagged Bollywood, Dealing with people, Experiences, humour, life, producer, random on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This really funny thing happened to me a couple of days ago. As I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts, one of the delights of being a writer is that you get to meet some interesting and whacky characters – and not just the ones you create. Okay, so there I was at [...]
Monster’s Ball
Posted in Experiences, Random thoughts, tagged Dealing with people, humour, Internet, irksome people, life, problems, service industry on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Finally, after a week of head banging (and not to heavy metal either) my internet’s up again! My Internet went down last Wednesday. At first I tried to fix the problem by calling the help centre. I don’t know what possessed me to call technical help centre, but I did. They asked me to [...]
My Internet’s Down
Posted in Experiences, Random thoughts, tagged Internet, Reliance, service industry on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Let’s see now, it’s been a week since my internet’s been down. So i’ve taken to doing a little pilgrimage everyday…to Reliance, who happens to be my ISP. The problem has still not been sorted out. So it will be a little while till i post another entry…am still there by the way, scavenging on their wireless [...]
When tall, suave, handsome Kaustav Kapoor walks into her office, ditzy private investigator Kasthuri (aka Katie) Kumar has anything but detection on her mind. He is, after all, a scion of Bollywood’s first family—perhaps he has a role for her? Perhaps she will, at last, get to sashay down the red carpet in a designer gown, with flash bulbs following her every move?
But Kapoor’s intentions are much more prosaic: he wishes Katie to trace the heroine of his new blockbuster (and, if Katie’s read the glossies correctly, his life) who is mysteriously AWOL. Despite her misgivings, Katie finds herself unable to refuse the task entrusted to her, and thereon follows a bewildering hunt for the film star across a trail of corpses.
And if that isn’t excitement enough, she has to contend with the maddening and mysterious, but, oh-so-hot, Tejas Deshpande.
The first in a brand new detective series.
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