The problem is more pronounced in a film that deals with a particular class or say, when the father is talking in a Punjabi accent and the mother has a Marathi accent. In Zubeidaa, we had some problems with Karisma Kapoor. Many actors struggle with dialects, their enunciation is quite bad.

What is the point of writing dialogues when the artistes can’t even speak fluent Hindi? It is through dialogue that class, gender, and region are reflected in a character. The problem is that most directors do not have an ear for dialogue, and most actors here can’t deliver dialogues unless they have a theatre background. As a society, we memorise film dialogues. When I wrote dialogues for three-four scenes for him, he said, ‘Ye kya hai! Ye toh log baatein kar rahe hain, ye dialogue thodi hai (What is this? Are these dialogues? It’s just people talking).’ĭirectors want dialogue-baazi. A friend of mine was making a film and did not have dialogue writer. The problem with Hindi films is that the dialogues are, what Benegal Sahab calls, ‘wah wah dialogues’. I would say Sooraj Ka Satvan Ghoda turned out to be closest to my vision as a screenwriter. I find it fascinating and it is a very Indian way of approaching a story. I also wanted to use the Panchatantra form of storytelling, which is the frame-within-a-frame-within-a-frame style. I wrote it in 15 days – the fastest I’ve ever written. There were three stories in the screenplay and one scene was repeated in all three narratives, but each time it appeared differently. Sometimes, I experiment with the structure of a screenplay in Sooraj Ka Satvan Ghoda, I used the Rubik’s cube as the structure. How true is the health minister’s claim that India’s doctor-population ratio exceeds WHO guidelines?.‘You get one life, you enjoy it responsibly, then you die’: A cancer patient’s farewell essay.Scroll Ideas: Why has India's powerful judiciary failed to check Modi?.The India Fix: Why does such a small number of Indians pay income tax?.After Maharashtra, is Jharkhand next? ED action steps up pressure as ruling coalition shows cracks.Consideration, education, adjustment: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s three elements for nation-building.Birmingham diaries: From cricket to hockey and the little things in between, my week at CWG 2022.Podcast: What explains rising global authoritarianism? The history of constitutions has some answers.Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar CM, likely to meet RJD leaders soon to discuss new alliance.Kapil Sibal’s remarks that he has ‘no hope left in SC’ are contemptuous, says Bar Association.Punished without trial: How India’s political prisoners are being denied basic rights in jail.CWG 2022: Here’s the full list of 61 medals won by India at Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

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