Bollywood hopefuls try their luck
Wed 07:01 AM
BOMBAY (Reuters) - For all those who walk out of a movie swearing they can do a better job, an Indian television channel has come up with an unusual offer: a contest that offers them a chance to make a Bollywood film.
“Write Angle”, jointly organised by B4U Television Network and Sulekha.com, invites scripts with original story ideas and offers to convert the winning entry into a movie next year.
“We have defined a formal mechanism by which any talented person, no matter where he or she is located in this world, stands a fair chance to break into Bollywood and see his or her idea produced into a film,” Ravi Gupta, head of B4U, said.
Participants have till the end of February to submit a five-page summary of the movie plot on Sulekha.com.
The contestants will be judged by a panel including film-maker Shyam Benegal, scriptwriter Javed Akhtar and U.K.-based writer Farrukh Dhondy.
“There are so many people who have good movie ideas but don’t know where to go,” Rajnish Laal, chief marketing officer of B4U told Reuters. “We plan to make the best of ideas into a film in August.”
Though Bollywood is one of the most prolific movie industries in the world, churning out a movie almost every other day, there is little deviation from the predictable romance-melodrama cocktail generously spiced with lavish song-and-dance routines.
“Write Angle”, which opened two weeks ago, has received hundreds of entries from the United States, India, the Middle East and the U.K.
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