more-inNandita Das’s film Manto compelled me to think about the portrayal of writers in Hindi cinema. Are writers of no consequence to our Hindi film producers? Javed Akhtar’s father, Jan Nisar Akhtar, also wrote for several Hindi films. In Hindi cinema, the writer is invariably on the margins. Hindi films render writers uni-dimensional, their struggles all too reductive.

Source: The Hindu September 26, 2018 18:46 UTC