The Bangalore Literature Festival, which kicked off at Electronics
City on 27 September, is witnessing an overwhelming response from
visitors. The festival has roped in creative stars of one of the
year's break-out hits, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, to talk about the art of
writing a biopic. This is an indication how movie writing is getting
the spotlight at literature festivals these days. Certainly this is
the time when it has got to be more literary. Earlier the literary
artists and film writers used to live a separate life as we never saw
them as common creatures.
Except a few writers such as Javad Akhtar and Gulzar, we have less
examples where the commercial cinema writers got chance to be in the
literary league. During the Bangalore Literature Festival, Adman
Prasoon Joshi's script for the film which has won acclaim, is in the
spotlight and is being discussed to know how a legendary sportsman's
life was dramatised in a movie. Writing on Indian cinema is getting
more attention during a session between critics and film writers
Baradwaj Rangan, Sidharth Bhatia, MK Raghavendra and Nasreen Munni
Kabir.
I know that more attention is being paid to make these festivals
glitzy. But actual issues of writing should be given equal attention.
Rather than putting entire focus on films and film stars, authors who
are writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc need to be brought in
focus. Often there is focus around things not so relevant.
On Saturday there are sessions with veteran bhasha writers
GovindMishra, UR Ananthamurthy, Ashoka Mitran and Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
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