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Students at Whistling Woods, and the Freshmen in particular, could not have asked for a more rocking start to academia: the "house-full" screening of first time director Abbas Tyrewala's runaway hit "Jaane Tu....Ya Jaane Na ", followed by the free wheeling talk with the man himself.
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai generously played host ( taking time off from the shoot of his own film), and set things in perspective, describing "J T Y J N", as " a complete film by a competent writer".
Abbas's story of his seemingly effortless journey from the days of his childhood when he wrote poetry, to writing jingles for commercials while in college, to his foray into cinema, seems like the stuff of which dreams are made. But once the hoopla over his actual presence at the campus was got over with, what followed was nothing less than a Master Class in the Art and Craft of Story Telling.
And the enthralled student audience hung on to every word.
On the subject of what constituted a good script, Abbas reiterated emphatically, that a writer had to accept the fact, : " A script is essentially raw material for a finished product of a director. Don't try to put your signature on it if you are not the director. Share the vision of the director, don't work against it. Also, in in the telling of the tale, guide the audience's eye, but do not treat the audience as an external factor. And to never forget: Does the story ask `a question worth asking, and having done so....spend the entire duration of the film, in trying to answer that question. |
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