Years back I was in this screenwriting workshop with Satyanshu Singh(Writer, Director of critically acclaimed film Chintu ka Birthday) & while discussing various film writing structures he said: “It doesn’t matter what the end is. What matters is how you arrive at it."
Nicest example he gave was of the film “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge” One knows right from the title that - “Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayenge”. But “Kaise le jayenge?” Nobody knows. Another example he gave was of Lagaan, where the audiences in their heart knew that Bhuvan & his team is gonna win the match. But they didn’t know - “How?”
The other day at a writing workshop by Rabia Kapoor, she enunciated the same thought. “Writing is all about the process and not the end result.”
There is no limit to how many Vampire, Zombie, Devil movies we have witnessed over the years. From “Walking Dead” to “Last of us” & “Train to Busan” to “All of us are dead” or “Cargo” & from “Vampire Diaries” to “Twilight” (When I am writing this I can’t stop thinking of the films “Hotel Transylvania” & “Zombieland“) — So many of them but each with a different narrative. With a signature of their own. Similar when seen from a wider angle but so different when seen in close up.
A visual treat set in Delta, Mississippi — “Sinners” wasn’t just a vampire movie to me. It was my introduction to a genre of music called “Blues”(something I knew nothing about) It was a window into the lives of African-Americans & hardships they faced. & into the Juke Joints they built as their hangout spaces. It was a lesson in being able to tell a story, even when you think it’s been told several times before. It in some weird unexplainable manner felt like a puzzle solved to me. A sigh of relief.
Because no matter how many times a tale is told. There will always be an unsaid perspective. Perspective that depends upon your answer to — “How?”
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