Script-writing most difficult part of film-making: Prakash Jha
4 months ago

Script-writing most difficult part of film-making: Prakash Jha

Hindustan Times  

Dehradun, Noted filmmaker Prakash Jha on Friday said writing the script of a film is the most difficult part of filmmaking. Script-writing most difficult part of film-making: Prakash Jha Jha said he drafts his films several times over and lets them pass through rigorous scrutiny by the best script writers of the industry before they are finalised. Once a film's script is ready, making it becomes easy, Jha said at the inaugural session of the second edition of the Crime Literature Festival of India. It took me six years to write Rajneeti," said Jha, famous for making socially and politically relevant films like Gangaajal, Apharan, Rajneeti and Arakshan. Describing the crime literature festival as a unique event since it was dedicated to one single genre of crime literature, Jha said crime comes naturally to humans and without crime the best of our epics like the Ramayana or the Mahabharata could not have been written.

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