Storizen Magazine August 2018 Issue | Chiranjiv Patel VI | Page 54

STORIZEN   INTERVIEW
AUTHOR
INTERVIEWS
Life and the path
you choose always
demands and
claims its pound of
flesh.
I graduated in Life
Science from
Bombay University
and decided to stay
on here. I was
working with an Ad
Agency as a
Trainee Copywriter
while I was in
college. While
waiting for my Final
Year results, I
responded to an ad
calling for a Sub
Editor for Magna
Publishing, which
published Stardust
Magazine. Within a
few months, I was
editing the
magazine, due to
sheer luck and
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being there at the
script, we were
Anuradha Prasad with her book
right time. As a film
shooting the first
'Coming Back Home'
journalist, I met with
schedule of the film.
many film people
including directors
I wasn’t a movie
writers. I was told
buff and as a child,
that I should
my brothers and I
consider
would hardly watch
screenwriting, after
any films, maybe
I shared some of
once a year, if that.
my personal writing,
But as I wrote
which included
scripts and
short stories and
expressed myself in
poems with them. I
screen craft, I
met Sanjay
began to fall in love
Bhansali through a
with movies.
friend
What are your
VikramMotwane,
expectations from this
who had just
book? How long did the
finished assisting
entire process take:
Sanjay on Devdas.
from conceiving the
Sanjay and I got
idea to weaving the
along brilliantly from
plots to writing, editing
the moment we
and publishing the
met. Within ten
book? How would you
months of our
describe the entire
meeting, not only
process? Was it a
did we have a
fulfilling one?
STORIZEN MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2018