I am inspired by the title of a recent Bollywood film called Shudh Desi Romance. I thought about the lack of original scripts and decided to come up with a decidedly pure Hindi film script. This can be used by any wannabe director who can't afford a regular scriptwriter.
Boy (loosely used - could be from 20 to 45 years old) meets girl (age is unmentionable).
Sings a dard-bhara love song. If you don't know what that is, stop aspiring to be a Hindi film director and drive a truck.
Girl falls for the hero, and then they both sing a song prancing around gardens of Switzerland, USA or any of the tourist wonderlands.
Enter a villain. Centuries ago, this used to be a very tame rapist or jaaydaad grabber like Prem Chopra, or Ranjeet. Now, it is a guy who aspires to be a world-conquering ganglord, like a Bond villain. But the old world ones had priceless dialogue like "Ise liquid oxygen mein daal do. Oxygen ise marne nahin dega aur liquid ise jeene nahin dega."
Through skills like dance, karate, singing more dard-bhare songs, and setting the U.S. on them (after Syria of course) through diplomacy, jumping over roofs in a rapid sequence (a la Salman the tiger), etc., the hero destroys the villain and his ambitions to rule the world.
Add a kiss (we began to kiss in the 1990s, you know) and an item song (heroine can double up here if budgets are limited), and you have a perfect recipe for a shudh desi romance/action/drama.
And if you don't have the budget for a regular music composer, go for Bappi Lahiri. Ooh, la, la, ooh, lala..
Boy (loosely used - could be from 20 to 45 years old) meets girl (age is unmentionable).
Sings a dard-bhara love song. If you don't know what that is, stop aspiring to be a Hindi film director and drive a truck.
Girl falls for the hero, and then they both sing a song prancing around gardens of Switzerland, USA or any of the tourist wonderlands.
Enter a villain. Centuries ago, this used to be a very tame rapist or jaaydaad grabber like Prem Chopra, or Ranjeet. Now, it is a guy who aspires to be a world-conquering ganglord, like a Bond villain. But the old world ones had priceless dialogue like "Ise liquid oxygen mein daal do. Oxygen ise marne nahin dega aur liquid ise jeene nahin dega."
Through skills like dance, karate, singing more dard-bhare songs, and setting the U.S. on them (after Syria of course) through diplomacy, jumping over roofs in a rapid sequence (a la Salman the tiger), etc., the hero destroys the villain and his ambitions to rule the world.
Add a kiss (we began to kiss in the 1990s, you know) and an item song (heroine can double up here if budgets are limited), and you have a perfect recipe for a shudh desi romance/action/drama.
And if you don't have the budget for a regular music composer, go for Bappi Lahiri. Ooh, la, la, ooh, lala..
3 comments:
Raja, this script will work. I liked the Syria angle - you know the pulse of the audience. It has far more content than of the 100 crore club movies.
Thanks, should beat the Zanjeer remake hollow. Also, Ram Gopal Varma's movies.
fantastic one.
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