By Hindustan Times
The film Kahaani, for which she wrote the story, grossed Rs. 54.55 crore. Advaita Kala, also considered a pioneer of India's chick lit genre, says women also are heroes and wish better representation in Bollywood.
"A woman can't be used as a commodity and cast in a undeniable mould. The hero must acknowledge the heroine for the reason that women also are heroes. The gender-sensitive mindsets in Indian cinema should go," Kala told IANS in an interview citing Kahaani as an example.
It is no surprise that she struck the best chord with the tale of a pregnant Vidya Bagchi in search of her husband at the streets of Kolkata in Kahaani as she had wowed readers along with her maiden novel Almost Single in 2009. It had reportedly sold greater than 100,000 copies.
Kala, whose novel speaks for the ability of 30-something single working women in India during the genre of "chick lit", says "women will need to have better representation in Bollywood. A GREAT heroine is one that can express her sexuality."
Now she is about woo television audiences and says the script of her serial is unusual.
"It was an ideal experience conceiving the tale of Kahaani, but now I'M waiting for a script for a brand new television serial that i'm writing. I hate looking back," Kala told IANS.
"The concept of the tv script I'M engaged on may be very unusual. The producers are backing the correct of script. It's creeping in - the power to think out of the box," she added.
The young writer rates the brand new movie scripts in Bollywood high at the creative scale and said, "The scripts now are very interesting."
Although director Sujoy Ghosh's movie Kahaani turned the economics of the box office by running to packed houses for greater than four weeks and earning Rs.54.55 crore, the author votes Paan Singh Tomar because the" best movie of the year".
As far as Kahaani is concerned, she said: "I had met Sujoy Ghosh around 2009 and he encouraged me to conceive the movie." But now she slams the lid firmly back at the Kahaani experience saying the long run was more important and desires to position Kahaani behind.
"Kahaani is past for me," she added with a trace of wistfulness.
Kala doesn't find travelling across genres difficult, including "participatory journalism".
"I do the similar things. I create characters and dialogues in scripts. My books have numerous dialogue in addition. It's basically the way it reaches the audience. The genres are just about the similar. I'M a storyteller," she said.
The writer "almost completed work " on her new novel, which isn't chick lit.
She has arrange a book club for power women, on the way to meet this week to talk about" a gamut of issues from literature to gender".
As an author, problems with copyright occupy Kala greater than anything else.
"The copyright laws for writers on this country must change. Writers have to be empowered and contracts must be looked into. I DO KNOW government lawyers are engaged on it," Kala, who's in her early 30s, said.
The proven fact that writers are sometimes on the receiving end of the publishing chain has so much to do with the literary culture, the writer-scriptwriter said.
"The writer and the content creator should be looked upon in a more favourable light. Lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar's campaign for change within the copyright structure to offer protection to authors and performers must be applauded," added .
She, however, refused to touch upon whether she had faced any copyright-related issues.
