Thursday, October 20, 2011

Indian nostalgia--when the writer was king

In Bachchan era, star became bigger than script: Abbas Tyrewala
Times of India
Abbas Tyrewala who is quite sad about script writing becoming negligible said, "Till the 60's we did have writers, but when the Bachchan era came in, the star became bigger than the script. Everything was catered to the star. Later in the 80's, ...
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Grumpy Old Men: The Musical
Uptown
In an attempt to flesh out the story — based on the 1993 film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau — script writer Dan Remmes and lyricist Nick Meglin give Wabasha its own identity, creating characters and songs that describe life in the Land of ...
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