Urmi juvekar biography of donald

But has the quality of work taken a backseat?

Who am I to talk about quality? One part of art is experimentation. And quality is very subjective. I once sat on a stage with an important filmmaker who spoke about the ‘middle of the road’ cinema — neither arthouse nor popular. ‘These people will fall in the cracks,’ he said.

Such value judgements get us nowhere. Thoughts on quality would get nowhere if you want to make a movie for the sake of being arthouse, or top do well at the box office, or fetch awards, or all at the same time. With every age and time, the definition of quality will change.

As movies being shown abroad and across India, should writers consider the larger audience?

You may not see the larger trends and seeing those trends is also not your job. Subconsciously, however, we may be influenced by something that is in vogue if it suits our framework of narration. But that shouldn’t be seen as part of a trend.

Has the changing times brought in specialisation in writing?

Each film is different, and this difference should be present in how the script treats the story. So there is no blatant categorisation. But writers are human beings, with their own likes and dislikes. So, scriptwriters also can choose the topic they like to work with. If I am not comfor