Deadline alert: Hope you guys have had some time to crystallize your
thoughts. Now, it’s time to put them down on paper and start drafting
your concept note and send it to chennai@screenwritingindia.com before deadline of July 25.
Just copy-pasting Mr. Hariharan’s guidelines again:
The concept note should be around 400 words containing the following:
1. Your attitude towards Chennai- what is that which fascinates
or irritates you most or even makes you have a love-hate relationship
with her!
2. How do you propose to develop this stance into a narration, be
it fictional or even non-fictional?
3. A rough gist of the synopsis (100 words) that you would like
to submit
4. Any other remark that you would like to make to prove your
seriousness and passion
I spoke to Mr. Kamal Haasan last night and he was curious to know what
we’ve got until now. He’s also clarified that you guys can send your
concept notes in Tamil too if feel English cramps your style in
writing about Madras.
Again, Tamil isn’t mandatory, it’s just another language apart from
English we will accept entries in. (At the script level, you can add
any other regional language line/s if you feel it contributes to the
topic).
Just to remind you guys again, that Chennai has to be the protagonist
or the antagonist of the film. It’s not about taking an existing story
and planting it in Chennai but about telling a story which is
essentially about Chennai so much that if you take Chennai out of it,
there should be no conflict or story.
We will start sending out acknowledgments to your entries from July 18, 2009.
All the best,
Sudhish Kamath
