A screenwriter’s hot tip for success: Create ‘something new, but rooted in Indian realities’
Trade hacks from dialogue and screenplay writer Sumit Arora, who is behind ‘Jawan’, ‘The Family Man’ and the upcoming ‘Baby John’.
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Two seasons of The Family Man and a third one out soon; the upcoming Indian chapter of the series Citadel; the film Baby John; a feature debut. Sumit Arora has a lot to look forward to apart from whatever else he has already achieved since he started writing for television and later films and web series.
Born in Meerut, 36-year-old Arora, a student of Hindi literature, is among the leading wordsmiths behind a popular films and series. His early milestones include television shows and the web series Selection Day in 2019.
Arora has formed a fruitful association with Raj & DK, who created The Family Man and Guns & Gulaabs. Arora has also written dialogue for the horror-comedy Stree, Reema Kagti’s show Dahaad and Atlee’s 2022 blockbuster film Jawan. Most recently, Arora was one of the three writers of Chandu Champion, Kabir Khan’s biopic of gold-winning Paralympian Murlikant Petkar.
While there is probably no better time to be a writer, the pressure to deliver quality alongside quantity has never been greater. Streaming platforms are churning out new shows as well as commissioning extensions to existing titles in the hope that something will stick. The frenzy over a movie’s box office performance is weighing on filmmakers.
Despite warm notices, Chandu Champion had an underwhelming run – just one of the instances of the headwinds faced by the Hindi film industry. The delicate balance between a...
