Login   Sign Up 



 




Indra Bhose Interview


Indra Bhose on location in Mumbai, India
WriteWords talks to Indra Bhose , award winning short film writer, TV director and feature film writer and WriteWords Film & TV Writers' Group Leader. After a childhood spent in Calcutta, Indra lived in Paris where he became addicted to French films. He studied film-making in London and went on to win the Fuji Film Scholarship for writing and directing his first film, Shona May, which was selected by David Puttnam for transmission on Thames TV. He went on to direct some of the biggest TV shows including Eastenders, The Bill, Casualty, Where The Heart Is, Holby City, London’s Burning and Mersey Beat. He has written documentary, short films and feature films, his latest in collaboration with the actor Ross McCall of Band of Brothers fame which is currently in American development. Visit www.bhose.btinternet.co.uk for more information.

I got an agent when my first short film won awards. I wanted to be an actor when I was younger, but then I realised it was more fun behind the scenes. I borrowed my dad’s old 8mm camera and started making films starring my brothers and sisters. I was hooked. I saw every film I could, read every book about movies.

It’s hard to work out my admiration for William Goldman- is it for his near perfect Hollywood screenplays- Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy, All The President’s Men? Or for his incisive and funny books about screenwriting- Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell? Both of course. He’s like the Holy Grail- commercial moves which can also talk about politics, power and relationships. He succeeds sometimes. And he takes on dogs because he has to pay the rent.

What do you want from great writing? To take you into a world you know nothing of and open it for you.

I discover my writers ... sign up to WriteWords to read more

Comments by other Members



Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

Type mismatch: 'show_profile_name_forty'

C:\WEBSITES\WRITEWORDS.ORG.UK\INTERVIEWS\../inc/rateinc.asp, line 136