Women Scriptwriters Have Been Ignored in Bollywood feat. Anubha Yadav

The writer is a critical part of making a film. Yet, in India, the credit goes to only the director. Audiences, and even critics, ignore the screenplay writer completely, and really, who remembers the names of the writers of even well known and admired films? Women screenwriters are even more ignored and even academic books and encyclopaedias do not acknowledge them. Why is that so?

On this episode, Sidharth is joined by Anubha Yadav, Professor of Broadcast Studies in Delhi University, and also a fiction writer, set out to find more and track down many women who have written for films throughout the history of Hindi cinema, but still remain unrecognised. Her new book 'Scripting Bollywood: Candid Conversations with Women Who Write Hindi Cinema' begins in the 1930's with Devika Rani and Jaddanbai, and ends with contemporary writers like Juhi Chaturvedi. Sidharth and Anubha talk about her book and what she discovered when she researched and spoke to the women.

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