Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India (Collins, Rs 299) by
Venita Coelho takes an unapologetic look at writing for entertainment
in India. A step-by-step guide, it takes you through all the stages of
the process, from pitching an idea to structuring the plot and
creating characters whom viewers will identify with to wrangling with
irate producers over payment. Shorn of most romantic notions about
writing, the book comes with helpful tables and flow charts, and
plenty of pithy commentary to make it eminently readable. Who would
have thought that the trials of Tulsi were the result of such devious
craft?
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100611/jsp/opinion/story_12553106.jsp
You'll also find Venita's *The Washer of the Dead* reviewed in Times
of India (Goa edition) Page 4 on June 27, 2010. Couldn't locate the
online version of it though... FN
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