Renowned film writer Pubali Chaudhuri gives tips on Screenplay Writing to FTV students at SUPVA
A workshop is being organized in the Film and Television Faculty, at Dada Lakhmi Chand State University of Performing and Visual Arts (DLCSUPVA) to teach the students the techniques of screenplay writing (scriptwriting) for films. Famous film writer Pubali Choudhury is giving tips to the students in this workshop.
Girish Saini
May 18, 2026 03:33
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Rohtak, May 18, 2026: A workshop is being organized in the Film and Television Faculty, at Dada Lakhmi Chand State University of Performing and Visual Arts (DLCSUPVA) to teach the students the techniques of screenplay writing (scriptwriting) for films. Famous film writer Pubali Choudhury is giving tips to the students in this workshop.
FTV's FC Mahesh TP said that Pubali Chaudhary is a big name in film scriptwriting. She has written scripts for the popular Hindi films Rock On, Kai Po Che, and Rock On 2. Of these, Rock On won the National Film Award for Best Hindi Film in 2008, while Kai Po Che received the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay in 2014. Pubali Chaudhary has served as a mentor and honorary head of the Screenplay Writing Department at FTII, Pune. She has come to SUPVA to conduct screenplay workshops for the Direction batch students.
Pubali Chaudhary, while giving tips to the students, said that screenplays are written to be filmed, not to be read. A novelist can spend three paragraphs on a character's inner life; a screenwriter has to bring out the same emotional state through action, behavior, or dialogue. The camera can only capture what it can see and hear. Inner states remain invisible to the lens until they appear in the physical world.
She said that the format reinforces this constraint. Standard screenplay format runs roughly one page per minute of screen time. A 90-minute film is about 90 pages. Every word has a cost, and scenes that slow reading are cut. Pubali Chaudhary said that screenplays are collaborative documents. They are rewritten by directors, producers, and often other writers before anything reaches the screen. It is the blueprint of any film. Writing with this in mind changes everything, from action lines to character introductions.
Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Amit Arya, said that our effort is to bring the country's best film script writers to the students so that they can prepare our children according to Bollywood's requirements.
