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sachin
bhowmick
So many records
The man has broken all records when it comes to commercial Hindi
film  writing.
He has written stories and screenplays for some of the biggest hits
made by some of the most successful filmmakers with his ideas working
successfully for stars and superstars of three generations.
Sachin Bhowmick once had just one image in his mind, the revered
Sir Rabindranath Tagore. "I could read, write, remember and
talk about Gurudev for hours on end at a very young age and people
thought I was either too gifted or mad. As I grew in age and enlightenment
I realised that I was growing into a writer of sorts. But certainly
nothing like ‘the great Gurudev’ who was second only to
God to me," Sachin says. Sachin continued writing and fate
gradually brought him to Bombay and Bombay gradually took him away
from his worship for his Gurudev. He was soon enamoured by fiction,
other kind of literature and films more than anything else. Fate
next landed him in films, something which he had not even thought
of joining or working in in any capacity at any time. Some friends
introduced him to directors from Bengal who had settled down in
Bombay and he impressed them with his story ideas which came "one
after another". In fact, he says, he had an idea for every
occasion. The filmmaker had to just show some sort of unhappiness
or disappointment while he was narrating his subject when he had
three other stories already for narration. And one of the three
was certainly approved and even if they weren’t Sachin was
ready with a bagful of ideas for a whole lot of other filmmakers.
He had stories and screenplays for every kind of subjects - emotional,
social, spy thrillers, pure love stories. An idea for any occasion
was his speciality. His own idea which he directed, Raja Ram, however,
was a surprise shocker. There were times when there were charges
especially by rival writers and competitors that he lifted most
of his ideas from films from Hollywood. Sachin didn’t deny
the charges outright but he had his own defence. Said Sachin: "There
are just eight plots on which stories and screenplays could be written.
So there has to be some clash of ideas in some place or the other.
You can’t call these clashes imitations, copies or plagiarism.
One man’s story can certainly resemble another man’s story
in another land. Yes, it can happen. It has happened. And that’s
how stories are born. I consider myself as a writer of sheer entertainment,
every kind of entertainer which will appeal to every man, woman
and child. My ideas are for the entire family because I am basically
a family man and I consider the family as the base of this world
and also that if there was no family there would be no world, there
would be a wild world. That’s what most of my stories and screenplays
say. You will never find anything crude or vulgar with my stories
and screenplays. That’s why 95 per cent of the films which
I write are highly successful.
Sachinda has been the writer of several hundred successful films
but he has not written many of them. Surprised? Ask Sachinda (Shakti
Samanta) for whom he has written some of his most successful films.
And he will tell you that Sachinda is not a writer who writes but
a writer who tell stories and his telling of his stories is what
makes his screenplays very intense, surprising and interesting.
He has a very strong and fertile imagination and that is what has
kept him moving with the times for 40 long years. He is a severe
heart patient but his heart beats better and faster than some of
the younger writers of today.
Sachinda is married to the one-time actress Madhavi who he says
is his source of inspiration. The writer who never writes and is
still the most successful writer is still the most wanted writer
even when some of the so-called geniuses have their pens stuck in
dry ink. Sachin says he succeeds because his writing comes from
blood, not from ink.
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