V. Vijayendra Prasad is at present engaged on the script for the sequel to “RRR,” along with his personal tackle “Mahabharata.” For the uninitiated, “Mahabharata” focuses on the familial struggles between two teams of cousins throughout the Kurukshetra Warfare and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes and their successors. There’s loads to attract from in “Mahabharata,” together with high-drama tales of royal energy struggles not in contrast to one thing out of “Home of the Dragon.”
Prasad stated during his masterclass that he is at all times trying to make his viewers “starvation” for extra, and crafting out the absolute best move of a narrative and the twists inside it. “You possibly can take into consideration what would occur earlier than that incident and what occurs after,” he stated. “I consider excessive factors after which join them. It’s important to create one thing out of nothing.” He makes use of a method he named “clapping factors,” that are the key moments that will trigger an viewers to applaud, and the way necessary it’s “to hold the viewer from one clapping level to the subsequent, until the crescendo.”
“Inside 5 minutes the viewer must be hooked to the film, they need to know the character of the film and the place it will finish. That is the psychological map I observe,” he stated. Indian epics are stuffed with “clapping moments,” particularly a narrative like “Mahabharata” which contains smaller narrative tales and philosophical discussions all through the story. As a candy nearer, Prasad additionally acknowledged his tales’ lack of girls leads and joked that he’d gladly take a pay minimize if it meant somebody would greenlight one in all his women-led scripts.
So, uh, whose gonna give Prasad the funds he deserves?
