Kunal Basu Talks About 'Filmi Stories;' Says, Conceived These Stories As Hybrids Of Fiction And Film | Exclusive - News18
[ad_1]
Going through Kunal Basu’s recent collection of stories titled ‘Filmi Stories’ is like going through a part-by-part manuscript of a Bollywood film that you simply cannot get enough of. More than a dozen years after ‘The Japanese Wife’ took to the bookstands and captured our hearts, Basu makes sure to leave an undeniable mark in the hearts of his readers and he does so brilliantly with his words and the rawness of the characters in the short story collection. The eight stories in the collection, like Vishal Bharadwaj rightly comments, “deserves an adaptation.” In an Exclusive conversation with News18, Kunal Basu who can most certainly be termed as one of the ‘most looked up to writers of our generation’ talks about his recent work ‘Filmi Stories’ and much more. Excerpts from the interview- It’s been quite a while since you penned down a collection of stories. What prompted you to work on one again? The Japanese Wife collection of stories was published in 2008. Since then, I’...