What motivated you to re-make your two films, New Delhi Times and Maachis, in the form of a combined novella titled Two Tales of My Times?
A screenplay is written before the actual making of the film. It will always exist and have a life of its own, even if the film is not made. The conversion of my two films into a combined novel is based on the idea of screenplay evolving as a form of literature.
When screenplays are published in their original form, cinematic jargon like cuts and close-ups confuse the reader. I have tried to work out a format that could be an alternative guide for writing future screenplays. They should read like novels and every paragraph or chapter of theirs could easily become the sequence or scene of a film.
I attempted this form earlier with my TV series, A Biographical Scenario of Mirza Ghalib and His Times. Now I am extending it to my films. 

Are more titles on the anvil?
Two Tales of My Times is about two stories that happened in the Eighties. While Maachis is set around Indira Gandhi’s assassination, New Delhi Times is reflective of the political era of that decade. The next title will feature Aandhi and Hu Tu Tu together. Though the two are not set in the same period, they both explore the ‘nasha’ or charm of politics and muscle power on an individual. I also plan to rewrite the screenplays of most of my films in this narrative form.  

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