In 2010, when celebrated Hindi writer and playwright, Asghar Wajahat wrote a polemical article in Jansatta, “Lipi ka sawal: Yeh dil mange more” (Question of script: The heart desires more) suggesting ...

MUMBAI- Vineet Kumar Singh recently discussed the trend of Bollywood scripts being written in Roman characters despite the films being made in Hindi. The ‘Chhaava’ actor revealed that he specifically ...

Filmmaker Homi Adajania says the Hindi adaptation of hit Hollywood film “The Fault in Our Stars” is still in the scripting stage, and he will only finalise the cast when the final draft is ready. It ...

Actor-producer Nikhil Dwivedi has certainly created a buzz with his previous film, CTRL. Leaving everyone stunned with its path-breaking concept, Nikhil, as a producer, delivered a film that struck ...

Veteran lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar writes Hindi dialogues in the Roman script for new actors who cannot read anything else. He believes that language belongs to a region and has nothing to do with ...

Recently, the Indian news site Scroll.in had an interesting debate on the relative merits of writing the Hindi language in the Roman alphabet instead of the native Devanagari script, triggered by a ...

Some 2,000 years ago, Tholkappiyar, the fabled author of Tolkappiyam, said that poetic words can be distributed in four types: Iyarcol, Thirisol, Thisaiccol and Vadasol. Of these, he held, ‘Vadasol’, ...