Movie Bazaar: India’s E-book-to-Display Section Is Ripe For Growth

The launch of a section referred to as ‘E-book to Field Workplace’ inside the Movie Bazaar mission market in Goa this week is an try and bridge the hole between filmmakers and authors, publishers and literary companies.

The emergence of a panoply of streaming platforms in India competing for content material has led to a rush for established IP that may be reimagined as movies and TV collection. Current book-to-screen examples embrace “Sacred Video games,” “The White Tiger,” “When Dimple Met Rishi,” “Six Suspects” and “These Expensive Thakur Women.”

The brand new program, conceived by Movie Bazaar director Leena Khobragade, will see 27 members from publishing homes, together with: HarperCollins, Amar Chitra Katha and Story Ink; literary companies Siyahi, The E-book Bakers, Black Orient Swan; and particular person authors pitch a collection of their books to Indian and worldwide filmmakers, gross sales brokers, distributors, OTT platforms, producers and financiers.

The pitching classes might be adopted by matchmaking classes the place members can meet on a one-to-one foundation.

Monday may even see Movie Bazaar’s deputy director Varshaa Jainn host a session ‘Introducing E-book to Field Workplace’ as a part of the market’s Data Sequence seminars. The next day, Sidharth Jain of Story Ink will reasonable a session ‘From Manuscript to Screenplays’ that includes panelists: Vikram Sahay, joint secretary, Ministry of Data and Broadcasting; Sunitha Tati, producer at Guru Movies; Preeti Vyas, CEO and president, Amar Chitra Katha; Tanya Bami, collection head, Netflix India; and director, creator and author Tahira Kashyap Khurrana.

India has a wealthy literary custom, but printed writing is a comparatively under-explored useful resource for display content material creators. Jain attributes this to “a fragmented-by-language movie and TV business and the publishing business, and the dearth of a structured story and script improvement course of within the Nineteen Eighties and the Nineties.”

Jain stated the change has come about solely within the final decade, accelerated by the entry of world streaming firms. “It’s a brand new period for writing materials and writers,” he instructed Selection.

“[Launching the new section is] a robust transfer from the federal government and particularly the NFDC. It’s going to assist in highlighting printed materials, get folks to satisfy from the 2 industries and will spark a extra focussed development-support associated initiative.”