The idea to do a film for the Indian audience came up in Jan of 2006, it was at that point that we seriously decided to sit down and come up with some characters and a story. Sometime down the line however we hit a roadblock with the script.It felt forced and didn't seem to develop naturally enough to give the characters an opportunity to develop on their own. It seemed to me as if they were being forced to go in a certain direction rather than taking roads naturally. So we paused on development work until the end of August to focus on the script.
When we came back to it our script changed a lot in the way the characters were connected to each other. Relationships were established and some characters were amalgamated into others.
I truly think with any film the script is what makes or breaks the project.
It was frustrating to rip up what we thought was good and start again or change things (deleting a character all together) but the truth is without good solid writing it would be impossible to work on any level.
A good script has to be rewritten countless times. We ultimately wrote about 6 drafts 1-3 had many differences but were evolutionary. Once we got to number 4 we were happy with the overall direction of the story. From then onwards there were no major changes just tweaks and tie ups.
So if any of you working on a script feel like its going nowhere, hang in there, try different things and write different drafts. Sit down and look at all of them and you will probably find an answer by mixing things around.
