{"id":13181,"date":"2022-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetalentedindian.com\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T06:28:34","slug":"scripting-characters-and-dramedies-meet-screenwriter-yashna-malhotra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetalentedindian.com\/scripting-characters-and-dramedies-meet-screenwriter-yashna-malhotra\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripting Characters and Dramedies: Meet Screenwriter Yashna Malhotra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Behind every exceptional movie, drama, or your most binge watched series is a person who worked tirelessly to bring it to the screen the way it is. Movies and TV series are not just an accumulation of dialogues and scenes, but many other elements like the mood, the lighting, the background, sound, etc. Screenwriters hold together the scriptwriters and the directors, and contribute significantly to filmmaking. We present to you an interview with Yashna Malhotra, a passionate screenwriter. She\u2019s currently writing a project for her dream company run by filmmakers she respects and admires the most in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early Life<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Yashna Malhotra was born and raised in Bombay. In 2014, she moved to Chicago for a Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. She wrote her first screenplay in 2014. During that time, she was committed to screenplay writing, however she had no plans to pursue it full time, until in 2017, the realisation crept that she wanted to commit to screenwriting full time as a profession. During this time, she was in New York working in advertising. She took the courage and moved to UCLA to pursue screenwriting. There in Los Angeles she received a formal training in screenwriting. Yashna Malhotra has an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, with a focus on both features and series writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Steps to Achievements and Lessons<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Yashna Malhotra took a leap of faith, moving away from a stable career in marketing to pursue screenwriting, a career in filmmaking, full-time. This was surely a difficult and risk induced decision, because in all honest facts, Yashna only had one self written screenplay in her hands when she decided to step off the more secured and planned path, and take a whole different route. Yashna says, \u201cthe blank page every day is a huge leap of faith. You have to believe you will be able to do it justice, and it can be very scary.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, the filmmaking industry is unstable and volatile. We asked Yashna Malhotra to share how it has been to locate herself in the industry and keep up the perseverance. She replied that this is an ongoing process for her, and that the most important thing for any writer is that they must have something to say and know how to say it which should reflect in the writing. One\u2019s writing samples are their calling-card for their voice and their brand as a writer. One\u2019s voice must be loud enough in one\u2019s writing. This is what she herself has been following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n