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Newcomer or star, everyone’s doing a web show: Sanjay
Lucknow-based multilingual poet, short story writer and translator, Malakshmi Borthakur, was honoured by two globally acclaimed literary forums on the Independence Day this year.
These forums, Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, jointly honoured Borthakur for her literary work.
Motivational Strips is the world’s most active writers’ forum with presence of writers from 163 countries across the world. For the first time this globally valued literary forum and ‘Gujarat Sahitya Academy’ (under Gujarat government) merged together to felicitate global literary work and writers.
Borthakur who pursued her literary career as a writer from a very young age, is a specialist in multilingual poetry and writes most of her poems in English, Hindi and her mother tongue, Assamese. Apart from poetry, she writes short stories.
Borthakur made it to the list of 350 writers from 80 countries across the world.
The honour was conferred on Malakshmi as a part of the literary programme conducted by these two literary entities on 74th Independence Day.
Malakshmi has bagged many international honours such as the ‘World Award for Literary Excellence, 2019-20 from the government of Peru and the ‘Altyn Kalam’ (the Golden Pen) award from World Nations Writers Union, Kazakhstan.
Actor Sanjay Kapoor is enjoying the current phase in his career, as plenty of good work is available now with OTT platforms taking centre stage. After garnering praise for Lust Stories, he already has a slew of web projects in hand. He says things are more professional today as compared to the time when he had started off in showbiz.
“What a 25-minute short film (Lust Stories) did for me, a twoand-a-half hour blockbuster didn’t! Things have become more professional, and the only way to survive is if you have a bound script. Earlier, if the shooting was supposed to start at nine in the morning, it would start at 12.30pm. Now, be it a digital film or anything, the material output is per day. In my days of Raja, Prem (both 1995), whatever we did in a day and a half, today, it’s done in a day, with better quality and professionalism. That’s the best change,” says the actor.
What’s also new is the preparation every actor does before shooting. Kapoor, 54, says, “We do workshops now. For my next show, which is with a major streaming platform, we had fitting tests, and the cast met each other. It wasn’t like landing up on sets on the first day and saying, ‘Who is this person?’.”
He goes on to add, “Actors have become great. Whether it’s me at this stage, or whether a person just starting out, or even the biggest star of the industry, everyone is doing a web show. And also, while you are doing a project, your concentration is on that. Web shows take away 70-80 days.”