How do you know whether you’re a writer unless you give it a chance,” asks Boman Irani. It was this thought — coupled with the firm belief that a good script is the foundation of every powerful film — that made the senior actor start Spiral Bound, his screenwriting workshops. When he launched his banner Irani Movietone in 2019, Irani simultaneously began the screenwriting programme with Oscar-winning screenwriter-friend Alexander Dinelaris. “The idea was to fly down a [reputed] writer once a year, and have a workshop for the film industry. About 300 film folk attended Alex’s workshop in 2019. Amitabh Bachchan inaugurated the session,” recounts Irani.

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