Rishi Virmani on creating 'Ghoomer' with R Balki: It started off as fiction

Updated On: 23 August, 2023 07:14 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Ghoomer writer on how Balki and he started with fictional story of a para-athlete before finding inspiration in Hungarian shooter Takács

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Saiyami Kher essays the role of a para-athlete; (right) Karoly Takacs

For screenwriter Rishi Virmani, R Balki is the reason he found his calling. He remembers being an assistant director on the sets of Cheeni Kum (2007). “I would rewrite some portions of the script, and Balki would use a few lines from [what I had written]. He realised my potential as a writer and steered me towards script writing,” recalls Virmani.

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