Neeraj Pandey Short Stories

Neeraj Pandey Short Stories

Neeraj Pandey feels  it's time  to move on from A Wednesday.

He's next  putting finishing  touches to a collection  of short stories. "That's taken more time than I thought."

Though a  screenwriter   it comes as  news  to know Neeraj  is  a litterateur.  "I've been writing these stories for a  while.  Some  of  them  were written before A  Wednesday ,  and  some  after. But they all show  the  romantic side   of  me, something that  people  haven't seen in my   film.One or two do  touch  on terrorism. "

The stories are in  English.  "Writing for  a  book  is  a different  discipline  from  writing screenplay."

 Meanwhile  UTV has  sold the rights of  Neeraj's  A Wednesday to Kamal  Haasan  for a Tamil  film.  "It can't be helped," says Neeraj. "The legal aspect of it is too complicated. I do have a stake in the commerce  of the remake, but not the creativity.  I  can't  stop  Wednesday  from being  remade  in any language. At  least  it's gone into   good hands."          The  Tamil  version   already has   one patron.

Says Neeraj,  "I'd love to see what  Kamal Haasan  does with  A  Wednesday. I read Naseeruddin Shah's comments wondering if  Kamal Haasan would be playing  more than one role.I'd love to see  what Kamal Haasan does with Wednesday. In any case I think  it's time  for   us to  move on  from A  Wednesday.I'm working on  another movie idea."