Film industry has huge dearth of scripts: Kabir Khan

Filmmaker Kabir Khan says despite having access to rich literature, the industry fails to have good scripts because not enough writers are nurtured.

Kabir, who adapted Hussain Zaidi's book "Mumbai Avengers" for his 2015 Saif Ali Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer "Phantom", believes there are not enough adaptations happening in the industry.

In an interview with PTI, Kabir says "We are still depending on the original scripts written by the writers we have. We have a huge dearth of scripts, dearth of material that can go on screen.

"In Hollywood an A-list director is usually confused between ten scripts, as to which film he should do in a year. Here, we are dying to get that one script that excites us."
He further adds, the industry is not picking up enough from our history and that is something we really need to start doing."
"We also have to look into the quality in most of those films. Story is not really the backbone in most of those films. Most of the times a lot of those films are just proposals. Some actors come in together with a director trying to make a spectacle out of it."
"The process of taking it from the book and bringing it on screen is the responsibility of the industry. The industry needs to devote resources and finances in developing screenplay writers who have the ability to convert a book into a screenplay."