A kind of revolution has started among Tollywood writers in the last few years.
Recently, writer turned director Koratala Siva has created a huge stir in the film industry by revealing how he was not given story credit for 'Simha'. The other day, writer Diamond Rathnam also lashed out at filmmakers for giving least importance to writers. In the past, writers like Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan and few others have also raised their voice against this culture.
Noted writer Vakkantham Vamsi, who has provided script for big ticket films including 'Yevadu', 'Race Gurram', 'Kick', 'Oosaravelli', 'Temper' etc. has now joined the chorus and revealed the reason of his inclination towards direction.
'Writers play the most important part in the making of a film but everyone gets the credit except writers. Sometimes producers and directors casually say that they forgot to take the name of writers in audio functions and success meets. Often, half of the script gets altered by director and writers can't do anything about it. Most of the times, directors take credit for script and writers are left with neither credit nor deserving pay. Each writer has his own reasons for trying to become a director and I have mine,' Vamsi added talking about the plight of writers.
After waiting for a long time to direct NTR, Vakkantham is now making plans to direct Bunny in his debut project, which might take off in January 2017.
