The Unfold Library

The Unfold Library

Free screenwriting and storytelling lessons in Hindi and English, with Indian film examples. New articles every weekday.

Free screenwriting and storytelling lessons in Hindi and English, with Indian film examples. New articles every weekday.

Make your town a character: Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar as Prem and Sandhya sitting on stone steps in Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
Make Your Town a Character: What Dum Laga Ke Haisha Does With Haridwar
Give every character their own voice: Kader Khan's three brothers. The cast in costume in a scene from Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Give Every Character Their Own Voice: Kader Khan's Three Brothers
How to take your script to Netflix in India: typographic cover reading 'Can I send my script to Netflix?'
How to Take Your Script to Netflix in India: The Door That Actually Opens
Make us lean in within ten minutes: Rajat Barmecha as Rohan reflected in a car's side mirror in Udaan (2010)
Make Us Lean In Within Ten Minutes: How Udaan Opens
Make your town a character: Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar as Prem and Sandhya sitting on stone steps in Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
Plan the Middle Before You Write Scene One: What Andhadhun Teaches
what to write
Likhne Ka Shauk Hai, Par Kya Likhun? Find Your First Story in Your Own Gully
thakur
Write an Interval That Keeps the Audience in Their Seats: What Sholay Teaches
point of view
Start With a Point of View, Not a Cause: How R. Balki Finds the Film Inside a Social Issue
story in head
Write a Logline a Producer Can Picture in One Line
story in head₹
Turn the Scene in Your Head Into a Page That Plays
amitabh bachchan
Write a Hero With a Cause: What Salim-Javed Built in Zanjeer
indian-television
Write for Indian Television: What Daily TV Teaches Every Writer
side character
Write a Side Character the Audience Remembers Long After the Credits
melodrama
Earn the Tear: How Great Scenes Make Us Cry Without Asking
write for ott
How to Write for OTT in India: What the Platforms Actually Want
Horror Tumbbad
Why Indian Horror Almost Never Scares You (And What Tumbbad Got Right)
how ro write dialogue
How to Write Dialogue That Sounds Real
how to become writer
How to Become a Screenwriter in India
writing feels dry
Why Your Writing Feels Dry - And the One Fix That Changes Everything
understanding conflict
What is Conflict in a Story - And Why It's the Soul of Every Great Narrative
Writing character
How to create a Character
writing fiction
Writing Fiction Based on True Events
parts of a play
Parts of a Play: Acts, Scenes, and Structure Explained
writing prompts
20 Writing Prompts for Writers
dramatic irony
What Is Dramatic Irony
write every day
How to Write Every Day: Even When Life Gets in the Way
breaking the mould
Breaking the Mould: How Writers Can Move Beyond Stereotypes
what is a story
Flat Characters in Hindi Cinema: Why they Matter in Storytelling
what is a story
What is a story? And why books, films, and theatre tell it differently.
Make your town a character: Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar as Prem and Sandhya sitting on stone steps in Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
Make Your Town a Character: What Dum Laga Ke Haisha Does With Haridwar
Give every character their own voice: Kader Khan's three brothers. The cast in costume in a scene from Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Give Every Character Their Own Voice: Kader Khan's Three Brothers
How to take your script to Netflix in India: typographic cover reading 'Can I send my script to Netflix?'
How to Take Your Script to Netflix in India: The Door That Actually Opens
Make us lean in within ten minutes: Rajat Barmecha as Rohan reflected in a car's side mirror in Udaan (2010)
Make Us Lean In Within Ten Minutes: How Udaan Opens