Sumukhi Suresh & Varun Grover Interview | Writers' Rooms | Suchin Mehrotra | The Streaming Show EP1

The Good Bad and Ugly of Writers’ Rooms with Sumukhi Suresh and Varun Grover ‪@VarunGroverComedy‬ ‪@SumukhiSuresh‬

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0:00 - Highlights
0:44 - Intro
2:00 - Writers WhatsApp Group secrets
3:38 - THE POONAM PANDEY GROUP
4:31 - Have we cracked the art of a writers' room in India
8:49 - How different is it from the romanticized idea of a writers' room
13:24 - How to choose your writers
20:04 - Sumukhi and Varun's ways of choosing their writers
28:00 - The role of a head writer and advice for young writers
43:20 - Cracking the Pilot episode
45:00 - Writers' struggle with credits
53:32 - One thing they could change about the streaming space






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What exactly does an effective writers' room look like, and have we adopted the concept well within the Indian streaming ecosystem? Or is it still a free-for-all with everyone just doing their own thing? To break it down I spoke to two of the most exciting screenwriters in town, both of whom bring new meaning to the term multihyphenate talent.

Varun Grover was head writer in one of the first writers' rooms for a major streamer with Sacred Games. Aside from creating and starring in Prime Video’s Pushpavalli, one of the finest shows we’ve made, Sumukhi Suresh recently founded MotorMouth - a company solely dedicated to writing and developing shows and movies. At MotorMouth, Sumukhi is currently juggling 8 separate writers' rooms at once.

In a hilarious, and truly insightful chat, if I do say so myself , the two sparking screenwriters spoke to me about the do’s and dont’s of running a writers' room, bringing together the right group of personalities, why writers fighting can actually be a good thing, what the job of a head writer actually is, how young writers can deal with asshole boses and toxic power structures, the insanity of writers being banned on sets and the surprising significance of Bengali food

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