New Delhi: It's not the awards season yet, but Juhi Chaturvedi, the debutant script writer of the much-acclaimed film Vicky Donor, has already 'won' her Filmfare trophy from an industry legend.
Writer Salim Khan, the father of actor Salman Khan, was so moved by the film, he gave director Shoojit Sircar and Chaturvedi one of his Filmfare trophies. Chaturvedi said it was the greatest honour she could have imagined coming from a veteran scriptwriter to a beginner in Bollywood like her. She had written the script for Sircar's stalled project Shoebite starring Amitabh Bachchan.
"He came to see the film and was so overwhelmed that he gave away one of his own Filmfare trophies to Shoojit and me," Chaturvedi said. "I have huge respect for Salim saab as a writer myself. I have been working for a very long time now but Vicky Donor was my first commercial film," she said.
Chaturvedi joked she initially hesitated in suggesting the contentious subject of sperm donation to Sircar. "I was a bit awkward thinking, you know, coming from a woman, what would Shoojit think?"
But now she is inundated with congratulatory messages from industry friends and colleagues crediting her for the water tight script and beautiful detailing of each character in the hilarious story about the initially reluctant sperm donor Vicky Arora.
Salim Khan is renowned for co-writing along with Javed Akhtar the scripts of Seeta Aur Geeta, Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay.
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