First Person: Not according to the script

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It was a long journey, beginning in the smog of Los Angeles and ending in
Madras. I was on my way to India to revise my screenplay - a true story
about a Greek peasant called Stavros who fell in love with a famous Indian
actress - with director Rajiv Menon. Flying over the never-ending deserts of
the Gulf, I wondered whether I was the first screenwriter to be sent from
Hollywood to Madras, the Tamil film capital. In Hollywood, a film has 12 or
15 writers and takes several years to develop. It requires several weeks and
about 200 phone calls just to schedule a development meeting. Yet Hollywood
is the acknowledged nucleus of power in the movie business. And here I was,
heading in the wrong direction - Christoph Hargreaves Allen, a British
screenwriter based in Los Angeles.
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