'Film industry has huge dearth of scripts'

Mumbai: Filmmaker Kabir Khan says despite having access to rich literature, the industry fails to have good scripts because not enough writers are nurtured.

Kabir, who adapted Hussain Zaidi's book 'Mumbai Avengers' for his 2015 Saif Ali Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer Phantom, believes there are not enough adaptations happening in the industry.

Kabir said, "We are still depending on the original scripts written by the writers we have. We have a huge dearth of scripts, dearth of material that can go on screen."

"In Hollywood an A-list director is usually confused between ten scripts, as to which film he should do in a year. Here, we are dying to get that one script that excites us."

Having dearth of scripts mirrors an irony of the Indian film industry, touted to produce the most number of films in a year all over the world. This irony, Kabir says, has to be looked in context.

"We also have to look into the quality in most of those films, he added"