Bengaluru startup to promote writing talent
Astart-up is looking for stories and ideas it can turn into books and screenplays. Headquartered in J P Nagar, Script A Hit is the brainchild of Jaishankar Krishnamurthy, a finance expert now dedicating his time to finding new story ideas and writing talent. Jaishankar had aspired to write a novel for four decades but never got around to doing it. “I didn’t have the skills to write, and I lacked the time to make a book happen as I was busy building a career in finance. But now, since my family and I have relocated to Bengaluru from Singapore, I gave the idea another shot and here we are today. I currently have four books in the works,” he says. He believes people across India may have great ideas and stories to tell but don’t have the means to turn their ideas into novels. “We, Indians, are great storytellers, so we wanted to make a platform for these storytellers,” he says. On the team that turns ideas into books and scripts is his wife Krishna Udayasankar, a criticall...