Screenplay writer Pankaj Dubey will make his directorial debut by adapting for the big screen his novel "What A Loser", which deals with life in Delhi University's North Campus.
The Ranchi-born author says the idea of the book "germinated in my heart since I was myself in the North Campus and faced the problems around acceptance and identity coming from a very small town".
He says he had seen this happening with other people also though overnight.
"Non acceptance and intolerance in cities have grown to the level that people are being killed in Delhi. It's very barbaric," he says.
According to him, his novel, published by Penguin, is a satirical tale told in a humorous manner.
The story has grown with me. I would also like to share that 70 per cent of 'What A Loser' is autobiographical," Dubey told PTI.
Screenplay writing comes naturally to Dubey. "Even if you read my novel, it's not very conventional."
He is currently working on two projects - "Ek Aadhan Ishq" and developing the screenplay of "What A Loser".
"I am going to direct this book into a film - this will be my directorial debut," he says.
The main character in the humorous book is Pandey Anil Kumar Sinha (PAKS), who comes to Delhi with precisely three things - his jaded old trunk full of sattu and achaar; a borrowed dream of becoming an IAS officer from his clerk father; and to sleep with a milky white Punjabi girl.
However, PAKS's goals begin to change when he falls in love, enrols for English classes and finds cool friends. Then suddenly he is pushed to the forefront of college elections and he becomes a hero.
