The Bengali film industry presently lacks professional writers who can put up good film scripts, superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee has said.
In Mumbai, people can send their scripts to various forums which is seen by globally known script writers and they can hone up their skills, he said.
A director cannot always be expected to write the script of his own film, Prosenjit told PTI.
"We really lack good film script writers. People like Anjan Chowdhury who could churn out scripts of wholesome entertainers are difficult to find these days," he said.
"There are one or two exceptions like Padmanabha Dasgupta. But how many scripts can one Padmanabha Dasgupta write! He has his limitations," Chatterjee told PTI on the sidelines of the launch of a talent spotting platform on Tuesday night.
Fifty-eight year old Chatterjee, who had acted in around 300 films since debuting as a child actor in 1964, said there was no grooming process of a new talent in the Bengali entertainment industry - be it in script writing or in even acting or in allied areas.
"We (Bengali industry) are moving around the often repeated cycle, we are not exposing ourselves unlike places like Mumbai where umpteen numbers of grooming workshops take place in a month," he said.
While there are lots of possibility in Bengali film industry, "we are not progressing much," Prosenjit said.
Stating he was being flooded with 7-8 scripts on Twitter and Facebook every day but they did not make the cut, he said.
Chatterjee said 70-80 per cent of the Bengali entertainment industry is driven by television.
But as the screen is being shifted from TV to mobiles and desktop, script writers are faced with new challenges as the audience has evolved with the change in medium, he said.
"I and Soumitra Chatterjee have been made their faces and all the known faces of Bengali industry are part of the initiative which aims to scout from lakhs of applicants including those living abroad and select the deserving ones and provide them training and placement," he said.
The new Bengali talent spotting platform launched on Tuesday night is focussing on television, he said.
Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee, present on the occasion, told PTI that there was no such platform when he had started his career in 1959.
The 83-year Dadasaheb Phalke awardee said, "The advent of new technologies like the Internet has helped the present generation to realise their dreams.
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