Anuja Chauhan on the upcoming film based on her novel, The Zoya Factor
The Zoya Factor is a story about Zoya Singh Solanki, an executive in an advertising agency, who was born at the same moment that India won the cricket world cup in 1983.
“I phelo-ed like raita, slightly,” says Anuja Chauhan at the beginning of our conversation about the work she did for the screen adaptation of her best-selling 2008 debut novel, The Zoya Factor, which releases next month, and stars Sonam Kapoor and Dulquer Salmaan. The simile sounds clumsy when one attempts to translate it into English — spread like runny yogurt — but the 48-year-old writer and former adwoman knows exactly what to say for you to get the picture. “I’m credited for giving additional dialogues, and I’ve given other inputs in the screenplay. They came to me early last year after they had written all of it. When I read it, I thought it could have done with some…” says Chauhan, her voice fading to indicate that it would be rude to say the actual words in her head. “I dove in and I was brutal and frank, but what was amazing was that so were Pradhuman Singh and Neha Sharma, who wrote the story and screenplay respectively,” she adds.
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