Nitin Mangllani

Founder - Kathaastu | Author & Screenwriter | Instagram: writtenbynitin

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

I am revisiting The Mahabharat after years.
In this thread, I will share everything I found interesting and worth pondering over. It's like making personal notes, but I'll put them here in case it helps someone else too. Here we go: 🧵

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

@sheetalbytheway This is such a well written, well shot, and well executed film. Felt every beat and emotion. So good. 🙌

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

@sheetalbytheway I agree.. one makes better market decisions when there's no noise. ✨

[Ashish Chanchlani @ashchanchlani]

@Kevfeige maalik jab itna kharcha ho hi gaya hai toh ye bhi bana hi do🙏 isme blade bhai ko introduce bhi kar lena

[Kunal Kapoor @kapoorkkunal]

Couldn't find the work I was excited about. So I decided to write it. Three scripts.

An action, a romance, a comedy. All finished.

Now the hard part. Finding the right people to build them with.

Meanwhile, idea number four is already refusing to leave me alone.

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

Thank You @themarketnerdd for this. Can't wait to share my book with everyone. ✨

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

I still play out scenarios sometimes.

What if I had acted on
that divine feeling?
What if I had taken that journey?
What would it have been like to
meet her in flesh & blood?

To share a life with a girl
who was a manifestation
of a million dreams.

I'll never know.

(11/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

She began to call me her 'sukoon'. Her inner peace.
I called her my 'long distance soulmate.'

She was an overnight
bus ride away.
A 15 hour train journey away.
One hour twenty minutes
flight away.

A journey I should have taken.
A journey I never took.
(5/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

I smiled.
Gave her my wishes.

It was now forbidden to talk about the childlike honesty in her smile.

Someone else is her sukoon now.

Gosh. I should have taken that journey.

(10/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

'There's childlike honesty in your smile,' she replied. Finally.

Basic questions were asked later. We first discussed regrets, trauma,food, intimacy and love.

No numbers exchanged yet.
Just a conversation with a girl who felt like manifestation of a million dreams.

(4/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

This was before reels
were a thing.
When Insta was just pictures you carefully zoomed in and out without liking.

I was addicted to the app.
I was lonely.
And somewhere in
that loneliness..
I found her.

The girl who was a manifestation of a million dreams.

Read On:🧵
(1/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

'I felt connected when I saw your picture' was how I opened the conversation.

I was being honest.
Wasn't flirting.

She saw the text.
Didn't reply for three hours.

I've never refreshed Insta chat
as much as I did that day.
(3/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

It was a lonely night when I stumbled upon her picture.

Impulsively liked it.
Impulsively followed her.

I woke up late the next morning.

Stopped brushing my teeth midway when I noticed she had followed me back.

That's how our story began...

(2/11)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

Nobody knows the outcomes
of the life that didn't happen.

So be here. In this life.
The one that actually happened. (10/10)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

This moment was one year before our relationship suddenly ended.

She said something that day that I still carry with me... many years after we became strangers.

Read On: 🧵 (1/10)

[Nitin Mangllani @writtenbynitin]

Whenever I spiral into the would haves and could haves of life.

Whenever I start building that other life in my head... the one that didn't happen.

I breathe.
And I tell myself what she told me at that bus stop. (9/10)