Rumana Molla on Why Writing Is the Ultimate Creative Superpower | Jagran Film Festival

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]What do I do next? What can I do?

[00:00:04]Who decides what one deserves?

[00:00:07]Uh, who's the judge of that?

[00:00:09]I don't know. Um, I don't know who gets to decide what you deserve. I don't know what I deserve. All I know is, um, what do I do next? What can I do? Um, I think sitting and thinking about what you deserve and what you don't deserve, after a point, it makes you an undeserving person.

[00:00:28]Very well said. Um, so I would rather focus my energy on working.

[00:00:34]And one superpower, which nobody can take away from you, is writing. You don't need anybody to write. You don't need anything. You don't need a producer. You don't need money.

[00:00:44]You just need a pen, paper, or a laptop, whatever is convenient for you.

[00:00:50]And then you just need yourself. Um, and I always go back to writing. Whenever I feel like, because the need at the end of the day is not, um, for me at least, is to do what I love.

[00:01:05]Um, and there's always a way to do that.

[00:01:08]Uh, and I focus on that. What's the next step? What can I do?

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