Profile Image

Shai Hussain

Writer

Great Britain , London
dj.shai.guy@gmail.com

Visits in the last week

3

Total of visits

879

Current Work Details

What I do

Screenwriter (and a bit of directing, acting, assisting and composing)

Company

Technically Bollywood

Website

http://www.tjdup.com

Where I work

I am just me

Technical Skills

Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools

Resources / Expertise

Til Jihad Do Us Part (BBC Radio 4) | Resolutions (BBC Asian Network) | Reality Check (BBC Asian Network)

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

2005-2007

Northern Film School,
Screenwriting, MA

2008-2008

BBC,
Advanced Script Editing

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Team America, City of God, Trainspotting, Dil Chahta Hain, Lagaan, Austin Powers, Gladiator, Pulp Fiction, Coming To America, Sholay, The Bourne Identity

I cried watching

Dead Poets Society, Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Schindlers List

I left the cinema during

Jackie Brown, Lady Chatterleys Lover, Lost in Translation

Directors I love

Danny Boyle, QT, John Woo, Yash Chopra, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Jay Roach, John Landis, Ashutosh Gowaikar, Doug Liman

Actors I admire

Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Jim Carrey, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kate Winslet, Kajol, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie.

Writers I respect

Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Moffat, Quentin Tarantino, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin

My desert island discs

Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, Arctic Monkeys, AR Rahman, Prodigy, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Fedde Le Grande, We Are Scientists, Oasis, Basement Jaxx

Books I have given my friends

A Suitable Boy, Birds Without Wings, Freakanomics, Roots, Story, The Middle East, Superman vs Aliens.

My death row meal

Popolinos Spicy Chicken and Green Pepper Pizza.

The best thing I own

My IMac - no contest.

More about me

So far, I've written an epic adventure set in 252BC Mesopotamia, an adult animated sitcom, a musical, an action thriller, a historical thriller set in 1792 India and other things. I like to DJ all kinds of music, I like to cook all types of food, meet all types of people and travel to all kinds of places. The details of my life are quite inconsequential.