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MUMBAI:
Rituparno Ghosh, Rajkumar Hirani, Sabyasachi Mukherjee
and Jugal Hansraj will conduct master classes at the
forthcoming Indian Film Festival Melbourne (IFFM) 2012.
The
festival will be held from 11 to 22 June.
Hirani
and Abhijat Joshi will talk about successful script
writing collaborations (3 Idiots, Lage Raho Munna Bhai)
in master class, ‘Thinking through Laughter’,
with a special focus on the comedy genre.
While
Ghosh will discuss Art house cinema in India as an
alternative to the mainstream commercial Bollywood
cinema in his master class ‘Realism in Indian
cinema’, Mukherjee will conduct ‘Talking
through Fabric’, a master class looking at the
role of costume and fabric design in creating a powerful
narrative in film.
On
the other hand, Hansraj will conduct ‘Animation:
The hotspot for co–production’, a master
class discussing India’s booming animation industry
and the possibility of Australian/Indian animation
co-productions.
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