ABOUT QALAM

After the grand success of Qalam 2001, indiantelevision.com is back with Qalam. Qalam is an effort by Indian Television to create a platform where talented scriptwriters can interact, learn and share their ideas with established and successful scriptwriters. There is a lot of talent that needs to be tapped and brought forth to the television industry…. And we do just that at Qalam!

Qalam is formulated to provide a great training ground for first-timers and inexperienced writers who would like to venture into the process of writing for television. It is also a home for experienced writers to polish their skills, get a creative injection, find motivation and have the opportunity to share their experiences with other writers.

For the first time in India, writers - some of them first-timers - will get an opportunity to present their story ideas and concepts to creative professionals from major production houses and television programming executives who will be part of a judging panel at the Writers' Pitch

The Indian scriptwriting community and budding aspirants will gather at Time & Again banquet hall in Mumbai's Lokhandwala complex, Andheri, from 9 January to 11 January 2003 .

Qalam 2003 will also have individual instructional sessions on writing for the various genres of television programming such as daily soaps, comedies, thrillers, game shows as well as writing for news.

This year the Panel of speakers will include Ashwini Dhir, Atul Tiwari, Anurag Kashyap, BM Vyas, Ishan Trivedi, Kamlesh Pandey, Rajesh Joshi, Rekha Nigam, RD Telang, Sameer Modi, Sanjay Upadhyay, Sanjay Chhel, Shobha De, Shriram Raghvan, Vinod Ranganath, Vipul D Shah, Sandhya Divecha, Sutapa Sikdar and Shishir Joshi.