Sandeep Marwah With Shekhar Kapur, Satish Kaushik and Javed Akhtar |
Mumbai: “I am thankful to each and every one who has
contributed to the growth of Asian Academy of Film And Television in these last
twenty five years of its existence,” said Sandeep Marwah founder, Promoter and
President of AAFT during his trip to Mumbai.
“1993 We shot Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi for almost four
months at Marwah Studios. That was another full length feature film shot at
Noida, The film became internationally successful. We learned a lot from
Shekhar Kapur, the Director of the Film,” said Sandeep Marwah thanking Shekhar
for trusting him even at that time.
Marwah also extend his gratitude to Satish Kaushik for his
continuous support by shooting films at Marwah Studios be it Badhai o Badhai,
Prem, Khushi or his contribution towards film education by taking workshops
with different batches of AAFT.
“I know Javed Sahib since 1982 and his consent as Member of
the Academic Council has given us the opportunity to have screening of all the
films he has written so far including Deewar, Sholay, Trishul, Mr India, etc.
AAFT has already started celebrating this year as Silver
Jubliee Year. Large number of events has been planned through out the year.