Chatt Mahautsav Had A Super Start

Chatt Mahautsav- Festival And Celebrations

Noida: The second day of Chatt Mahautsav saw great participation from all over India and abroad. Large audience spoke about Chatt in a chat show conducted by Anu Sinha internationally acclaimed Kathak exponent.

“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. I extend my heartiest congratulations to the complete art fraternity for their voluntary participation even this time of Pandemic. Your presence has given a new energy and moral boost to many young and enthusiastic performers to come forward. Indian art and culture is meant to bring love, peace and unity,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah Chancellor of AAFT University of Media And Arts while inaugurating the session. 

.Artist and performer Rajni Rao, performed Kathak  on Suryashtakam and a Devotional geet “ Pahile pahile Chhati Maiya”. She justified that the Chhat is a celebration of worshipping Morning Rising Sun as well as for Setting Sun of the evening,

Rajni Rao is a Choreographer at Nritya and  Director at Adiraj school of Dance, Which hosts number of musical and cultural activities under one roof. It is a venture to nurture the younger generation and enhance them towards Cultural, Aesthetic and Confident heights to rise above average. A born leader who loves to take up new challenging and learning experiences from work desk.

Umesh Verma, Dr. Kalyani, Renubala Singh, Leena Singh, Rajeshwari  Tyagrajan and many others spoke on Chatt festival  and its importance. They all share their valuable experiences with the audience.

Mahipal Singh, Ajit singh, Meet Verma, Rajendra Singh Arora,, B.L.Batra, Kathak artists Asavari Pawara, Anuradha Sharma and many singers contributed to the show with their divine presence

.Later Anu Sinha invited everyone to stay part of this long Chatt festival  even for the next few days. The event was supported by ICMEI-International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry, Radio Noida 107.4Fm and MSTV along with Krishna Kala Foundation and Education Society.

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated IAWRT 16th Asian Women's Film Festival

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated IAWRT 16th Film Festival

New Delhi: Renowned Film, television and media personality Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios inaugurated the 16th edition of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival from March 5 to March 7 in New Delhi.

Fifty-one films from 15 Asian countries, all directed by women filmmakers, will be screened at the festival includes films from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Doha, Iran, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Taiwan, UAE and Turkey.

“Held every year in the run up to the International Women’s Day on March 8 by IAWRT, in partnership with the India International Centre (IIC) and ICMEI-International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry-Marwah Studios, this non-competitive film festival has become a much sought after women-director-only festival in this region over the last 16 years,” said Nupur Basu, Managing Trustee, IAWRT, Chapter India.

“What a pleasure to be here with the most successful film makers and their creative works from all over the World. This festival is a glorious function during Women’s Day Week. I purpose radio and TV interviews of all the film makers present here on Radio Noida 107.4 Fm and MSTV so that many more should know about your achievements,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah while lighting the ceremonial lamp.

This year the festival team received over 700 submissions. The selection pans the entire genre - feature length documentary films, short fiction and documentary films, animation films, experimental films and the themes range from citizenship, identity, migration, mental health, climate change and coming of age of girls.

“ What women are looking at is not gender alone but there is a distinct cinematic language that many women filmmakers are defining that allows for the audience to see afresh” said Surabhi Sharma Festival Director and Priya Thuvassery, the Co-Director of this edition of the festival.

This year’s BAFTA winner for Best Short animated Film by London based Iranian filmmaker, Maryam Mohajer ‘Grandad was a romantic’ was shown at the inauguration.

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated Poush Mela at Indirapuram

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated Poush Mela at Indirapuram

New Delhi: Popular Media Personality Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios inaugurated three days cultural festival -The Poush Mela at Indirapuram by Indirapuram Bengali Cultural Society in Association with Paridhi Arts, ICMEI-International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry and  Ministry of Tribal Affairs Government of India from 10 to 12^th January 2020.

The three days festival showcased large variety of folk & tribal music and dances from all over India. The local participation added lots of color to this first ever Poush Mela in East Delhi.

“Folk music and dances are the base of our culture. Every song, music, dance, food has some kind of meaning behind it, be a part of history, social activity or even medical reason,” said Sandeep Marwah. This is a wonderful start and I am sure next year   this festival will attract people from all over Delhi,” added Marwah.

Poush Festival is there to celebrate the harvest season and first started at Shanti Niketan in Bengal. Nirmal Vaid and Mukesh Sharma  of Paridhi coordinated the program.

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated Guru Pranam Utsav

Sandeep Marwah Inaugurated The Guru Pranam Ustav

New Delhi: Three days Guru Pranam Ustav of art and culture to promote Odissi dance and music designed by Jyoti Srivastava of Vaishali Kala Kendra was inaugurated by well-known art promoter of the country Sandeep Marwah at Azad Bhawan of ICCR in association with Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi.

“Some one who has no interest in art and culture can not be a complete human being. The involvements with arts make you a spiritual person. It uplifts mind, body and soul,” said Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Studios while inaugurating and lighting the ceremonial lamp.

The event has covered solo and group dances, vocal light and classical music, exhibition of paintings and photographs. The main attraction of the festival was the performance by Padamshri Datuk Ramli Ibrahim.

Ambassador Lalit Man Singh former Indian Diplomat, H.E. Sidharto Reza Suryodipura Ambassador of The Republic of Indonesia and H.E. Dato Hidayat Abdul Hamid High Commissioner of Malaysia were also present there.

Poster Of 4th International Cellphone Cinema Launched

The excitement at the campus of Marwah Studios is getting higher as the poster of the 4th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema was released at a function attended by the management, film, television and media students of Asian Academy of Film And Television, Asian School of Media Studies, Asian School of Graphics and Animation Asian Business School, Asian School of Performing Arts at Noida Film City.

We are growing with every festival every year, not only the reach of the festival has grown, but the quality of films, participants and events related to this festival has brought us into lime light” said Sandeep Marwah President of 4th IFCC and Director of AAFT.” We are the first one in this part of the World to project this idea to start Mobile Cinema” Marwah added while releasing the poster.

“I am excited that we are now ready for the seminar, workshop, screening and great gala party for the 4th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema on 14th and 15th of January” said Kalyan Sarkar Festival Director of 4th IFCC.

All the members of International Film And Television Club, International Film And Television Research Centre, Mahatma Gandhi Forum, International Public Broadcasting Forum, Shakespeare Society, International Children’s Film Forum, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Forum are invited to this festival informed the organization.

The event was attended by Latika Sahani, Satish Anand, Brahm Prakash, C.R.Chabra, Joao Ponces, R.K.Singh, Om Gupta, Ashok Tyagi and others.