Friday, August 28, 2009

Team Of Feature Film Mohandas At Marwah Studios

After being part of the creative team in super hit films like Satya, Jhankar Beats and Masti, cinematographer Mazhar Kamran is now ready to release his directorial debut titled’ Mohan Das’ informed Sandeep Marwah, President of Marwah Studios while welcoming the team of feature film Mohandas at AAFT and ASMS at Noida Film City. Talking to the students of Asian Academy Of Film And Television and Asian School Of Media Studies the Director of the film Mazhar Kamran declared that “unlike its resemblance to the name Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi, the film is a black comedy and derives zero similarity from the patriot.
The film is made on a small scale with talented actors like Sonali Kulkarni, Nakul Vaid, Sushant Singh, Sharbani Mukherjee, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Uttam Haldar, Aditya Shrivastav, Akhilendra Mishra and Govind Namdeo who all were present there to interact with the media students.
Sandeep Marwah also informed that the film is made under the banner of Vertika Films Pvt Ltd. and is produced by Abha Sonakia.
Sonali Kulkarni disclosed and said “The plot of Mohan Das revolves around a man who is lost in his own country” Sharbani Mukerjee added,”. The problems faced by a common man are dealt with open satire in the film.” Replying to the questions of students of Asian Business School the Director informed that the Screenplay of the film is by Uday Prakash, Music is by Vivek Priyadarshan and Lyrics by VK Sonakia and Yash Malviya, Cinematography is by Mazhar Kamran himself, Editor is Suresh Pai and Art Director is Jayant Deshmukh.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Rahul Roy Shared His Experience With AAFT Students

“Film Making is the most expensive expression, an actors has to be fully trained for their job and film Schools can groom them to the best” said Rahul Roy the leading actor of 32 films including Aashiqui, Junoon, Gumrah, Pehla Nasha, Naseeb, Achanak and many more from the platform of Marwah Studios to the young and new aspirants of Film and Television trade.” India is the largest film producing country in the World, you are bound to get work in the industry” Rahul motivated the students of AAFT, ASMS and Asian Business School.

“We sell three billion tickets of Cinema Halls in one year, which is largest in the World even more than Hollywood, USA” added Sandeep Marwah introducing the Media Education System of Marwah Studios.” Our teaching, training and education system is no less than IITs and IIMs of India”explained Marwah.

Rahul Roy later took the workshop of Acting students of short term and one year course of Asian Academy Of Film And Television and answered many questions to clear their doubts. Rahul Roy also accepted the membership of International Film And Television Club.

Dignities who spoke on the occasion were Prof. Satish Anand Dean Acting, Prof. Ashok Tyagi Dean Cinema, Prof. Latika Sahani Dean ABS, Prof. Suman Bajaj Kalra Dean of Studies Asian School Of Media Studies and Prof. Harshvardhan Course Director of the Education Group.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Sanjay Suri Invited By Asian School Of Media Studies

The popular and the talented actor of feature films Sorry Bhai, My Brother Nikhil, Filhal, Dhoop, Bas Ek Pal, Sanjay Suri expressed the importance of emotions in Cinema in the Master class of Marwah Studios where the large gathering of Film, TV and Media Management students of Asian Academy Of film And Television, Asian School Of Media Studies and Asian Business School were engrossed in listing to his statements.” Emotion is the language of Cinema” said Sanjay.” Education and training do help an actor to get familiar with the techniques of Acting” he added.

“Films need lots of passion, and hard work. This is one business where you cannot take things for granted.” said Onir the renowned Writer, Editor and Director of feature films Bas Ek Pal, Sorry Bhai and My Brother Nikhil who offered the students to be the producer of his next film by buying the shares of the project.
“We at Marwah Studios feel that interaction with the industry is not only necessary but essential” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios while introducing the guest from Munbai. “We are happy that two talented and experts from the industry are going to be the members of our family” Later Marwah presented them the membership of International Film And Television Club. Others who spoke at the event were Suman Bajaj Kalra Dean ASMS, Latika Sawhney Dean ABS and president of All India Cable Association Roop Sharma

Sunday, August 2, 2009

We Need To Know More In Journalism Santosh Bhartiya



A full day workshop on the ethics of journalism and how to be a good journalist took place at Marwah Studios organized by the International Film And Television Research Centre in association with Asian School Of Media Studies and Asian Academy Of Film And TV for the working journalist of different News papers and TV channels.

“Be honest to your profession, journalism needs lots of passion, running a news paper is like a prayer” said Dr Bhisham Narayan Singh, former Union Minister, Government Of India and Former Governer of 7 states of India while inaugurating National Workshop on Journalism. “Honesty pay in life, it is always tough way to success” he added.

“It is important to pursue with the stories till it reaches to its end” said veteran journalist Santosh Bhartiya who has made his position from a reporter to member of Rajya Sabha. “Never afraid from the strong influences, believe in investigation,” Santosh added.

“Education and training is must for every profession including journalism” said Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Studios. Command on language, research on the subject, preparation and home work about the person are some of the tips given by Marwah with some interesting examples.
The known film director Gurbir S Garewal spoke about film Journalism and the slip outs in film journalism. Other speakers who spoke on TV Journalism were Dean ASMS prof. Suman Bajaj Kalra and Dean AAFT Prof Kalyan Sarkar .The workshop became more interesting with the large set of question answers at the end of the session.

Friday, July 31, 2009

63rd Festival Of Short Digital Films At AAFT

“It’s a great pleasure to see the creative product of young film makers .The film schools are nursery for film technicians”, said Vijay Goel, Chief Guest and former Union Minister, Government Of India while inaugurating the 63rd Festival of Short digital Films at Asian Academy Of Film And Television, Marwah Studios, Film City Noida. The festival is organized by International Film And Television Club [IFTC] and has 15 best films made by the students in the last batch of AAFT produced by Marwah Films And Video Production, a production house under the leadership of Sandeep Marwah.

“I had the opportunity to be in different countries of the World, but the kind of Film and TV education AAFT is providing in India, it is commendable.” Said Krishna V. Rajan, an IFS and former Ambassador to Nepal and Chairman of Universal Peace Federation [India Chapter].

“I am proud that I could create an International Record with the students of AAFT, and could produce 1500 short films with the young film makers of 70 countries of the World.” informed Sandeep Marwah, President of Marwah Studios.

The other speakers who spoke on the occasion were Vinod Zusti, a TV producer Director, Arun Kumar of International Sports Entertainment Ltd, Anoop Bhandari Editor Models and Trend, Kalyan Sarkar Dean AAFT. Later Sandeep Marwah presented Academy Award to Rajesh Bajaj the alumnae of AAFT from 6th Batch for his sincere contribution to Film and TV Industry. Rajesh Bajaj has been the director of more than 150 advertisement films, writer director of known film ‘Hari Puttar’,and now working in Hollywood with Oscar winning actor Helly Berry as writer/Director.
Others who were present there Gurbir Garewal,Kannan,Lalit Kumar,Satish Anand,Adil Rana,Mansoor Naqvi,Bharat Barikh,Prabhat,Abhinav Bajpai,Kamana,Seema Gupta,Viney Kumar,etc.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Heart Care Foundation Of India Joins Hand With AAFT

The Heart Care Foundation Of India, a social organization has joined hands with Asian Academy Of Film And Television, the premier film, TV and media school of India to create awareness on the subject of GOOD HEALTH.

The President of the organization Dr.K.K. Agarwal who is the leading Cardiologist of the country conducted his press conference at Marwah Studios and expressed this wonderful association with International repute film school. “First it was MTNL, then BSNL and now AAFT with family of 8000 media professionals we will be able to grow faster with the slogan of GOOD HEALTH” said Dr.Agarwal.

“We will leave no stone unturned to make the coming Health Mela and Dil Ka Darbar to be the most successful venture of HCFI” said Sandeep Marwah, President of AAFT and Marwah Studios.” Health is Wealth and most of the media persons do neglect their health while achieving their huge targets, we need to remind them the importance of good health and these kind of Events are the best way.” added Marwah.

The 16th MTNL Perfect Health Mela will be from 3rd to 12th oct,09 and BSNL Dil Ka Darbar health checkup on 6th sept,09 at MAMC auditorium in Delhi.

Friday, July 24, 2009

We Care Film Festival At Marwah Studios




Asian Academy Of Film And Television along with the social organization Brotherhood organized “Look Back We Care Film Festival” an event of films on Disability at Marwah Studios, Film City, Noida. The collection of films on different issues of disabilities were projected to the large crowd, film and television students of AAFT,ASMS and ABS with an idea to evoke emotions towards people who are sometimes ignored by the community and society for no rhyme or reasons.
“We have joined hands with Brotherhood only to promote the idea of creating awareness towards disability” said Sandeep Marwah, President Marwah Studios. “We at brotherhood have pledged to promote our disable brothers and sisters to come forward in life and become independent” said Satish Kapoor, the Director of the Festival .The festival is supported by the information Centre of United Nation, National Trust, Shivkala Motion Pictures and International Film And Television Club.
“We have to look back into Hindi feature films like Black, Dosti, Tare Zameen pain, Koshish where a huge information is highlighted on disability” said Sameer Sen Chief Guest of the day and renowned music director who has given music to 150 feature films like Jalwa ,Arjun Pandit, Anari No 1, Achanak, Salakhen, Kartavaya etc. B.B.Choudhary IPS, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Rajeev Chandran of United Nation Information Centre, R.K.Singh former Engineer in Chief, Doordarshan, Raghaveddhiraa of Mangolore Port Trust ,Sharad Dutt of Channel P7 were the other speakers of the day. The program was followed by screening of 15 selected short films on Disability.