Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sandeep Marwah Honored By Paridhi For Art Promotion




It has been more than 25 years that Sandeep Marwah has been promoting art and culture in India. It all started with theatre-dance & drama with Drama Club, Music & singing through Mehak Aur Ghazal a music group, Painting and Sculpture through Art Gallery and then film, television and media through his Marwah Studios and radio Noida said Nirmal Vaid president of Paridhi a 25 year old cultural organization in the country.


“Paridhi is honored in handing over this award to Sandeep Marwah for his untiring efforts to encourage and persuade arts in the country Not only that he is involved in these arts he has gone out of way to promote many young and talented artist from all over India and abroad in fine arts through Asian Academy of Arts” added Pankaj Narayan the General secretary of the organization.

It was another event organized by Paridhi at Habitat Centre on the occasion of popular festival of Holi. The musical evening by Dr Sangita Gaur motivated audience to participate in the event whole heartedly. Her electrifying performance of singing Holi numbers changed the whole environment in few minutes. Later Marwah has been invited to join the advisory board of Paridhi.

Sandeep Marwah Honored By Paridhi For Art Promotion

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Visual Media Is The Most Effective Medium-Surya Shukla



“The visual medium is the most effective medium of mass communication because you hear, you see and your emotions get attached to it, the effect is bound to come when you see a film” said Surya Kumar Shukla the Additional Director General Police Traffic on the release of a promotional film on traffic produced by Marwah Studios at Noida Film City.

“We have production department and would like to make more films like this so that the traffic of the state can be improved, I am sure this film will play a vital role in short period of time” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios welcoming the film makers and guest from police department.

“We will distribute this film to all our department, cinema halls of UP, the traffic rule braker s, schools and colleges so that maximum awareness can be created about traffic rules” Surya K Shukla added. Explaining about the film Sushil Bharti the director of the film and HOD Television Asian School of Media Studies congratulated all the 25 participants and media students for their efforts who were given a certificate as token of appreciation.

It is hard to know that 14400 people died in UP last year because of road accident and around 20000 got injured on the road. City like Noida have only 125 traffic police which is not even quarter of the actual present requirement informed Surya K Shukla. Later Sandeep Marwah presented a membership of International Film And Television Club to Surya Kumar Shukla and Avdesh Singh Vijeta SP Traffic Noida present on the occasion. The event was well attended by large number of Film, TV and media persons.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Organizations Are Needed To Take -up Issues Of Special Children




“I am happy that I am associated with Prayatn, and could do something for the special Children who need more attention and care by the society” said Sandeep Marwah while handing over the certificates of participation to all the children and teachers of Prayatn at during the time of 3rd Global Film festival Noida 2010 at Marwah Studios, Film City.

Prayatn - Bhawani educational and children care society is a social voluntary non-profit making registered organisation established in 1999, which is jointly and enthusiastically working nationwide for the upliftment of the deprived disabled, underprivileged and BPL children / people who are considered as a perpetual curse by their own kith and kin and then by the society.

”No problem in the world can reach a solution till the people are aware of it. The number of disabled and underprivileged / BPL children in India has come to an alarming figure today for the cause of Children” said Brijesh Kumar who is running the society.

“A child with mental retardation, cerebral palsy or autism may not overcome the challenges through medical treatment only .Each child has distinct needs and thus requires an appropriate management plan as per his / her actual needs. One needs to help these children by creating a change in their behavior by way of imparting special education / training fit for each of them on Individualized Educational Programmed” Marwah added. “We need more people and organizations to come forward and take up the cause” condensed Marwah who is also the Patron of Prayatn.

Organizations Are Needed To Take -up Issues Of Special Children

Saturday, March 12, 2011

69th Festival of Short Digital Films At AAFT




“Festival Of Short Digital Films at Asian Academy of Film and Television has emerged now the oldest film festival of short films in India” said Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Studios and Chairperson of International Film And Television Club. ”Its been 18 years we have been conducting this festival, this is probably the only film event in the World which happens every three months” Marwah added while introducing the formation of IFTC 18 years back to support film, TV and Media education.

The films made during the 69th batch of AAFT have been showcased in this festival. The most prominent films were MR.IRRESISTABLE directed by Frode Schlichting, FREEDOM directed by Ugo Ben, BORN TO DIE by Roshini Basu, PLAYGROUND by Mariam Abdalla, THE WAY IT WAS SEEN by Robin Chackho and MIND SET by Moti P Sutar

“It reminds me of my days at FTII, but the kind of facilities AAFT is proving you, the students can grow to any heights” said Sanjeev Sood renowned cinematographer and Director. “I am impressed by the functioning of this institution which no less than any best film schools of the World” said Vivek Mittal an educationist, Chairperson of a Foundation.“I am ready to contribute to my best to Radio Noida 107.4FM, a full fledged station in this campus” expressed Poonam Surin a senior Radio Producer Director from AIR.

“You are lucky that everything has been planned on platter, take best use of this time” motivated Amit Jani a youth leader. “Film making to film festivals don’t happen in any film school, I miss this school, I want to support every activity of this institute which is like a University in its self” emotionally explained Rohit Sardana of Zee News.

The show was supported by International Film And Television Research Centre, International Public Broadcasting Forum, International Children’s Film Forum and Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru Forum. The show attended by huge gathering of film, TV and media professionals and students. Prof Kalyan Sarkar and Prof R.K. Singh also spoke on the occasion.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Two Decades of Marwah Studios Celebrated on 10th March 2011

“In 1986 I submitted the application for development of Noida film city, 1987 it was cleared by UP Government, 1988 allotments were made and on 10th March 1991 Marwah Studios was inaugurated with great pomp and show” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios expressing ups and downs faced by him in last twenty years of long journey to a large crowd at Noida Film City.

“I remember we had Mrs Krishna Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Surinder Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit ,Poonam Dhillion, Boney Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Shilpa Shrodhkar, Vinod Pandey, Rakesh Roshan, Prem Chopra, Bijon Das Gupta, Ashok Thakaria, Indra Kumar, Padmini Kohlapure, Tutu Sharma, Rakesh Nath, Baba Azmi, and many more dignities from Indian Film Industry to grace the occasion” Marwah recollected

Marwah Studios has attained three World Records under the leadership of Sandeep Marwah. It has been associated with 3500 television productions for more than 50 channels and around 100 feature films in different languages. Marwah Studios has been Maternity Hospital for many national and local channels of the country. Marwah has been bestowed upon more than 150 International, National, State and other prestigious awards for the contribution to Entertainment Industry.

Through its Media schools Asian Academy Of Film &Television (AAFT), Asian School Of Media Studies (ASMS) and Asian Business School (ABS) Marwah Studios has churned out 9000 media students hailing from 81 countries of the World in last twenty years.

Marwah Studios under its production company produced more than 1800 short films and feature films like ‘Coffee House’, ‘Nazuk Sa Modh’, ‘Arrial’ and now ‘I Am’. Messages of congratulations have been received by Marwah from all over the World . Marwah launched two set of scholarships after the name of his father ‘Suraj Parkash Marwah Scholarship’ and mother Sheela Rani Marwah Scholarship” on the auspicious day for deserving students.(www.marwahstudios.com)