Nfdc Labs announced the six participants of the Nfdc – Harlequin Romance Screenwriters’ Lab.
The first of its kind,three-part Lab with romance and women-centric plots as the themes, will be mentored by screenwriters Habib Faisal and Bhavani Iyer and popular authors Ashok Banker and Shoma Narayanan for the parallel Harlequin Lab. Post the Lab, Harlequin will offer book deals to the most promising writers.
The experts will mentor three scripts each for their respective Labs – Nfdc and Harlequin. The Lab will include 2 residential programs: First part at a hotel in Pune from 27 – 31 July, 2014; Second part – offline program conducted as per schedule mutually decided between the mentors and the writers; Third and the final part from 16 – 20 November, 2014 at Film Bazaar in Goa.
The selected scripts are:
1. Anjuna Beats - Thomas Jacob
2. Love in the Time of Moral Policing - Niharika Negi
3. Magic for Maria - Annie Zaidi
4. Vanmala - Abhimanyu Kulkarni...
The first of its kind,three-part Lab with romance and women-centric plots as the themes, will be mentored by screenwriters Habib Faisal and Bhavani Iyer and popular authors Ashok Banker and Shoma Narayanan for the parallel Harlequin Lab. Post the Lab, Harlequin will offer book deals to the most promising writers.
The experts will mentor three scripts each for their respective Labs – Nfdc and Harlequin. The Lab will include 2 residential programs: First part at a hotel in Pune from 27 – 31 July, 2014; Second part – offline program conducted as per schedule mutually decided between the mentors and the writers; Third and the final part from 16 – 20 November, 2014 at Film Bazaar in Goa.
The selected scripts are:
1. Anjuna Beats - Thomas Jacob
2. Love in the Time of Moral Policing - Niharika Negi
3. Magic for Maria - Annie Zaidi
4. Vanmala - Abhimanyu Kulkarni...
- 7/18/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Disney, proving that they’re an ever-moving machine that doesn’t stop to take a break, has announced their new project. Out of Disney India is coming the two-part live-action version of the beloved story of the mythological epic The Mahabharata. The story of warring clans has gone through innumerable adaptations since its inception in 400Bc, but none have quite made it to such a grand scale as the one proposed by Disney. Directed by Abhishek Kapoor (Rock On, Kai Po Che) and written by Ashok Banker (best known for an eight-part novelization of another massive Indian epic The Ramayana), the film has thousands of shoes to fill. There have been films, stage plays and television shows all trying to capture the magic of the classic tale. A television adaptation that ran from 1988-1990 in India was the highest-rated program of the time period. In 1985, the famed British theatre and film director Peter Brook put together a...
- 3/24/2014
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Disney India plans to produce a big screen version of Indian mythological epic The Mahabharata, to be directed by Abhishek Kapoor from a script by renowned author Ashok Banker.
The epic story will be told across a two-part feature, marking the first time this has been attempted in Indian cinema. The first film will start pre-production following the completion of Kapoor’s Fitoor, which starts shooting for Disney India in July.
“Indian mythology has a great wealth of stories which have inspired legions of creative minds and The Mahabharata unarguably is the most ambitious and all-encompassing of them all. We believe this epic which has engaged generations of Indians will translate into a magnificent silver screen saga,” said Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director, Disney India.
The epic story will be told across a two-part feature, marking the first time this has been attempted in Indian cinema. The first film will start pre-production following the completion of Kapoor’s Fitoor, which starts shooting for Disney India in July.
“Indian mythology has a great wealth of stories which have inspired legions of creative minds and The Mahabharata unarguably is the most ambitious and all-encompassing of them all. We believe this epic which has engaged generations of Indians will translate into a magnificent silver screen saga,” said Siddharth Roy Kapur, managing director, Disney India.
- 3/24/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Disney India's studio business today announced plans to bring The Mahabharata, Indian Mythology's greatest epic, to the big screen. The Studio is gearing up to recreate the magic of this remarkable story in live action at a scale never seen before in Indian cinema which will be directed by Abhishek Kapoor and written by renowned author Ashok Banker. "Indian mythology has a great wealth of stories which have inspired legions of creative minds and The Mahabharata unarguably is the most ambitious and all-encompassing of them all. We believe this epic which has engaged generations of Indians will translate into a magnificent silver screen saga," said Siddharth Roy Kapur, Managing Director - Disney India. "The Mahabharata expresses the universal truth; it has defined my understanding of spirituality and of all humanity. I aim to translate this onto the big screen, engage minds and deliver a world class cinematic experience," said director of the film Abhishek Kapoor.
- 3/24/2014
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Disney India's studio business announced the plans to bring The Mahabharata, Indian Mythology's greatest epic, to the big screen. The Studio is gearing up to recreate the magic of this remarkable story in live action at a scale never-seen-before in Indian cinema which will be directed by Abhishek Kapoor and written by renowned author Ashok Banker.Indian mythology has a great wealth of stories which have inspired legions of creative minds and The Mahabharata unarguably...
- 3/24/2014
- GlamSham
Disney India will produce a two-part live-action feature based on the Indian epic the Mahabharata. The film will be made by director Abhishek Kapoor and written by author-historian Ashok Banker. The Mahabharata revolves around two related and warring families, the Pandavas and the Kauravas who fought the Kurukshetra war. The epic includes the sacred text of the Bhagavad Gita, delivered by Lord Krishna to the Pandava warrior prince Arjuna, at the battlefield just before the start of war. Photos: 25 of the Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2014 Kapoor's previous film - sports drama Kai Po Che - was
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- 3/24/2014
- by Nyay Bhushan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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