By TCN News,
Mumbai: The Students Islamic Organisation of India has asked its members not to take filmmaking as a forbidden profession anymore. For long, Muslims as a community have been in doubt about utilizing this medium. Now it’s time for SIO activists to enter this field and show a vibrant cultural activism, SIO leaders said at a workshop on Short Film & Documentary Making organized by the youth group in Mumbai.
“From a long period Muslim Community was in doubt about utilizing this medium of Film-Making. Now it’s time for SIO activists to enter in this field and show a vibrant cultural activism,” said former National President of SIO Bishruddin Sharqi while addressing the two-day national workshop on May 1-2 in Bollywood capital.
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L-R: Shahnawaz Ali Raihan (SIO secretary), a Sri Lankan delegate, Abdur Rafique (SIO General Secretary), Mahesh Bhatt, Bishruddin Sharqi (Ex-SIO president), Prof Diwakar of Jamia Millia
SIO General Secretary Abdur Rafique encouraged the delegates to learn skills of film-making and contribute in the betterment of humanity through this medium. Delegates participated in this workshop from different parts of India.
Earlier in his welcome address SIO National Secretary Shahnawaz Ali Raihan also asked the participants to use the tools of film-making to spread truth and raise social issues for public awareness.
“Fame is Amitabh Bachhan,Success is Mahatma Gandhi” –Mahesh Bhatt in SIO Workshop on Film Making
In his speech eminent filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt said courage must be the asset of film maker and through nourishing the childhood talent of expressing thought, innocent form of pictorial reporting, courage to speak out should be the foundation of our journey to silver screen.
He alleged not only Bollywood but Media also is ignoring its role to cover issues which are associated with the interest of common man.
Noted documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan participated with the delegates in an interaction session after the screening of his documentary on nuclear proliferation ‘War and Peace’. He shared his experience of facing obstacles during making film on socio-political issues and elaborated the role of state to discourage screening of such films in national TV channels which focus on topics which are not in favor of govt.
Prof B Diwaker taught the delegates about the film genres, editing while script-writer Mushahid Pasha spoke on the art of scriptwriting. Cinematographer Rafey Mahmood presented his lecture on the topic “The language of Camera.” Famous Bollywood director Kundan Shah focused on the changing character of Bollywood where popular taste replaced creativity.