Film appreciation course

 Hyderabad: The first-ever film appreciation course in Hyderabad jointly organised by Film Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and Instructional Media Centre of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) concluded on February 24. The course started on February 20.
Interacting with the participants during valedictory, K K Senthil Kumar, an eminent cinematographer and FTII alumnus, expressed that focus, hard work and best efforts were the key to success. He also shared his experiences of filming super hit movies like Bahubali, Magadheera and Eega etc. 

During this short film course, over eighty participants learned about film aesthetics and film grammar by two eminent course directors and alumni of FTII Munish Bhardwaj and Pankaj Saxena having vast experience in the film making and film academics. On the last day participants shared their experiences and thanked FTII & MANUU for bringing this course at their door steps.
 
Pankaj Saxena congratulated the participants and told them that this was just a beginning and the journey was too long to go. This was a medium of persistence, he remarked. He termed this course as the best ever among all they conducted earlier in other cities.
 
Rizwan Ahmad, Director, IMC, assured participants about starting of some new short-term courses on film, script writing and camera etc in near future.