The 7-day Film Making Workshop, a first of its kind ever held for any School by Bollywood specialists and experts concluded here in at Abhyasa International School located in city outskirts. The Workshop concluded with screening of Five Short Films, made by the five teams out of the workshop participants. Awards were presented to the teams for their outstanding works in Filmfare Awards style. The Grand Finale of the Workshop was graced by Allu Bobby, Director of Geeta Arts; Rajkumar Roy, Professor at Ramanaidu Film School, Actor Arvind Krishna and Director & Short Film Maker Vijay Das.

The short films that were made by students include: "Dil Ka Raastha", "Her or Smoking", "I Don't Know", "H2O" and "Mera Badla Jahaan". These films of 7 to 10 minutes duration were screened for the 500 plus gathering of students, parents and panel of judges in an open air theatre of the school. Subsequently judges announced awards for the meritorious films and presented awards to them. "Mera Badla Jahaan", based on real life story, got maximum recognitions. It got recognition for Best Visual Design, Casting and Cinematography. Best Editing and Best Direction went to "Her or Smoking"; Best Theme to "I Don't Know" and Best Story award was bagged by "Dil Ka Raasta". Sharan of "H2O" Short Film adjudged as the Best Actor and Akanksha of "Her or Smoking", Best Actress.

Prior to the presentation of Awards Abhyasa students showcased a beautiful 'Style Act' by walking on the ramp. The confidence, the personality that they carried on the ramp was the best and comparable to the best of the best professional models, commented one of the parents, who is also into Fashion Designing. "Film Making is the business of honesty. It is wonderful to get film making into school curriculum", said Prof Rajkumar Roy of Ramanaidu Film School addressing the students.

"Film Making is a broad subject. I come from film family. I wish i had such an opportunity to study film making as an extracurricular activity in my school" said Allu Bobby, Director of Geeta Arts, who is a son of Allu Arvind.

There is no formal education offered to get into Films. If you cultivate right bent of mind of film making from early childhood, it will work wonders commented Arvind Krishna, Film Star. Story is very important. We need to tell stories in a job interviews, to investors in companies and everywhere. You must understand the importance of it, Allu Bobby told the audience.

Earlier welcoming gathering Mr. Vinayaaka Kalleetla, CEO & Founder Director of Abhyasa Residential Public School and a Film Maker said that it was first of its kind of a workshop ever held in any school in the country. That too bollywood specialists and subject experts coming and addressing is something which the school has taken a very conscious decision. He underlined the importance of Fine Arts. It must be made as one of the most important co curricular activity in the school. Education in Fine Arts is an integral part of the development of each human being. When a child learns Fine Arts, it refines his behavior, changes his or her attitude. It teaches the most important and a rare commodity - Creativity. When will our Indian Cinema change? When will it go global? he questioned. Fine Arts should be inculcated from school level, he said.

Abhyasa, the modern school with Gurukul ethos is known of its innovative curriculum. Moving away from routine activities, Abhyasa School kicked off a 7 Day Film Making Workshop on 13th December.The expert faculty of the Film Making Workshop included Art Director and Bajirao Mastani fame Sriram Ieyengar on Art Direction; Ace Bollywood Director of Choreography, Bhaavesh Gandhi; Script Writer, the fame of 'Kal Hona Ho', 'Jism', 'My Name is Khan' Niranjan Iyengar; Music Director, rapper/Singer whose notable songs include "Chikku Bukku Rayile" from Gentleman and "Style" from the film Sivaji: The Boss - Suresh Peters; Fashion Designer, a visiting faculty at some of the finest fashion schools in the country, namely N.I.F.T, Wigan & Leigh, L.S Raheja, S.N.D.T - Ken Ferns; Cinematographer, fame of Lunch Box - Mukesh G.

Total 50 students of 8th to 11th standard participated in the workshop. Out of which five teams

comprising of 5 members each were selected to produce short films in a duration of 10 days. Given the time frame and limitations, they have produced some outstanding work which is evident from the feedback and learning they shared on the dais.

All most all the short films made had a very good social message. The budding Film Makers also learnt important lessons from Jury such as "Passing exam is not very great. But getting prepared for life and doing well in it matters the most". They also leant that when they produce a film they must keep in mind the attention span of audience and accordingly they must trim the shots and content.

The evening ended with Mr. Vinaayaka Kalleetla, CEO & Founder Director of Abhyasa felicitating the Panel of Judges with mementoes and gifts.