May28 --- Kamal Hassan - A novel approach

The most important thing in cinema is screen writing. It is the basic structure that will decide whether the audiences will like a film or not.the Chennai International Screenwriting Workshop (CISW), the first of its kind in South India, hosted by Raajkamal Films International in association with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, will kick off with a inaugural session.The workshop will culminate with a two-day seminar with some of the best screenwriters and filmmakers from around the world. French writer Jean Claude Carriere, Olivier Lorelle (whose film Indigenes was nominated to the Oscars 2006) and Shekhar Kapur, will share their thoughts with the likes of K. Balachander, Balu Mahendra, Gulzar, Gollapudi Maruthi Rao, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rituparno Ghosh, Shyamaprasad and Sriram Raghavan at the seminar between June 2 and 3."I envy the 250 delegates who will get to be there at the ICSR auditorium at IIT to listen to the masters and attend the screenwriting workshop to be conducted by Anjum Rajabali, Atul Tiwari and K.Hariharan," says a beaming Kamal Haasan.