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19 April 2024

Amitabh, Aamir, SRK to party with Speilberg

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Acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, is on a two-day visit to Mumbai.

During his visit he will interact with as many as 61 personalities from Indian cinema and share tips on filmmaking.

The filmmaker, who has collaborated with Indian business man Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment for his film Oscar nominated movie 'Lincoln', will hold this session with Indian filmmakers on Monday evening.

Steven Spielberg (R) leaves the office of Indian industrialist Anil Ambani in Mumbai on March 11, 2013. Spielberg, who has directed more than 50 films in his five-decade career, is currently in the country and will be meeting with Indian Bollywood film personalities later tonight, a report said. (AFP) 
 
Spielberg would have an interactive session with a room full of directors from the country who have already confirmed their presence.

It can easily be called as master class session wherein Steven Spielberg will be imparting knowledge to Indian directors and would be learning from them as well and the list includes the biggest of names like Rajkumar Hirani, Anurag Kashyap, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Abhishek Kapoor, Habib Faisal, Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Farah Khan to name a few.
 
Indian daily TOI reports that this is Spielberg's third visit to India. His second visit in 1983 was a tourist visit and he spent few months in Kolkata, Jaipur and Udaipur.

The purpose of this visit is organizational discussion and meeting with the members of Indian film industry.

His wife and son have also accompanied him and they will be in New Delhi for a two week meditation and yoga camp.

Amitabh Bachchan in conversation with director Steven Spielberg, March 11, 2013. (Twitter)

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is also looking forward to meet the renouned director.

"I shall attempt to elaborate later ... but for now just wish to leave you with the thought of the meeting with Steven Spielberg tomorrow (Monday) and to welcome him to the country and be in conversation with him amongst a relevant audience that connects itself with the fraternity," the 70-year-old posted on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.
 
Spielberg is known for films like 'Schindler's List', 'Saving Private Ryan', 'ET', 'Jaws' and 'Jurassic Park'. A special party in his honour has been organised on the March 12 where Spielberg shall be meeting the who's Who of Indian film industry.

61 Bollywood filmmakers have been invited to attend Steven Speilberg's masterclass and the names are...

1. Abhay Chopra
2. Abhishek Kapoor
3. Anurag Kashyap
4. AR Murgadoss
5. Ashutosh Gowarikar
 6. Ayaan Mukherjee
7. R Balki
8. Bejoy Nambiar
9. David Dhawan
10. Farah Khan
11. Gauri Shinde
12. Habib Faisal
13. Homi Adajania
14. Indra Kumar
15. Javed Akhtar
16. Kabir Khan
17. Kapil Chopra
 18. Karan Bhutani
19. Karan Johar
20. Karan Shah
21. Kiran Rao
22. Kunal Deshmukh
23. Kunal Kohli
24. Madhur Bhandarkar
25. Mahesh Bhatt
26. Milan Luthria
27. Nagesh Kukunoor
28. Nishikant Kamath
 29. Onir
30. Padmashri Priyadarshan
31. Prabhudeva
32. Prasoon Joshi
33. Rahul Bhatt
34. Rajkumar Gupta
35. Rajshree Ohja
36. Raju Hirani
37. Rakesh Roshan
38. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
39. Ramesh Sippy
 40. Ram Gopal Varma
41. Reema Kagti
42. Renzil D'Silva
43. Rohan Sippy
44. Rohit Dhawan
45. Rohit Shetty
46. Sajid Khan
47. Sanjay Leela Bhansali 48. Shimit Amin
49. Shoojit Sircar
50. Shyam Benegal
 51. Sriram Raghavan
52. Subhash Ghai
53. Sudhir Mishra
54. Sujoy Ghosh
55. Tigmanshu Dhulia
56. Vikas Bahl
57. Vikram Bhatt
58. Vikramaditya Motwane
59. Vipul Shah
60. Vishal Bhardwaj
61. Zoya Akhtar