Special
News Feature: British Singer Sir Cliff Richards’ Visit to Subhash
Ghai's School in Mumbai
The
well-known British singer-composer Sir Cliff Richards last week visited
Mukta Arts’ film, television and media arts institute ‘Whistling
Woods International’ (WWI) at Goregaon Film City in Mumbai. Meghna
Ghai Puri, Director Business Mukta Arts Ltd and Ravi Gupta, Executive
Director WWI, were also present on the occasion.
This Rs.50
crore project obviously enticed the singer. “WWI can match up its
standards with any film & television school spread across the globe
with its state of the art facilities, syllabus, expert faculty and above
all with the course fees, which is very reasonable as compared to the
other film institutes in the world,” he commented.
Expressing
her views on the motto of WWI, Meghna Ghai Puri said, “Today’s
need is to cultivate talent and creativity through knowledge and the
feedback based on industry experience. And this is the basic element
of success. WWI will consistently try to provide the students a good
atmosphere and the real opportunities to grow and learn from inspirational
industry icons”.
Born
as Harry Rodger Webb, Sir Cliff Richards stepped into the music industry
in late 50s and from there on the journey of success began to roll on
– not only in music but also films. He is the only vocalist in
music history who has had number one hits in 1950s, 1960s, 1970, 1980s
and 1990s respectively. Mr. Richards was also knighted by HRH Queen
Elizabeth II in the year 1995 in return of his sheer involvement in
charity works.
So far
three internationally acknowledged personalities have visited the film
institute WWI including Sir Cliff Richards. Lord Puttnam, the Chancellor
of the University of Sunderland, paid a visit first followed by Rob
Ritchie and Marilyn Milgrom of The Script Factory UK who conducted a
workshop on scriptwriting and screenplay last days organized by WWI
in association with the British Council. Interestingly the distinguished
personalities of Hindi cinema also attended this event such as Ashutosh
Gowarikar, Dev Benegal, Paromita Vohra, Rahul DaCunha, Somnath Sen,
Soni Taraporewala, Abbass Tyrewala and others.
Committed
to excellence, Whistling Woods International is one of the biggest film
institutes in South East Asia and will start functioning from July/October
this year.
For further information please visit the institute website at http://www.whistlingwoods.net
Written
By Goher Iqbal Punn (Bollywood Analyst)
