In his maiden trip to India, renowned Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg will interact with over sixty personalities of the Indian Film industry.
Spielberg, who arrived in India on 10 March, will be seen conversing with megastar Amitabh Bachchan at the event.
According to reports, Spielberg will share tips on film making with the sixty Indian directors who have confirmed their presence for the big event which is scheduled for Monday evening.
"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," a source told Mid-Day.
The event will be held at Taj Lands End. Spielberg is in India for a four-day visit to celebrate the Oscar success of his film "Lincoln," a DreamWorks and Fox co-production in which Anil Ambani's Reliance ADA Group has a 50 percent stake.
Amitabh who is shooting for Parkash Jha's upcoming movie "Satyagraha" in Bhopal will be flown to Mumbai in a special charted plane to attend the event.
"Bachchan is in the middle of shooting some important sequences for Satyagraha and does not want to disrupt the shooting schedule. He will be flying to Mumbai and will be returning to Bhopal the very next day to resume shooting," a source told Dailymail.
"Since Bachchan is close to the Ambanis, he has agreed to be part of the bash and thus the special flight arrangement has been made."
The directors attending the event 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
(Courtesy: Mid-Day)
