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	Interrelation Seminar on Films , Fine Arts , Language & Culture on the 7th & 8th November 2008 The various topics are Cinema and Literature Visual Arts and Literature Theatre and Literature Music and Literature Dance and Literature

	Asian Academy of Film & Television in association with Lalit Kala Academy, Sahitya Academy and Kendriya Hindi Sansthan had recently taken the initiative of organizing a two day seminar on interrelationship between literature, art forms, language and film at New Delhi. This pioneering event had been divided into three distinct sessions on dance and literature theatre and literature and film and literature. In the session on film and literature the director of Asian Academy of Film & Television Prof. Sandeep Marwah pointed out that the objectives of cinema and literature are identical. He said that some films turn out to be popular with the masses and some do not and this is equally true of the literary works. He went on the say that filmmakers are storytellers and they are constantly on the lookout for gripping stories no matter where they come from. It is indeed for the story writers, musicians, singers etc to draw upon the repertoire of literature, classical and folk performing and fine arts for doing their work in the making of film, he added. Several film critics and writers including Vishnu Khare, Aruna Vasudev, Asghar Wajahat and Udai Prakash also expressed their views on the synergy between films and literature, on this occasion.