KATHMANDU: Bollywood screenwriter Bhavani Iyer is currently in Nepal with the aim of teaching scriptwriting style to Nepali film writers. A 4-day screenplay writing workshop organized by Shiksha Foundation has started in the capital from Monday. The Shiksha Foundation is a social organization of famous American fashion designer of Nepali origin, Prabal Gurung. In collaboration with ‘Kathasatha’, the foundation has organized a workshop called ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’. The organizers hope that the workshop will help Nepali screenwriters hone their craft, get critical feedback on their scripts, and connect with the business side of the industry.

Sixteen people from various backgrounds have participated in the workshop. “It will also consider how to best underwrite the South Asian filmic experience of interaction and song and dance,” the Shiksha Foundation said. On the final day of the workshop, participants will also have the opportunity to pitch their stories to a Nepali filmmaker. On the concluding day of the workshop, filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers will have the opportunity to interact with Iyer. Writer Iyer is known for critically acclaimed Indian films like ‘Black’, Gujaris, Lootera, Raazi, Sam Bahadur. She made her screenwriting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Black’. She has also written the Indian web-series ‘Kaafir’, ‘Breath: Into the Shadows’, ‘The Umpire’. Her upcoming film is ‘Kamal Aur Meena’, which is produced by Saregama. Salman Khan and Atul Agnihotri’s film ‘Lori’ is also her film, directed by Meghna Gulzar.