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Interview of RMIT students about the Bollywood Field Trip Experience on SBS Hindi by Amit Sarwal.

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Interview on SBS Hindi Radio & Website by Amit Sarwal.

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RMIT Media Student Melissa White’s Ghoda Naatch (Horse Dance) moves in Delhi Haat!

“During our last day in Delhi, some of us made a last minute trip to Dilli Hat. During one very particular shopping experience I was dazzled by a wonderfully colourful puppet stall (that also sells those cloth elephants you see at other stalls). The shop owner welcomed me to join him by wearing this red horse puppet suit as he played his drum (this is a traditional dance form called Ghoda Naatch/Horse Dance from the Northern part of India)! 

So, I twirled around and around laughing. As you do!”

Melissa White

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RMIT Media Students’ Documentary Project with one of India’s Leading NGO - PRAYAS - A Humanitarian, Gender-Sensitive and Child-focused Development Organization!

India trip was not only about Bollywood celebs, but also real life heroes... 

The #RMITDelhiDocumentaryFieldTrip2016 saw the students working with NGO Prayas...they are making a short documentary on what #Prayas is all about.Prayas is the brainchild of Mr #AmodKanth (Former DGP & Chairperson - Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR))

"Prayas essentially believes that needs and rights of children are synonymous. These rights of marginalized children can get further accomplished only through empowerment and capacity building of their families and communities. This empowerment process is an inclusive strategy of socio-economic transformation of the marginalized. Hence, Prayas strongly promotes livelihood along with package of integrated programmes for marginalized children, youth and women". http://www.prayaschildren.orgIf anyone is interested in helping/supporting Prayas for its work for the marginalised children then do log on to their website... they need your support! http://www.prayaschildren.org

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The Bollywood Field Trip has been quite exciting as the students got a chance to meet various people from the film industry. The dance workshop with Longinus Fernandes, the famous Dance Director of Bollywood was one of the highlights... check out the Bollywood moves of the students... that Longinus taught them in just an hour.

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Delhi Documentary Field Trip - Day 2: Student Melissa White’s experience of filming renowned Indian Classical Dancer - Sharon Lowen

A few days ago we had the pleasure of meeting well renowned Classical Indian Dancer, Sharon Lowen. Working with a select group of media students from Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, we filmed an interview with her for our project. She spoke about her experience coming to India from Detroit to pursue dance, gave a run down about Odissi, and graced us with her beautiful dance portraying a young girl and her devotion to Krishna.

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Bollywood Field Trip: Interactive session with the first Australian-Indian Bollywood Star - Pallavi Sharda!

RMIT Bollywood Field Trip: ... And then we met our own Australian-Indian Bollywood Actor Pallavi Sharda, who interacted with the students... shared her experience of working in the Mumbai Film Industry and how it is so different from Australian film industry... She shared some interesting anecdotes and insights... and the students simply loved her!

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Bollywood Field Trip Day 6: Master Class with renowned Bollywood/Hollywood Actor Anupam Kher!

Bollywood Field Trip Day 6: Master Class with renowned Bollywood/Hollywood Actor Anupam Kher (Silver Lining Playbook, Bend it Like Beckham, Saaransh) - It was great interactive session, where Mr Kher shared the story of his struggle in Mumbai and how he has been able to carve a space for himself in Bollywood... and how through his acting school - An Actor Prepares, he has been training & grooming actors for the Hindi film Industry. He gave us all a copy of his book... and personally signed it as well.

(Photos by Danni Li)

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Bollywood Field Trip: Nina Judith a Bachelor of Photography student shares her experience of doing a photo project in the Villages near Karjat!

Monday morning the photography wing embarked on a trip to Habitat for Humanity, to document the work of the organisation and gain a little more perspective on India, a small sect of the extensive, varying rural conditions of the land that is blowing our minds. Habitat for Humanity is a growing NGO that works to empower families in villages affected badly the monsoon season which comes to wash away their homes and rice crops, their shelter and only livelihood. By working with the people one on one, Habitat for humanity designs durable homes for families in dire need. The mud and bricks are sourced within the communities then constructed by local stone masons. By enabling the family to design what structure would suit their needs, it is steadfast in providing sustainable solutions with so many visible positive effects. What Habitat from Humanity wanted from us was rather ambiguous in the beginning so we decided to shoot a short doco style account of their work and show how the sanctuaries they provide both assist and relieve people in their day to day activities. When we arrived it was all of us jumping into a role doing whatever we could to assist this amazing organisation and the people we were meeting. Between the mixed media recording we all shot the different village locations, constantly tantalized by the way of living, school children singing, landscape and wild colours. Once again, I think we all underestimated the power of this trip, not knowing what we were in for when we journeyed out of the smog at sunrise. Discussing the journey as a group we were all so moved by the stories, people, their worlds apart way of life and especially the singing in the classroom! So looking forward to putting our work together and creating a piece to shed light on the vision of Habitat for Humanity. Here are a few quick snaps of our day.

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Bollywood Field Trip - Day 4 in Mumbai: Student Danni Lee’s experience of attending a Theatre and Bollywood Audition workshop with Guru ASHOK PURANG!

Today we had an amazing experience working with Ashok Purang a theatre guru and creative producer of the Indian National Award winning film Filmistaan. We picked his brain and learned all about the Bollywood industry and what it takes to make an award winning film. We also got to meet and interview Inaamul Haq one of the lead actors of Filmistaan. Lastly we watched Ashok’s acting students perform some brilliant pieces. Today was a cultural, once in a lifetime treat indeed!

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Bollywood Field Trip: Student Kaitlin Isham’s experience of Day 3 in Mumbai!

Day three in Mumbai! We started the day off with a spiritual temple visit. Then headed to the set of Indias longest running show C.I.D. There they fed us an amazing home cooked lunch! And we hit the town like locals and had some authentic Mumbai street food! Lastly I was dying for a neck massage and was told any hair cut parlour would do it for me as the Thai massage places were so expensive. It was the best neck massage I've ever had and only 2 dollars Australian!

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Bollywood Field Trip- Day 3: Media students at the sets of CID (The longest running TV series of India)

CID (Crime Investigation Department) is one of the most successful and popular crime TV show in India. This series has captivated the Indian audience for more than 19 years...

The RMIT students were invited to watch the shoot of their latest episode and the crew also hosted lunch for the RMIT team.

We interviewed the lead actors and they happily answered all the questions... and then posed for pics with the students!

Another day in Mumbai well spent!

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Bollywood Field Trip Day 2: The evening was well spent with another ace Bollywood Director- Vivek Agnihotri, who invited us to his office… provided insight about how the film industry functions… the students loved the interaction with him!

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Off to India

Led by Dr Vikrant Kishore and Ms Rebecca Najdowski, the new year sees us heading off to Mumbai and Delhi for a new round of projects, this time we’re looking at the Bollywood industry in Mumbai, then some documentary work in Delhi.

Serious Fun