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Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005

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Nasser's interaction with students

Staff Reporter

"The film is basically an extension of reality and the toughest aspect in any film is to recreate reality"

CHENNAI: Versatile actor-director Nasser recently interacted with students of the SAE College, T. Nagar, on acting. He provided a two-day interactive workshop for the digital film making students.

Nasser, a graduate from the Film Institute and who has been associated with theatre and films for the past 25 years and has been regularly conducting student workshops, is also Director of the ADAVU - a school of alternative art and culture.

He has acted in more than 200 films in different languages and also directed four films. Aniz, a postgraduate in drama and theatre arts, and Shanmuga Raja, an active member of the ADAVU, assisted him in the workshop.

Nasser felt that a good film must fall within the aesthetics of the medium and the height of expression in any art was greatest when it was simple. "Film is basically an extension of reality and the toughest aspect in any film is to recreate reality."

Proper planning and strategising is required to make a complete film. The magic of film making lay in transferring the textual format into a visual format and films are an expression of the culture which it belongs to.

On acting, Nasser said body, mind and voice were the three tools that an actor should possess. But then the actor was the final tool through which the film was portrayed.

Some of Nasser's films like Jeans, and Mayan were screened to the students and he answered all their questions.

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