Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University added another feather in its cap today when three films produced by its Instructional Media Centre (IMC) were selected for National Science Film Festival 2019.
According to Rizwan Ahmad, Director IMC, Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science & Technology, the Government of India is organizing 9th Science Film Festival 27 – 31 January 2019 at Mohali, Chandigarh. The organizers have short listed 15 films under the Interface category and three of them are from MANUU, which is a rare honour indeed. The films shortlisted from MANUU include “Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam” (Director, Obaidullah Raihan), “Prof. U. R. Rao (Director: Mohammed Mujahid Ali) and Stephen Hawking (Director: Omar Azmi).
Dr. Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz, Vice-Chancellor, MANUU has congratulated the Media Centre team and expressed the hope that the centre will play a vital role in promotion of Urdu as a language of knowledge. Selection of three films in Urdu language produced by the media centre for national science film festival is a testimony of the right direction and pace of our journey, he remarked.
All these three films will be showcased in the upcoming National Science Festival-2019 being organised in Chandigarh from 27-31 January-2019.
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