Ashwin Gangaraju never gave movies a second thought. Until he got into the B.Tech course in an engineering college in Nellore district. But being a free bird in college, he got to see movies by the dozen and it wasn’t long before the bug bit him.
Aflame with the passion of making a film, he joined the RamaNaidu Film School (RFS) and in just a year, he was noticed by director S.S. Rajamouli. Alongwith two other RFS students - Tammineni Pratheek and Vijay Yelakanti, he was invited on board the ‘Eega’ team.
While Ashwin and Vijay were first taken aboard as story writers and went on to become Assistant Directors, Prateek was made became Production Manager. It was their first step to attract the spotlight of fame in the highly-competitive, almost magical world of films and a step they would cherish for the rest of their lives.
At an RFS press conference, the trio swore by the film school that had changed their course and chorused that the dividing line between passion and profession had become very thin. Pratheek has a Masters in Science from Sweden, while Vijay did his Masters in Construction Management from the US.
RFS Dean Venkatesh Chakravarthy presented a report on the RFS programmes since its inception in October, 2008 and said ‘the path to become a great filmmaker begins here, but does not end with us,’ echoing the objective of the school. Along the way, RFS started collaborating with the Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture & Fine Arts University, offering Masters courses in Film Technology, in direction, screen-writing and cinematography for film and television.
In its latest move, RFS has tied up with the International Academy of Computer Graphics (IACG). Our motto is help budding filmmakers , said P. Ramakrishna, IACG’s CEO.
