MUMBAI: Rituparno Ghosh, Rajkumar Hirani, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Jugal Hansraj will conduct master classes at the forthcoming Indian Film Festival Melbourne (IFFM) 2012.

The festival will be held from 11 to 22 June.

Hirani and Abhijat Joshi will talk about successful script writing collaborations (3 Idiots, Lage Raho Munna Bhai) in master class, ‘Thinking through Laughter’, with a special focus on the comedy genre.

While Ghosh will discuss Art house cinema in India as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Bollywood cinema in his master class ‘Realism in Indian cinema’, Mukherjee will conduct ‘Talking through Fabric’, a master class looking at the role of costume and fabric design in creating a powerful narrative in film.

On the other hand, Hansraj will conduct ‘Animation: The hotspot for co–production’, a master class discussing India’s booming animation industry and the possibility of Australian/Indian animation co-productions.