"Direct a movie" winner in BigAdda.com


Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, who had recently created a community called ‘Direct a Movie’ on BigAdda.com to encourage the aspiring movie directors and script writers to share their videos and scripts on the social networking site, has selected Siddharth Sengupta as the next-gen director who will get an opportunity to work with Bhandarkar. According to BigAdda, the ‘Direct a Movie’ adda attracted 290 videos and scripts which were uploaded on the site from across the country.

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