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Oscar awarded movie maker Started shooting a film about Armenian Genocide.

Yerevan May 20

Sona Aznauryan.

Famous Indian Movie Maker Shekhar Kapur started to shoot a film about
Armenian Genocide based on the novel called " Three Apples Fell Down
From the Sky"

The film deals with the systematic extermination of minority Armenians
in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) by the Ottoman Empire during and after
the Wolrd War I (1915-1923).

Kapur had recently tweeted that he was going to Yerevan, Armenia's
capital, to collect material on the event. The idea, he said, came to
him from a script sent by the man who wrote "Motorcyle Diaries". "It
is a part of world history though a very shameful one," Kapur told
IANS .

"The idea came to me based on a script sent to me by the screenwriter
of 'Motorcycle Diaries' (Puerto Rican Jose Rivera). I fell in love
with the script. It is a challenging project though. It will require
lots of money, lots of passion and organisation. But there are a lot
of passionate people behind this project. So it will hopefully see the
light of day," he said.

However, filming of the movie will not start before another year, says
Kapur, who is yet to begin work on his long-pending movie on water
wars, "Paani".

The Armenian genocide is a particularly touchy topic in the political
state that succeeded the Ottoman Sultanate in 1923, Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk's Republic of Turkey.