Mahendra Waghela
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professional Teacher / Writer |
| Introduction | Mahendra Waghela is an award-winning artist/writer/filmmaker based in India. He has received several prizes for his Poster Design (World Wild Life Fund medal), Sketching (M.S.Univerisity First Medal), Advertising and Media Innovations (MICA, Ahmedabad) and Fiction Writing. Stories in www.apollos-lyre.com, www.suite101.com (55 word crime story prize), www.caferati.com, www.wordweavers.in (First prize 2010). His stories have appeared in Woman's Era, Stories at the Coffee Table, Open Road Review, Orange Frame Literary Review, Vagabonds, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Twenty Two New Asian Short Stories and Chicken Soup Books. | Finalist in Mumbai Mantra Cinerise 100 Screenwriters 2014 & 2015. | Quarter Finalist in Best Cinematic Story 2017 Screencraft.org |
| Interests | Walking. Sketching. Painting. Writing, Filming. Editing. Reading. |
| Favorite movies | Keeps changing every once in a while but...Jimmy Hoffa, Gladiator, Mera Naam Joker, Pyaasa, Parchhayi, On the Waterfront, Bhuvan Shom (Is it spelt correctly--a Bengali would know for sure!) |
| Favorite music | Billy Joel's River of Dreams (I don't know anyone who doesn't like this. May be I am not much of an extrovert after all!), Complete works of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and Gundecha Brothers's Dhrupad (Indian Classical is an acquired taste, not for the McDonald and Pepsi generation), Bee Gee's Staying Alive (still unshakable after all this years!) |
| Favorite books | Into The Wild by John Krakauer(favourite bedside reading for too many years before the movie), Cathedral by Raymond Carver (found it at Manny's on M.G. Road after seven year nation wide hunt), How to write, read and think more effectively by Rudolf Flesch (click on the readability option on your MS Word program(he is the same exacting German coach of English language!) |