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Hunt's on for film composers on Facebook

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Film director Onir, known to bring taboo subjects like homosexuality into the mainstream, says his next film "Shab" will tell the love story of a gigolo and a prostitute. Also, he is planning to take the use of social networking sites in filmmaking to the next level.

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"I will be directing 'Shab', which means night. It is set in Delhi. Right now finalising the draft of the script," Onir, 42, told IANS on the sidelines of the 13th Mumbai Film Festival.

The director had raised funds for his film "I AM" through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

"I will start again the process of sourcing people, talking to financiers, and definitely a part of it will be crowd-funded because whoever has been part of 'I AM' wanted to come back as part of our future project," he said.

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"We started crowd-sourcing for 'Chauranga' by launching a contest for publicity design on social networking sites and got 60 designs from Spain, Bangladesh, the UK and small towns in India and found it exciting."

"Filmmaking is mostly centred on Mumbai, but to involve people from various parts of the country and other places through the social media to make it accessible is interesting."

Soon, Onir will launch a hunt for composers for the film on social networking sites.

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"We are shooting in Jharkhand for sure because the film belongs to that place. Seventy percent of the cast will be new people...next week we will start the process on the social network - we will put the character profile and if people feel they fit the character they can send their photos. We will then do auditioning and we will also be doing auditioning in Jamshedpur and Ranchi as I need that flavour."

"I will start 'Shab' hopefully around March. A lot of the cast in the film will be new," he said.



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