MUMBAI: British Council in collaboration with Saregama India is organising 'The India Screenwriting Workshop' in Goa from 17 - 23 March. The workshop aims at developing and improving the quality of script writing in India.

British Council claims that the workshop will hone the skills of the budding scriptwriters, as industry experts will be mentoring them.

The applications for the workshop are available at Saregama and British Council's website. The last date to fill the form is 11 February.

The principal mentors for this workshop will be Monsoon Wedding writer Sabrina Dhawan and Tisch School of Arts' associate professor in screenwriting Paromita Vohra who has written the script of Khamosh Pani.

The proposed guests' mentors include Shekhar Kapoor, Vishal Bharadwaj, Abbas Tyrewala, John Newbigin, Ian Iqbal Rashid and Saregama India creative director B R Sharan.

Sharan says, "There is immense talent in our country. The objective of the workshop is to give insights on the skills of scripting, screenplay."