Dr. Jabbar Patel is a distinguished  personality in Marathi film industry. Over the years, he has always been active in offering training to talented artistes and directors .Now, the good news is that Dr.Patel will be heading a Film Making School at MIT Pune. The MIT School of Filmmaking was launched recently, with Dr.Jabbar patel as its Chairman. This school will be offering  post-graduation programmes in various disciplines of Film Making and TV production, under the auspices  of some of the respected names in the film Industry,  like Mani Ratnam, Mamooty, Goutam Ghose, Jahnu Barua, Samar Nakhate, Vinod Pradhan, Resul Pookutty, Kamlesh Pandey, Shankar Mahadevan and others.

The  first batch of this Film and Television School , will commence from  September this year. MIT –School of Film & Television(SFT)  is  located at the sprawling campus in  Rajbaug , off . Loni, which is  about 25 kms from Pune. The School will offer  courses in Film Making and Television Production, for the disciplines of Direction, Cinematography, Sound Recording & Designing, Editing, Production Design & Art Direction and Screenplay writing.