ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Saturday 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.