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I don’t think nepotism has survived: Subhash Ghai
HT Mumbai | By Nishad Neelambaran
UPDATED ON DEC 08, 2020 04:18 PM IST
The veteran filmmaker believes that merit is the only way forward in the industry; adds that censor board should not curb the freedom or an artiste

Never had a moment when I said, now what shall I do: Sai Paranjpye
By Navneet Vyasan
UPDATED ON DEC 05, 2020 07:38 PM IST
The legendary director and screenwriter remains an enigma among filmmakers and theatre practitioners. In A Patchwork Quilt, her memoir, she deciphers her eventful life bit by bit

Doors don’t open easily but you have to be at it: Rajkummar Rao
HT Mumbai | By Prashant Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2020 10:25 PM IST
The Shahid actor, who completes a decade of working in the Hindi film industry this year, says he feels “blessed” and has no complaints about anything, including his struggling days as an outsider

Controlling costs: Here’s a lesson JNU can learn from FTII | Opinion
Hindustan Times, Pune | By Yogesh Joshi
UPDATED ON NOV 29, 2019 07:48 PM IST
The government could, perhaps, take a look at the FTII model in a bid to solve the current students unrest and imbroglio at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.

Mumbai’s aspiring actors say the ‘struggle’ is not real any more
Mumbai | By Yoshita Rao Sanskrita Bharadwaj
UPDATED ON JUN 29, 2019 06:21 PM IST
In the new age of cinema, with supernumerary acting avenues opening up, we find the struggling actor is wrangling no more

Remembering Girish Karnad: A voice of reason in an unreasonable time
Hindustan Times | By Nandita Puri
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2019 01:33 PM IST
A friend reveals the veteran actor’s deepest passions and challenges

At FTII, new regime meets old discontent
By Dhamini Ratnam
UPDATED ON APR 21, 2019 10:22 AM IST
June 12, 2015, began like any other day at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, a leafy campus that was once the site of one of the country’s first studios, and where, even today, a wide arterial road leads off to a lake built for a film set in the 1940s.

BP Singh, best known as producer of the CID crime series, named FTII chief
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Smriti Kak Ramachandran
UPDATED ON DEC 13, 2018 09:34 PM IST
BP Singh, who is an alumnus of the film institute, is currently its vice-chairperson. His appointment comes more than a month after actor Anupam Kher resigned from the position.

I went to my very first school in Pune: Nimrat Kaur
Hindustan Times, Pune | By Anjali Shetty
UPDATED ON DEC 13, 2018 07:45 PM IST
The actor, who was in Pune to support her teacher, Devyani Mungali, at Sanskriti School, shared that the very first school she went to was in the city

Anupam Kher resigns as FTII chairman due to international assignments
Pune | By HT Correspondent, Pune
UPDATED ON OCT 31, 2018 10:43 PM IST
Anupam Kher has quit his position as the chairman of Film and Television Institute of India, citing a busy schedule.

FTII cancels screening of student film on Dalit folk artistes’ group Kabir Kala Manch
Hindustan Times | By Shalaka Shinde
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2018 11:57 AM IST
The filmmaker Harishankar Nachimuthu has claimed that the screening of his documentary film Hora was cancelled due to pressure from right-wing organisations.