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The 'Film and Television Institute of India' ('FTII') is a film school in Pune, India.
The Film Institute of India was established in the year 1960 on the erstwhile Prabhat Studio premises at Pune, with the objective of imparting training in film. cinema and television production. The FTII is considered as a center of excellence . Films made by the students of the Institute are entered in both national and international film festivals. . The first TV documentary produced by the Institute, "Pandit Vinayakrao Patwardhan," is unique because the legendary musician, having acted in a movie ["Madhuri" (1932)], had vowed never again to appear in a motion picture medium, and before and after this documentary, a rare exception, he never did.

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Brief history

Administration

Courses

Facilities

Famous alumni

External links

Brief history

The Institute has indeed come a long way from its humble beginnings. The Government of India purchased the Prabhat Studio in Pune, where the well-known Prabhat Film Company had produced such notable films as Kunku, Manoos, Shejari, and Sant Tukaram, when the property was offered for sale, and established the Film Institute of India in the year 1960. The Institute was later renamed the Film and Television Institute of India. The first convocation of the institute was presided over by Indira Gandhi.
The historic studios of the Prabhat era still continue to be used by the Institute for producing films. These studios have been declared heritage sites by the Pune Municipal Corporation.

Administration

The FTII is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. Its policies are determined by a governing council, which also appoints the director of the Institute. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Kannada litterateur, is the chairman of the Institute a second time.^[1]

Courses

The Institute offers postgraduate courses in Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Audiography, Acting, and Art Direction. It also offers other certificate courses in film and television.

Facilities

The institute also does host regular screenings as it has access to the archives of NFAI.

Famous alumni

★ Adoor Gopalakrishnan

★ Balu Mahendra

★ Danny Denzongpa

★ Jaya Bhaduri

★ John Abraham

★ K.K. Mahajan

★ Kundan Shah

★ Mani Kaul

★ Mithun Chakraborty

★ Nana Patekar

★ Naseeruddin Shah

★ Navin Nischol

★ Nirad N. Mohapatra

★ Om Puri

★ Rajeev Ranjan Sinha

★ Raman Basnet

★ Rehana Sultan

★ Sanjay Leela Bhansali

★ Santosh Sivan

★ Senthil Kumar

★ Shabana Azmi

★ Shaji N. Karun

★ Shatrughan Sinha

★ Subhash Ghai

★ Sunny Joseph

★ Suraj Jaiswal

★ Venu

★ Vidhu Vinod Chopra

★ Vijay Arora

External links

★ Film and Television Institute of India Website

★ Virtual Pune