Articles / Nostalgia

Excerpts from the memoirs of Suresh Naik (MPP, 1965), whose career with special effects in the Indian film industry spans more than 1000 films over four and a half decades.  Translated from Marathi by Subhash Gupta (Film Editing, 1965)

These 'musings' have been taken from the 'wisTreefest Bulletins' that were published daily during the Wisdom Tree Film Festival, Pune 2003...

Great Yaar! I don't know yaar! It gave a lot of wisdom to us. We sat down, used to gossip there, make fun of pe...

Mirana Medina (Film Editing, 1984), writing long-distance from the Phillippines, gets very nostalgic about her days at the FTII

To think of my days at the Film and Television Institute of India is to shuffle a series of images in my memory. It is putting...

They were never students at the FTII, but still share a special bond with the Institute...

I was a squatter at FTII, never a student. But my memories of it and of the Wisdom Tree in particular are probably as fond as that of any student.

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Tom Alter (Acting, 1974) recollects cricket practice with Jalal Agha, and other sporting encounters on the FTII pitch

Jalal Agha, in his prime, was a majestic specimen - especially if you were his junior in the Film Acting Course. When Jalal asked you to...

Two Bollywood film directors, Subhash Ghai (Acting, 1970) and David Dhawan (Film Editing, 1976), pay a rare homage to an unlikely guru

If you ask me to write a book on FTII or on the Mumbai film industry or on the mainstream cinema of India, I can scribb...