Articles

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...

Hemanti Sarkar (Film Editing, 1994) writes about the editing of an off-beat feature film

When Sanjay Jha told me he had shot an English film during the 2003 Kumbh Mela at Nasik and wanted me to edit it, my first reaction was, "Oh no! Another bit of spiri...

Ashwini Malik (Film Direction, 1994) discusses his experience as a teacher for two years at FTII's new course in screenplay writing

It all began during the Wisdom Tree festival in November 2003. During a seminar on multiplexes, screenwriter Anjum Rajabal...

GraFTII reviews a DVD with a difference...

Suman (1970), Vilaap (1971), A Day With The Builders (1973), Teevra Madhyam (1974), Awashesh (1975), Murder at Monkey Hill (1976), Bonga (1976),

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...

Ramchandra P. N. (Film Direction, 1991) recalls what it was like growing up in the thrall of the legendary Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar

Like many others in this country, I too was appalled by the violence that shook the city of Bengaluru on the aftermath o...

From the GraFTII archives, student reports on campus happenings...

FESTIVE LAURELS

by Khusbhoo Agarwal, Film Editing, 2006

It's been a good year for the FTII. All kinds of fi...

Batul Mukhtiar (Film Direction, 1995) writes about the making of her first feature film, Lilkee

Watching the children around me, I saw my daughter Aiman and her friends growing up in a tower complex, going to school with kids from similar backgr...

Mumbai-based critic, columnist, editor and author Deepa Gahlot writes about the early experiences of FTII graduates in the Bombay industry

As some graduates from the early batches of FTII came to Mumbai to work in films, they were not exactly welcomed wi...