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Exploring the Popular Narrative
If it’s popular, can it be cinema? Are Hindi movies only a meaningless khichdi, or is there more to them? Vinay Shukla takes a closer look at the films many of us love to hate.
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Coutard of Godard Fame
In the winter of 1997, Raoul Coutard, master cinematographer of the French New Wave, visited the FTII. Surender Chawdhary recalls the workshop.
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What the Wisdom Tree means to me - Part 2
Yet another instalment of our all-time favourite vox pop...
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FTII - A Janus-Faced Legacy
The FTII was set up by the Indian State, to promote 'meaningful' cinema. But what is the actual agenda behind this intention? K Hariharan asks some hard questions.
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Frozen
Shanker Raman on the challenges of shooting a feature film in the Ladakh winter, in black and white.
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Future-Proof Filmmaking
A new column by Avijit Mukul Kishore on the technical issues which make our lives more interesting, but also more frustrating in contemporary times.
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Sven Nykvist (1922 - 2006): Tributes
Sunny Joseph and Avijit Mukul Kishore write personal pieces on the Maestro...
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Written by Salim-Javed!
Sriram Raghavan explores what made Salim-Javed the most successful writer team in Hindi Cinema.
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The Inscrutable Art of Underselling
Bela Negi's squint-eyed view of some things they never told us about at FTII!
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"Even when I'm filming, I'm actually editing!"
Subhash Gupta pays fond tribute to his guru Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
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Being There...
Mirana Medina writes from the Philippines, dipping into her store of FTII memories.
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More Connections...
Anand Patwardhan and Ashutosh Gowarikar on the FTII.
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Foreign Connections...
Raoul Coutard and Helma Sanders-Brahms on the FTII.
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Which film affected me the most at FTII...
Those special memories when we discovered the magic of cinema!
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I Belong!
Prerna Saigal discovers that, for TV students, the FTII is not quite the place of their dreams - but that won't get her down...
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Strings
Hemanti Sarkar discusses the challenge of editing a fiction feature film in a documentary style.

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When Jalal split his pants!
Tom Alter makes a nostalgic trip back to the mid-70s, recalling the antics of the FTII cricket team
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Gate.Googled
Sanjiv Shah examines the memories of his FTII days from a new angle...

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In Focus: GraFTII
Chandita Mukherjee on the working of GraFTII, its In Focus series and the people behind the scenes.

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What the Wisdom Tree Means to Me...
- Musings on our one and only Wisdom tree...
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The Return of the Scriptwriter?
Ashwini Malik reviews the first two years of the Certificate Course in Screenplay Writing at the FTII.

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Confessions of a die hard fan!
The riots following Kannada Superstar Rajkumar's death see Ramchandra PN recalling an innocent past when hero worship was so much easier...

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Personal takes on Ghatak
- Subhash Ghai
- David Dhawan

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FTII Bulletin
Master Strokes - A Master Idea!
A 2 DVD set containing 20 of the Best Diploma Films made by FTII students down the years to hit store shelves soon.

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Lilkee - A Preview
Batul Mukhtiar on the making of her children's film.
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FTII Arrives!
Deepa Gahlot traces the making of Do Raha, the first film that advertised the fact that it was made by FTII graduates.
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FTII Bulletin
- Festive Laurels
- An Autobiography of a Borrowed Pateela

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