At FTII, cinema has many languages. Nurture them |
In an institute devoted to teaching young people the craft of visual storytelling, here are some numbers that tell their own story. In 2023, of a batch of 10 student diploma films, only one was made entirely in Hindi. Three were in Marathi; one each in Malayalam, Gujarati, Haryanvi and Santali; one brought together English, Marathi and Hindi; another braided English and Hindi with Mizo and Nagamese. Taken together, these films form a chorus of many tongues finding their way to the........