Times of India: Mumbai: Friday, September 15, 2017.
Acclaimed
actress Shabana Azmi on Thursday drew Information and Broadcasting Minister
Smriti Irani's attention to reports that over 9,000 film prints are missing
from the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Pune.
"Smriti
Irani, kindly look into reports of 9200 prints missing at National Film
Archive, Pune. These are lost treasures and need immediate attention,"
Shabana tweeted.
According to
a report, the accessed data from NFAI under the Right to Information (RTI) Act,
and found out that 51,500 cans of film reels, and over 9,200 prints "were
not physically present" at the archives. Also, 4,922 cans containing 1,112
film titles, which are not listed in the NFAI's registers, were present in its
vaults.
A
"missing" list includes hundreds of culturally and historically
important titles, including celluloid prints of films by Satyajit Ray ('Pather
Panchali', its sequel 'Aparajito' and 'Charulata'), Mehboob Khan ('Mother
India'), Raj Kapoor ('Mera Naam Joker', 'Awaara'), Mrinal Sen ('Bhuvan Shome'),
and Guru Dutt ('Kaagaz ke Phool'), among others.
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