Om Puri inaugurated the Indian Pananorma section at the 43rd international film festival (IFFI)
Panaji:
Veteran Bollywood actor Om Purifeels it is important that Indian cinema is not known byHindi films only and wants the government to help promotenon-feature films.
The 62-year-old, who inaugurated the Indian Pananormasection at the 43rd international film festival (IFFI) heretoday, said it is often because of lack of money thatnon-feature films don't see the light of the day.
"Indian cinema is not only about Bollywood. There arebeautiful and meaningful films made in different languages andregions but they don't find distributors and so are killed. Idon't blame the distributors as they are businessman and wantto earn profits and money but I request our government to lookafter this problem we are facing," Puri said.
"I think if the Govt coordinates with Doordarshan orlaunches a separate channel to screen these films it wouldmake a huge difference to the independent and young talent inour country," he said.
IFFI's Indian Panorama section is divided in two parts --feature and non-feature film. The section will screen 20feature and 19 non feature films during the course of 11 days.Director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's "Celluloid Man"based on Indian archivist P K Nair's life and work opened thenon-feature film section.
"It is a wonderful experience to showcase the movie here.This film is not only my voice but of all the FTII pass outwho felt the need to make this. We have found ourselves fromthe work of PK Nair and it was something we wanted to do,"Dungarpur said.
The non-feature film jury comprises of names like theatreactor Mohammed Ali Baig, FTI alumni Jasmine Kaur andNational-award-winning director M R Ranjan.
The 62-year-old, who inaugurated the Indian Pananormasection at the 43rd international film festival (IFFI) heretoday, said it is often because of lack of money thatnon-feature films don't see the light of the day.
"Indian cinema is not only about Bollywood. There arebeautiful and meaningful films made in different languages andregions but they don't find distributors and so are killed. Idon't blame the distributors as they are businessman and wantto earn profits and money but I request our government to lookafter this problem we are facing," Puri said.
"I think if the Govt coordinates with Doordarshan orlaunches a separate channel to screen these films it wouldmake a huge difference to the independent and young talent inour country," he said.
IFFI's Indian Panorama section is divided in two parts --feature and non-feature film. The section will screen 20feature and 19 non feature films during the course of 11 days.Director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's "Celluloid Man"based on Indian archivist P K Nair's life and work opened thenon-feature film section.
"It is a wonderful experience to showcase the movie here.This film is not only my voice but of all the FTII pass outwho felt the need to make this. We have found ourselves fromthe work of PK Nair and it was something we wanted to do,"Dungarpur said.
The non-feature film jury comprises of names like theatreactor Mohammed Ali Baig, FTI alumni Jasmine Kaur andNational-award-winning director M R Ranjan.
