Film and Television Institute of India: A Platform For Your Dreams !

Does your adrenaline runs high when you watch movies? Or do you think you could have created or enacted a scene in a better manner. If yes, then Film and Television Institute (FTI) is the place where you can take a formal training and sharpen your skills. With film-making getting professional with each passing day, it is essential for aspirants to choose a right college for themselves.

All aspects related with film are highly broad and varied and can offer creative opportunities in mass media. Films are highly demanding and require a perfect blend of creativity and technicality. In the forthcoming section we will be focusing primarily on Film and Television Institute of Pune, India's premier institute for cinema studies.

Film and Television Institute of India: An Overview

Film and Television Institute of Pune came into existence in 1960 on erstwhile Prabhat Studio premises at Pune. Thereafter, the institute emerged as a full-fledged centre for Cinema, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and still rules as the centre for film studies. An autonomous body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India, FTII policies are determined by a Governing Council.

Through its quality education and a professional environment, Film and Television Institute has earned a special rapport not only in India but also in Asia and Europe.

FTII Students Win 58th National Film Awards

A number of students from FTI have made not only landmark movies, but also bagged various prestigious awards. At the recently announced 58th National Film Awards in Delhi, Arunima Sharma won award for best direction, for her film 'Shyam Raat Seher'. The award includes Swarna Kamal (golden lotus) and a cash prize of Rs 1.50 lakh. The film also won best cinematography award, which was given to cameraman Murli G. A Rajat Kamal.

'Kal 15 August Dukan Band Rahegi', is another in the award winning list, directed by Pratik Vats. This film bagged best short fiction award, and comprises a Rajat Kamal and cash prize of Rs 50,000, both to the producer and the director. In total the students of FTI won five awards at the prestigious 58th National Film awards.

Famous FTII Alumni

Mahesh Bhatt, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Santosh Sivan, Shaji N. Karun, Mukesh Khanna, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Balu Mahendra, David Dhawan, Mani Kaul, Jaya Krishna Gummadi, Girish Kasaravalli, Subhash Ghai, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kumar Shahani, Asrani, Jaya Bachchan, Sriram Raghavan, Navin Nischol, Om Puri, Gufi Paintal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vijay Arora, Mithun Chakraborty, Amrish Puri, Ramachandra Babu, Santosh Thundiyil, Rajeev Ravi, Resul Pookutty and Rakesh Bedi.

Apar from above, FTII also produced industry heavyweigts like:

• Prakash Jha
• Kundan Shah
• Satish Kaushik
• Rehana Sultan
• Rajkumar Hirani
• Shabana Azmi
• Anjuli Shukla
• Naseeruddin Shah
• Abhinav Gupta
• Renu Saluja

Courses Offered at Film and Television Institute of India:

Filmmaking is a craft but requires a great deal of patience to work as a team, thus demands coordination of numerous skilled individuals. This encompasses production, direction, acting, script writing, cinematography, sound recording, visual mixing, editing and so on. There are various courses offered by FTII which introduces the children about nitty-gritty of cinema.

Courses offered at FTII

• Direction
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Animation and Computer Graphics
• Sound Recording & Sound Design
• Feature Film Screenplay Writing
• Acting
• Art Direction and Production Design

Some of the Faculty Members at FTII

• Dr. Kedarnath Awati
• Shri. Sandeep Chatterjee
• Shri. K.G. Soman
• Shri. Thivakaran T.
• Shri. K. Rajasekaran
• Shri. Ashwin Ramanathan
• Shri. R.N. Pathak
• Shri. Ashwin B. Sonone
• Miss Jafri Sana
• Shri. Bharat Nerkar
• Shri. Biju V.S.
• Shri. Rana Joy Mukharjee
• Shri. Ashutosh R. Kavishwar

Source: Prachi Srivastava (Shiksha Team)

Date: 24^th May, 2011