National award winning film maker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Thursday said that the films are a part of our cultural heritage and expressed the need of its upkeep by the society.
Dungarpur, who is also a Film Archivist and the founder of Film Heritage Foundation, was delivering a lecture “India’s Film Heritage: Rich, Diverse, Endangered” at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), here.
An ardent lover of Urdu language, Mr Dungarpur had assisted legendary film maker Gulzar during the making of films “Lekin” and “Libas” & Teleserial “Ghalib”. He expressed dismay over the fact that films in India is still fighting, for acceptance as a form of art. In fact, films are an extension of art form, he remarked.
Do films need to be preserved? He asked the audience consisting of MANUU & other University Students. Driving his argument with the help of power point effectively, he referred to Tagore and described the moving image as one of the greatest invention of 20th Century.
However, in India we are yet to realize it and give cinema it’s due importance. That’s the reason films are completely absent from our Universities & Museums, he opined. (UNI)
