NFDC to launch heritage super-hit blockbuster movies

KURUSETRA: The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) plans to launch a National Film Heritage Mission with a view to conserving superhit blockbuster movies of the past 100 years of Indian cinema. Besides, a digital heritage lab is also proposed to be set up to make them accessible to masses. This was stated by NFDC Managing Director Neena Laat Gupta while speaking at the Media International Film Festival organised by the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Technology at Kurukshetra University in Kurukshetra today. There is also a plan to set up fi lm clubs in universities and colleges. She laid stress on promotion of movies in regional languages like Malyalam, Kannad, Tamil and others. Lauding the idea of holding fi lm festivals in small towns like Kurukshetra, she said that it was only through such festivals that the youth got to know about the glorifying history of Indian cinema. Speaking on the occasion, Udyan Prasad, a noted fi lm director from England, said that the 100-year-old history of Indian cinema showed that very few movies were based on rural areas. Films offered a global means of cultural exchange between different countries. The future of Indian cinema was dependent on the youth of the country, he added.