“Doordarshan” should support non feature and regional films: Om Puri

Source: dearcinema.com By NewsDesk | 

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

 

 

"Indian cinema is not only about Bollywood as there are meaningful films made in different languages and regions but they don't find distributors and so are killed", said actor Om Puri after inaugurating the Indian Panorama Section of the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. Puri said that the government should coordinate with the national broadcaster Doordarshan to screen these films.

Secretary of Ministry of information and broadcasting Uday Kumar Varma assured to work out a mechanism to showcase these films on Doordarshan.

 

The section has 20 feature and 19 non feature films. Director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's "Celluloid Man" based on Indian archivist P K Nair's life and work opened the non-feature film section, while Assamese film Baandhon, Directed by Jahnu Barua is the opening film in the feature film category.

 

Puri called for government help and support to promote non-feature films. He said, Indian cinema is not only about Bollywood.

 

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