Indian government’s big plans for cinema

The Indian government would make all possible efforts to make the country a major international filming destination, said Minister for Information & Broadcasting Manish Tewari at the Centenary Film Festival in Delhi.

The ministry has taken certain concrete steps to put in place a mechanism, which would facilitate international and domestic film producers and the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Promotion and Facilitation of Film Production in India will ensure the removal of all possible hurdles, laying down a timeline for involved agencies to grant clearances for shooting in India.

Filming of features, shorts and TV programmes has been included in the ambit of the committee.

Tewari also said the government was committed to restoring the rich legacy of Indian cinema and has launched the National Film Heritage Mission.

He further stated that the ministry looked forward to the recommendations of the Justice Mudgal Committee that has been constituted to identify the contemporary requirements of film certification.

He said that the festival’s objective was to take India’s rich film heritage to the common man and facilitate the screening of classic masterpieces by famous Indian directors. The medium has undertaken a technological leap from the black-and-white silent-era films to 3D.

Cinema over 100 years has captured different moods and phases of development of India as a nation in a subtle yet realistic manner, proving to be an extremely powerful medium in the journey of reflecting aspirations and dreams of its people through a journey of love and hope.