From Satyajit Ray to Kurosawa, over 9,200 movie prints ‘missing’
Outside the National Film Archive of India in Pune. (Express photo/Arul Horizon)
IN 2010, the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) got a Pune-based private firm to paste barcodes on every reel in its custody. In 2012, Cameo Digital Systems Pvt Ltd completed the project and submitted a set of reports to the NFAI along with a “summary of inventory”.
The Indian Express accessed these reports under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and came across two startling findings:
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